🚀 Our 19th annual game design challenge has launched!

💬 Topic: #toxicity

📆 Submit ideas by March 23, 2026

⭐ $10,000 in cash prizes
⭐ Critiques for all Finalists

🎮 Please boost to reach #gamedevs, #designers, #artists, #writers, #composers, and more.

🧡 Presented by an award-winning #nonprofit program producing trauma-informed videogames for #violence #prevention since 2008.

Details, rules, and resources at the contest website.

🌐 https://toxify.org

#games #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #gamejam #nonprofit #education #edtech #sociology #media #tech

Mussorgsky's family name was derived from an ancestor who had had the nickname "Musorga," which meant, appropriately enough, 'Music maker.' On his birthday, ten things you might not know about him.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/03/21-march-modest-p-mussorgsky.html

#BirthAnniversary #Music #Mussorgsky #ClassicalMusic #Composers

‘I often feel our songwriters and composers are forgotten about in the AI debate. I want to put them front and centre'
Former Minister for Culture & Arts, Catherine Martin has been appointed Head of Policy, Ireland, with the Ivors Academy. In this interview with Toner Quinn, she discusses her new advocacy role for songwriters and composers, the challenges posed by AI, and the future of the Basic Income for the Arts.

https://journalofmusic.com/opinion/i-often-feel-our-songwriters-and-composers-are-forgotten-about-ai-debate-i-want-put-them

#AI #music #songwriters #composers

https://www.cmc.ie/opportunities/choral-sketches-2026
Deadline: 2 March 2026 12:00
Chamber Choir Ireland and the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland are now seeking applications for Choral Sketches with composer mentor Rhona Clarke.

Choral Sketches is a unique artist development opportunity for composers resident in Ireland who wish to develop their skills in writing choral music with mentoring from renowned Irish composer Rhona Clarke.

#Competition for #choral #composers
@thearcanecomposer

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/guide-to-listening-international-womens-day-abc-classic-abc-jazz/106383718

#composers #IWD2026 #musicians #singers

This is a small trifle (I've done "a few" bigger projects), but a week ago I heard Tito Muñoz conduct the New York Philharmonic in a wonderful community concert, including a piece called "Tumbao" by Roberto Sierra. This gave me an idea to write out a "Tumbao" from my childhood -- I give you Tumbao-la-laika!
Enjoy!

#piano #tumbaolalaika #tumbalalaika #music #composers #bolero

"When the 1936 #Polish #Yiddish feature #AlKhet (I Have Sinned) screened at the #NewYork #Jewish #FilmFestival last month after a decades-long restoration process, seeing the #film was cause for celebration.

Hearing the soundtrack was my greatest joy. It was scored by one of my favorite Yiddish #composers, #HenokhKon, who created the #music for the 1937 film classic #TheDybbuk. In his heyday between the world wars, #Kon was already renowned as a prolific creator of catchy #songs and sophisticated multi-genre instrumental repertoire, even years before his first film commissions.

My ears perk up for Kon’s distinctive, eclectic sound textures (as well as ingenious folk-stylized #song repertoire) — from the iconic #dance sequences of The #Dybbuk, to angst-driven passages in the #Bundist quasi-#documentary #MirKumenOn (called Children Must Laugh in English), to darkly ironic background cues for the low-budget #FreylekheKabtsonim (Jolly Paupers).

I heard a signature..."

https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/rediscovering-the-dybbuk-composer-henokh-kon/

We Are Family — The Story of the African American Composer Initiative

with LaDoris Cordell, Jodi Gandolfi, Deanne Tucker
Composers: Regina Baiocchi, Jeremiah Evans, Joshua McGhee
Hosted by Jeannie Gayle Pool

Saturday, 28 February 2026
12pm PST (UTC-08)
Free & Online. Register here:
https://twp.ai/ImvxLc

#ASMAC #AACI #AfricanAmericanComposerInitiative #BlackHistory #BlackMusicHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #AfricanAmericanComposers #Composers #AmericanSocietyofMusicArrangersandComposers

Tonight's Geography of Sound will focus on new CDs with works by Unsuk Chin and Thomas Adès.
Click here at 22h (GMT) to listen: http://www.rtp.pt/antena2/ or listen to it later here: http://www.rtp.pt/programa/radio/p1123

O episódio de hoje da Geografia dos Sons será dedicado a novos CDs com obras de Unsuk Chin e Thomas Adès.
Clique aqui às 22h (GMT) para ouvir: http://www.rtp.pt/antena2/ ou ouça mais tarde aqui: http://www.rtp.pt/programa/radio/p1123 #radio #newmusic #composer #composers #antena2