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CoMA The CoMA Festival - Art Music for the Future
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The Växjö Electronic Music Festival first saw the light of day in 1986 - and is now the oldest festival of electro-accoustic music in Sweden! Although such an honorary label is not easily acquired, the festival is now changing its name to CoMA - Art Music for the Future. Why change the name of such a venerable phenomenon?
In recent decades, electro-accoustic music has undergone a change and is today well established, to say the least. Much remains of its experimental, cross-boundary, questioning ambition, but this has inevitably been de-dramatised by the passage of time - the presence of tape recorders, electronic devices and computers on the concert stage no longer shocks. As a result, electro-accoustic music has increasingly joined hands with the rest of the art music scene.
The CoMA Festival - Art music for the Future - takes both present reality and the future as its starting points. Over the coming years, the festival will continue to be a forum for electro-accoustic music, but also for accoustic music. Similarly, innovative works, experimental cross-boundary music, will have a natural place at the event. Twenty years' experience of organising the festival has amply demonstrated the need to provide a forum for new, unproven works and initiatives.
CoMA Festival 2009 is this year cooperating with the ISCM World New Music Days.

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