IntAct Festival 2024: Machine, Labor, Rock

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Thailand Music and Art Organization (TMAO) in partnership with Southeast Asia New Music and Art Foundation (SANMA) proudly presents the 6th edition, IntAct Festival 2024 and the International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) during December 19-22, 2024, at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand.

IntAct Festival 2024 is an annual event that showcases new music and interdisciplinary arts. With the theme “Machine, Labor, Rock”, the festival will delve into the dynamic relationship between machines and humans, infused with rock culture. Questioning the global impacts of the advancement of machinery, artificial intelligence, and technologies within the artistic landscape.

The event will feature performances, exhibitions, presentations, and showcases by renowned artists and musicians from diverse disciplines.

Free Admission

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IntAct Open Call is now available

The IntAct Festival invites artists from all disciplines worldwide to submit their works for exhibition during the 6th series of the new music and art festival, IntAct 2024. The event will take place from December 20th – 22nd, 2024, at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.
Under the theme “Machine, Labor, Rock,” the festival explores the dynamic relationships among “Human and Machine” and the infusion of popular cultures and contemporary music. It examines the evolving landscape of machinery, artificial intelligence, and technology. We invite artists to submit works that resonate with or respond to this thematic context.

Congratulations to ICIT 2024 selected participants

We are delighted to announce and congratulate the selected composers who will participate in the Fifth Edition of the International Composition Institute of Thailand 2024. We eagerly look forward to welcoming and working with them this year!

Santiago Beis (Uruguay/Brazil/USA)
Panagiotis Botzios (Germany)
Francesco Fiorenzani (Italy)
Kenrick Ho (Hong Kong/UK)
Yeonsuk Jung (USA/South Korea)
Young-Jun Lee (USA/South Korea)
Hayden Mesnick (USA)
Jun Jie Edmund Song (Singapore)
Elijah A. Stewart (USA)
Ivan Tangkulung (Indonesia)
Ziyi Tao (USA)
Julia Waldeck (Germany)
Xiao Wen (Singapore)
Jue Wang (USA)
Sierra Wojtczack (USA)

The selected composers will collaborate closely with ICIT 2024 faculty members: Christopher Dietz (USA), Eleni Ralli (Greece/Switzerland), Jason Thorpe Buchanan (USA/Germany), Emily Koh (USA/Singapore), Scott Wilson (UK/Canada), Jiradej Setabundhu (Thailand), and the TACETi Ensemble. New compositions from ICIT 2024 participants will have their world premieres on December 19th as part of IntAct 2024 “Machine Labor Rock” at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).
This year, we received a total of 151 applications from 25 countries. We would like to express our gratitude for each submission. Every application was carefully reviewed, and the high quality and diversity of submissions made the selection process both challenging and rewarding. We look forward to receiving and experiencing your works again in the next edition. Once again, congratulations to the selected composers!
Stay tuned for more updates!

ICIT 2024 application is closed

The application for ICIT 2024 is now closed, we will announce the participant lists by the end of July 2024.

Congratulations IntAct 2023: Thank you to our sponsors

IntAct 2023 has concluded successfully. We would like to thank our outstanding artists from around the world, as well as to all participants and audiences who contributed to the meaningful atmosphere of IntAct this year. However, the realization of IntAct 2023, “Making Things,” would not have been possible without the generous support of our sponsors:
– Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music
– Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
– Assetwise
– SCG Foundation
– Tourism Authority of Thailand
– Vasinee Food Corp
– Bangkok Metropolitan Orchestra
– Music Division of the Culture, Sport, and Tourism Department
– Colorful Bangkok
 Once again, on behalf of the Thailand Music and Art Organization, we express our profound gratitude to our esteemed sponsors who have been instrumental in the success of IntAct 2023. Thank you, and we eagerly look forward to working with you again in 2024.

Congratulations to ICIT Winners 2023

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On behalf of the Thailand Music and Arts Organization with the International Composition Institute of Thailand 2023. We would like to congratulate all the 14 ICIT’s composers this year for their outstanding works and creativities! All the judges and ICIT’s faculties are very impressed with the quality of compositions by this year ICIT composers. It was very challenging for our judges and faculties to choose the winners for ICIT’s prize this year.

Now, we would like to congratulate our winners:

1st Prize: Tacet(i) Commissioned Prize $1500
Pablo Martínez Teutli
*Pablo will be commissioned to write a new piece for the Tacet(i) Ensemble and feature during IntAct 2024.

2nd Prize:
Amir Khalaf

3rd Prize:
Jing Wang

And warm congratulations to all ICIT 2023 Composers!

Amadea Halim (Indonesia)
Amir Khalaf (Egypt)
Chi-Yen Huang 黃祈諺 (Taiwan)
Daiwei Lu (China/Japan)
Daniel Serrano (Austria)
Daniel Cui (China/USA)
Li Pengyi (China)
Jing Wang (China)
Marc Perez (USA)
Michael Mills (USA)
Ng Kwun Ho (Hong Kong)
Pablo Martínez Teutli (Mexico/USA)
Solomon Kim (USA)
Young-Jun Lee (South Korea/USA)

We also would like to thank our ICIT’s faculty members: AnoThai Nitibhon, Emily KohJason Thorpe BuchananJiradej SetabundhuNarong PrangcharoenScott Wilson, and Piyawat Louilarpprasert, for your dedication, mentorship, commitment, spectacular thoughts, and great comments to this year’s ICIT participants. Merry Christmas and please stay tuned for the next year ICIT edition!

Call for Volunteers

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เทศกาลงานมหกรรมดนตรีและศิลปะสมัยใหม่แห่งประเทศไทย IntAct Festival มีจุดประสงค์ในการนำเสนอผลงานและความคิดสร้างสรรค์ของศิลปินคนไทยและต่างชาติ รวมถึงการสร้างเครือข่ายของศิลปินจากทั่วทุกมุมโลก เพื่อเป็นการต่อยอดสังคมศิลปะสมัยใหม่ ทางเราเห็นว่าเป็นโอกาสที่ดีสำหรับเยาวชนไทยทางด้านการเรียนรู้ศิลปะสมัยใหม่และ การร่วมกันสร้างสังคมศิลปะ ผ่านการปฏิบัติงานร่วมกับศิลปิน ทางเทศกาลจึงขอเรียนเชิญเยาวชนนักศึกษา และ บุคคลทั่วไป ที่สนใจในการเข้าร่วมในตำแหน่ง ผู้ช่วยศิลปิน (Artist Assistants) และ ทีมปฏิบัติการ (Festival Team) ระหว่างวันที่ 18 – 24 ธันวาคม 2566 โดยมีรายละเอียดดังต่อไปนี้

คุณสมบัติ (ตรงอย่างน้อยหนึ่งข้อ)

1) อายุไม่เกิน 30 ปี (หากเกิน จะรับพิจารณาตามความเหมาะสม)
2) เป็น นักเรียนนิสิตนักศึกษา ด้านดนตรีการแสดงหรือศิลปะแขนงอื่นๆ
3) มีความสนใจในศิลปะสมัยใหม่
4) มีความสนใจในการบริหารและจัดการ
5) ต้องการต่อยอดเครือข่ายของศิลปิน
6) สนใจในการไปทำงานหรือเรียนต่อต่างประเทศทางด้านศิลปะสมัยใหม่
7) ขยัน อดทน ชอบในการทำงานร่วมกับคนหมู่มาก

สิทธิประโยชน์

1) ได้ทำความรู้จักกับศิลปินโดยตรงเพื่อต่อยอดงานและเครือข่ายของตนเอง
2) ทางเทศกาลมีการอำนวยความสะดวกในเรื่องของอาหารและค่าใช้จ่ายที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการจัดงาน
3) ได้เข้าร่วมชมงาน การฝึกซ้อม ตลอดระยะเวลาของเทศกาล

ลิ้งค์รับสมัคร: https://forms.gle/Wtpq5M8mLP18Fz1Y7

Deadline: 1 ธันวาคม 2566

Congratulations to ICIT 2023 Composers!

ICIT 2023

Program Period: 18 – 20, December 2023
Festival Period 21 – 24, December 2023

Composers: Amadea Halim (Indonesia), Amir Khalaf (Egypt), Chi-Yen Huang (Taiwan), Daiwei Lu (China/Japan), Daniel Serrano (Austria), Daniel Cui (China/USA), Pengyi Li (China), Jing Wang (China), Marc Perez (USA), Michael Mills (USA), Ng Kwun Ho (Hong Kong), Pablo Martínez Teutli (Mexico/USA), Solomon Kim (USA), Young Jun Lee (South Korea/USA)

Congratulations to Piyawat Louilarpprasert’s Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Commission

Piyawat Louilarpprasert’s Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Commission

Congratulations to our composer-in-residence, Piyawat Louilarpprasert for receiving a commission by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung for his new work for Double Concerto for Dino-Bone, No-input Mixer, and orchestra, as a part of 2023 IntAct’s finale performance. Guest performers: Bangkok Metropolitan Orchestra, Boon Hua Lien (conductor).

IntAct 2023

IntAct Festival 2023 will be held at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC):

ICIT Program Period: 18 – 20, December 2023

Festival Period 21 – 24, December 2023

Please stay tune for more details

ICIT 2022 Winners

On behalf of the Thailand Music and Arts Organization with the International Composition Institute of Thailand 2022, we would like to thank you once more and congratulate all of your wonderful and creative composers. All judges and faculties are very impressed with the high quality of the this work selection and group of composers this year.

Now, we would like to congratulate our winners:

1st Prize: Tacet(i) Winning Commissioned Prize $1500 (tied)
Kyle Rivera (USA) and Runzhi Zhong (China)

*Kyle and Runzhi will be commissioned to write a new piece for the Tacet(i) Ensemble. Both composers will split the prize for the commissions to be featured for the ICIT 2023.

2nd Prize:
Filippo Lepre (Italy)

3rd Prizes: (tied)
Joel Frederick Kirk (UK) and Kostas Zisimopoulos (Greece)

And warm congratulations to Congratulations to all composers from ICIT 2022!

Paulo Brito (Brazil/USA)
Irene Tanuwidjaja (Indonesia)
Ethan Resnik (USA)
Evan J Lawson (Australia)
Manjing Zhang (China)
Chua Zi Tao (Singapore)
Yayi Wira Pamungkas (Indonesia)

We also want to thank our ICIT’s faculty members Emily KohEleni Ralli, AnoThai Nitibhon, Jason Thrope Buchanan, Narong Prangcharoen, and Jiradej Setabunhu for being our juries and mentors during the ICIT programme with spectacular thoughts and great artistic perspectives to our composers this year.

Until next year!

Necromancers’ supports

As a part of the successful project of >>>Necromancy for Beginners<<<, we would like to say gratitude to our main supporters:

Goethe Institute, International Koproduktion Funding (IKF) for supporting us grants for artists and performers

https://www.goethe.de/ins/th/en/ver.cfm?event_id=24379084

PMD-ART, Laboratory for Performing Arts and Digitality and Marcus Doering for providing and supporting us technology, performance rehearsals and equipments for

PMD-ART ist das Profi-System für interaktive Erlebniswelten

All the artists who have been involved: Piyawat Louilarpprasert (music director, composer, TH) Wen Liu (composer, CN/AT) Martin Butler (stage director, DE/UK) Kittiphan Janbuala (visual artist, TH) Thanapat Ogaslert (visual artist, TH) Dr. Marcus Doering (Interactive Artist, DE) Boon Hua Lien (conductor, SG) Tacet(i) (ensemble, TH)

 

Registration / ลงทะเบียนเข้าร่วมงาน

Registration for IntAct Festival

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IntAct 2022: New Act, Vocality and Transmutation

แบบฟอร์มลงทะเบียนสำหรับผู้เข้าร่วมงาน IntAct 2022: New Act, Vocality and Transmutation

เรียนผู้มีความสนใจที่จะเข้าร่วมงาน เพื่อความสะดวกความสะดวกของผู้ร่วมงานทุกท่าน ทางทีมงานได้มีการเปิดลงทะเบียนออนไลน์ โดยผู้ที่มีความประสงค์จะเข้าร่วมงานสามารถกรอกข้อมูลส่วนตัว (ชื่อ, E-mail และ สังกัดหน่วยงานสถานศึกษา) ผ่านทางแบบฟอร์มด้านล่าง

วันที่ 20 ธันวาคม 2022 
สถานที่: สถาบันดนตรียามาฮ่า เลขที่ 891/1 อาคารสยามกลการ ชั้น 4 ถนนพระราม 1 แขวงวังใหม่ เขตปทุมวัน กรุงเทพมหานคร 10330

วันที่ 21 – 25 ธันวาคม
สถานที่: ห้องสตูดิโอชั้น 4 หอศิลปวัฒนธรรม กรุงเทพมหานคร, 939 ถ.พระราม 1 แขวงวังใหม่ เขตปทุมวัน 10330

ติดต่อเราได้ที่: tmaoinfo@gmail.com และ tmaomusic.com

Registration form for IntAct 2022: New Act, Vocality and Transmutation

To those who wish to participate the event. In order to facilitate your participation, please fill out the online application form. Please fill in your personal information (full name,  e-mail, and organization) through the form below

20th December 2022
Place: Yamaha Music Academy 891/1 Siam Motors Building, Rama I Rd, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330

21st – 25th December 2022
Place: Studio 4th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre 939 Rama 1 Road, Wangmai, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330

2022 ICIT Selected Composers

We would like to give a warm welcome and congratulate the 13 fellow composers for the International Composition Institute of Thailand:
Paulo Brito (Brazil/USA)
Irene Tanuwidjaja (Indonesia)
Ethan Resnik (USA)
Evan J Lawson (Australia)
Joel Frederick Kirk (United Kingdom)
Chua Zi Tao (Singapore)
Kyle Rivera (USA)
Runzhi Zhong (China)
Kostas Zisimopoulos (Greece)
The 13 composers will work closely with our ICIT 2022 faculty artists. Ultimately, their new pieces will be given world premieres by TACETi ensemble at IntAct, Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre,
December 22nd, 2022. The total applications this year were 129 submissions from 18 countries. This selection of composers is such a huge success. We also would like to thank you for all the application and we hope to welcome more applications once again in our next edition. Please stay tuned for their new works this year!

2022 Call for Artworks and Projects Winners

We are pleased to announce the result for Open Calls (Artworks and Projects) of INT-ACT 2022: New Act, Vocality and Transmutation. The total applications this year were 312 submissions from 26 countries. TMAO team is very much appreciated such high qualities of works and artistic creation to all submissions. The selection committee is delighted to congratulate and honored to curate new works by the following creative and wonderful artists. All the works will be programmed live at Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre (BACC), and virtually streamed during our event in December.
Call for Art Works:
Anselm McDonnell
Tim Reed
Mavan Tag
Marco Dibeltulu
Steven Whiteley
Alvin Leung & Christine Drake-Thomas
Robert Lisek
Serge Bulat
Eddie Borbon
Minato Sakamoto
Pao Chutijirawong
NUUM Collective
Jacob Elkin & Zak Ma
Call for Projects:
Michele Cheng & Hassan Estakhrian
Giordano Bruno
elekhlekha

TNMAS 2021 Announcement

We would like to congratulate all of the TNMAS artists, composers, performers, scholars, philosophers, and contributors from all over the world. TNMAS received a true accomplishment this year in less than a week. We curated 11 different performances, 4 sound installations, 7 multimedia works, 3 paper presentations, and 4 panel discussions with the outstanding works of 68 international artists. We had 1,745 visitors in person this year, with over 5,000 more watching us on our online platform. On behalf of the organization, we sincerely thank and appreciate all of the participants and audience members who came out to share in this new artistic and cultural event in our large community. We’d also want to express our gratitude to our supporters, which include the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Assetwise, Prohelvetia, Vasinee Food Corp, Mudita, and others. Our team has chosen to make a significant change for our 4th edition next year. Our festival will be renamed “int-act” instead of “TNMAS.” The meaning of the name is to foster a world without borders in terms of nations, genders, ideas, cultures, disciplines, and artistic creativity, and to also support all artists around the world. This is a pivotal decision for us, and we excitedly anticipate the start of the new “act” of art-making.

ICIT 2021 Winners and Results

On behalf of the International Composition Institute of Thailand, this year we are very delighted to announce our winner and two runners-up:

“Tacet(i) Winning Commissioned Prize ($1000)”: Yin-Ting Lin will be commissioned to write a new piece for the Tacet(i) Ensemble to be featured for the next year TNMAS and ICIT 2022.

Runners-Up (2nd prizes-tied): Toh Tan Ee and Tze Yeung Ho will be featured for the next year TNMAS and ICIT 2022.

*Both of them will be invited to write a new piece for the Tacet(i) Ensemble to be featured in one of Tacet(i)’s future projects. We also would like to congratulate all the other ICIT Composers 2021 for such great achievements and fantastic compositions: Konstantinos Baras John Franek Oswald Huỳnh Akari Komura Wenbin Lyu Jeremy Rosenstock And great thanks to our wonderful juries and faculty for their dedications during ICIT Week 2021: Emily Koh AnoThai Nitibhon Jason Thorpe Buchanan Sergio Cote Barco Narong Yaay Prangcharoen

 

TNMAS 2021 Registration and Schedule

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    All events are free and have no cost of entrance. We may have to limit the number of audience in our events and performances. In addition, we would like to ask you to fill in the application form regarding dates of participation at the BACC (17th – 19th of December 2021), and your information (name, phone number, e-mail, and organization). Walk-in is also possible.

    สวัสดีครับ ทางงานขอแจ้งให้ทุกท่านทราบว่า โปรแกรมทั้งหมดในงาน TNMAS 2021 ไม่มีค่าใช้จ่ายใดๆทั้งสิ้นครับ แต่จะมีการจำกัดจำนวนผู้เข้าร่วมเพื่อป้องกันการระบาดของ COVID ทางงานได้มีการเปิดลงทะเบียนออนไลน์ โดยผู้ที่มีความประสงค์จะเข้าร่วมงานในวันศุกร์ เสาร์ และ อาทิตย์ ที่ 17 – 19 ธันวาคม ณ หอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร สามารถกรอกข้อมูลส่วนตัว (ชื่อ, เบอร์โทรติดต่อ, E-mail และ หน่วยงานที่สังกัด) ในฟอร์มนี้ หากไม่สะดวกสมัครทางออนไลน์สามารถลงทะเบียนหน้างานได้เช่นกันครับ

TNMAS 2021: Announcement

We are pleased to express our gratitude to our prestigious partners of Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2021

Assetwise

Pro Helvetia

Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (PGVIM)

Thank you for your great contribution to support local and International artists, musicians, and composers to present their works in Thailand and Southeast Asia. We are looking forward to welcoming you to TNMAS 2021.

ICIT 2021: Announcement

We are pleased to announce the final selection for the International Composition Institute of Thailand 2021. The total number of applications this year was 124 submissions from 20 countries. TMAO team is very much appreciated such high qualities of works and artistic creation to all submissions.

The selection committee is delighted to congratulate 9 composers to be featured and workshopped with the TACETi Ensemble as well as faculty mentors: Jason Thorpe Buchanan (USA/Thailand), Sergio Cote Barco (Colombia/USA), AnoThai Nitibhon (Thailand), Emily Koh (USA/Singapore) and Narong Yaay Prangcharoen (USA/Thailand). All the ICIT activities will be virtually held at Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre (BACC), as well as the final Concert as a part of Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium during our event in December.

ICIT Composers 2021
Jeremy Rosenstock (USA)
Konstantinos Baras (Greece)
Oswald Huỳnh (USA/Vietnam)
Akari Komura (Japan)
Tze Yeung Ho (Finland/Hong Kong)
John Franek (Germany/USA)
Wenbin Lyu (USA/China)
Ying-Ting Lin (USA/Taiwan)
Toh Yan Ee (Singapore)

TNMAS Open Calls: Announcement

We are pleased to announce the final selection for Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium Open Calls. The total applications this year were 412 submissions from 31 countries. TMAO team is very much appreciated such high qualities of works and artistic creation to all submissions.
The selection committee is delighted to congratulate and honored to curate new works by the following creative and wonderful artists. All the works will be programmed live at Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre (BACC), and virtually streamed during our event in December.

Call for Artworks:
Esther Chi Ching Wu – Static Ferment II
Evan Tedlock – Psithaura
Jacob Elkin – Give Me Your Pain and Sorrow
Julius Bucsis – TRANSFORMATION
Kenji Kojima – “Smile”
Giulia Regini – NeOnSound

Call for Papers:
Joseph Bohigian – The Water Has Found its Crack: Finding Armenia Through Music
Anders Flodin – Numeral and Symbolic representation when coding in Estuary: Browser-based Collaborative Live Coding
Yue Xiao – Multicultural integration of tradition and contemporary dialogue
Zhang Xiyue – Magnificent Music Meet
Saman Samadi – Post-Pars Rhizomatic Pitch-Space: An Amalgam of Western and Persian Music Traditions

Call for Project:
Luo Ting – New Arts Collaboration
Jung-Jae Kim – Absolute Oblivion
Timothy Blunk – Fire 1000 Poems!
Poumpak Charuprakorn – The Hooting Cow Collective

Call for Performers:
Jaume Darbra Fa
Sylvain Monchocé
Lena Vidulich

Call for Scores:
Wan Yak Bun – The Misty Morning for Alto/Tenor Saxophone, Violin, Cello and Fixed media
Geli Li – Long Nights for percussion, clarinet, alto saxophone and cello
John Tadeusz Aulich – Billows of Muteness for violin, prepared trombone and live electronics
Anselm McDonnell – Cross-Purposes for Bass/Bb clarinet, cello and fixed media
Bangun Setyawan – Brandal Lokajaya for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, percussion, electric guitar, violin, viola and cello
Andrew Watts – Wirewound for mixed chamber ensemble

ICIT 2021 application is now open

International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) is an intensive and unique experience for young composers around the world to experiment their own sonic and conceptual ideas with highly artistic performers, ensembles and participate in in-depth sessions with professional contemporary living mentors/composers.

The ICIT will be held in December 13th – 17th, 2021 with the partnership of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). Moreover, the selected works of participants will be premiered in public concert during December 17th – 20th, 2021 at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium (TNMAS 2021).

The mentor composers are including Jason Thorpe Buchanan (USA/Thailand), Sergio Cote (Colombia/USA), Anothai Nitibhon (Thailand), Emily Koh (USA/Singapore) and Narong Prangcharoen (USA/Thailand).

ICIT 2021 APPLY HERE

Application Deadline: July 15th 2021
Application Fee: Free
Prize: The winner will receive $1000 USD as well as a commission for the next ICIT and TNMAS 2022
Participants Fee (ONLINE): 650 USD (including lessons, lectures, rehearsal times, concert performance and professional documentation of recordings and videos)

*Case of in-person: In case the travel is possible, we can offer foods, single room-accommodation, access to the symposium and 1-day sightseeing ticket in Thailand (13 – 20th December, 2021). This will cost additional fees for $250. This is optional, participants are free to decide.

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About Faculty Artists

About the Ensemble

TNMAS 2021 Open Call applications

Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2021 (TNMAS) is seeking new works with diversity of art forms including artwork, multimedia, composition, and installation, as well as artists and performers to be featured in the 2021 program at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) during 17th – 19th December 2021.

The theme of this year is “Hybrid World, Cultural Reconnection” The open calls aim to explore artistic works which are related to contexts among cultural diversity, disconnection and connection in human society, the reflection from multiculturalism and technological aspect in the hybrid world of art.

TNMAS 2021 APPLY  HERE

More Information

Application Deadline: July 15th 2021
Application Fee: Free
Installation Date: December 15th and 16th 2021
Exhibition and Performance Dates: December 17th – 19th 2021

TNMAS 2020 RELEASE:

 

 

TMAO collaborates with Tacet(i) Ensemble (Thailand), reConvert (Danish/Switzerland), Swiss Composers (Switzerland),  Thailand Techno Orchestra, Robot Club Enginering KMITL, and many more artists to conduct the new art/music symposium at Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC). The activities are including Open calls (Artworks, Scores and Performers) for Thailand New Music and Art Symposium (TNMAS) and International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT). We have received more than 300 applications in total from all over the world. Due to COVID situation, TMAO has decided to postpone the event to 15 – 20 December 2020.

 

 

TMAO announces 6 selected participants for International Composition Institue of Thailand 2020 (ICIT)

TMAO is happy to announce 10 selected ICIT composers from around the world to participate and work with resident ensembles, composers, and artists at Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium. Kevin Lang (Austria), Kevin Leomo (Scotland)Jakob Stillmark (Germany), Toh Yan Ee (Singapore), Yuting Tan (Singapore/USA), Jonas Regnier (France/Canada).

*All selected participants will work closely with resident composers and ensemble during 15 – 20 December 2020 at Silpakorn University and Bangkok Art and Culture

ICIT 2020 Fellow Composers

TNMAS Open Call Artists

Apart from their individual performance, all 12 selected artists will join together to perform and collaborate with other artists in the symposium under the curation by our Co-Curator, AnoThai Nitibhon and director, Piyawat Louilarpprasert.

We are also would like to recommend honourable mention artists to name their highly artistic works which are including:
Giovanni Santini (Italy), Leung Hei Yiu (Hong Kong), 4/Phones Collective (International), Wei Yang (China), IMUU: Weilu Ge/Kelon Cen (China), Patricia, Martinez (Argentina/Spanish), Nicholas Shaheed (USA), Pattanon Chanchotiyan (Thailand), Kittipong Srisomboon (Thailand), Jinhee Han (South Korea), Jinseok Choi (South Korea), Emily Thorner (USA)

 

This year we received 248 submissions from 24 countries around the world. We are delighted to announce and congratulate 12 successful artists for the open call applications whose works will be performed and collaborated during the symposium 15 – 20 of December 2020 at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).

Call for Artworks: 

Karl F. Gerber (Germany) – Violinautomat,

Thitiphorn Kotham (Thailand) – Play dice with the universe,

Masafumi Oda (Japan) – Hell of Light,

Rittichut Phetmunin (Thailand) – A4

Call for Scores:

Enrique Mendoza Mejía (Mexico) – Zenosyne,

Yi-Ting Lu (Taiwanese) – Raindrops on Cracked Mud,

Luis Miguel Delgado Grande (Colombia) – Tiempo Cero,

John Eagle – (USA) still life #2: Ollallie Creek

Call for Performers:

Anthony R. Green (the Netherlands) – multimedia performer,

Jirayu Techamanapong (Thailand) – flutist,

Emily Call (USA) – violinist/electronics,

Gusto Saxophone Quartet (Thailand) – Saxophone Quartet

 

 

Apart from our Open Calls and ICIT, TMAO is delighted to announce the new series of the 2020 TMAO young commissions for the future of Thai composers. TMAO would like to congratulate all 11 selected composers and looking forward to all of the adventurous TMAO events within this year.

Thanakarn Schofield, (Royal Conservatory of Den Haag Netherlands), Chudalux Pinan, (Chandrakasem Rajabhat University), Jirath Patpradit and Sompong Panthong (Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University), Viskamol Chaiwanichsiri, Anak Baiharn, Chawin Temsittichok, Waris Sukontapatipark (College of Music, Mahidol University), Thunpasut Praphannkeetasilp Kleebsamut (Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University), Mahakit Mahaniranon (Rangsit University), Pongtorn Techaboonakho (Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music).

All commissioned composers are supported by the Thailand Music and Arts Organization (TMAO) and TACETi Ensemble, under the curation of Piyawat Louilarpprasert (Director) and AnoThai Nitibhon (Co-Curator).

Young Composer Commissions

ICIT 2020 Composers and Artists

 

We are so happy to have Meitar Ensemble Duo (Israel), reConvert (Switzerland) and TACETi (Thailand)as resident ensembles along with faculty composers Emily Koh (Singapore/USA), Jiradej Setabundhu (Thailand), Jason Thorpe Buchanan (Thailand/USA) and Jean-Patrick Besingrand (France/USA) to give such a big opportunity of the intensive project for participant composers.

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