Mission Statement

This project is dedicated to contemporary classical music (CCM): music of our time, written by composers who engage actively with the musical, cultural, and technical conditions of the present.

Its purpose is not to teach, persuade, or simplify, but to clarify.

Contemporary classical music is often perceived as opaque, fragmented, or inaccessible. Rather than addressing these perceptions directly, this project offers orientation through information, structure, and continuity. It seeks to show what exists, how it is articulated, and how individual composers’ work unfolds over time.

The project is built around a set of archives that function as guides, not as encyclopedias. They are designed to support listening, comparison, and historical awareness. While the archives may evolve as new works appear and perspectives deepen, their underlying principles remain stable.

Alongside this descriptive foundation, the project acknowledges that questions of quality are unavoidable. Musical cultures do not advance through neutrality alone. Without adopting a pedagogical tone or issuing proclamations, the project assumes responsibility for identifying works and composers of exceptional artistic significance. This responsibility is exercised with discretion, experience, and long-term listening rather than through public assertion.

The project is conceived as a living intelligence: one that absorbs new information, reflects on continuity and change, and remains attentive to the present without surrendering to immediacy. It does not aim to close debates, but to raise the level at which they can meaningfully occur.

Ultimately, the project exists to support composers, performers, and listeners who engage seriously with contemporary classical music — not by defining what must be thought, but by shaping the conditions under which thinking, listening, and creativity can deepen.

The CCM Project is conceived and curated by Marc Bollansee. It is grounded in long-term listening rather than institutional affiliation.