The activities of the Center are based on five interrelated areas of work: continuous training; creation; research; production, and promotion. In this way, the Center is able to provide students, teachers, researchers and artists, at different stages of their artistic and professional development, with options for specialization and renovation of knowledge. It is also able to provide work environments that would allow them to develop new works and projects within a framework of critical and constructive reflection.
1. Continuous Training
Through
the teaching of new technologies applied to the music and sound, the
CMMAS develops this area in the following academic offerings:
A fundamental part of the Continuous Formation of the CMMAS is its Honorary Academic Council. Integrated by experts in different areas, its main function is to support, evaluate and validate selection processes of candidates for scholarships; supervising the effectiveness and relevance of programs and academic activities; as well as to propone and foment vital strategies of work.
2. Creation
As the main option in Mexico for music and sound production with new technologies, the CMMAS provides the spaces, human support and the technical resources necessary for those who use sound as the main material for their works, providing the adequate environment for the development and consolidation of individual and/or group projects. The offerings in the area of the creation are:
3. Research
In the constant pursuit of innovation and the implementation of recent technologies, as well as the generation of new knowledge and the reflective practice about it, the CMMAS not only supports residents and external researches, but also constantly generates its own research projects. The objective is to promote theoretical and practical research about topics related to the creation, interpretation of new works, sound analysis, as well as pedagogy and new technologies, among many others.
The following are some of the research activities currently supported by the Center:
4.
Production
The Center makes unique, high quality creative projects such as books, magazines, CDs and DVDs, as well as online productions like downloads, applications for mobile devices, tutorial videos, podcasts and conferences. These are some of the products generated, edited and published by the CMMAS:
All the productions of CMMAS, as well as some additional materials produced by institutions or artists associated with the Center are available online in the store of CMMAS (www.cmmas.org/store).
5.
Promotion
The Center disseminates innovative proposals in music and sound arts through festivals, concerts, publications, productions, recordings, encounters and various other activities, with the aim of publicizing the artistic production and the investigation in Mexico and abroad, and making it available to the whole community.
Among the more relevant activities we can mention the following: