As you may have already noticed, Asymmetry has recently reviewed Gibello’s first CD, Labyrinthe/c104 goto N901, and had a little conversation about her on this podcast. We were already planning to attend the INA-GRM Présences electronique festival, so when we found out that she would be presenting the MOLF at Instants Chavirés only days before the festival, it was easy to arrange to attend both. And both were good.
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Emmanuelle Gibello @ Instants Chavirés
Echofluxx12
Echofluxx is, I think, unique in Czech festivals. It presents the very latest of the latest, which is naturally very risky. But without festivals like this, willing to ride the very edge of the edge, where would tomorrow’s music be? Having traded a donation to the first Echofluxx festival for attending in person, Asymmetry decided…
Asymmetry on the road, spring 2013
Upcoming shows that Asymmetry will be attending: 1 April. Emmanuelle Gibello at Instants Chavirés I’m writing this report on 1 April. I apologize to everyone for leaving it literally to the last day. If you’re in Paris already, go see this show. http://www.instantschavires.com/spip.php?article797 5-7 April. INA-GRM: Présences électronique You have a couple of days left,…
Adam Stansbie–Isthmus
The five pieces on Adam Stansbie’s Isthmus are presented in chronological order, tempting one to draw conclusions about the evolution of style. But when I succumbed to that temptation (in my mind) all I found was that these five pieces are different. And really, isn’t that all that’s necessary? That a composer gives you something…
Emmanuelle Gibello–Labyrinthe/c104 goto N901
Your first step into the labyrinth is with the hollow creaking and clanking of Bamboo Cry. The background, which started out as silence, gradually fills with other sounds until the whole thing becomes very rich and dense. Not too gradually, though. Bamboo Cry is only 2′ 39″. But it’s as sweet a two and a…
Asymmetry on the radio
Asymmetry founding editor Michael Karman will be Robert McBride’s guest on Club Mod this Saturday. Club Mod is a show on All Classical KQAC in Portland, OR. And while the realities of programming on a classical station means that some of the things Asymmetry values could not be played, I think we have still come…
Donating from outside the US
Up until this past Christmas, the donate button for Asymmetry Music Magazine did not allow donations from outside the United States. I have had all the information necessary to have concluded this all year long, but lacked the intelligence necessary to draw the conclusion. This Christmas, the problem was shoved under my nose and then…
The Future of Asymmetry
Aside from a very welcome donation last year from a staunch supporter, Asymmetry Music Magazine has operated solely from funding off of one source. After seven years, that source has dried up. For Asymmetry to continue its mission of reporting on new music concerts and recommending recordings of new music and interviewing the people who…
A Moveable Feast: The Odyssey of Anthem Records
Over the past eight years, one of Portland’s coolest music stores has wandered around the town, from just off of Belmont on the east side to Couch Street downtown then back to the east side on 28th and Flanders to its most recent location on Sandy and 28th (2706). For this last move, I had…
New Ferreyra CD
Beatriz Ferreyra’s latest CD, which contains four pieces dated from 2005 to 2011 (odd years only), is a welcome addition to the composer’s recorded ouevre, a welcome addition to the world of electroacoustic music–to the world of music, generally–and quite possibly a welcome addition to your own collection. It is available, in line with current…