Access Contemporary Music is a

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based

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ensemble. In addition to giving live concert of music by living

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s they have initiated several innovative

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projects to help spread contemporary music to as diverse an

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as possible.

Web based projects

Web based projects include Weekly Readings in which they record a different piece of

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

every week and post it to their website, Spotlight Double Bass, a collaboration with the

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, and Composer Alive.

Composer Alive

The first Composer Alive project was a collaboration between ACM and

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based composer

Xiaogang Ye Ye Xiaogang ( zh, s=叶小纲, t=葉小綱, p=Yè Xiǎogāng; born September 23, 1955) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ye was born in Shanghai in 1955. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing fr ...

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

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. 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

{{Reflist http://www.acmusic.org/

External links

Official Website
Contemporary classical music ensembles Musical groups from Chicago