Malaysian Composers Collective

Call for scores for Asean Youth Orchestra @ Seamex 2017, Kuala Lumpur

MCC - 4/22/2017

In conjunction with SEAMEX 2017 (Southeast Asia Music Education Exchange), Spectrum Culture Exchange is requesting new music scores from composers residing in the ASEAN region as part of ASEANYO’s debut in September 2017 (8 - 10 Septemer in KL), at SEAMEX2017**. Each original work (score) in application must be a new or pre-existing work, no older than 5 years, and no longer than 10 minutes in duration. It must reflect the theme: ‘Architecture of Desire’ and that of the SEAMEX occasion; a sharing of cultures, skills and ideas. The work …

Remembering Jack Body: Interview rewind

MCC - 4/12/2017

New Zealand's leading composer Jack Body passed away exactly two years ago next month. We remember Jack with an interview he made in the region a decade ago when he brought his enthusiasm to our shores. Mountains of Molehills: A chat with Jack Body Off The Edge, June 2006 Rewind: Off The Edge caught up with leading composer Jack Body, whose work has been feaured on Kronos Quartet’s CD, while he was in Singapore. Is the remarkable growth of contemporary music in New Zealand a reflection of our own possible future? NEW ZEALAND…