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Cascadia new music festival

michaelkarman — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:45:37 +0000

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.

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Oh! Space… space…

michaelkarman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:21:29 +0000

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 testify to my experience as a composer of acousmatic music who is fascinated by the different techniques of stereophonic and multiphonic spatialization.(...)
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Musica Electronica Nova – 2007 and 2009

michaelkarman — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:54:35 +0000

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 last two thirds of the 2007 festival and to all of the 2009 one. Roll on 2011.

While the festival does feature many Polish composers, as is only right and proper, Musica Electronica Nova is an international festival, with music by Pan Sonic, The Electric Hammer, Jonathan Harvey, Helmut Lachenmann, and Kaiji Saariaho (2007) and Harvey, again, David Berezan, Mauricio Kagel, Brian Ferneyhough, TAM Teatromusica, The Spy Collective, and Fausto Romitelli (2009).

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Updated Leimgruber report

michaelkarman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:26:08 +0000

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.

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ASLSP2 in Halberstadt

michaelkarman — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:33:02 +0000

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 takes only 71 minutes. Too fast!

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Asymmetry clips and links

michaelkarman — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:42:01 +0000

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!

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