{"id":144,"date":"2026-09-08T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.189.180.62:85\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:08:03","slug":"contemporary-composers-bush-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/contemporary-composers-bush-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Composers @ Bush Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background\" style=\"background-color:#F4F1DE;padding-top:96px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:96px;padding-left:24px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c08e0806 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#7A736A;margin-bottom:12px;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase\">Our Work \u00b7 Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">Contemporary Composers @ Bush Lab<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px;line-height:1.55\">Supporting female contemporary composers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:96px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:96px;padding-left:24px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c08e0806 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-02edcd1a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/intruments.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-451\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:25px;border-bottom-right-radius:25px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/intruments.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/intruments-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/intruments-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/intruments-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">Music is a part of Uganda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A jerrycan turns into a drum, and people start moving the moment they listen to music. With the Bush Lab, Toonda wants to connect local and international artists, mixing traditional music and contemporary, experimental music from abroad in our rural village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Female composers can stay in our grass-thatched-roof house, using the stage for lectures, workshops and performances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background\" style=\"background-color:#F4F1DE;padding-top:96px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:96px;padding-left:24px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c08e0806 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-02edcd1a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">Dr Yijie Wang- @Bush Lab 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yijie Wang had piano lessons with her father from the age of five. From 2002 she studied composition with Prof. Wanchun Shi at the Chinese Conservatory in Beijing, and from October 2007 with Prof. Peter Michael Hamel at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Hamburg. She completed her doctorate as a composer and musicologist in June 2016, summa cum laude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her music theatre work \u201cChang\u2019e\u2019s Journey to the Moon\u201d was performed at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Muhai Tang in 2012. Her opera \u201cYang Guifei &#8211; The Emperor\u2019s Concubine\u201d premiered in Hamburg and at the Schauspielhaus Kiel in 2014. Later commissions include \u201cJin Mu Huo &#8211; Emulsion\u201d, \u201c\u5173\u9670 (guan ju)\u201d, the dance theatre piece \u201cMoment\u201d, \u201cDer kleine Mensch\u201d, \u201cFilet\u00adst\u00fccke\u201d, \u201cThe Eight Trigrams\u201d and String Quartet No. 1 at the Elbphilharmonie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has taught music theory and ear training at the International College of Music in Hamburg since October 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Listen and read:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/yijiewang.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yijiewang.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wechatimg179.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:25px;border-bottom-right-radius:25px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wechatimg179.webp 1024w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wechatimg179-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wechatimg179-768x513.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:96px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:96px;padding-left:24px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c08e0806 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-02edcd1a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/macri-cacc81ceres-photo-by-cristina-marxphotomusix.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:25px;border-top-right-radius:25px;border-bottom-left-radius:25px;border-bottom-right-radius:25px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/macri-cacc81ceres-photo-by-cristina-marxphotomusix.webp 750w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/macri-cacc81ceres-photo-by-cristina-marxphotomusix-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/toonda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/macri-cacc81ceres-photo-by-cristina-marxphotomusix-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">Macri C\u00e1ceres  @Bush Lab 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the pandemic, Macri had to stay in Peru. We held a virtual workshop with her in December 2021 instead, and hope to welcome her another time in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a composer of mixed and electronic music, a performer, improviser, builder of ceramic flutes, and a creator of sound spaces and poetry. She produces and curates the Virtual Meeting of Female Latin American Composers, is a founding member of the non-profit Musuq, part of RETAMA &#8211; the first group of Peruvian composers &#8211; and a member of RedcLa, the Network of Latin American Female Composers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Lima, she studied music and composition at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences and took the diploma in sound creation with new technologies at CMMAS, the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts, in 2019. Her research into the sonic possibilities of ceramic flutes runs from harmonic exploration during construction through to composition and collaboration across disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Listen and read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/macricaceres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SoundCloud<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macricaceres.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">macricaceres.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background\" style=\"background-color:#2D6A4F;padding-top:96px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:96px;padding-left:24px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c08e0806 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#FDFBF7;margin-bottom:16px\">Compose at the Bush Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#F4F1DE;margin-bottom:32px\">Female composers are welcome to stay, work and perform in Kyakataama. Email info@toonda.org to talk about a residency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"\/index.php\/contact\/\" style=\"border-radius:6px;color:#ffffff;background-color:#D97757\">Get in Touch<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Work \u00b7 Music Contemporary Composers @ Bush Lab Supporting female contemporary composers. Music is a part of Uganda A jerrycan turns into a drum, and people start moving the moment they listen to music. 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