A Web Nexus for Contemporary Art Music
The Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music is a wide ranging web nexus for contemporary concert music. Our mission is to promote contemporary composers and their music through information, understanding and performances.
Contemporary classical/art/concert music is a living art form, fed by the creativity of composers across the country and around the globe. Finding inspiration from a multitude of sources, this music springs from a well know and beloved past, yet travels new avenues and explores amazingly diverse sound worlds. There are more composers writing music now than there ever have been in the history of the world, and our goal is to help you connect with them and enjoy their art.
Featured Items and Upcoming Events
dèdalo ensemble
dedalo ensemble was set up in Brescia, Italy, to
promote 20th century musical culture and contemporary creativity.
Within the city, the association organizes an annual concert season
entitled "Sulle ali del Novecento" (On the Wings of the 20th Century),
which is sponsored by the Cultural Department of the Lambard Regional
Governement and the Cultural sectors of the City Council and
Provincial Government of Bresci. The concert season MUSICANUOVA is
organized in cooperation with Gruppo Musica Insieme di Cremona ...
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Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music: International Computer Music Conference, August 2008
Since its inception in 1974, the International Computer Music Conference has been co-sponsored by the International Computer Music Association and has become the preeminent yearly gathering of computer music practitioners from around the world. The ICMC’s unique interleaving of professional paper presentations and concerts of new computer music composition and performance creates a vital interplay between science, technology and music. The 2008 conference explores notions of placement and displacement in the context of music practice. It provides an opportunity for the investigation of the interface between technologies which develop through international collaboration and the specificity of music cultures rooted in a place ... Learn More
Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet - The Day Music Went Mad by Norman Lebrecht
Of all the turning points in the history of music, one is instantly
audible to the innocent ear. Shortly after the soprano starts singing
in the third movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Second string quartet,
the music takes leave of its key of F-sharp minor and veers off into an
atonal abyss. In that instant, the harmonic laws that governed European
music for 500 years are declared null and void ...
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Composers of the Month
Sound Advice
Lee Actor's Violin Concerto
The Pytheas Earful
Each
week we recommend a listening experience made possible by one of the
web's many streaming audio sites.
Click, listen, explore, enjoy...
This week's featured piece:
Haapanen Perttu's
Saxophone Concerto (2003)
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