cotfg

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  • Pre-NMASS Social at Batch

    Join us for a short hang to talk about the upcoming festival.
    Thursday 9/18/2025 at Batch
    3220 Manor Rd. Austin, Tx 78723

  • 2025 Summer Update

    Sign up for our mailing list to get updates on our New Media Art and Sound Summit 2025 which is happening on September 26, 27, 28 at Museum of Human Achievement !

    The full line up will be announced at the end of July !

    For now visit the information about the open call for participation in Music Research Strategies ILW: Ruthless Compassion
    Consider applying or letting a friend know about this open call!

    or

    Be an early investor in this program and buy the early bird pass!
    The best way to support us at this point in time is to buy the early bird pass. Thank you for thinking of us!

    Flyer design by Recspec

  • 2025 Spring Update

    We are participating in I Live Here I Give Here and Amplify Austin again!

    Amplify Austin Day is right around the corner. During the biggest giving event in Central Texas, residents from across our community will come together to support hundreds of local nonprofits for 24 hours, starting at 6pm on March 5 through 6pm on March 6.

    This year our goal is to raise $5,000 with the help of 200 donors. These valuable funds will help us jump start our new efforts as a newly formed 501(c)(3) organization as well as support our upcoming New Media Art and Sound Summit taking place in the fall.

    So how can you help? Make a donation to COTFG at AmplifyATX.org and then share the news with all of your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.

    Amplify Austin Day is all about collective community giving. Every gift will bring us one step closer to reaching this year’s big goal and help make a huge impact on our community.

    Why is it important for us to make this effort now? 

    Since 2003, COTFG has always maintained a focus on diversity (genre, DEI, interdisciplinary collaboration) and we have also helped many other organizations get off the ground. We have fostered collaboration among artists who would not have otherwise met and provided quality performances to audiences at very low cost.

    For the first 13 years of our existence, our admin and production work was 100% volunteer based. In past decade we have endeavored to be able to compensate our staff to continue to do this valuable work in a sustainable manner.

    This is our first year as our own non-profit organization which comes with much additional administrative costs. There are matching benefits from Amplify Austin and other companies per donation of each individual and many bonuses for us if you donate early!

    Click here to donate to us!

  • Game Music rehearsal series

    Game Music has a long and interesting history, including a New Music Co-op concert in 2008 which spawned a still-running John Zorn Cobra ensemble called Mongoose.

    Would you be interested in performing and composing Game Music in an evening-length group performance supported by the COTFG?

    Game Music is rule-based and follows any sort of instructions found in games and other play-based activity. Red Light Green Light but with music? Uno cards used to prompt musicians? Flash cards directing group improvisations? Races to see who can play a musical passage the fastest? The possibilities are endless.

    Some historical examples:

    • Musical dice attributed to Mozart

    • Duchamp’s toy train with bins to collect dropped musical notes.

    • Duchamp and Cage’s chess game on electronic chessboard 

    • Any number of Fluxus and Scratch orchestra pieces

    • Xenakis’ Strategie (1962) and Kagel’s Match (1963)

    • John Zorn’s Cobra (1984)

    • Children’s clapping games

    This project needs radical creativity and is open to everyone of every background and musical experience. We invite you to become a co-organizer, composer and performer. 

    We will provide warm up games and a workshop environment to develop games collaboratively. Bring your own games or just come to play!

    The first meeting will be at Museum of Human Achievement on Friday, April 7th evening between 7pm and 9pm. All are welcome and for an eventual performance we plan to focus on games created by people in the Austin, Tx community.

    The June meetings will take place at Crashbox on Bolm Rd.
    Thursday – June 15th
    Thursday – June 22nd