About The New Score (bnmf.co.uk)
Who makes The New Score, and how
The New Score is an independent reference at bnmf.co.uk covering contemporary and experimental composed work: the composers, ensembles, venues, and support that sustain the field.
Contemporary works, the people who make them
Where this domain comes from
The New Score continues the theme this domain carried from 2009 to 2015: new music: the practice of contemporary and experimental composed music, as performed and supported in a regional.
From 2009 to 2015 this domain was the home of "Bangor New Music Festival", run by its original owner. The domain was acquired in 2026 and The New Score is now an independent publication on the same theme, with no relation to the previous owner.
The New Score did not exist before 2026; the years above belong to the former site, not to this one.
What this domain was
From 2009 to 2015 this address carried a festival for contemporary and experimental composed music. The homepage read as a single festival name across its captured years. Around 175 archive captures record the era, over 97 distinct paths, with the busiest years in 2012 and 2013. Outside that span the domain served an unrelated subject for ten years. The address now belongs to a new project that keeps the same theme: the practice of contemporary and experimental composed music, performed and supported in a regional field, for composers, performers, ensembles, festival organisers, and dedicated listeners.
- Era
- 2009 to 2015
- Former title
- Bangor New Music Festival
- Archive
- 175 captures and 97 addresses
- Links
- 337 referring domains
- Inherited addresses still answering
- 8 addresses
Why this subject, and why here
Contemporary and experimental composed music stays alive because it is made and performed, not merely recorded and sold. New works need composers, performers, ensembles, venues, and the support that keeps a season going. The field works in a region: a festival builds its audience one season at a time, and an ensemble grows from the listeners who keep returning. Each cycle brings a fresh batch of pieces, a change in who is working, and a question of who will carry the next one forward. That steady churn is what makes the subject worth following, season by season, rather than treating it as a fixed canon.
The New Score is a new and independent publication, established in 2026, unaffiliated with the domain's former occupant. It took this address because the theme matches it: the practice of contemporary and experimental composed music, as performed and supported in a regional field. The business idea is simple. Keep a standing reference to the composers, the ensembles, the festivals, and the support that sustain the field, so that anyone working in the region has one place that records the work as it happens and keeps it available after the season is over.
This site will not run a news desk, chase launches, or report on what happened this week. A news attribute decays, while a reference does not. It will not carry the subject of the years outside the earlier era, when the domain served an unrelated building product. It will not treat the address as a continuation of the earlier occupant, and it will not present itself as that occupant's owner. It records the field, and it leaves the rest to other pages.
Sources, method and corrections
The figures on this page come from a dossier of archive captures and a backlink index. The earlier era is bounded by its captured years, and the counts are taken from the capture records that remain. A number reaches a page only when the underlying capture or index entry exists. Where the record is thin, the page says so rather than filling the gap. A figures file with sourced numbers sits alongside the text, so any figure printed here can be traced to the record it came from.
Each page is written against that record and checked before it is published. The wording is read for anything it claims that the record does not support, and a figure is kept only when it can be traced back. When a correction arrives, it is applied in the next edition. Corrections land in the next edition, and the record that produced a figure is updated alongside the text it supports.
Corrections are applied in the next build.
What you find now, and what comes next
The sections below are where the field is recorded, one at a time.
Thirty-two pages are planned: eleven core pages published now and twenty-one scheduled later. The schedule runs over six months, from 2026-09 to 2027-03, with a figures file holding the sourced numbers.