2018_ISCM - DANISH SECTION

Annual Report

Submitter:
ISCM - DANISH SECTION
Year:
2018
Please describe your organization’s activities over the past year, including concerts, commissions, collaborations, publications:
Snyk is the national centre for contemporary and experimental music and sound art in Denmark. Snyk contributes to the development of the music scene in Denmark focusing on the field of contemporary, experimental music and sound art. Snyk facilitates and produces a wide range of projects in collaboration with the Danish and international scene, E.G. international exchange projects and administrates Grants for International Travel Support for Danish musicians going abroad and for international artists, who are invited to Denmark. Snyk produces an annual festival for new, experimental music and sound art, the G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival.
Snyk has been partner in a program promoting Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen in New York. This was done in collaboration with the New York based curatorial platform Blank Forms.
Snyk arranged residencies for Danish composers in collaboration with Bang on a Can (US), and has been doing educational programmes in collaboration with The National Gallery of Denmark, The Danish Composers Society amongst others.
Please describe your organization's research activities over the past year:
In collaboration with the Danish composers organization Snyk issued a report focusing on the representation (or lack of) female composers in the symphonic orchestras repetoire.