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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…
KLCMF 09: We Built This City
The KLCMF 09 featured three days of non-stop new music explosion in the city of Kuala Lumpur as never heard before. Here is the detailed programme as well as samples of the concerts: We built this city - Malaysian composers concert Songs of the south seas - Southeast Asian composers concert Remixed: City After Dark - Late night electroacoustic concert Building the future - Southeast Asian Young Composers Competition Friday 27 Nov 2009 ensemble mosaik presents WE BUILT THIS CITY Malaysian voices and their songs of the city Performe…
Of Prophets And Bandits - Interview with Slamet A Sjukur
Father of Indonesian contemporary classical music Slamet Sjukur speaks candidly about Tari Pendet and life in general. Malaysians (or at least some Malaysians) may hold the view that our great nation is superior to our neighbour, and possible ancestor, across the Straits, but one only has to look at the music scene to know that this couldn't be further from the sad truth. I am not talking about Gamelan, because to do so would only bring further embarrassment to ourselves, but of the contemporary classical music scene. While we were still…
Malaysia rejoins the Asian Composers League (ACL)
On 30 March 09 at the General Assembly of the Asian Composers League, an organisation of regional composers' associations, member countries of the League unanimously voted to approve the Malsaysian Composers Collective's membership application as Malaysia's representative country organisation. The application was made after the ACL exco strongly encouraged Malaysia to submit its application during the 2007 ACL Festival in Wellington, following a presentation of the Malaysian new music scene at the time by MCC's representative…
HSBC Young Composers Workshop 2008 - 11 - 13 July 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
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…
MCC's Free Hand Anthology I has been released on Faber Music.
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