Sometime around last October, I was thinking about all the CDs I'd acquired that year and wondered how many of them had been released in 2011. I discovered, to my chagrin, that most of the CDs I got in 2011 had been released in 2010 or 2009.
Sometime around last October, I was thinking about all the CDs I'd acquired that year and wondered how many of them had been released in 2011. I discovered, to my chagrin, that most of the CDs I got in 2011 had been released in 2010 or 2009.
Who put John Cage on the Guestlist? is the 2011 release of Hemmelig Tempo, a Norwegian project of Doktor Døv, Professor Waffel, and Professor Fokuda-san. With the exception of tracks five and six, which merge into each other, each track on this CD ...
Asymmetry: So I hear that you won first prize in the Bourges' competition. Which category? Kasem: Musique electroacoustic with formal esthetics. Asymmetry: Without instruments. Kasem: Yes. Well, there are instruments in the mix, but not in real time. Asymmetry: When did you start composing? Kasem: At twenty-four or twenty-five ...
Asymmetry visited the '09 and '10 Festivals Densités in Fresnes-en-Woëvre, once as Michael E. Karman and once as Michael S. Karman. This fortunately confused no one. Densités is a very bright, very tight little festival. High-powered music making with some of the most talented musicians ...
The New Jersey Laptop Orchestra's first CD is called The Willingness to be Touched, which is also the title of the second track. And seriously, look at that album cover--that picture with those words? Who could resist? I've heard several laptop ...
Futura '09 was the second Futura festival Asymmetry has been able to attend. It is a short festival, only a weekend, but it is jam-packed with electroacoustic goodness. The initial draw for me in '09 was the chance to hear another Bokanowski piece live ...
L'étoile absinthe first appeared on a Metamkine 3" disc, reviewed here, part of that label's Cinéma pour l'oreille series. Although these two pieces are separated by four years (2000 and 2004, respectively), Bokanowski considers them as companion pieces, so it is not ...
It is truly amazing after all these years, over a hundred of them, how fresh and new Ives' The Unanswered Question still sounds. At the 2009 Ostrava Days festival, this piece was performed as perfectly as one could ask for, leaving only the one ...
Robert Scott Thompson writes a lot of ambient music. He also writes a lot of electroacoustic music, like you would have heard in Bourges back in the day, and indeed some of it was done in the studios in Bourges. Acousma is a blend of ...
Robert Scott Thompson is a composer who, like Phillip Werren, had until recently flown entirely under my radar. Only by ordering a CD from Aucourant of music by Erdem Helvacioğlu did I become aware of Thompson. So now, just in case that, as with ...