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Visit the Malaysian composers digital library
The library is available to anyone interested, by appointment. At present it has over 22 hours of Malaysian music, 35+ hours of Asian music and 150+ Malaysian, regional and western scores, and more. Video highlights include Adeline Wong's Lengt for cello, string quartet and multimedia, Johan Othman's first opera Conference of the Birds at its Penang premiere, and Indonesian composers Sinta Wullur's gamelan opera The Liberation of Sita and Tony Prabowo's The King's Witch. Email requests to acl.malaysia@gmail,com
Songs of a Wayfarer - Adeline Wong's 'Longing'
The stage is dark and an alien hum fills the air, like that of a spaceship coming in for landing. A lady drags her seemingly leaden suitcase across the stage, and a monolithic image resembling some sort of great gate, appears on the backdrop screen. Slowly a row of music stands is revealed, like runway lights. Five musicians wander through the darkness, searching for their places. And when they are finally seated, we arrive at the beginnings of one of the most remarkable compositions of this year. This is Adeline Wong’s latest opus,…
Malaysia Remixed - 4 Composers Take On Nationhood
In collaboration with Malaysia's BFM Radio's new magazine app The B-Side exclusive for tablet and Ipad, four new generation artists-composers from diverse backgrounds have been commissioned to produce a piece of work each in their personal style, to explore the themes of nationhood and what independence means to the youth of today. This project is a contemplation of the recent 55th Independence Day-Malaysia Day celebrations and was conceived by former Off The Edge editor Jason Tan as part of the launch of the new and very unique m…
Small is beautiful: Young composer Jessica Cho heads for ACL Taiwan 2011
Cho is a young composer with a clear idea of where she wants her music to head, and in just a few years since graduating has honed her voice into a fascinating and original addition to the Malaysian new music tapestry. In 2008 during the HSBC Young Composers Workshop 08 a delightful piece for flute and piano Rivulet , was selected for a read through during the final night open work…
News roundup up till 2010
Here is an archive of the news items up till 2010: 20 Aug 2010 Yair Klartag's Bipolar Disorder wins the 31st Irino Prize, 2010 Yair Klartag, born in 1985, has won the 31st Irino Prize for Chamber-Orchestral composition, 2010 with his 13 minute Bipolar Disorder . Jury for the year were Joji YUASA, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Satoshi Tanaka ( Chairman), akayuki Rai , Mari Takano, Masahiro Miwa and Ha…
An Indonesian in KL - Insights into KLCMF 09
Our attention towards the city is only towards that which can be seen. We forget that our ears quietly capture whatever we hear within it. Last month a contemporary music festival in Kuala Lumpur approached the theme of the city from the angle that is not captured by the eye. The composer, lost in contemplation of the sounds that inhabit the city, manifested in the form of seminars as well as in the works that were presented. During the three days from 27th to 29th November, the Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival 09 staged 43 works…
Composing in a bi-cultural environment - a European composer and the gamelan experience
Abstract After years of dominance of post-Adornoist historicism - "…The rules are not created arbitrarily. They are configurations of the historic pressure of the musical material…"(Adorno on Schönberg's dodecaphony, in: "Philosophie der neuen Musik", Frankfurt 1958, page 61) - the time has come to acknowledge other "pressures" with a more spacial character. In this realm, Indone…
Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival 09
The 1st KL Contemporary Music Festival 09 is organised by Goethe-Institut Malaysia and the Malaysian Composers Collective, together with event co-organiser SEGi College Subang Jaya, to be held in Kuala Lumpur from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 November 2009. The festival, with this year's theme of Urban Soundscapes, will bring together the best of Malaysian and South East Asian contemporary music at nightly concerts by Ensemble Mosaik and Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. The weekend programme of evening concerts will be held at Segi College Un…
MCC's Free Hand Anthology I has been released on Faber Music.
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