Manifesto

Every year, composers and performers graduate. Composers have to prove the works they spent years on through competitions and residencies; the music that does not make it through waits in a drawer. Performers want to expand their repertoire but do not know where to find new work that fits their level, their line-up and what they want to play.

Both have the same problem: they cannot reach each other. Music lives where the one who writes it meets the one who plays it — not in a competition result, but in a hall.

This is a public square. Composers present their work; performers describe what they are looking for. Every work’s difficulty is rated out of seven, and the techniques it asks for are written out plainly. Performers find works by level and line-up, or commission a new one; composers see the performers who are looking for them.

There are no prizes, no juries and no entry fees here. No one is here to select anyone, only to play together. Presenting work, finding work and being matched are free.