In 2008, the ISCM World Music Days were held in Vilnius along with that city's Gaida Festival. In 2009, each festival was back to being its own separate thing, the ISCM in three towns in Sweden, Visby, Växjö, and Göteborg. It was interesting but ...
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2008: Gaida and ISCM in Vilnius
The 2008 ISCM World Music Days were held in Vilnius, Lithuania in conjunction with the Gaida Festival, an annual event in that city. I was impressed with the high level of performance of new music by all the ensembles and by the size of all ...
SEAMUS 2009
SEAMUS 2009 took place over three days in Sweetwater's new LEED certified headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Not only is it a pretty, comfortable building, not only is their warehouse just on the other side of a huge doorway in the main hall (allowing me get some new toys without having to mail-order them), not ...
Music@Taborspace
The Portland New Music Society's March concert took place at the Taborspace coffeeshop on the corner of SE 55th and SE Belmont. Featured were Matt Hannafin, Kelvin Pittman, and Doug Theriault in three solo sets and a trio. Matt opened with a monumental forty minute piece for amplified and electronically altered percussion.
Cascadia new music festival
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.
A brace of November concerts in Portland
There were plenty of concerts in Portland in October, too, and in September and August, but Asymmetry was in Europe then, haring after festivals (nine of them) and hobnobbing with some of the greats and near greats of new music, reports on those forthcoming. And as soon as I got back to Portland, there were ...
Musica Electronica Nova – 2007 and 2009
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 ...
Urs Leimgruber in Portland
Anyone who has listened to a lot of new music has heard a lot of saxophone playing. A lot of players have been interested in exploring new territory and a lot of composers have been attracted by the variety of wild noises one can get from that instrument. So ...
SEAMUS Clips
The SEAMUS 2008 review has just been updated with clips, including one of Jason Bolte's Change in the Summation, mention of which was unaccountably left out of the original review. Take a look here.
ASLSP2 in Halberstadt
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 ...
