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Contemporary Music - today? Symposium on the current situation of contemporary music (23rd - 26th October 2012)
Contemporary music is now widely established, but still represents only a small segment of the music market and the public media. The still noticeable elitist claim of contemporary music is increasingly at odds with current trends in artistic activities. Can the concept of contemporary music still be maintained today? What is exciting about contemporary music? What is behind the claim of artists who continually strive to create something new and unique? It is important to find a new understanding of contemporary art music in the context of today's changing values and the technical, medial and social changes and to question and possibly re-evaluate old categories and thinking structures to redraw boundaries between genres and social groups, as well as re-evaluate listening developments and music consumption habits.
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27th - 29th April 2012: Witten Days for New Chamber Music
This weekend musicians and music lovers from all around the world will gather in the Germany city of Witten for a three-day international festival full of contemporary music – music that has literally never been heard before.
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Soundings - Open Engagement (Tuesday 8 – Friday 11 May 2012)
Soundings is a unique platform for contemporary music presenting and profiling young composers and musicians from the UK and Austria in workshops, discussions and concerts. Now into its 9th year, Soundings is a key event in the UK’s music calendar, offering a rare opportunity to meet some of today’s leading composers, watch them at work and hear the latest compositions, performed by some of the finest young musicians of today.
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Austrian Music Box12: Classic/Contemporary
Conceptual definitions and its social connotations determine the music market by genre labels for CD sales, concert promoters and the media. Although there have been many years of resistance to concepts such as “serious” and “easy listening music”, the pigeon holes keep persevering in our minds, music racks and program booklets. However the preservation of this little beloved and yet resistant traditional division, with its numerous sub-categories, which also entails the assessment to the current valid criteria, is questionable and becomes quite evident in the selection of the Austrian Music Box 12 “Classical / Contemporary Music”. For the selection of this CD, the musicologist and music journalist Daniel Ender combines various approaches that make genre boundaries sometimes appear to be obsolete.
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