Malaysian Composers Collective

HSBC Young Composers Workshop 2008 - 11 - 13 July 2008

MCC - 7/16/2008

The search for Malaysia's aspiring Takemitsu, Isang Yun or Tan Dun. The country's first ever young composers workshop was held in conjunction with the week-long HSBC Classics Festival 2008 and sponsored by HSBC (M) Ltd. Organised by the Malaysian Composers Collective, the pioneering workshop brought together Malaysian composers, musicians, and a new gene…

Making History: Behind the scenes of Faith, hope and chaos

MCC - 2/05/2008

Making history: how Malaysia's first ever new music anthology began Over the past decade I have been writing about music composed by Malaysians. It was never an easy task - in the mid 90s information about Malaysian composers was practically non-existent. We did not have a visible contemporary music scene, and at the time any composer who was active was either being performed abroad, as in the case of Valerie Ross, or working in the quiet seclusion of their own inner circles, for example Razak Abdul Aziz. My first encounter wit…

An act of faith: M'sia's first contemporary music anthology

MCC - 2/02/2008

The February 08 issue of Off The Edge magazine is a special occasion for Malaysian music, as for the first time in our history a CD anthology of Malaysian compositions will be freely available to our fellow Malaysians. Find out more about the project , and and learn more about the individual tracks. Included is additional information that we were unable to include into the CD booket and the Off The Edge editorial feature, a sort of "making of" feature about this long and difficult journey that we'd like to share.