Access Contemporary Music is a
Chicago based
contemporary music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...
ensemble. In addition to giving live concert of music by living
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
s they have initiated several innovative
web-based projects to help spread contemporary music to as diverse an
audience
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as possible.
Web based projects
Web based projects include Weekly Readings in which they
record
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An item or collection of data Computing
* Record (computer science), a data structure
** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity
** Boot sector or boot record, ...
a different piece of
music every week and post it to their website, Spotlight Double Bass, a collaboration with the
International Society of Bassists, and Composer Alive.
Composer Alive
The first Composer Alive project was a collaboration between ACM and
Beijing based composer
Xiaogang Ye in the summer of 2006. Ye composed Datura, which is now published by Schott music, and traveled to Chicago for the World Premiere at the
Chicago Cultural Center.
ACM's other projects include Sound of Silent Film and Noteplay, an event that allows children to discover the joys of creating and manipulating sound.
References
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http://www.acmusic.org/
External links
Official Website
Contemporary classical music ensembles
Musical groups from Chicago