The superb British new-music label another timbre will host a three-day festival at Café Oto, in London, this week, featuring music by the likes of Linda Catlin Smith, Jürg Frey, and Cassandra Miller.... The first issue of Sounds Like Now, a UK new-music magazine under the editorship of Tim Rutherford-Johnson, is now available.... Harry Partch's possible masterpiece Oedipus will receive a performance at the University of Washington in Seattle on May 5 and 6. UW is now, of course, the home of the original Partch instrumentarium. I wrote about a 2005 performance at Montclair State, when the instruments were housed there.... The next WasteLAnd concert in LA, at ArtShare on May 5, presents works by Catherine Lamb, Michael Pisaro, Erik Ulman, and James Tenney. Matt Barbier, Scott Worthington, and Scott Cazan perform.... Ensemble Pamplemousse hosts a new-music festival entitled Chance and Circumstance on May 11-14, at Jack in Brooklyn. The TAK Ensemble, Object Collection, and Tyshawn Sorey also appear.... The Voynich Symphony, a big new orchestral piece by Hannah Lash, will have its première on May 4 in New Haven.... At long last, a major Julius Eastman festival in America: That Which Is Fundamental, organized by Philadelphia's Bowerbird, runs throughout the month of May.... The schedule for this year's edition of the Dog Star Orchestra, the LA experimental festival curated by Michael Pisaro, has been announced.
