mica – music austria

After months of intensive preparation and development work, mica – music austria now presents a new online platform for scores – the music austria sheet music shop. Quick and easy to use, the shop offers Austrian-based composers the opportunity to sell and … read more »

Six weeks before the festival start, the VIS – Vienna Independent Shorts is already stretching out its tentacles. During the Poolinale Talks at the Vienna Music Film Festival Poolinale, the VIS introduced a new award that will be bestowed for the first … read more »

After months of intensive preparation and development, mica – music austria now has a new online platform for scores – the music austria sheet music shop. Quick and easy to use, the shop offers Austrian-based composers the opportunity to sell and make … read more »

Three new chamber music compositions by the multi-talented Johannes Berauer are now available in the music austria sheet music shop. Compositions of this young Austrian composer are difficult to assign to one specific genre. An instrumentation with violin, clarinet, bassoon and piano … read more »

Symposium on the current situation of contemporary music (23rd – 26th of October 2012)

After the outstanding festival debut in 2010 and the no less spectacular sequel in the past year, the organizers of the Popfest Wien are determined to once again succeed with this year’s festival edition, which will take place from the 26th to … read more »

Contemporary music is now widely established, but still represents only a small segment of  the music market and the public media. The still noticeable elitist claim of contemporary music is increasingly at odds with current trends in artistic activities. Can the concept … read more »

27th – 29th of April 2012: This weekend musicians and music lovers from all around the world will gather in the Germany city of Witten for a three-day international festival full of contemporary music – music that has literally never been heard … read more »

On the 14th of December 2011, mica music austria and the jazz club Porgy & Bess organized a mica focus panel discussion to represent and analyze the current situation of different presentation forms and co-operations between Austria and the countries of the … read more »

To be quite honest, we were not expecting so many entries.  More than 70 artists submitted their audiovisual works to the first competition Tonbild 2011, organized by mica – music austria. The terms for the competition were the submission of videos from … read more »