Visby International Centre For Composers

Visby International Centre For Composers (VICC), also known as Visby Internationella Tonsättarcentrum, is a Swedish work space and residency for composers, established in 1999. VICC provides a meeting place and creative environment for contemporary composers from around the world and organizes collaborative projects, concerts, conferences, and seminars. Visby is also an official ISCM Gotland Section. The Centre has an executive director Sten Melin and studio manager Jesper Elén. In 1997, the Gotland School of Music Composition held a week-long seminar Young Composers in the Baltic Region with a grant from Stiftelsen Framtidens kultur. Representatives from the Societies of Composers in Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden discussed the plan to establish an "International Center for Composers" in Visby, similar to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators. Since 1999, over 700 composers-in-residence and 1,200 guests from 60 countries composed more than 1000 pieces at VICC. VICC facilities include: Studio Alpha Apple Mac Pro 5 computer, Metric Halo ULN-8 FW audio-interface Genelec 5.1 speakers Synthesizers: Kurzweil PC-88, Clavia Nord Modular G2, Moog Voyager (rack), Access Virus TI (rack), E-mu Virtuoso 2000 Notation Studios 1 & 2 Apple iMac 27" computers Genelec 8030A speakers ESI Keycontrol 49 XT MIDI-keyboard, upright piano, Yamaha P-35B Electric Piano (Studio 2) Grand Piano Studio Petrof Grand Piano (192 cm), MIDI keyboard Carlqvist Villa A guest house for visiting composers