Asymmetry Music Magazine
Asymmetry talks with...
Eric Hoffman
“There’s a lot of
great music out there that people don’t know about and should know about”
You may know Erik Hoffman as one half of Spastic Colon,
whose latest album should be out soon, perhaps by the time you read this. You
may know Erik Hoffman as the founder of Ground Fault Recordings, which has put
out consistently high quality music covering a wide range of styles. You may
have used the distinctive cover art of the Ground Fault albums to make your
trollings for good music almost completely risk free. You may also enjoy
gourmet coffee and tables being unexpectedly turned.
If any or all of these are true, here’s an interview you may
want to read, an interview that took place at Polly’s Coffee in Long Beach, an excellent
place, by the way, to satisfy your cravings for a perfect brew.
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Beatriz Ferreyra
"The only thing I could do, was music."
Beatriz Ferreyra is best known as an electroacoustic composer, who studied with both Nadia Boulanger and
Earle Brown, among others, and who worked for much of the 1960's at Pierre Schaeffer's GRM in Paris. But when I
met her in Bourges at the 2006 IMEB festival, we talked before this interview about all sorts of other things,
as people do, including her early desire to go to the U.S. and be a painter. Curious about yet another composer
who has or has had close ties with painting, I started off the interview asking about that. We switched very
quickly to musical topics—this is a music magazine, after all—but the exchange about painting gives such a
good idea of Ferreyra's personality, that I couldn't resist leaving this bit in.
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Jon Christopher Nelson
“The technological
advances that we have seen in our lifetimes create a wonderful atmosphere for
sound exploration. For those of us who are easily intoxicated with sound,
computer music provides fantastic possibilities.”
I first heard the music of Jon Christopher Nelson on an IMEB disc (Cultures Electroniques, vol. 9). I first met him at the 2006
Michèle Bokanowski
"When I start making sounds, mixing sounds, I of course have some idea of
what I’m searching for, but quite often result turns out rather different and
much better than what I intended. And I have to be open-minded enough to hear
it and humble enough to accept it."
In 2002, while idly flipping through the “Experimental” bin at Amoeba Music,
I came across a three inch cd from Metamkine, L’Etoile Absinthe by Michèle
Bokanowski, part of their