Society for Contemporary Music Aachen

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The Society for Contemporary Music Aachen e. V. (GZM) is an association of musicians and those interested in music who pursue the goal of providing a forum for current jazz , improvised music and contemporary composed music in Aachen . This includes concerts , lectures, discussion forums, workshops and music educational work in the club's own free music school, music loft .

history

Development phase

At the beginning of 1987 musicians from Aachen held talks with the Free Jazzhaus School in Cologne about the possibilities of a similar free music school for Aachen. The project proposal for the Aachen Jazz School was also discussed with the Department of Culture . In order to integrate the project into a larger context, the Society for Contemporary Music Aachen eV (GZM) was founded in February 1988. The aim of the association was to promote jazz, improvised music and contemporary composed music. This should be done both with concerts and through the establishment of a club's own free music school. The GZM presented itself to the public as the organizer for the first time in November 1988 with the now annual Euregio Music Days. In February 1989, the GZM's music education work began in the Jakobshof with the first semester of the music loft free music school. WDR 3 (television) and the local press reported on music loft's first semester-end concert with 70 participants . Various efforts to find their own premises were initially unsuccessful. Finally, the culture committee decided in December 1991 to take GZM into account when planning the Barockfabrik culture house in Aachen (Löhergraben). Rooms have now been made available for a transition phase. Since, not least, the personnel infrastructure of music loft was improved from 1993 onwards, public interest increased so that the local and national press took notice of the activities to an increasing extent. In addition to the now established 10th Euregio Music Days in October 1997, the GZM organized individual concerts that took place at irregular intervals.

GZM in the Aachen Sound Bridge

Since the cultural policy in 1994 signaled that there could be rooms for the GZM in the traditional Old Kurhaus in the future, the founding meeting of the StattOrchester Aachen took place there on February 5, 1995 on the initiative of the school director of music loft and later GZM manager Lutz Felbick . In a concert and a lecture at the former Aachen place of work of Herbert von Karajan and Peter Raabe, this event highlighted the necessity of permanent promotion of jazz. A usage contract for GZM was only agreed in 1998 for a separate event area within the Old Kurhaus, for which GZM had proposed the name "Sound Bridge". With an opening week organized by the GZM from May 9 to 21, 1998, the GZM's move into the Klangbrücke was sealed. For the 10th anniversary, music loft presented its work in 1999 in special events. In addition to numerous individual concerts, there were nationally recognized events such as For example, the Aachen Messiaen Days in May 2001. Other festivals (e.g. MIDIVISI, Stockhausen Festival), the offers for the 25th anniversary of GZM, workshops and composer portraits also enriched the range of events. At the 25th anniversary concert of music loft on September 21, 2014, the public was presented with the variety of courses on offer, from lessons in instrumental and vocal subjects, basic subjects, supplementary subjects, ensemble subjects and workshops including the musical performances there. Because of its exemplary concept, the GZM has received many awards from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for funding for venues.

structure

With the venue Klangbrücke, GZM has found a permanent venue for the annual In Front Festival, which has been organized by GZM since 1988 (until 1996 as Euregio Musiktage). With numerous other events, the GZM contributes to the diversity of Aachen's musical life. Several rehearsal rooms for the free music school music loft and rooms for the administration are also located in the sound bridge. GZM has had a stable personnel infrastructure since 1993. In 2007 the support association of music loft was founded. Through multiple networking with similar initiatives of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine and cooperation with the institutions of public cultural funding, the GZM has meanwhile created a permanent place in the Aachen cultural landscape.

literature

  • Lutz Felbick: dates of Aachen music history, chronology and bibliography , publication of the public library of the city of Aachen, Aachen 1993.
  • Cordula Anhalt (Ed.): Rheinisches Musikfest 2002 Aachen , Progr.-Heft des WDR, Cologne 2002.
  • Winfried Pape and Hans-Walter Staudte: The society for contemporary music Aachen , in: Robert von Zahn (Ed.) New music in North Rhine-Westphalia - The nine societies for new music between Aachen and Lippe . Kassel 2014, [= BzRM 176], pp. 42–52.
  • Lutz Felbick, article Aachen, in: The music in past and present , factual part, vol. 1 (MGG) Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel 1994f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the terminological problem of the term new music or contemporary music, see Pape / Staudte 2014, p. 42
  2. ^ Aachener Nachrichten of January 20, 1989
  3. ^ Aachener Nachrichten June 17, 1989
  4. ^ Reports on music loft in WDR 5 (October 4, 1993) and in Belgian broadcasting (October 3, 1994); Music loft offers courses again , in: Aachener Nachrichten of February 23, 1993 further press reports on music loft 1992–2002 .
  5. ^ Aachen - the 10th Euregio Music Days, in: Jazzthetik March 98
  6. ↑ New plans for the Alte Kurhaus in: Aachener Volkszeitung from January 8, 1994.
  7. ↑ Reports on the opening week: Aachener Zeitung (April 9, 1998, May 9, 1998, May 29, 1998), Aachener Nachrichten (May 8, 1998, May 11, 1998, May 13, 1998, May 14, 1998), Grenzecho (April 9, 1998), Belgischer Rundfunk (May 6, 1998), WDR 5 Musikszene West (May 7, 1998) and WDR 5 Scala (May 8, 1998)
  8. ^ Reports on 10 years of music loft and the choir festival organized by music loft: WDR3 / Fernsehen (October 21, 1999); Aachener Zeitung (June 28, 1999, September 16, 1999, October 21, 1999, November 5, 1999); Aachener Nachrichten (September 14, 1999, September 26, 1999, September 20, 1999). see. Festschrift jubilee booklet
  9. ↑ In addition to the local press, radio and television reported on this festival: WDR 3, cultural tip for May 1, 2001, WDR local television, NDR , Deutsche Welle and the MDR (April 27, 2001); Aachener Zeitung (April 28, 2001, May 3, 2001); Aachener Nachrichten (April 27, 2001, April 28, 2001).
  10. ↑ Pape / Staudte 2014, p. 47; Big anniversary program until Saturday in the Klangbrücke. In: aachener-zeitung.de. October 2, 2015, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  11. ↑ The management has been with Johanna Daske since 2002.