What we do:

New Music Edmonton (NME) is an organization that supports sound art creators in the process of realizing their artistic ideas. This includes commissioning composers, presenting performers, engaging curators, and empowering the public through our creative outreach programs. Edmonton has a robust community of artistic minds, and New Music Edmonton helps these artists turn their wild ideas into events that enrich our artistic community with sonic innovation. At an NME event, audiences are inspired by the spiky sounds and boundary breaking performances that bring the "new" to new music. Come out to one of our events and support new sonic creation because all music was once new music. 

You won't believe your ears.

Mission Statement: New Music Edmonton is committed to being the leading local society for facilitating relationships among contemporary music audiences, composers, and performers through presentation, commissioning, and education.

Summary of mandate: New Music Edmonton (NME) is Edmonton’s premier organization for the promotion and presentation of contemporary music and sound-related arts. Now in its fourth decade of activities, NME's mandate is to seek out and bring to its audiences the widest possible spectrum of contemporary musical and sonic art practices and to engage with the community by way of inter-organizational collaborations and a regular program of outreach activities. Our commitment to the creative work of BIPOC and other underrepresented demographics is being achieved by active programming and outreach initiatives, and a new stream by which we share our curatorial resources with representative individuals and organizations. We are committed to the inclusion of diverse artistic practices and to offering Edmontonians opportunities to enjoy the many ways that the term “new music” can be used. It a dynamic and evolving area of art production. The fact of its contemporaneity motivates artistic production and reception that sets it apart as a distinct and exciting form of art.

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