Experimental-Intermedia December 2023

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Season's Greetings! and year-end fundraiser from EI
by Phill Niblock 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

To reply to this email, please use - pniblock(a)compuserve.com Dear Friends, The very happiest of New Years to you! 2023 marked the fiftieth year of the EI concert series. For many years we maintained a very low entrance fee to the concerts ($4.99), never turning anyone away for lack of funds because we want as many people as possible to come to the concerts. And we pay an actual fee to the artists and not just door money. For this 50th year we wanted to be back at 224 Centre Street for our events but health issues and lack of resources to get everything going again in due time got in the way. But we are already working on planning our return for 2024 to the original Experimental Intermedia space. To do this successfully, however, we need all the financial help we can get to be able to hire a solid team to make this happen in style after 4 years hiatus brought about by Covid. So, if you can spare a little change... You can do this now if you still want to for the 2023 year, or just get an early start for your 2024 donations if you prefer... Experimental Intermedia was founded by Elaine Summers in 1968. Our first concerts at 224 Centre Street were in December 1973. Phill Niblock, director Our 2023 year: This past year Experimental Intermedia Foundation was able to present artists in a few different contexts, ushering new and exciting works into the world. Our March 2023 Series, presented seven in-person evenings of concerts or screenings held at three different New York City locations: Shift, WhiteBox and Emily Harvey Foundation. Concerts were by Luca Forcucci, Elico Suzuki, and Joseph Sledgianowski, and screenings by Leslie Thornton, Jeanne Liotta, Bradley Eros, as well as the 19th annual Screen Compositions event curated by Katherine Liberovskaya. The recently completed December 2023 Series had six performances again presented at three New York City venues: Harvestworks, WhiteBox and Fridman Gallery. These featured Simon Whetham, Julian Knowles, Claudio F Baroni, Lois V Vierk, David First and Suzana Uzcal. All events were in-person and simultaneously live-streamed from our website and from Wave Farm's web radio. Video recordings of all the events and interviews produced in 2023 by EIF remain on our website and can be viewed by anyone near or far at any time. Experimental Intermedia Foundation also co-produced a special 24-hour edition of Phill Niblock's annual winter Solstice concert at Roulette on December 21st and 22nd. As well, EIF has continued work on its important archive of audio and video recordings since the 1970s. In addition, Experimental Intermedia's label XI Records remains active, having released in 2023 a 2-CD set by Merche Blasco and Lucie Vitkova. We have also been working on three new releases by Matt Rogalsky, David First and Julian Knowles, all scheduled to be out in 2024. If you were inspired, challenged or moved by Experimental Intermedia Foundation's programming this last year, or over the past 50 odd years, we hope you will consider supporting us by donating to our year-end campaign. Your fully tax-deductible donation of any amount to this fundraising effort can provide important unrestricted support to our general operations, helping with everything that we do for you, for artists, for the broader public. Donations can be made through the "Donate" button on the landing page of our website https://experimentalintermedia.org (PayPal) or by sending a check by mail. In gratitude, Experimental Intermedia Foundation 224 Centre Street, #3W New York, NY, 10013

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Phill Niblock and Experimental Intermedia December schedule
by Phill Niblock 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Both schedules in one email!!!please respond to this to - pniblock(a)compuserve.com On October 21/22 2023, at silent green in berlin, there was a 24 hour concert of my music and the films/video of the Movement of People Working (many new films/video have been added) on 8 projections, looping (5 meters wide each), and with 12 live performers And now, on december 21 and 22 2023, the same 24 hours as two sets each day from noon to midnight, on three screens and with live players, at Roulette in NY, each day is a different program On the first day the films will be, essentially, the ones I have been showing at Roulette for some years, but the second day will be many new films, or re-edited films from the same period, 1973 to 1991 There will be six musicians playing live on the two days In 1990, I changed from 16mm film to Hi8 Video (sadly) and shot 12 two hours video cassettes, 24 hours, in Sumatra, and in '91, 8 tapes in Romania. I edited that video in Davinci Resolve and it is part of the second days time, as well as other films, some of which I had not seen since the early '80s So, two different programs, December 21 and 22, noon to midnight, at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave at Third Avenue, Brooklyn NY - Roulette.org ======== EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Fiftieth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, the Fifty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-fifth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirty-third Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator December 2023 Simon Whetham (Bristol, England) Thursday 14 Explores the energy and effects of sound, from resonance and psychoacoustic effects to the transduction of sound as movement and light :recent projects find him repurposing obsolete consumer technology in kinetic audio-visual performances and installations www.simonwhetham.co.uk Julian Knowles (Australia) Thursday14 Will present a series of electro-environmental audio works, including the premiere of ‘Solar Halo’ - a new AV work for solo performer and live data streaming from 10 atmospheric weather stations - 5 across the Australian Alpine Country and 5 across New York City http://julianknowles.net, Supported by the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture and Macquarie University Concert at Harvestworks, 596 Broadway (602), New York N Y 10012, from 7pm Two sets, free admission, contribution bucket available Claudio F Baroni (Amsterdam) Friday 15 A set of SoLos series: Guitarist James Moore will play Solo IV (2011-19) and XIII (2022): additionally Solo XII (2023) together with accordionist Vitor Goncalves, an CB on loop station, and work for piano: in the second set, the focus will be on tape music: the program includes 'Breath' (2007-2016), 'Confessions' (2021-23), and ends with 'J'ai connu' (2022) in collaboration with filmmaker Sebastian Diaz Morales and journalist Geraldine Schwarz http://www.claudiofbaroni.net At White Box, 9 Ave B, at Houston Street, New York, at 7pm, $10 suggested Lois V Vierk (New Jersey) Monday 18 The composer will present several compositions notably featuring films by Holly Fisher including "Bedeviled" with Vierk's "Simoom" for 8 cellos, shaped with original footage from the NYC Village Halloween Parade loisvvierk.com hollyfisherfilm.com David First (New York) Monday 18 A program of drone works for mpe keyboard, harmonica, slide whistle, electric jews harp, and just intonation video DavidFirst.com Susana Ucsal Monday 18 An experimental composer, improviser, sound artist and songwriter: she will present her newest work, inspired by gastrointestinal processes, expressed as rumbling, churning, gassy, splashing, grumbling, gargling, tinkling, fluttering: the piece will be based exclusively on synthesis derived material December 18, Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, NYC 10002, from 7pm: three sets, $15 suggested www.fridmangallery.com Our programs are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212 431 5127 www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org XI CDs: Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson - Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach - Celestial Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron - Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode - Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart - Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo - Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson - Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen - Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band - 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI 124); Philip Corner - 40 Years And One (XI 125); Gen Ken Montgomery - Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht - A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - The Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky - Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher - Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph - Electroacoustic Works (XI 138); Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digital only release; Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross – drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141); Phill Niblock/The Dorf – Baobab / Echoes (XI 142); Dave Seidel – Involution (XI 143); Tom Chiu - The Live One (XI 144); Phill Niblock - NuDaf (XI 145/AKOH 145); Neil Leonard – Sonance for the Precession (LP) (XI 146/AKOH 146); Amnon Wolman – Book/DVD (XI 147/AKOH 147); Michael Winter – Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut/a lot of tiles (trivial scan) (XI 148); Merche Blasco/Lucie Vítková - Blasco / Vítková / Anette (Xi 150) XI releases are available for sale on our website (www.xirecords.org), as well as from Forced Exposure (USA) (www.forcedexposure.com). Titles are also available through Amazon.com, Bandcamp (https://xirecords.bandcamp.com) and Soundohm (Italy) (www.soundohm.com). All releases are also available digitally through outlets such as Spotify etc. The Following Releases Are 2 Cds For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; XI 140; XI 141; 142; 143; 144; 148; XI 150. The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135 Coming Soon: Matt Rogalsky (XI 149); David First (XI 151) ======= All concerts will be livestreamed on the nights of the performances and available there after on our website - experimentalintermedia.org

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