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10/20/2023
Relevant Tones Live: Commercialism in Art
Music and conversation on the intersection of art and commerce.
Songs About Buildings and Moods
LIVE
8.15.21
Thirsty Ears Festival
LIVE
10.15.21
Relevant Tones Festival 2021
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We produce a variety of festivals, digital media projects and concerts throughout the year designed to serve our mission of bringing musical creativity to life.
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The ACM School of Music teaches musical creativity along with fundamentals to students age 4 through adult in three locations in Chicago and virtually.
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ACM or Access Contemporary Music is a non-profit organization with the mission of bringing musical creativity to life every day. We do this through our award-winning podcast Relevant Tones, by producing concerts of music by diverse living composers, by teaching musical creativity in our ACM School of Music, through exciting multi-disciplinary festivals like Sound of Silent Film and Thirsty Ears, the Sonic Walkabout musical audio walking tours, process-based innovative collaborations like Composer Alive and digital media productions like Songs About Buildings and Moods. We commission new music for each of these programs and work with our talented musicians to bring it to life.
We commission dozens of composers every year
We produce events in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee and Mexico City
We teach musical creativity to more than 300 students
News
NEWS
We Need Volunteers for Thirsty Ears
Chicago’s only classical music street festival returns to Ravenswood on August 5 and 6 but we need your help! We’re looking for volunteers to help us at the entrances, in… Read More »We Need Volunteers for Thirsty Ears
Tickets Now on Sale for the Sound of Silent Film Festival in Chicago
ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival celebrates its 18th year with an all-new program of modern silent films with scores we commissioned performed live. One night only! Wednesday, April… Read More »Tickets Now on Sale for the Sound of Silent Film Festival in Chicago