International Society for Contemporary Music

ISCM is releasing In connection to the ISCM World New Music Days 2010, a new issue of the World New Music Magazine, produced by the Australian Music Centre. A 204 pages issue, typeset and designed by Philippa Horn, including 2 CD's under courtesy of the New Music Network, Australia The cover image is by Emily Sandrussi; photo from Campbelltown Arts Centre, Burning Piano by Annea Lockwood on Saturday 1 May 2010.

One can read a.o. about items related to the festival by diverse contributors:

• Bruce Crossman: Spiritual Essences: Sounds of an Asian-Pacific Place, Personality and Spirit in Double Resonances
• Linda Kouvaras: Toilets, Tears and Transcendence: The Postmodern (Dis) Placement of, and in, Two Water-Based Examples of Australian Sound Art
• Glenda Keam: Here and there: Observing eddies and currents in the flow of compositional concern on both sides of the Tasman
• Paul Stanhope: New Australian compositions for chamber choir
• Andrew Schultz: Creativity and crisis: some thoughts on self-management
• Jelle Dierickx: Absence down under: The presence and absence of sound and performance poetry in Australia
• Jo Dyer: Living Songs: Music, Law and Culture in Aboriginal Australia
• Anni Heino Rosemary: Joy and the sound world in miniature
• Andrew Ford: Eulogy Richard Meale
• Danielle Bentley: Writeoff
• Graeme Skinner: Conversations at Sandy Creek: Graeme Skinner chats with Gordon Kerry, author of New Classical Music: Composing Australia
• Warren Burt: Ways of listening: an incomplete catalogue
• Jonathan W. Marshall: Flatness, Ornamentality and the Sonic Image: Puncturing flanerie and postcolonial memorialisation in the work of David Chesworth and Sonia Leber
• Michael Atherton: Oku Ou Talanoa Mo Hoku Loto: A Musical Realisation of Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu: Telling the North from the South
• Ross Bolleter: The Well Weathered Piano: A Study in Ruin
• Carl Crossin: Unbearable beauty!
• Garth Paine: Noise and Texture, Towards an Asian-Influenced Composition Approach to the Concert Flute
• Anni Heino: Claire Edwardes: Coming a full circle
• Colin Black: An Overview of Australian Radiophonic and Radio Art Practices
• Reports from the World New Music Days in Sydney 2010, Sweden 2009