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EI March Concerts
by Phill Niblock 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

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.net https://vimeo.com/16889938 http://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/kristinnorderval www.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 Please reply to this message at pniblock(a)compuserve.com

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by Phill Niblock 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Just a little work and working: Phill Niblock retrospective in Lausanne CH - the exhibition will be realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne - http://www.circuit.li/ ) and the Musée de l’Elysée (the national museum devoted to photography - http://www.elysee.ch/ ), Mathieu Copeland, curator; January 29 until May 12, 2013 And, a book, Phill Niblock Working Title 2012 édition bilingue (français / anglais) à paraître Un panorama des activités de l'artiste multimédia et compositeur new-yorkais depuis les années 1960, à travers des essais de musicologues, critiques et historiens de l'art, de nombreuses illustrations, des partitions et 4 films sur DVD. A collection edited by Yvan Etienne http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ http://www.lespressesdureel.com/collection_serie.php?id=28&menu=1 CIRCUIT centre d’art contemporain 9, av. de Montchoisi, accès quai Jurigoz case postale 303, CH - 1001 Lausanne +41 21 601 41 70 – contact(a)circuit.li – www.circuit.li Nothin’ but Working Phill Niblock, une rétrospective une exposition de Mathieu Copeland présentée conjointement à Circuit, centre d’art contemporain et au Musée de l’Elysée vernissage le mardi 29 janvier à 18h00 exposition du 30 janvier 2013 au 12 mai 2013 je-ve-sa de 14h00 à 18h00 et sur rendez-vous Musée de l’Elysée 18, av. de l’Elysée CH-1006 Lausanne Tél. +41 21 316 99 11 – www.elysee.ch ma-di de 11h à 18h From 30 January to 12 May 2013 Exposition du 30 janvier 2013 au 12 mai 2013 Contents 6 Exposition à venir Presentation of the retroeive 3 The exhibition at Circuit 4 Dates & series and exhibition aces 5 Photographies de presse 7 Images available for the press 6 Praical information 7 Informations pratiques 9 Conta presse Julie Maillard +41 ( 0 ) 21 316 99 27 julie.maillard(a)vd.ch Press Conference Tuesday 29 January 2013 at 10am Opening Tuesday 29 January 2013 at 6pm Press Conta Julie Maillard +41 ( 0 ) 21 316 99 27 julie.maillard(a)vd.ch Press conta Circuit François Kohler +41 (0) 21 601 41 70 conta(a)circuit.li Upon a proposal by the Contemporary Art Center Circuit, the exhibition Nothin’ but Working – Phill Niblock, a Retroeive is presented simultaneously at the Musée de l’Elysée and Circuit. Nothin’ but Working Phill Niblock, a Retroeive From 30 January to 12 May 2013 Phill Niblock has produced, for over more than fiy years, a multidisciplinary work. His “Intermedia Art” features a combination of minimali music, conceptual art, ruural cinema, syematic or even political art, and rives to transform our perception and experience of time. Upon a proposal by Circuit, the photographs, films, inallations and all his recorded music are brought together for the fir time in a retroeive exhibition dedicated to Phill Niblock’s entire artiic endeavour. This exhibition by Mathieu Copeland is presented simultaneously at the Contemporary Art Center Circuit and at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. Admiedly one of the greate experimental composers of our time, Phill Niblock initiates his career as a photographer and film direor. Born in 1933 in Indianapolis, a jazz acionado, he seles in New York in 1958. Niblock arts photography in 1960, ecializing in portraits of jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, whom he frequently follows to recording sessions and concerts. In the mid-60s, he shis from photography to film, and encouraged by Elaine Summers, choreo- grapher and founder of the Experimental Intermedia, he arts realising films for dancers and choreographers at the Judson Church Theatre, including Yvonne Rainer and Meredith Monk. From 1968 on, Niblock focuses on music and composes his fir pieces, which - according to the arti - should be liened to at loud volume in order to explore their overtones. Since the mid-60s, his analogue photographic work explores New York’s architeure and urban planning. The sequencing and layout of his images oer a mapping of the location and obje photographed, such as the abandoned buildings of Welfare Island (today Roosevelt Island) in 1966, the areas fallen into disuse in the South Bronx in 1979, or the facades of SoHo Broadway diri in 1988. Starting in 1966, Niblock engages in a refleion about the projeion of moving images through a series of films and slides- hows. Produced between 1966 and 1969, Six Films, a series of short films with sound realized with 16 mm film, heralds his experimental method through portraits of artis and musicians such as Sun Ra and Max Neuhaus. Starting in 1968, the arti begins experimenting a combination of his visual produions with his musical scores in order to create architeural and environmental compositions with sound. Recreated by the arti at the Musée de l’Elysée for the fir time since its la presentation in 1972, the Environments series extras through images the reality of dierent surroundings, all the while generating a dense and intense temporary environ- ment of projeed images, music and movements throughout the museum’s ace. From the series Buildings along SoHo Broadway, 1988 From the series Underground Gallery Exhibition, 1966 © Phill Niblock Exhibition curator An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland, upon a proposal by the Contemporary Art Center Circuit Coordinated for the Musée de l’Elysée by Lydia Dorner Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center Circuit Presented for the fir time in its entirety, re-edited and remaered by the arti for the retroeive, the series of films The Movement of People Working portray human labour in its mo elementary form. Filmed on 16mm colour film, and later on video, in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, the Aric, Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China and Japan – with more than 25 hours of film footage, The Movement of People Working focuses on work as a choreography of movements and geures, dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of labourers’ aions. Phill Niblock says of these that The Movement of People Working «came out of necessity because I was doing music performances with live dancers, and it was too cumbersome and expensive to tour with so many people. So I arted doing those films that I could proje when performing». These films are accompanied by the whole corpus of Niblock’s slowly evolving, harmonically minimali music, realised between 1968 and 2011. The sound level of these compositions oers a visceral experience of the long drones and inhabits the ringing, beating overtones. These scores, presented in the exhibition as photoats realized for his personal exhibition at London’s ICA in 1982, are the composer’s mixing inruions and are not used by the musician during the performance. While moving through ace, he plays with the recorded material, sometimes creating tonalities that coincide with the recording or, on the contrary, that produce dissonances. The result is a conant movement of beat, rhythm and pulsation, as well as changing and continuous harmo- nics during his own motion through ace. The layering of tones echoes the repetitions of the workers’ aions; the evolution of the films on each screen (changing throughout the day), combined with a program that randomly plays back dierent music pieces, results in a conant renewal of forms, continuously oering an exhibition of new juxtapositions of sound and image. The Movement of People Working oers a rong social and political comment, as highlighted by the title and represented by the closeness with the workers. In this, the series of film echoes the work of several filmmakers including Jean Luc Godard or Chris Marker who as from 1967 gave workers the cameras and informed them of cinematic techniques so that they could aually make their own films. In a fascinating turn of events, rather than doing fiional or pure documentary film, some workers formed the Groupes Medvekine and decided to film themselves working. The Movement of People Working, 1973 - 1991 (Film ills) © Phill Niblock Important dates and major works 1933: Birth in Indianapolis 1958: Seles in New York 1961-1964: Realizes a series of portraits of jazz musicians 1966: Presents his fir photography exhibition at the Underground Gallery, New York 1966: Realizes films for dancers and choreographers of the Judson Church Theater in New York, including Elaine Summers, Yvonne Rainer, Meredith Monk, Tina Croll, Carolee Schneemann, and Lucinda Childs 1966-1969: Six Films 1968-1971: Environments 1973-1991: The Movement of People Working 1979: Streetcorners in the South Bronx 1982: Scores Photoats 1984: Boatyards 1985: Becomes direor of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation 1985-1992: Anecdotes from Childhood 1985-1992: Light Paerns 1986-1989: China 88, 87, 86 & Japan 89 1988: Buildings along SoHo Broadway 2011: N + M and Nomis 2012: Working Title, an anthology of Phill Niblock’s work edited by Yvan Etienne, published by Presses du Réel 2012: Phill Niblock revisits the Environments Exhibition sites Exhibited at Circuit + Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at Circuit Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at Circuit Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at Circuit + Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée Exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée The following images are available for the press. The use of these images is limited to the promotion of the exhibition presented at the Musée de l’Elysée. They mu not be altered in any way and mu mention the whole caption as well as the copyright. To download the images: p://84.16.80.83/web/press/Phill_Niblock user : press password : 1006_mel_13 From the series Buildings Along SoHo Broadway, 1988 © Phill Niblock Presented at the Musée de l’Elysée From the series Underground Gallery Exhibition, 1966 © Phill Niblock Presented at the Musée de l’Elysée The Movement of People Working, 1973 - 1991 (Film Stills) © Phill Niblock Presented at Circuit From the series Streetcorners in the South Bronx, 1979 © Phill Niblock Presented at the Musée de l’Elysée Japan89, 1989 © Phill Niblock Presented at Circuit Duke Ellington in control booth, 1962 © Phill Niblock Presented at Circuit Practical Information Musée de l’Elysée 18, avenue de l’Elysée CH - 1014 Lausanne T + 41 (0) 21 316 99 11 F + 41 (0) 21 316 99 12 www.elysee.ch Opening hours Contemporary Art Center Circuit Access via Quai Jurigoz CH – 1001 Lausanne T + 41 (0) 21 601 41 70 F + 41 (0) 21 601 41 70 http://www.circuit.li/ Opening hours Thu-Fri-Sa from 2 to 6pm and by appointment Admission fee Free admission Tue-Sun, 11am - 6pm Closed Monday, except for bank holidays Admission fee Adults CHF 8.00 AVS CHF 6.00 Students / Apprentices / AC / AI CHF 4.00 Free entry for those under 16 Free entry on the first Saturday of the month

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Exp Intermedia December
by Phill Niblock 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

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=mhee http://bicameral.multiply.com/ First: http://www.davidfirst.com/ Watson:http://www.hsmithagency.com/watson/index.html http://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.com Soundcloud.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.net www.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.com www.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

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