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.
Please respond topniblock(a)compuserve.com
