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Subject: September 28-30 - Films To Look At: A Tour Of Phill Niblock’s Film Work @ Anthology
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
32 SECOND AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10003
(212) 505-5181
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FILMS TO LOOK AT: A TOUR OF PHILL NIBLOCK’S FILM WORK
September 28-30
An 80th birthday tribute curated by Katherine Liberovskaya.
It is mindboggling that a man with the tireless energy and ceaseless touring schedule of Phill Niblock is about to turn 80. An internationally recognized artist with a wide body of music, film, photography, video, and computer works, Niblock has specialized in making intermedia performance since the mid-1960s. As a composer, he creates thick clouds of drones that are filled with surprisingly active microtones and timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. During concerts of his music, Niblock simultaneously presents films/videos focused on the movement of people working, or computer-driven black-and-white abstract images floating through time. While Niblock is best known today as a minimalist composer, he actually started his artistic practice with film (and photography) – in fact, his first compositions were created to accompany his films.
Born in Indiana in 1933, he has been an artist/member of the vital Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York since 1968, and its Director since 1985. Over the years he has produced more than 1,000 performances at the EI loft in Soho, acted as curator of the innovative XI Records label, and launched a second EI space in Ghent, Belgium. Recordings of his music are available on the XI, Moikai, Mode, and Touch labels, and DVDs containing his films and music have been released on the Extreme and Die Schachtel labels.
This program provides a glimpse into the broad range of Niblock’s cinematic explorations, from rarely-presented early works to a selection of films from his well-known “Movement of People Working” series, which he usually shows at his concerts.
For more information on Niblock please visit:
www.phillniblock.comwww.experimentalintermedia.org
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*Sat, Sept 28 at 7:00.
PROGRAM 1: ENVIRONMENTS
The ‘Environments’ were a series of non-verbal theater and museum installations/performances that Niblock produced at the turn of the 1960s. These were originally presented in various venues – Judson Church, NYC, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and the Whitney Museum. Only the last three ‘Environments’ still exist in their complete versions. We will be screening them as they were originally presented, as three 16mm film images projected simultaneously side-by-side – the first time they’ve been shown this way since the 70s – and with early analog music by Niblock.
- CROSS COUNTRY/ENVIRONMENT II (1970, ca. 60 min, 16mm)
- 100 MILE RADIUS/ENVIRONMENT III (1971, ca. 60 min, 16mm)
- TEN HUNDRED INCH RADII/ENVIRONMENT IV (1971, ca. 60 min, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 3 hours
* Sun, Sept 29 at 1:00.
PROGRAM 2: THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WORKING, PART 1
The series of films ‘The Movement of People Working’ portrays human labor in its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91, on 16mm color film and later video, and in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, the Arctic, Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China, and Japan, the series comprises over 25 hours of footage (from which we’ll be showing a selection). It focuses on work as a choreography of movements and gestures, dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of laborers’ actions.
- PERU AND MEXICO
1973/74, 96 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- BAY JAMES
1976, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- ARCTIC
1977, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- BRASIL
1984, 90 min, 16mm-to-digital video
...Presented with music by Niblock from 1990 to 2013.
Total running time: ca. 245 min.
*Sun, Sept 29 at 6:00.
PROGRAM 3: THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WORKING, PART 2
- CHINA
1987, 110 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- JAPAN
1989, 120 min, 16mm-to-digital video
...Presented with music by Niblock from 1990 to 2013.
Total running time: ca. 240 min.
*Mon, Sept 30 at 7:15.
PROGRAM 4: 70 FOR 70 (+ 1): SEVENTY (ONE) SIDES OF PHILL NIBLOCK
by Katherine Liberovskaya
2004, 103 min, digital video
- A dynamic portrait composed from fragments of seventy (+1) extremely close-up interventions on video about Niblock by seventy (+1) people connected to him in some way. These interventions, or monologues, were collected in honor of his 70th year (2003-2004) and the piece premiered the day of his 71st birthday, October 2, 2004, as an installation at Diapason Gallery for Sound and Intermedia, NYC. Seventy people among his numerous colleagues and friends were invited to say anything they wanted about Niblock within the constraints of a very tight shot of their face. The result is an intimate collage of meditations, reminiscences, anecdotes, stories, impressions, feelings…from seventy-one different angles: seventy (one) sides of Phill Niblock.
- With Chris Anderson, Thomas Ankersmit, Jeff Bauer, David Behrman, Tara Bhattacharya, Maria Blondeel, Krystyna Borkowska, Jens Brand, Tom Buckner, Yu-Fei Chen, Steve Dalachinsky, Irina Danilova, Guy De Bièvre, Michael Delia, John Duncan, Jean Dupuy, Angie Eng, Dan Evans Farkas, Esther Ferrer, David First, Bernhard Gal, Dave Geary, Madeleine Gekiere, Malcolm Goldstein, Annie Gosfield, Matt Griffin, Shelley Hirsch, Andrea Hull, Tom Johnson, Seth Josel, Tomi Keranen, Roger Kleier, Hans W. Koch, Yumi Kori, Mary Jane Leach, Okkyung Lee, Katherine Liberovskaya, Alan Licht, Chris Mann, Frankie Mann, Al Margolis, Eric Mattson, Charlie Morrow, Boris Nieslony, Morgan O’Hara, Yuko Otomo, Paul Panhuysen, Vitaly Patsyukov, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Jurgita Remeikyté, Don Ritter, Matt Rogalsky, Ursula Scherrer, Claudia Schmacke, Michael Schumacher, Shelly Silver, Jim Staley, Gerd Stern, Volker Straebel, Elaine Summers, Michael Timpson, Yasunao Tone, Jo Truman, Keiko Uenishi, Ruben Verdadeiro, David Watson, Monika Weiss, Anne Wellmer, Amnon Wolman, Dion Workman, Nina Zaretskaya.
*Mon, Sept 30 at 9:30.
PROGRAM 5: SIX FILMS FROM THE 60s
The six films are 16mm sound films, made in the late 1960s, transferred to video.
- MORNING (1966-69, 17 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w)
With members of the Open Theater Group, including Lee Worley, James Barbosa, Cynthia Harris, Sharon Gans, and Joseph Chaikin.
- THE MAGIC SUN (1966-68, 17 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w)
A high contrast black and white work featuring members of the Sun Ra Arkestra; music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra.
- DOG TRACK (1969, 9 min, 16mm-to-video)
A film based on a found text. Read by Barbara Porte.
- ANNIE (1968, 8 min, 16mm-to-video)
A portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound-collage score.
- MAX (1966-68, 7 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w)
An collage film portrait of Max Neuhaus, with a collage soundtrack by Neuhaus. Edited by David Geary.
- RAOUL (1968-69, 20 min, 16mm-to-video)
A portrait of the painter Raoul Middleman, made with extensive use of time-lapse film technique. The sound track is improvised by Middleman and Niblock.
...Total running time: ca. 85 min.
*Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya will be present at all the screenings.
For screeners, images, and further details, contact:
Ava Tews, Publicist, Anthology Film Archives 212.505.5181 ext. 20
ava(a)anthologyfilmarchives.org
About Anthology Film Archives: Founded in 1969, Anthology's mission is to preserve, exhibit, and promote public and scholarly understanding of independent, classic, and avant-garde cinema. Anthology screens more than 1,000 film and video programs per year, publishes books and catalogs annually, and has preserved more than 900 films to date.
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I know you've been missingthose emails with my tour info. So here is a biggish one, after my dislocationfrom touring in November 2012.
I'll list the coming onesfirst, and the previous ones second.
An review of the book - Working Title, by Yusef Sayed, is in thecurrent issue of The Wire magazine.
In conjunction with the Phill Niblock Retrospective at Circuit and the Musée de l’Elysée http://www.elysee.ch/
May 3 - Friday Susan Stenger and RobertPoss play Phill Niblock at Le Bourg, Lausanne www.le-bourg.ch
May 4 - Saturday, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmitat Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne - http://www.circuit.li/ )
May 5in Basel - Phill Nilbock and Thomas Ankersmti, at
OSLO 10 |OSLOSTRASSE 10 | CH-4142 MÜNCHENSTEIN | info(a)oslo10.ch
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May 9, Berlin - The festival - Emitter Micro: http://emittermicro.com/
The venue is at the Musik Instrumenten Museum,
http://www.sim.spk-berlin.de/curt-sachs-saal_455.html
The Emitter Micro Festival 2013 will feature performances by PhillNiblock, Thomas Ankersmit, Kim Cascone, Jochen Arbeit+Hopek Quirin, Rinus VanAlebeek+Barbara Lazara, Seiji Morimoto, Louis Laurain, SchneiderTM+kptmichigan, David Gomez (aka Krapoola) and LOUP, as well as workshops andtalks with Peter Cusack, Udo Noll and Derek Holzer.
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June 30,6 pm, Pulheim-Stommeln (suburb of Cologne)
AlteKirche St. Martin, Ingendorfer Str, 50259 Pulheim-Stommeln
Aconcert of Phill Niblock, with his music and film:
FeedCornEar, played by Arne Deforce and A Cage of Stars, played by Rhodri Davies,
Part ofthe series raumklaenge, curatorical team: Harald Kimmig and Georg Dietzler
www.raumklaenge.de / www.gerngesehen.de
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4th July Walcheturm Zuerich
Tomas Korber+ Konus Quartett "Musik für ein Feld" for electronics and saxophonequartet
PhillNiblock + Konus Quartett "To Two Tea Roses"
PhillNiblock + Tomas Korber, N. N. "Two Lips"
PhillNiblock + Konus Quartett "Sax Mix"
5th July Dampfzentrale Berne
PhillNiblock + Konus Quartett "To Two Tea Roses"
These are ongoing or past.
However, the retrospectivecontinues only until May 12.
Phill Niblock retrospective in Lausanne CH - the exhibition will berealised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne -http://www.circuit.li/ ) and the Musée de l’Elysée (the national museum devotedto photography - http://www.elysee.ch/ ), Mathieu Copeland, curator; January 29until May 12, 2013
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A review from 1973, of a concert / performance of my Environmentsseries.
www.vasulka.org/archive/Artists4/Niblock,Phil/general.pdf
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A documentary video by Frederick Bernas of Phill Niblock:
Minimalist composer Phill Niblock has been living in his Chinatownloft since the late 1960s, and curating concerts there for almost as long.
This film explores Niblock's work, and tracks its significance forNew York's downtown experimental music scene – past and present...
Published online by The Wire magazine – February 6, 2013.
Watch here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/watch-an-exclusive-video-about-phill-niblock
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An interview of Phill Niblock by Yusef Sayed:
http://audiovisualsalvage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/working-life-conversation-…
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Concert by Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit, Feb 7 2013
Musee dArt Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, 1, place Hans-JeanArp
Strasbourg, France www.musees.strasbourg.eu
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A book launch for "Working Title",articles about Phill Niblock, edited by Yvan Etienne, published by Les Presses du Réel, with 4 DVDsincluded http://www.lespressesdureel.com/
Saturday February 9 at 7PM at Palais de Tokyo, Paris www.palaisdetokyo.com/fr/
Intervenants : Phill Niblock et Kasper Toeplitz: Atau Tanaka,Mathieu Saladin, Dan Warburton et Anne Roquigny, produced by Patrick Javault
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ARANÉIDE (La Danse en Levitation), 14 & 15 FÉVR. 2013
MYRIAMGOURFINK
Chorégraphie : Myriam Gourfink / trapèze : Clémence Coconnier / musique: Kasper T.Toeplitz / création lumière : Séverine Rième / réalisation structure: Pierre-Yves Guillaumin.
Phill Niblock, figure américaine du minimalisme,réalisateur de films et compositeur, pour plusieurs pièces emblématiques de sonparcours.
Music and Films by PN, with Kasper Toeplitz, bass guitar and electronics
Le Manège de Reims Scène nationale, King's Fountain, in Reims France
www.manegedereims.com/
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February 19, Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, Lisbon, Portugal - a jury toselect an artist for a residency at Experimental Intermedia in New York forthis year, the 20th year of the residency, sponsored by the Luso AmericanaFoundation and Gulbenkian Foundation
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Phill Niblock and Al Margolis (If Bwana) in Lisbon Portugal
February 21 2013, 10PM
Galeria Ze Dos Bois, Rua da Barroca, nº 59, Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.ip.pt/zedosbois
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February 27, Café Oto radio broadcast on ResonanceFM London, 10 / 11pm,with Rie Nakajima and Phill Niblock - https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/22-00-00-oto-broadcasts-5
Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit, concert, Cafe Oto, 22 AshwinStreet, London, February 28; www.cafeoto.co.uk
The Sonic Art Research Unit atOxford Brookes University are delighted to announce the 3rd annualAudiograft Festival of experimental music and sound art, 25 February–3 March. Featuring liveperformances by Phill Niblock, Daniel Teruggi, Thomas Ankersmit, John Tilbury,Pierre Berthet, Tim Parkinson, Valerio Tricoli, Susanna Borsch,installations by Rolf Julius, Max Eastley, Helmut Lemke, Kathy Hinde andmore. PN and Thomas Ankersmit, March 2 at Modern Art Oxford's basement space
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Dither Guitar Orchestra perform Phill Niblock's '2 Lips' at the DitherExtravaganza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toAV4z4E9-U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
There are a bunch pf Phill Niblock videos on "you tube", do asearch
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A review of the Café Oto concert. It is preceded by my comments.
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/review-phill-niblock-at-80.html
Retort comments from Niblock - this concert follows the formthat i have used since the late '60s. i am not a stage front "star".i use the film to be my performance visuals. i choose to work with thematerials i use so that i am not on stage.
the film itself, shot in video in osaka japan in 2009 / 2010(not in the film series that i usually use from 1973 - 1991), was a premiershowing for england, here.
two of the pieces of music will be on a new Touch double CD(out soon), the first piece - FeedCorn Ear, for cellist Arne Deforce, wasfinished and played in lyon in march 2012; the third piece - "TwoLips", played by the Coh Da guitar quartet, recorded in 2011 (a scored piecefor ensemble from 2007) will be on the same touch CDs. neither piece has beenplayed in england before. Sweet Potato has recorded tones by Carol Robinson,and was played live by David Ryan, and is on the re-released touch double CD -Touch Food
as far as i know, Sweet Potato has not been played in londonbefore, and David Ryan was magnificent.
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/review-phill-niblock-at-80.html
'Phill Niblock at 80' (Café Oto, 28February 2013. Drawing and review by Geoff Winston)
This was, in manyways, a lost opportunity. There had been a fair amount of low-key hype about Phill Niblock's concert at Café Oto,as part of his 80th birthday celebration, coinciding with his retrospectiveexhibition in Lausanne, yet although he was 'in the house', it was just as ashadowy presence, lurking entirely unannounced at the back of the room - eitherat the mixing desk or by the bar.
Given that it wasto be a rare sighting in the UK of an influential figure in the New York'sMinimalist firmament, it would have been fairer to his followers, and thosejust intrigued by the tantilising publicity, to have scheduled a pre-concertconversation with the composer/film-maker, and/or to devise a concert whichinvolved Niblock performing onstage, or at the very least to have introducedhim to the audience before the concert started or at its conclusion. Theclosest we'll get is Frederick Bernas's concise, well-paced short documentary about Niblock.
The net resultwas a curiously impersonal non-encounter, leavened only by David Ryan's excellent interaction onbass clarinet - recalling Dolphy's significant impact on Reich on seeing himlive - during a section of the lengthy 'SweetPotato', a composition from Niblock's Xenakis Centre Paris residency in2001. Sampled tones from the instrument were the partial subject matter ofmulti-tracked, pre-prepared drones of fluidity verging perilously close to thesoporific in the packed, airless room, which played alongside the projection ofan excerpt from his 1988/89 film series, 'TheMovement of People Working', shot in small workshops in China and Japan.
Against theintently observed takes of workshop process, primarily in a fish preparation factory(‘101 Things to do with a Dead Fish’?)and food and veneer production workshops, the dense, minimally accented fluxacted like a soundtrack. The audience, probably drawn by the musical promise,were unwittingly, or cynically, turned into a cinema audience, as the film wasthe only visual focus offered. As with Niblock's non-appearance, one didquestion the validity of constantly recycling his archive films to form thevisual element of a performance/installation; the challenge of creating a newvisual artefact with interactive components for this special event would havebeen much more satisfying.
If the sonicproposition, compelling to a degree as it was, would have offered a morechallenging aspect, building on the kind of intense and expressive involvementthat Ryan demonstrated, then the concert might have taken on a mythicdimension. As it as, it was a bit of a damp squib, as evidenced by the tepidapplause at its termination.
Earlier, in soloperformance, Thomas Ankersmit, afrequent collaborator of Niblock's, got to grips with a two-panel analoguesynthesiser in a flush of synthetic abstraction and imagism which evoked theblustering wind catching the sails out at sea and rhythmic aircraft choppers,with skids and deep drones evaporating in to flickering intrusions and elusivetinnitus-like whistles.
The whole concertcould have been a more imaginatively connected and integrated event and, givenCafé Oto's superb track record, it was a shame that its promise was notfulfilled.
On Saturday, March 02, 2013
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/review-phill-niblock-at-80.html
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JohnsonMemorial Art Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont, Sunday, March10,
Music and Film / Video by Phill Niblock, Neil Leonard playingsaxophones, produced by Heimo Wallner
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Monday, March11, 2013 at 7PM, Wellesley College, Jewett Art Gallery, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley,MA, 02481 - Free and open to the public
Music ofPhill Niblock, Neil Leonard, saxophones
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March12 2013, 7 - 9PM; MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology,School of Architecture and Planning, Wiesner Bldg. (E15-224), 20Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139; Freeand open to the public, act.mit.eduhttp://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/working-title…
Event Title: Working Title,A Phill Niblock Book Launch
Join us for the launch of WorkingTitle, a monograph on the avant-garde musician, filmmaker, and performerPhill Niblock. Written in both French and English, the book provides anin-depth look at Niblock’s musical and cinematographic work, as well ashistorical background, philosophical insights and technical advice. The book isaccompanied by two double-sided DVDs of atypical videos: Remo Osaka, a continuation of The Movement of People Workingseries; two separate DVDs of the Anecdotesfrom Childhood; and Katherine Liberovskaya’s 70 for 70 (+1), Seventy (one) Sides of Phill Niblock. The evening includes a live performanceof Two Lips, a piece written byNiblock and recorded in 2011 bythree different guitar quartets. At MIT, TwoLips will be played by studentsfrom the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute under the direction of NeilLeonard: Yun Yun Huang, Andrew Ikenberry, Jason Lim, Aseem Suri, and WilliamWingnall.
An introduction by Florian Hecker.
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Fri, March22, 2013 - 8:00pm, Issue Project Room
ForElectronics and Instruments: Al Margolis and Phill Niblock
at 110Livingston Street., Brooklyn (Greenpoint) Entrance at 22 Boerum Place
In thisevening of live electronics and instrumentalists, Al Margolis premieres a newquartet of bassoonist Leslie Ross, trombonist Monique Buzzarté, live video byKatherine Liberovskaya, and Margolis on laptop. Phill Niblock presents hisnow-classic "Sethwork", a duo for laptop and guitar featuring DavidWatson.
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April 6, 8:15pm - CounterflowsFestival, Glasgow, Scotland, at the CCA, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://blog.counterflows.com/
Counterflows is pleased to present for the last session at the CCACounterflows Saturday and as part of the celebrations of Phill Niblock at 80,this intriguing and exciting duo. Ankersmit will perform a short solo set whichthen will lead into the pair performing together and ending with Niblock’s ownmusic and images filling the CCA auditorium with the intense aural experienceand the visual bombardment of his studies of people at work. The set willcontain older pieces and also completely new work. With a career spanning morethan 40 years, Phill Niblock has not only proven himself as one of the mostpreeminent composers of the American musical avantgarde, but also anaccomplished filmmaker and performer.
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Amori Water will play at the Listening Gallery,SFCA [isaw+subtropocs] :: studio 101, 924 Lincoln road, miami beach :: untilMay 1, 2013 ::
“Aomori Water is a sound collagepiece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. AJapanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play init. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part.And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.” — Phill Niblock http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2013/04/11/phill-niblock-aomor…
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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Fortieth Anniversary of EI performances at 224Centre Street, The Forty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of ExperimentalIntermedia, the Forty-fifth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, notleast,
The Twenty-fourth Annual Festival with no fancyname, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March2013
Walter Branchi (Italy) Thursday14
I think of music in a systemic way; I think of my music as a single, great compositionformed of parts that can be performed separately but are not isolated from oneanother; I think of my music as a whole (as an “Intero”), which will take my entire life to compose and whichwill never be completed; “Un grandecanto,” where every part includes the whole and is included by it; whatI am going to present tonight are three recent parts of Intero - In memoriam György Ligeti -Sensibile - Behold.; and a time lapse video: Blue Mountain Lake that KristinJones has been working on that is set to my music www.walter-branchi.com
Krzysztof Knittel and Andrei Smirnov(Poland and Russia) Friday15
Smirnov, playing 3D Theremin+ MaxMSP; Knittel, playing interactive monochord (based on infra-red beams),iPhone and iPad - will perform three pieces: Brain Jazz 2, El. Free improv2, Free for(m) Macwin 3 (Brain Jazz 2 is a performance/installation basedon interactive brain-wave biofeedback system - all processes depend on mimicsof the face of the performer) asmir.info knittel.wizya.nethttps://vimeo.com/16889938http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6B6s8Ctjcs
Cat Lamb (USA) Sunday17
shade/gradient- viola, voice, formant/filtered oscillators
http://sacredrealism.org/catlamb/
Dan Joseph (USA) Tuesday19
TheBrooklyn-based composer performs works for electro-acoustic hammer dulcimer andfield recordings with guest artist Andrea Williams http://www.danjoseph.org
Grahame Weinbren (USA) Sunday24
Letters consistsof an indeterminate number of films, each one minute in duration, andconnected―in one way or another―with a letter of the alphabet. It is a kind oftest-ground for ideas about cinema, both technical and conceptual, but also foranother kind of idea, the externalization of an inner life, inasmuch as that tiredphrase describes anything
grahameweinbren.net
Screen Compositions 9 - Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Monday25
The ninth edition of Screen Compositions is once again a collectionof intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen worksrepresenting dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists andsound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection withno live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Nathalie Bujold/ Gerard Leckey + Lary 7; Nisi Jacobs / Michael Schumacher; Chris Jordan / DokGregory; Katherine Liberovskaya /Guy de Bievre; Diane T Tremblay / Sylvie Chenard; Ursula Scherrer / Brian Chase;Joel Schlemowitz / Rebecca Moore; Elaine Wood / Rick Breault; Erik Z / Brian Chase
Carlos Casas (Spain) Tuesday26
Aselection of Fieldworks filmsfrom his award winning trilogy End, these fieldworks are video notes in betweenfield recordings and radio frequencies captured in
locationsin some of the most extreme environments on the planet - Patagonia, Aral,Siberia; these single channel films will be followed by a two screenprojection and live soundtrack of Tundra,a film about a day in the life of a reindeer herder community in Siberia carloscasas.net
Kristin Norderval and Kevin Norton(USA) Friday29
KN2- an evening of improvisations - Kevin on percussion andvibes, and Kristin on acoustic vocals, pre-recorded sounds ofprepared pianos, and live audio processing of all of the above; they are joinedby Katherine Liberovskaya working her magic with live video processing www.myspace.com/kristinnordervalwww.kevinnorton.com
Our programs aresupported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund forMusic, The Adam MickiewiczInstitute, Poland and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street atGrand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.organdwww.XIrecords.org
PhillNiblock, Four Full Flutes(XI 101); Lois V Vierk, Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek, FlyingVegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); DavidBehrman, Unforeseen Events (XI105); Tom Johnson, Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach, Celestial Fires (XI107); FastForward, Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman, Body Music (XI 109); JacksonMac Low, Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock, Music By Phill Niblock(XI111); Allison Cameron, Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode, Clarinet Songs (XI 113); MaryEllen Childs, Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart, Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo, ExperimentingWith Household Chemicals (XI 116); LogosDuo, Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood / Ruth Anderson, Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue, Trilogie DeLa Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein,The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock, YPGPN (XI 121); PaulPanhuysen, Partitas For Long Strings(XI 122); Tom Johnson, The Chord Catalogue (All The 8178 ChordsPossible In One Octave) (XI 123); EllenBand, 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI124); Philip Corner, 40 Years And One: Philip Corner Plays ThePiano (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 (XI130); Matt Rogalsky, Memory Like Water (XI 131); DavidWatson, Fingering An Idea (XI 132); MichaelJ. Schumacher, Five SoundInstallations (XI 133) (DVD-Rom); DavidFirst, Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow, Toot! (XI 135) www.XIRecords.org
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Fortieth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-fifth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least,
The Twenty-fourth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March 2013
Walter Branchi (Italy) Thursday 14
I think of music in a systemic way; I think of my music as a single, great composition formed of parts that can be performed separately but are not isolated from one another; I think of my music as a whole (as an “Intero”), which will take my entire life to compose and which will never be completed; “Un grande canto,” where every part includes the whole and is included by it; what I am going to present tonight are three recent parts of Intero - In memoriam György Ligeti - Sensibile - Behold.; and a time lapse video: Blue Mountain Lake that Kristin Jones has been working on that is set to my music www.walter-branchi.com
Krzysztof Knittel and Andrei Smirnov (Poland and Russia) Friday 15
Smirnov, playing 3D Theremin + MaxMSP; Knittel, playing interactive monochord (based on infra-red beams), iPhone and iPad - will perform three pieces: Brain Jazz 2, El. Free improv 2, Free for(m) Macwin 3 (Brain Jazz 2 is a performance/installation based on interactive brain-wave biofeedback system - all processes depend on mimics of the face of the performer) asmir.info knittel.wizya.nethttps://vimeo.com/16889938http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6B6s8Ctjcs
Cat Lamb (USA) Sunday 17
shade/gradient - viola, voice, formant/filtered oscillators
http://sacredrealism.org/catlamb/
Dan Joseph (USA) Tuesday 19
The Brooklyn-based composer performs works for electro-acoustic hammer dulcimer and field recordings with guest artist Andrea Williams http://www.danjoseph.org
Grahame Weinbren (USA) Sunday 24
Letters consists of an indeterminate number of films, each one minute in duration, and connected―in one way or another―with a letter of the alphabet. It is a kind of test-ground for ideas about cinema, both technical and conceptual, but also for another kind of idea, the externalization of an inner life, inasmuch as that tired phrase describes anything
grahameweinbren.net
Screen Compositions 9 - Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Monday 25
The ninth edition of Screen Compositions is once again a collection of intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Nathalie Bujold / Gerard Leckey + Lary 7; Nisi Jacobs / Michael Schumacher; Chris Jordan / Dok Gregory; Katherine Liberovskaya / Guy de Bievre; Diane T Tremblay / Sylvie Chenard; Ursula Scherrer / Brian Chase; Joel Schlemowitz / Rebecca Moore; Elaine Wood / Rick Breault; Erik Z / Brian Chase
Carlos Casas (Spain) Tuesday 26
A selection of Fieldworks films from his award winning trilogy End, these fieldworks are video notes in between field recordings and radio frequencies captured in
locations in some of the most extreme environments on the planet - Patagonia, Aral, Siberia; these single channel films will be followed by a two screen projection and live soundtrack of Tundra, a film about a day in the life of a reindeer herder community in Siberia carloscasas.net
Kristin Norderval and Kevin Norton (USA) Friday 29
KN2 - an evening of improvisations - Kevin on percussion and vibes, and Kristin on acoustic vocals, pre-recorded sounds of prepared pianos, and live audio processing of all of the above; they are joined by Katherine Liberovskaya working her magic with live video processing www.myspace.com/kristinnordervalwww.kevinnorton.com
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
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 (XI107); 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 (XI111); 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 (All The 8178 Chords Possible In One Octave) (XI 123); Ellen Band, 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI 124); Philip Corner, 40 Years And One: Philip Corner Plays The Piano (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 (XI130); 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) www.XIRecords.org
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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Thirty-ninth Anniversary of EI performances at 224Centre Street, The Forty-fourth Anniversary of the Founding of ExperimentalIntermedia, the Forty-fourth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and,not least,
The Twenty-third Annual Festival with no fancyname, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator
December2012
David Linton, David First, DavidWatson (NYC) Wednesday12
D D D @ XI on XII /XII /XII Why would threeveteran musicians, with back-stories crossing the last three decades of NewYork experimental music, undertake a joint event at Experimental Intermedia- welcome to the Creepy TriangleVariety Show: Ex Post Facto: DavidFirst, David Linton, & David Watson : guitars, video, feedback, drones,bagpipes, percussion, voice, electronics and distended cinema; reshuffling theirdecks, dealing a fresh round and waiting to take you away - @ XI XII/XII/XII @ IX
Linton: http://bi-cam-rl.tumblr.com/;http://bicameralresearch.blogspot.com/http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch?feature=mheehttp://bicameral.multiply.com/ First: http://www.davidfirst.com/Watson:http://www.hsmithagency.com/watson/index.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/user/davidwatson
Zach Layton (NYC) Thursday13
Newworks for bowed electric guitar and electronics...a series of improvised andcomposed works exploring non-standard tunings and aperiodic rhythmic structuresderived from autonomic nervous system activity zachlaytonindustries.comSoundcloud.com/zachlayton
Al Margolis and Doug Van Nort (USA) Friday14
For this laptop duoproject, the musicians utilize acoustic materials and capture/transform oneanother's sound in an endless loop; both use digital means - Van Nort tends tofavor sculpting/ stretching from small sound fragments, while Margolis oftenlikes to make collages out of
larger sound segments; theywill be joined by Katherine Liberovskaya providing live video; you can hearthem:
http://zeromoon.com/releases/al-margolis-doug-van-nort-live-from-dli-zero12…
JonAbbey (USA) DJingcontinuously from 3-11 PM Saturday15
ErstwhileRecords programs a very special day/night of electroacoustic music created from2009-2012, including work from Keith Rowe, Jason Lescalleet, Toshiya Tsunoda,Michael Pisaro, Taku Unami, Toshimaru Nakamura, Antoine Beuger, and many more.
erstwhilerecords.com
FrédéricAcquaviva (FR / Berlin) Sunday16
Athree hour concert with four pieces mixing texts sounds and instruments intoboth a conceptual and physical sound by one of the radical french experimentalacousmatic composers; world creations of "Lore Ipsum", a voices+ electronic composition and " {...} " (2010), the totalcompression of his sounds works since 1990; his new CD-DVD "Aatie"(2011-2012 with videos) and "Le Disque"(2009-2010), with soundsrecorded in a BDSM dungeon and psychiatric hospital, partly created in NY lastyear; with Frédéric Acquaviva, spatialization and Loré Lixenberg (UK),mezzo-soprano www.frederic-acquaviva.netwww.lorelixenberg.com
Rie Nakajima and Miki Yui (J, GB; J, De) Monday17
Accompanimentfor A-O-I-E-U Rie Nakajima meets Miki Yui
found objects, toy-instruments playing with smallsounds;
real sounds playing with acoustic memories
www.rienakajima.comwww.mikiyui.com
BolsaErnesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese IntermediaArtist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundação CalousteGulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermediaperformance by:
Ana Carvalho (Portugal) Wednesday 19
withAndrea Parkins and Ben Owen - “Refractive composition for live video and soundin two parts” develops from multiple experiments with refraction, where chanceis essential in the connection between process and performance, and betweenstructures of collaboration and of creation
Portfolio:http://cargocollective.com/visual-agency;Personal blog: http://ephemeral-expanded.tumblr.com; Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/visualagency
Longterm project: www.vjtheory.net
Our programs are supported by the New YorkState Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street atGrand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm, unless otherwiseadvised 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
On December 20, 5 - 7pm, at White Box, 329 BroomeStreet, NYC - there will be a book launch for a new book of articles aboutPhill Niblock, which will include 4 DVDs of video, entitled "WorkingTitle".
The event will be part of: Ear to the Earth, incollaboration with MA.P.S at White Box: 100 x John - A festival of sound and image
In the spirit of the 100thanniversary year of his birth, this festival salutes John Cage for hisleadership in what Joel Chadabe called "the great opening up of music toall sounds".
Thursday December 20 -5 - 10pm - openingparty; Program: 5-7 - MeetPhill Niblock: Working Title, a book release reception ; 7-10 - Cageianmix; Friday,December 21 - 8pm - multimedia introduction; performances; Saturday,December 22- noon - 10pm- sounds and images; Sunday,December 23 - noon - 10pm- sounds and images and Christmas party
And for the second time in history, Phill Niblock willbe at Roulette in Brooklyn on Friday December 21, the Winter Solstice, for sixhours of Music and Film/Video – 6pm to 12am
ROULETTE,509 Atlantic Ave (and 3rd Ave), Brooklyn,(917) 267-0363
www.roulette.org
For$10 tickets for this concert, you can book online and use the coupon code - Niblock2012 (it's not case sensitive). You can book until 4pm the day ofthe concert, and you cannot have this price at the door.
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