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'''Access Contemporary Music''' is a [[Chicago]] based<ref name="Acmusic about">{{cite web|title=ABOUT - About ACM |url=http://www.acmusic.org/content/about-about-acm |accessdate=5 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403064234/http://www.acmusic.org/content/about-about-acm |archivedate=April 3, 2010 }}</ref> [[contemporary music]] [[musical ensemble|ensemble]].  In addition to giving live concert of music by living [[composer]]s they have initiated several innovative [[internet|web-based]] projects to help spread contemporary music to as diverse an [[audience]] as possible.

== Web based projects ==
Web based projects include Weekly Readings in which they [[Sound recording and reproduction|record]] a different piece of [[music]] every week and post it to their website, Spotlight Double Bass, a collaboration with the [[International Society of Bassists]], and Composer Alive.<ref name="Acmusic CA">{{cite web|title=Composer alive innovative web music project collaboration |url=http://www.acmusic.org/composeralive.html |accessdate=5 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514094638/http://www.acmusic.org/composeralive.html |archivedate=May 14, 2009 }}</ref>

=== Composer Alive ===
The first Composer Alive project was a collaboration between ACM and [[Beijing]] based composer [[Xiaogang Ye]] in the summer of 2006.  Ye composed Datura, which is now published by Schott music, and traveled to Chicago for the World Premiere at the [[Chicago Cultural Center]].<ref name="Acmusic CA"/>

ACM's other projects include Sound of Silent Film and Noteplay, an event that allows children to discover the joys of creating and manipulating sound.

== References ==
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http://www.acmusic.org/

== External links ==
* [http://www.acmusic.org Official Website]

[[Category:Contemporary classical music ensembles]]
[[Category:Musical groups from Chicago]]