Cascadia Composers recently hosted the National Association of Composers conference in Portland, OR, a three day festival of music and seminars that Asymmetry managed to miss entirely. But James Bash (Northwest Reverb) attended the second evening’s concert. Here’s his review of that for the Oregon Music News.

by Beatriz Ferreyra
(translation by Lily Woodruff)
Introduction
A large number of books and articles have been edited over the decades on the theme of sound space, its perception, its fixed and mobile configuration in the composition of acousmatic music, and its perception in the space of a particular environment.
In this article, I would just like to [...]

The young Polish festival, which started in 2005, takes place every spring in odd numbered years, the even numbered ones given over to a different new music festival with more instrumental music. Asymmetry Music Magazine, itself even younger than that, wasn’t even around for the first of these festivals, but managed to make it to [...]

The report on Urs Leimgruber’s visit to Portland has been updated with some videos and with the names of all the musicians who took part in the group imrovisation. Take a look at the other Leimgruber videos on YouTube, too, as they’re better quality than the ones I did with my little Canon PowerShot.

Asymmetry recently visited Halberstadt, where a 639 year performance of Cage’s Organ2/ASLSP is playing.
The clip, taken inside St. Burchardi’s, features the chord being played on the fifth of May, 2009. (This chord has been playing since 5 February 2009 and will change on 5 July, 2010.)
There’s a CD for sale there of a performance that [...]

The clips associated with the CD reviews have all been fixed.
Occasionally, software updates will bump some of them; no one knows why. But on 26 December, 2008, they were all working.
Many links have been fixed, as well. Probably there are still some broken ones, but fewer than before.
Enjoy!