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 Merdeka Day Special: Young
Malaysians - Adeline Wong Offers Snapshots
Adeline Wong stands with the vanguard of
a new Malaysian music. She might also help classical music's image
makeover.
We revisit
an Off The Edge interview with Adeline Wong for the 2005 Merdeka
Day issue. Wong was in the midst of completing her cello concerto
Snapshots, and talked about the composition process as
well as other influences in her highly colourful music, and what
it means to be Malaysian.
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 Rebels
Without A Pause - Interview with Kok Siew Wai from EMACM
Audio anarchy in Kuala Lumpur - Off The
Edge interviews Kok Siew Wai, vocal artist from the Experimental
Musicians and Artists Co-operative Malaysia (EMACM).
He lets his horn rip and bizarre squeaks and split notes rattle
the foundations of what used to be liquid Disco, and like the
call of the piper, the merry band of noisemakers joins in with
their own instruments. Chaos. Out of the din, the demure figure
of Kok Siew Wai, the lone rose among the musical thorns, starts
to vocalise her bloodcurdling cries, building up to a vocal seizure
of the highest decibels. They are the EMACM, plotting their heinous
sonic activities to demolish every preconception of music KLites
hold dear.
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 On
The Quiet - Interview with Ng Chong Lim
No vissi d'arte for pianist-composer
Ng Chong Lim, who lives a life beyond art. Off The Edge magazine
interviews a composer with HEART, published in 2007.
Malaysia has a fair share of notable concert pianists, but pianist-composers
are a little harder to find, especially if you've been under the
radar as Ng Chong Lim has been over the years. Quietly performing
his remarkable piano works in festivals abroad, Ng showed that
he was no mere dabbler as he produced one of the most powerful
orchestral works heard at the Dewan Filharmonik, Xiang.
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 An
Enlightened Journey - Johan Othman's Conference of the Birds reviewed
Lena Lie reviews Penang's first ever contemporary
Malaysian opera performance
Classical music enthusiasts in the Northern region were in luck
in November 09 when Johan Othman boldly shared with the world
his latest creative opus. This artistic product has evolved from
his deep affinity for music drama and literature with a high level
of spiritual and philosophical themes. Conference of the Bird,
a Farid ud-Din Attar's poem, received a modern day interpretation
in the form of a contemporary opera by Othman.
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 Flaunt
The Imperfection - Interview with Chinary Ung
Impeccable is overrated, says Cambodian-American
composer Chinary Ung. Off The Edge magazine interviewed the veteran
American-Cambodian composer in Bangkok in 2008
IN 1940s CAMBODIA, a young boy found himself entranced by the
sounds of village folk music that echoed from the distance across
the paddy fields. At the time it must have been hard to imagine
that one day he would be at the forefront of the Asian contemporary
music scene in a faraway land. Chinary Ung’s journey to his
current position as Professor of Music at University of California,
San Diego, has been a long one and he is ready to admit that it
has been fraught with hardship.
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 Of
Prophets And Bandits - Off The Edge interviews Slamet A Sjukur
Father of Indonesian contemporary classical
music Slamet Sjukur speaks candidly about Tari Pendet and life
in general.
Slamet A Sjukur is generally considered the father of contemporary
Indonesian music. Born in Surabaya in 1935, Sjukur studied music
at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris
with distinguished composers like Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux.
A leading figure in the promotion of new music in Indonesia, Sjukur
founded the Asosiasi Komponis Indonesia in 1994 and taught many
of the important new generation composers like Tony Prabowo and
Otto Siddharta.
>> more
 Young
At Art - Young Composers Competition at the KLCMF 09
IThe KL Contemporary Music Festival brought
together for the first time the cream of the crop of the region's
young composers for a fascinating finals concert on 29 Nov 09.
Johan Othman, Dieter Mack and competition finalists share their
thoughts.
On 29 November 09 a landmark concert took place at the
KL Contemporary Music Festival 09. The region's first concerted
effort in bringing together young talent from the South East Asian
countries yielded an exciting evening of diverse voices of astonishing
quality, selected from an overwhelming 60 plus overall submissions
to the call for scores from participants from all over the region,
as far as Hanoi.
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 Lab
Report - Learning The Art Of Composing
In her report on the recent Manila Composers
Lab 09 at University of Philippines young Malaysian composer
Chong Huey Ching gives a candid account of her experiences,
pitfalls and lessons learnt
The College of Music, University of the Philippines held
its inaugural Manila Composers Lab from 4 to 11 June 2009, organised
by the Department of Composition and Theory. This experimental
workshop provided young composers with a chance to work directly
with musicians and experiment with the practicality of woodwind
instruments. Chong Huey Ching gives us the inside story.
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 Birds
Of A Feather: Johan Othman's upcoming opera premiere
A sneak peek at Johan Othman's upcoming
opera Conference of the Birds
Opera fans will have a treat at the end of the year when
Penang-based composer Johan Othman unveils his long-awaited opus
Conference of the Birds, an electroacoustic opera which
will be staged at Wawasan Open University, Penang, on 20 - 22
November 2009, produced by Five Arts and James Lochhead and directed
by Chee Sek Thim.
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The
Stoic Epicure
Award-winning young pianist Wong Shuen
Da proves that having two personalities is better than one
Boldly going where no young pianist in Malaysia had gone
before, HSBC Piano Competition 08 Finalist Wong Shuen Da stepped
up to the challenge and not only delivered the most challenging
work on offer, but blew the audience away with his confident
and poetic account of the piece.
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Bird's
Nest in the Spring
New Zealand composer Ross Carey heads for the Beijing Congress
of the International Association Of Women In Music.
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Rain
Of Wisdom
Chinary Ung discusses the dilemma facing the young Asian composer.
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Stranger
Than Fiction
Malaysian composer from Melaka takes choral music where no
Malaysian choral group has ever gone before.
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Focus
on Korea
Korea's active new music scene keeps Yun Isang's memory alive.
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15 Apr 2010, Brauweiler, Germany
Ng Chong Lim
Amorphous
for string orchestra
At the international New Music Festival "Streams"
by Stream Festival Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Maria Wagner
29 Nov, KL
Johan Othman
Neutral Spaces
for piano
at the KL Contemporary Music Festival, performed by Ensemble
Mosaik
28 Nov, KL
Teh Tze Siew
The East
for ensemble
at the KL Contemporary Music Festival, performed by HKNME
27 Nov, KL
Ahmad Muriz
Desir Angin Cina Selatan for 2 traditional players and flute
Tan Zi Hua
Under the Homotopic Silhouettes
for flute (picc), clarinet, piano, violin and cello
CH Loh
Illegal Structures III
for flute (bass fl), bass clarinet, percussion, violin, viola,
cello and tape
Ng Chong Lim
Morning Mist
for cello and piano
Ngiao Tzu-En
A Precipitation of Sparrows for flute solo
Hardesh Singh
Jasper Singh Pestonji
for bass clarinet, cello and tape
at the KL Contemporary Music Festival, performed by Ensemble
Mosaik
20 - 22 Nov 09, Penang
Johan Othman
Conference Of The Birds
Opera with libretto by William Radice
Premiere at Wawasan Open Universiti Penang by Five Arts and
co-produced by James Lochhead
21 May 09, Reykjavik
Teh Tze Siew
Bamboo Forest
for chamber ensemble
international premiere by the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra
at the Women From The East concert
20 Apr 09, Edinburgh
Neo Nai Wen
From the Rainforest
for alto flute, trumpet and cello
at Noisy Nigts@Traverse, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
performed by the Red Note Ensemble
7 Jan 09, Bangkok
CH Loh
Maekhong
for Saxophone Quartet
at Mahidol University, Thailand, performed by Low Chee Meng
and the Mahidol Saxophone Quartet
Other Recent Premieres
24-25 Nov 08, Albania
Tan Zi Hua
Gate of Tears (Bab-al-Mandeb)
for string quartet 
Lee Chie-Tsang
Illusory Mirror
for chamber ensemble
at the Ton de Leeuw 2008 International Competition for Young
Composers at Tirania, Albania.
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