Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine

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The Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc) is a French association based in Paris. Founded in 1977, it is an important resource centre for contemporary music.

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Introduction

The Centre is a public documentation centre for contemporary music in Paris, founded in 1977. [1] Since 1993, it has been located not far from the Cité de la musique, place de la Fontaine-aux-Lions  [ fr ], Parc de la Villette, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. [2]

A resource centre, in addition to its musical fonds, it puts composers in touch with performers and creators on the occasion of various projects, participates in the dissemination of musical works to programmers, and offers a season of meetings, symposia and study days. [3]

History

The origins of the Centre date back to 1976, at the initiative of Jean Maheu, then Director of Music at the French Ministry of Culture  : a commission of musical and institutional personalities decides on actions to promote contemporary music and to help composers and music publishers interested in this repertoire. [2] [4] Two entities are thus imagined: le Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc) and Musique française d'aujourd'hui  [ fr ] (MFA) [2] For its activities, the Cdmc receives support from the SACEM et de Radio France. [4]

Officially created in 1977, the Centre was inaugurated in February 1978 and opened to the public a few months later with a documentary catalogue of 500 works. [2]

In 2007, the Cdmc is coordinating, in partnership with the IRCAM, the Conservatoire de Paris, the Cité de la musique, the Médiathèque Musicale Mahler and the Ensemble intercontemporain, the setting up of a portal dedicated to contemporary music. [5]

The director of the Centre from the outset, Marianne Lyon, remains in office until 2007. Laure Marcel-Berlioz succeeds her at the head of the establishment, then Agnès Prétrel from 2019. [2]

In 2020, [6] the Centre merges with two other associations: Musique française d'aujourd'hui and Musique nouvelle en liberté  [ fr ], to integrate a new structure: the Maison de la musique contemporaine  [ fr ] (MMC). [7] [8]

Backgrounds and catalogue

The documentation is kept at the Centre twenty years after the death of a composer, then the collection is returned to the BnF. [4] [9]

In 2000, 11000 works were available for consultation. [4] In 2020, the catalogue of the Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine included more than 1100 composers and nearly 20,000 works, some of which are accessible online in the form of excerpts. [2]

There are 40,000 documents available at the Cmdc, [10] are of various kinds. [3]

As for the contemporary music portal, as of July 2020, it claims access to 400,000 records and 14,000 audio excerpts online, and the database contains nearly 10,000 names or structures. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine". www.musiquecontemporaine.fr. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Histoire du Cdmc". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (in French). 25 October 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Le Cdmc". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (in French). 24 January 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Lyon, Marianne (2000). "Le Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc)". Fontes Artis Musicae. pp. 92–94. ISSN   0015-6191 . Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Portail de la musique contemporaine en France - French Gateway to Contemporary Music Resources". www.musiquecontemporaine.fr. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Rédaction, La (10 November 2020). "Lancement officiel de la Maison de la Musique Contemporaine". resmusica.com (in French). Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Informations sur l'absorption du Cdmc dans la MMC". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (in French). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Roselyne Bachelot crée la Maison de la musique contemporaine". diapasonmag.fr (in French). 12 November 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "CDMC (Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine)". History Committee. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  10. 1 2 "Lettre d'information du Cdmc no 196 | July 2020". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (in French). 8 July 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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