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Composers in Virtual Residence Programme
IAMIC first Composers In Virtual Residence Programme aims to share, network and publish information about composers and their work and process more widely, by enabling the composers community and audience to connect through virtual and interactive environment.
Creating a special space on the IAMIC and MIC’s website and hosting each month two new composers from different countries, should offer composers of all genres a context to gain greater visibility for their work, to reach new audience and online community, exchange experience and get in dialogue with their foreign colleagues.
Composers use email, chat, blogs and IAMIC website to discuss their daily work, music, education, possible projects and to track the progress of the work. The conversation is public and open for public comments.
Find their correspondence here:
Robert Davidson and Jose Evangelista (Australia and Canada)
Jack Body and Katharina Klement (New Zealand and Austria)
John McLachlan and Lucien Posman (Ireland and Flanders)
And listen here to their music!
Office Exchange Programme 2009
July - December 2009
This years IAMIC Office Exchange Programme is the continuation of
the 2008, first very successful edition. The Programme offers the chance to an employee of a Music Information Centres to do a work placement with foreign MIC colleagues.
This gives IAMIC the opportunity to involve staff members of the MI
Cs in its activities and to make them familiar with the expertise of other staff members. Apart from being a challenging experience for the employees themselves, this also advances the workings of IAMIC by encouraging the internal communication and the involvement in IAMIC activities on the shop floor.
Photo: Anita Rodley (SOUNZ) with CMC team in Ireland
Selected host organisation
• Canadian Music Centre
• American Music Center
• Music Centre the Netherlands
• Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
Selected sending organisation
• Canadian Music Centre
• Music Centre the Netherlands
• Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ)
• German Music Information Centre
All exchanges will take place between 10th of September and 31st of December 2009. Duration of the exchange is minimum 5 and maximum 10 days (excluding travel days).
IAMIC Sounds of the Year - Annual Lists 2009
This year every Music Information Centre that is a member of IAMIC could submit an entry for two categories for the Sound of the Year/Annual List 2009:
• One work for Symphony Orchestra with or without soloist(s) and/or electronics
• One CD with a minimum of two different works for inclusion in the IAMIC Remix Concert. The selected recordings will be evaluated by a jury of Canadian remix artists and remixed. The remixes will be premiered at Toronto’s Drake Underground, on Saturday, June 6th, 2009
The annual list for orchestra will be used only for promotional reasons, as a IAMIC ”top play list”, which will be sent out to different radio’s and orchestra!
IAMIC Annual Conference & General Assembly
June 4 – 10 2009 Canada
The annual IAMIC conference is an international reunion of new music specialists and an educational event with seminars and discussions on all aspects of new music promotion, performance, policy and politics.
The Canadian Music Centre hosted the IAMIC members and friends in Toronto and Vancouver for IAMIC 2009 Annual Conference, June 4 - 10, 2009. http://iamic.musiccentre.ca
Main topic was “Many music” and representation of the social life and multiculturalism in music. Sub themes were: the business of new market development; new technologies (all open sessions will be broadcasted), future of music information centres...
In the framework of the Conference each Music Information Centre submited recordings of works from different time period and genre, which were selected and remixed by a jury of Canadian remix artists. The remixes were premiered at IAMIC Remix Concert at Toronto’s Drake Underground, on June 6th, 2009.
The Canadian Music Centre is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, and it is for this reason especially it has been an honour to have esteemed music guests from around the world joining us in the celebrations.
Visit the 2009 IAMIC Conference website http://iamic.musiccentre.ca to view complete video streams from our Open Day of symposia. (Please be patient since the playback for these video files can be extremely slow depending on your computer's speed and internet connection.)
Office Exchange Progamme
October - December 2008
IAMIC started the first Office Exchange Programme, whereby an employee of a Music Information Centres is offered the chance to do a work placement with foreign MIC colleagues. This will give IAMIC the opportunity to involve staff members of the MICs in its activities and to make them familiar with the expertise of other staff members. Apart from being a challenging experience for the employees themselves, this also advances the workings of IAMIC by encouraging the internal communication and the involvement in IAMIC activities on the shop floor.
General aim is to promote the importance of exchange and cooperation among IAMIC member organisations and to involve them in common activities on national, as well on international level.
All exchanges will take place between 1st of October and 31st of December 2008. Duration of the exchange is minimum 5 and maximum 10 days (excluding travel days).
IAMIC Annual Conference & General Assembly in Cardiff
Wales, UK September 08-13 2008
This years IAMIC conference was hosted in Cardiff, Wales by the Welsh Music Information Centre. The conference used both the iconic building of the Wales Millennium Centre, arts centre and home to the Welsh Music Information and St Fagan’s, Museum of Welsh Life.
Representatives from some 30 countries across the world gather at the Wales Millennium Centre and discussed a wide range of international issues o.a. effecting the composition, performance and archiving of music. The main theme throughout the conference seemed to concern change, whether this was organisational, personal or political. Or as the first speaker pointed out that wherever change came it was always personal!
Many new cooperative projects arise from these meetings. For example, in 2008 and 2009 there will be an exchange scheme for staff (see: Office Exchange Programme); opportunities to distribute material at trade fairs in the USA and other countries; and a project to profile composers who are resident in other member countries.
The 2009 IAMIC Conference will be in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada.
IAMIC Contemporary Music Concert September 12, 2008
IAMIC-concert was held at St Augustine’s Church in Penarth, Wales, on 12th of 2008. as a part of the Annual Conference. The works were selected from submissions by IAMIC member organisations.
For the first time it was a choral concert. This was featured two Welsh choirs – Cantemus Chamber Choir Wales and the Swansea Bach Choir in a performance that included music from America, Scandinavia, Slovakia, New Zealand, Canada, Scotland, Estonia and Wales.
The concert was recorded and CD will be distributed to the members and partners.
IAMIC Sounds of the Year - Annual list 2008
A reference for performers seeking to expand their new music repertoire, the 2008 Annual List includes works recommended by Music Information Centres. In order to have a varied and attractive programme we welcomed music from any period or style, from arrangements of traditional folk songs to contemporary compositions. Scores were invited for SATB choir, a cappella. Accompanied pieces were not limited to an ensemble of not more than five “conventional’” instruments* (electronics not included), and/or keyboard, harp, or any combination of these.
Check here the list of submitted works!
Scores and recordings of the works featured in this resource can be obtained through the Music Information Centre of the composer's country.
The ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award
October 30, 2008
IAMIC announced to sponsor the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award from 2007 onwards for a period of three years with an annual prize of EURO 5.000, through the help of the European Commission and the Flemish Government.
The award consists of a special commission to write a chamber ensemble piece to be premiered by Music Centre the Netherlands during the International Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
With this initiative the ISCM and IAMIC foster the development of contemporary music through the promotion of young talents in the contemporary music field. The 2008 ISCM-IAMIC Composer Award is part of the World Music Days, and this year is taking place in Vilnius.
The winnar of the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2008 is Diana Rotaru (Romania), for work "Shakti".
The 2008 ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award was judged by a distinguished panel of international composers appointed by the ISCM.
The winner of the 2007 ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award was Nicholas Casswell (UK) "Triplicity".
EFA Info Box
August 2008
In 2006, the European Festivals Association (EFA) and IAMIC developed a cooperative project for the mutual benefit of member organisations. IAMIC’s Office Manager began to act as a coordinator for IAMIC contributions to the EFA-box, an information tool for festival managers. IAMIC members are now circulating CDs and promotional information via this platform, with the objective of encouraging festival organisers to increase their contemporary music programming.
Selected materials for the August 2008 edition were provided by the Centre for New Zealand Music SOUNZ and Slovenian Music Information Centre Society, and included the publication about Slovenian music "Play Slovenia (play) - Discover the Music Cultures of Slovenia", and the SOUNZ brochure about organisation and what it does promote, foster and provide the music of New Zealand composers to the world.