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The Cdmc holds a unique collection representing all aesthetics within musical creation. This collection has grown thanks to the collaboration of composers, publishers and Radio France. With a consultation area open to the public, the centre also affords access to many online resources through the Catalogue and the Gateway to Contemporary Music. A beacon of the latest music news with its website, the Cdmc organises encounters with the movers and shakers of contemporary music.
The Cdmc presents a season of encounters, seminars and day study sessions designed to counterpoint the views of specialists and professionals and to spotlight composers and performers. Focussing on topical aspects of the music scene, they are organised in collaboration with the main players of musical creation: ensembles, centres for creation, festivals, etc., as well as with those involved in research, the universities and conservatories. Dédicaces (Dedications): these are encounters featuring newly released books, discs or DVDs.
Issues of contemporaneity in Twentieth-Century musical creation
Université of Évry-Val d’Essonne
Coordination: Grégoire Tosser, University of Évry-Val d’Essonne
The notion of “contemporaneity” is frequently employed to evoke the music of today, and more specifically art music. However, composers are constantly re-evaluating their relationship to modernity, to the avant-garde and the idea of artistic progress, their relationship to tradition, or indeed their place within a particular socio-cultural context. The object of the symposium is the study of musical creation in France – between 2000 and 2010 and in the wake of the CDMC’s film portraits “The composer at work” – from a resolutely analytical and musicological viewpoint: the main trends, important works, leading figures, etc.
The idea therefore is to envisage a production, the study of which is most often completely neglected, and which will be based primarily on sources held by the Cdmc (recordings, scores, etc.). To tackle a new area of study by considering the point of view of the prime movers in current musical creation (composers, performers, but also spectators and researchers) will enable the evaluation, within this creation, of the pertinence of the notion of contemporaneity.
Free entrance, reservation 01 47 15 49 86 or cdmc@cdmc.asso.fr
Partnership Cdmc – Université of Évry-Val d’Essonne, RASM-SLAM Laboratory