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Festival ARS Electronica
Sept 2 - 11, 2010
Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica made its debut on September 18, 1979. This festival of art, technology and society spotlighted the emerging Digital Revolution.For more than three decades now, this world-renowned event has provided an annual setting for artistic and scientific encounters with social and cultural phenomena that are the upshot of technological change. Symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions carry these inquiries beyond the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and take them out into the public sphere and throughout the cityscape. In this process of pervading public spaces and staging festival activities in interesting and appropriate physical settings, Ars Electronica has consistently displayed extraordinary imaginativeness. From the harbor to the mines, from factories to outlying monasteries, unusual locations have repeatedly served as sites of performances and interventions, and have, in turn, been reinterpreted by them . . .
Check their website for more information
Sept 2 - 11, 2010
Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica made its debut on September 18, 1979. This festival of art, technology and society spotlighted the emerging Digital Revolution.For more than three decades now, this world-renowned event has provided an annual setting for artistic and scientific encounters with social and cultural phenomena that are the upshot of technological change. Symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions carry these inquiries beyond the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and take them out into the public sphere and throughout the cityscape. In this process of pervading public spaces and staging festival activities in interesting and appropriate physical settings, Ars Electronica has consistently displayed extraordinary imaginativeness. From the harbor to the mines, from factories to outlying monasteries, unusual locations have repeatedly served as sites of performances and interventions, and have, in turn, been reinterpreted by them . . .
Check their website for more information
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Contemporary Music Festivals and Symposia
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Contemporary Music Festivals and Symposia
3genFestival (Washington, D.C.) - Fall 2008
ACA (American Composers Alliance) June Festival 2010 - June 2010
Adelaide Contemporary Music Festival (Adelaide, Australia) - April 2008
An die Musik Live - Evolution Contemporary Music Series (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) - March 2010
Annual Festival of New Organ Music (London, England) - July/August 2009
Ars Musica - International Contemporary Music Festival (Brussels, Belguim) - March/April 2010
ARTSaha! (Omaha, Nebraska, USA) - Late Summer 2010
Athens Epidaurus Festival (Athens, Greece) - August 2009
La Biennale di Venezia International Festival of Contemporary Music (Venice, Italy) - Sept/Oct 2010
Bonk Festival of New Music (Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL) - March 2004
Borealis Festival (Bergen, Norway) - March 2010
Cal Performances - New Music (University of California, Berkeley, CA) - Continuing Series
Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music (Bowdoin Int'l Music Fest, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME) - July/Aug 2010
Composer Weekends (at the Barbican) - discontinued
Composer's Choice Series at the National Concert Hall
Composers Collaborative Inc. (New York, New York, USA) - Continuing Series
Composers Concordance (New York, New York, USA) - Continuing Series
Contemporary Composers Festival (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra & University of Minnesota School of Music) - Jan 2010
Contemporary Music Biennale (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Contemporary Music Festival (Indiana State University) (Terre Haute, IN) - October 2010
Contemporary Music Festival (James Madison University) - February 2010
Contemporary Music Festival (Ohio State University) - April 2010
Contemporary Music Festival (Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX) - April 2010
Contemporary Music Festival (Witchita State University, Witchita, KS)
Contemporary Showcase (Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects, Toronto, Canada) also here
Cross Currents (Kennedy Center, Washington, DC) - May 2009
Dallas Festival of Modern Music (Dallas, Texas, USA) - November 2009
Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society’s New Music Alberta Series (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Eletronic Music Midwest Festival (EMM) (Kansas City, Kansas) - October 2010
Estonian Music Days - March 2010
European Month of Music (Basel, Switzerland)
Festival ARS Electronica (Linz, Austria) - September 2010
Festival of Contemporary Music (Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA) - August 2010
Festival of Contemporary Music (New Music Forum/San Francisco, CA) - July/August 2010
Festival of Contemporary Art Music (Washington State University) - February 2010
Festival of Contemporary Chilean Music (Santiago, Chile) - November 2010
Festival international Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques (Montréal, Canada) or in english - February/March 2009
Festival Presences - Radio France - Sept/Nov 2009 & Apr/May 2010
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival (Gainsville, FL, USA) - April 2008
Fresno New Music Festival (California State University, Fresno, CA) - October 2009
Fromm Festival (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) - March 2006
Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music/Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick, Maine, USA) - June/Aug 2010
Gaudeamus Week
Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music (Lisbon, Spain) - Spring 2001
Heidelberg Contemporary Music Biennial (Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) - November 2006
highSCORE Festival [formerly soundSCAPE (Pavia, Italy), AND "Cortona Contemporary Music Festival"] - July 2010
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK) - November 2010
Icebreaker Festival - Seattle Chamber Players (Seattle, WA) - February 2010
ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) World Music Days - April/May 2010
Jaunās mūzikas festivāls ARĒNA/New Music Festival ARENA (Riga, Latvia) - October 2009
John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM) - March 2010
John Duffy Composers Institute (Virginia Arts Festival, Old Domimion University, Norfolk, VA) - May/June 2010
June in Buffalo (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Laboratory of Contemporary Music Festival (Warsaw, Poland) - November 2009
LIFEM: London International Festival of Exploratory Music (London, England) - November 2010
Louisiana State University Festival of Contemporary Music
Maerz Muzik (Berlin, Germany) - March 2010
MATA Festival (Brooklyn, NY) - April 2010
Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days (Borusan Culture And Art, Istanbul, Turkey)
Melbourne Biennale of Exploratory Music (Melbourne, Australia) - March/April 2008
Modfest (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY) - Jan-Feb 2010
Montreal/New Music International Festival (Montreal, Canada) - February 2011
Music 21 (Dublin, Ireland) - September 2009
Music Biennale Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) - April 2011
MusicNow Festival (Cincinnati, OH) - March 2010
New Creations Festival (Toronto Symphony Orchestra) - February 2010
New Currents Festival (Victoria Symphony, Victoria, BC)
New Music and Art Festival (MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, Bowling Green State University, OH) - Oct 2010
New Music Connects
New Music DePaul (DePaul University, Chicago, IL)
New Music Symposium (Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO)
New Music Workshop - Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music (Litchfield, CT)
New Works Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada)
Nordic Music Days (Oslo, Norway) - September 2010
NOW Music Festival (Capital University, Columbus, OH)
Ny Musikk
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival (Plymouth Univ, Plymouth, UK) - February 2010
Prague Premieres - New Music Festival (Czech Philharmonic)
Primavera Festival (University of California - Santa Barbara, CA)
Quebec - Flanders Contemporary Music Award
Rocky Mountain Contemporary Music Festival (Colorado State University) - November 2009
RTÉ Living Music Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
Russian Contemporary Music Festival (University of Iowa)
Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young (The Rivers School, Weston, MA) - April 2010
Sligo Festival of Contemporary Music (Sligo, Ireland)
Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music (Washington, DC) - September 2010
Sonic Fusion Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music
Sound (Banchory, Scotland)
soundON Festival of Modern Music (La Jolla, California) also here
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) - Sept/Oct 2010
Spitalfields Music - Summer Festival '09 - Spitalfields Music - Contemporary Music (London, England)
Störung Festival (Barcelona, Spain) - April 2010
Summer Institute for Contemporary Music, Metz, France
Symposium of Contemporary Music (Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IN)
Tongyeong International Music Festival
Two Days & Two Nights of New Music (Ukraine)
Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Uncool Festival of International Contemporary Music (Poschiavo, Switzerland)
Ung Nordisk Musik (UNM) (Oslo, Norway)
Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival (Warebrook, VT)
Warsaw Autumn Festival of International Contemporary Music
Week of Contemporary Music/International New Music Week (Bucharest, Romania)
Le Weekend (Stirling's No Limits New Music Festival) (Stirling, England) [see also instirling.com]
Winnepeg New Music Festival (Winnepeg, Canada)
Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Univeristy of Hartford, West Hartford, CT)
Women in Music Festival (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY)
Worldtronics Festival of Electronic Music (House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany)
Yaddo Centennial Arts Festival
Young Composers Program (Cleveland Institute of Music)
Zeltsman Marimba Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - June/July 2010
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