World Music Days

Posted: Friday 19 October 2012

World Music Days, organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, is taking place in Flanders at the end of the month and on 30th and 31st October in Gent, a fellow UNESCO City of Music. 

The World Music Days are an international festival of contemporary music organized each year in a different country by one of the sections of ISCM (the International Society of Contemporary Music).

In 2012, Belgium will host this ‘world expo’ of contemporary music. From October 25th until November 4th 2012 this festival will be held, as a first, in six cities in Belgium, in collaboration with the  biggest contemporary music concert halls and cultural organisations of the country: Antwerp (deSingel),  Bruges (Concertgebouw),  Brussels (Flagey),  Gent (De Bijloke, Handelsbeurs), Leuven (TRANSIT Festival) and Mons (Le Manège).In total there’s more than 25 Flemish, Walloon and Brussels based cultural organisationsthat are collaborating.

Another difference for this edition of the World Music Days, is that the program is curated by all the partners, instead of one curator. Through an international Call for works,  the festival is an invitation to discover all kinds of different works and composers. These composers  are not only  from Belgium, but from everywhere in the world. This way the festival aims to be the starting point for a platform for contemporary music: ‘Free your Ears'. 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McZsmLF9C4I

There will be 3 contemporary music ensembles from Ghent, all bringing new work from young Ghent composers:

M&M (music and machine robots from Logos) http://www.logosfoundation.org/

Spectra http://www.spectraensemble.com/default.aspx?lang=EN

Besides: http://ensemblebesides.be/ENG/?page_id=96

Click on the link below for more information on theprogram: http://www.worldmusicdays2012.be/eng/worldmusicdays.htm 

Tags: Classical, Creative Cities, Experimental Music, UNESCO, World