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 ...
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Updated Leimgruber report
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.
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 ...
SEAMUS 2008 in Salt Lake City
SEAMUS 2008 took place in the dramatic setting of the University of Utah, surrounded by the Wasatch, Oquirrhs, and Traverse mountain ranges. Spectacular scenery outside, spectacular music inside. Thirteen concerts in three days may seem a trifle too spectacular, but there were plenty ...
Surrounding Sound at SFU
On April 4, 2009, SFU Contemporary Arts put on a show of electroacoustic music that included a new piece by Barry Truax, Chalice Well, three pieces for flute and “tape” played by visiting flautist Mark McGregor, a live laptop ...
Theriault, Hannafin, Hamilton
The concert on Thursday evening the 5th of March was a special one for me, its being the first time I'd heard Doug Theriault live. From the first CD of his I owned, Unidentified, I have been enormously taken by the music of this enormously talented Portlander. ...
Europe at galleryHOMELAND
I have attended a lot of exhilarating concerts in Portland, and the exceptional concert on Monday, February 23, was no exception. Four extraordinary musicians from Europe played in three sets, very different from each other but all concerned with pushing acoustic instruments to their limits--to beyond their limits. (To making a mockery of the idea ...
Spirit Journies
The five pieces on Barry Truax's most recent CD are all from this century, 2001 through 2006. Given the similarity of dates and the thematic unity suggested by the album title, one might unwarily conclude that these five are similarly similar. They're not. If I wanted to ...