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UNM — Ung Nordisk Musik (Young Nordic Music) is an annual festival featuring the youngest generation of Nordic composers and sound artists. UNM was first held in 1946, making it one of the oldest festivals for new music in the North and initially it was represented by four Nordic countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. In 1974 Iceland joined the festival. Each of the Nordic countries, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland take turns in organizing the festival. Each country chooses seven representatives under the age of 30 or still studying, which supports and promotes young composers and sound artists and enables aesthetic, artistic and personal exchange between the individual countries' young artists. Since 2020 preparations are under way to include the Baltic countries as a part of UNM in the future.

Overview
After World War II, on 8th of October, 1945, they met representatives from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland meet at Musikhögskolan in Stockholm to initiate an annual festival.

Background
"As with many other modern stories about European culture, it begins in 1945. Europe is in ruins, the ashes drifting slowly from the rubble. Not only has the war brought massive destruction, it has also isolated citizens from each other and across borders. But May 1945 is a new beginning; the Nordic countries are once again free. Peace has barely settled on the country when a group of Copenhagen academy students contact their Nordic colleagues to instigate something new. In 1945, after On the 8th of October that year, representatives from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland meet at Musikhögskolan in Stockholm to initiate an annual festival, the first edition to take place in Stockholm the very next year."

There are 5 Nordic organizations which take turns organizing the festival:


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=== Festival through the years ===

Also
The Nature of Nordic Music

Taking the Temperature Collective interview by Kajsa Antonsson