An online workshop for the C4NM community with Meerenai Shim, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM) and professional flutist. This workshop will focus on stress relief through movement exploration, with an additional focus on performance anxiety. This online workshop is free to the C4NM community, graciously offered by Meerenai, and will run from 6 to 7:30 […]
The Quarantine Concerts are a collaborative endeavor meant to provide artists a space to share their work and continue to earn a living during this time when most live performance opportunities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. We believe in the necessity of art during difficult moments like these, and feel fortunate to live in […]
The Quarantine Concerts are a collaborative endeavor meant to provide artists a space to share their work and continue to earn a living during this time when most live performance opportunities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. We believe in the necessity of art during difficult moments like these, and feel fortunate to live in […]
For our second webcast, Alan Chan's 17-piece jazz orchestra's concert at Gateway Performance Series will be featred with singers from across the Pacific Rim, including soprano Lin-Lin Chang (Taipei), Laura Dickinson (Los Angeles), and Timur (Kazakstan-USA), to bring our audience a cross-over musical experience. Livestream will begin on May 12 at 8pm (Los Angeles), watch […]
ACF member and Rhode Island composer Elliott Miles McKinley is hosting a weekly series for music creators across the country to connect virtually on Zoom. Follow the link below to sign up, and then Elliott will reply with the secure Zoom link. Elliott shares, "I am a composer, improviser, and teacher and, like most of […]
Hosted by Matt "Nur-D" Allen. Matt will take your questions and talk about concert streaming, which services you can use and their different qualities, a few technical options to increase quality, and a few ways to set your concert apart from other streaming events. He shares, I have have been doing Hip-Hop in the Twin […]
Creative artists and supporters are welcome to join this safe space - for sharing, listening, and connecting. Please RSVP to receive a zoom link.
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing and connected during times of isolation, ListN Up offers an intimate sonic portrait of contemporary artists by showcasing the diverse and stylistically varied music that influences their creative practice. This series is sponsored by American Composers Forum/innova Recordings with new releases every Friday […]
The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral Quartet – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated in the midst of a quarantine. "Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and […]
Slam Academy’s Free Tech Support Happy Hour! Are you an artist that has been forced into the world of working online? Are you a music or art educator that is struggling with your online teaching options? Or are you just curious how all of this stuff is supposed to work? Join us for a free […]
About: In keeping with our mission to nurture the creative spirit of music creators and communities, American Composers Forum and New Music Gathering are partnering to host a weekly Music Creator Meet-Up. In these sessions, we will check-in with each other to see how we are doing, review creation in progress by one of our peers, and stay […]
COMFORT GIRL is an exploration - in song and story - of the lives of Chinese 'comfort women', a cruel euphemism for the women who were abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during WWII. There were over 200,000 of these young women, most of whom were from China or Korea. Lured […]