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EI March calendar
by Phill Niblock 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

Please do not reply to this address, but to pniblock(a)compuserve.com EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Fithtieth Anniversary of the Founding ofExperimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Streetloft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival with no fancyname, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock,curator March 2018 JimDenley (Australia) Friday 2 The Ditch: David Watson(guitar and bagpipes) and Mij Yelned (Australia, prepared bass flute and altosax) and Chris Mann (voice and text); Chris and Mij formed Machine for MakingSense in the late 1980’s, Chris in Melbourne and Mij in Sydney; Mij and Davidfirst played together in Sydney in the 1990s — making “Bit Part Actor” (BrailleRecords) together with Mij’s other Machine for Making Sense colleagues and IkueMori; David has resided in NYC since 1987 and often playing with Chris; Mij andDavid have occasionally met on David’s trips downunder, when he crosses TheDitch (Tasman Sea) to perform in Sydney; they’ve only played alltogether once – NYC sometime in the early 2000s? http://theuse.info/ https://soundcloud.com/jim-denley https://xirecords.bandcamp.com/album/fingering-an-idea www.splitrec.com NateWooley (New York) and Nicola L. Hein (Berlin) Sunday 4 The trumpet player andguitarist will follow a philosophical question and play a conceptualcomposition - What is skeptic improvisation? The question of what itmeans to be skeptical about improvisation and to be an improvising skeptic willbe followed; it is the scepticism of the musicians regarding destiny, habitus,certainties, playing and the sense-games of musical action; the compositionserves to irritate the players and their certainties; it is about the challengeof thinking, the aesthetic thinking about thinking with the means ofimprovised music,, playing around and with the limits of musicalthought; revolving around the impossibility of an hyperbolic skepsis,watching the certainties arise on their own, which Nietzsche and Wittgensteinunderstood as an inherent feature of (musical) grammar; the aim is theidiosyncratic aesthetics of the sceptic musical act http://natewooley.com/ https://nicolahein.com/ AbigailChild (New York) A Video Event Thursday 15 “A BRACE OF SHAKES”—Aselection of short films (16mm and digital) from across three decades,exhibiting "a playful musicality and poetic and rigorouscompression…working against the manufactured ambush that images have in store;”Child has long created a subtle form of agitprop, exploringissues of gender and class through montage, with a fearless sense ofstructure and unself-conscious delight in the visual; she has worked withdowntown musicians including John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman,Andrea Parkins and Marty Ehrlich, all of whose music will befeatured in thefilms shown tonight www.abigailchild.com PerryBard (New York) A Video Event Friday 16 Aprogram of timely political shorts from 1997 to the present dealing with Nazis,heightened security, immigration, and war; No Flak, a recent text animation in collaboration with Richard Sullivan, links theattitudes of Dada and Theatre of the Absurd to the current administrationreferencing the despotic King Ubu, 1984, and Jonathan Crary's 24/7:Capitalism and the End of Sleep; followed by a crowdsourced version of Dziga Vertov's1929 masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake www.perrybard.net. dziga.perrybard.netarchived at http://rhizome.org/art/artbase/artwork/man-with-a-movie-camerathe-global-re… PierreMarietan (Paris) A Video Event Sunday 18 Thisis an invitation for you to use your power of ubiquity; it is proposed herewith the transfer of a distant world to the moment of your listening and gazeonto the present; I have traveled the World and captured 32 short visualsequences and recorded and retained 37 audio situations; with theseelements I have composed a set juxtaposing/superimposing images and musicindependently from each other, leaving the freedom of interpretation betweensight and sound up to the spectator; it is by this perceptible process that thegift of ubiquity is acquired ttps://pierremarietan.wordpress.com/ RencontreArchitecturemusiqueecologie.co ScreenCompositions 14, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya A Video Event Monday 19 For the 14th year, Screen Compositions bringsyou, as every time, a collection of intersections of moving image with sonicart; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-waycollaborations between video/film artists and sound/music artists specificallyintended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component;featuring collaborations by: Charlotte Clermont / Alain Lefebvre ; KatherineLiberovskaya / Ranjit Bhatnagar ; Francesca Llopis / Barbara Held ; MiloszLuczynski / Marek Choloniewski ; Noriko Nakano / Akio Mokuno with Hitomi Honda; Rob Parrish / Richard Chartier ; Emily Pelstring / Katherine Kline ; LorenzoSanjuan / Bob Bellerue ; Jorge Simonet / Francisco Lopez ; Beth Warshafsky /Gerry Hemingway Bettina Wenzel(Germany) Wednesday 21 Elasticmaterials are stretchable, over-stretchable and mostly unbreakable; a vocalresearch based on that principle leads to fall-out frequencies and wanted sideeffects that provide the main sound material for an ongoing research; unadulteratedand therefore natural, the resonating body generates extreme - minimal andmaximal - sound vibrations instantly shaped into musical structures; this canbe done in the way of a sculptor and by accepting the uncontrollable part; oneof the most recent results is "head oscillator", a serie ofproductive voice glitches http://soundcloud.com/bettina-wenzel,http://www.wenzelvoice.de GuyDe Bievre (Brussels) Thursday 22 Drone Shyness, version fortrombone and lap steel guitar; is a study of the becoming or not becoming ofdrone, investigating how much change and interruption "dronemusic" can tolerate before it becomes something else; with Peter Zummo,trombone www.guydebievre.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zummo ClarenceBarlow (Santa Barbara, Barcelona) Friday 23 Since about thirty yearsago, the composer has been making films to accompany or illustrate his music;the video component is either based on the compositional principle of themusic, or based on visual material by other artists, from film archives, orrecorded on site www.clarlow.org RicardoArias (Colombia) and Judy Dunaway (US) - Sunday 25 Both have separately specialized in free improvisationand experimental music on the latex balloon fordecades, making it their main instrument; Arias’ background as a percussionistled him to develop the "balloon kit"("batería global”), andDunaway’s background as a guitaristled her to approach each size and shape of balloon as a soloinstrument; they will combine their expertise to expand and explore the detailsof their shared world and present heretofore unimagined sonic landscapes; thisconcert marks the first meeting of these two avant-garde virtuosi http://www.judydunaway.com/judy-dunaway-and-ricardo-arias-duets.html Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia TeitelbaumFund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and theNew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomoand the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm XI CDs are now available for sale on thewww.XI Records.org website: Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes(XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying Vegetables OfThe Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); TomJohnson - Music For 88 (Xi 106); Mary Jane Leach - Celestial Fires (Xi 107);Fast Forward - 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 (XI113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart - Ten ThousandShades 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); MalcolmGoldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); PaulPanhuysen - Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The ChordCatalogue (XiI 123); Ellen Band - 90% Post Consumer Sound (Xi 124); PhilipCorner - 40 Years And One (Xi 125); Gen Ken Montgomery - Pondfloorsample (XI126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces (Xi 127); Alan Licht - A New YorkMinute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - TheAnimation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky -Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); MichaelJ. 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) Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 139), Tom Chiu (XI 140) The Following Releases Are 2 CdsFor The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For ThePrice Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135

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January Event at EI
by Phill Niblock 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Please respond to pniblock(a)compuserve.com, not to this address EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fourth Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the Foundingof Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-ninth Anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual Festival with nofancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock,curator January 2017 A special event for the end of January, two special artistscoming through town: Anne-F Jacques (Montreal) + RyokoAkama (Japan, England) Monday January29, 9pm FailedExperiments, this is their first appearance in the USA; is theirperformance/installation series comprised of small objects, motors, fans andmagnets; these animated contraptions are the result of their precarious studioexperiments; the work is never complete but is forever - a work in progress;sounding objects are arranged and assembled in the space as to make tiniesttonal occurrences to sporadical patterns of noise; the audience will experiencepapers, bottles, wood branches, hearing aids, brass, all mundane materialsscattering around in order to magnify the architecture of the space This collaboration wasfirst presented at Algomech Festival (2017, UK). http://anne-fff.tumblr.com/ http://www.ryokoakama.com http://www.melangeedition.com http://www.mumeipublishing.com http://www.amespace.uk Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia TeitelbaumFund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and theNew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomoand the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI Records.org website: PhillNiblock - Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); GuyKlucevsek - Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman -Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson - Music For 88 (Xi 106); Mary JaneLeach - Celestial Fires (Xi 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); EllenFullman - Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); PhillNiblock - Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron - Raw Sangudo (XI112); Daniel Goode - Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI114); Richard Lainhart - Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo -Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson - Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue -Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen - Partitas For LongStrings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The Chord Catalogue (XiI 123); Ellen Band - 90%Post Consumer Sound (Xi 124); Philip Corner - 40 Years And One (Xi 125); GenKen Montgomery - Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces(Xi 127); Alan Licht - A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman - My DearSiegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - The Animation Of Lists And The ArchytanTranspositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky - Memory Like Water (XI 131); DavidWatson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher - Five SoundInstallations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); CharlieMorrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger-/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph - Electroacoustic Works(XI 138) Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 139), Tom Chiu (XI 140) TheFollowing Releases Are 2 Cds For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; TheFollowing Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135 Also: February4 - Fridman Gallery New Ear Festival, New York - Phill Niblock, Tim Shaw,Katherine Liberovskaya - FRIDMANGALLERY 287 Spring St. New York / +1 (646)775-6406 / info(a)fridmangallery.com

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EI December Calendar
by Phill Niblock 26 Nov '17

26 Nov '17

EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street,The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, theFiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, TheTwenty-eighth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (orA) Phill Niblock, curator December2017 Tibor Szemzo and LászlóGoz (Budapest) Monday11 Counter/culture Closure Night: Part One - Experimental Intermedia and Balassi Institute -Hungarian Cultural Center, New York is co-presenting the first CLOSURE NIGHT ofthe Center's COUNTER/CULTURE programming series; to celebrate and wrap-up theevents which were focusing on artistic resistance during the era of stateSocialism in Hungary around the Sixties and Seventies; founders of theworld-renowed Group 180, Tibor Szemzo (visuals, music, narration, flutes) and LászlóGoz (bass trumpet, sea shells) will give a very special cinematographicmusic event paying homage to the Hungarian avantgarde film and music scene ofthe given decades and will prepare for the evening with a specially curated,exclusive program http://szemzo.org/en/tibor-szemzo-2/ http://www.culturehungary.org Henry Flynt (New York) Tuesday12 "You Are MyEverlovin’", for rock electric violin and amplified tambura; Tambura: C.C.Hennix, playing a Pandit Pran Nath tambura; This is a semi-composed,semi-improvised duet, it waspremiered in SOHO in June 1981, and the recording of that performance has beenreleased three times; the piece is literally an alap in the broad sense of the word, that is, a completeperformance without drums; the violin is conventionally tuned and the pedalpoint is D; the musical material is wide-ranging—all the same, two gats were at the core of the originalperformance; at times, Flynt alludes to Shuddh Todi by tonicizing f#; for therest of it, he alludes to various musics outside the European orbit and also tovarious compositions of his henryflynt.org; http://www.recorded.com/releases/003.html; https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/upcoming/products/henry-flynt-y… Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett (Conn, New York) Wednesday 13 Fortheir first performance together, Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett will fill atable with transduced tubes, 3D printed shapes, amplified objects, and cassetterecorders; feedback will be used to explore spaces large and small whilesoftware and hardware instruments capture sound as a material to be sculpted intime; both are composers, artists, and performers in equal and sometime notequal parts, so no particular preference will be given to whether the soundsare loud or soft or short or long but a great deal of attention will almostcertainly be paid to listening in the moment http://www.onelonelypixel.org http://vimeo.com/sethcluetthttp://soundcloud.com/sethcluett http://www.paulamatthusen.com/ Bernd Klug (New York) Thursday14 ‘sides-systems under test’ is a live sound work based on ongoing research about thephysical impact of societies as acoustic properties; it traces the question ofwhat happens if we temporally, spatially and intellectually feedback our lackof control over the world; maybe void and silence are not too far apart andactive listening can be an information session about our inabilities, a benefitfor our crumbled actions, a funeral party for lost dreams and a launch ofattempts and approaches http://klug.klingt.org David Lee Myers (New York) Friday 15 CD release party andperformance by Myers, who sometimes works under the name Arcane Device; thealbum “Ether Music” is produced by the new music champion Starkland label; hewill be performing his signature “Feedback Music” on decades-evolvingmatrix-mixed sound processors accompanied by projected lissajou graphicscreated directly from his sounds; marking the 30th anniversary of FeedbackMusic, this is Myers’ only performance this year! www.pulsewidth.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytqotxofy6Q https://davidleemyers.bandcamp.com Michael Schumacher (New York) Sunday17 ThePortable Multi-Channel Sound System is a musical instrument designedspecifically for Michael J. Schumacher’s spatialized compositions; building onthe pioneering work of composers such as Alvin Lucier and Maryanne Amacher,presentations explore the relationship between musical form and architecturalspace and how this relationship can inform listening; combining installationand performance, algorithmic composition and improvisation, this goes beyondacoustics to the way people inhabit and use spaces, creating paradigms forlistening and formal expectations http://michaeljschumacher.com/PM-CSS Lucie Vítková (Czech Republic/New York) Monday 18 MUSIC DOMESTIC is an album, releasedon the New York label Bánh Mì Verlag in March 2017; it is a series ofperformances focused on domestic space; in each piece, an automatic domesticinstrument such as vacuum cleaner, kettle, washing machine, toilet, shower,heating and fans is played together with 2 accordions, hichiriki, voice,harmonica, objects and electronics; the music aesthetics are derived from agentle manipulation of the domestic instruments, followed by my set ofinstruments; I am going to play four pieces from this album live, with thedomestic instruments found at the venue https://soundcloud.com/banhmiverlag/lucie-vitkova-music-domestic-excerpt Yasunao Tone (New York) Tuesday19 Hehas collaborated with Prof. Tony Myatt, University of Surrey UK, and a team ofresearchers including Dr. Paul Modler, with the support of the ISSUE ProjectRoom in 2016; a series of performances using Tone’s MP3 Deviation software werecaptured in a laboratory then used to train Kohoen Neural Networks to developartificial intelligences that can simulate several of his performance approaches;the AIs are integrated in a software framework and computer performance systemthat extracts attributes from the audio they generate to “listen” to the outputand make performance actions as if they were virtual Tone performers; fiveversions of Tone AI exist in the performance software, each of which exhibitscertain responses modeled on those previously adopted by Tone; in performance,Tone will deviate and control AI versions of himself along with the mechanismsthat each AI uses to hear and respond to the audio they generate; deviating andcorrupting the technologies designed to simulate his own performances,deviating and interacting live with AI versions of himself as performer;special guest artist, Ami Yamasaki, outstanding voice performance artist www.Google him Our programs are supported by The David& Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, thePhaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with thesupport of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours ofMusic and Film on Thursday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight - the WinterSolstice Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 AtlanticAve, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI Records.org website: Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); DavidBehrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson - Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach - CelestialFires (XI 107); Fast Forward -Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - OpenSecrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); AllisonCameron - 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 - Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); LogosDuo - 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 ForLong Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band - 90% PostConsumer Sound (XI 124); PhilipCorner - 40 Years And One (XI125); 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); MichaelVincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI137); Dan Joseph - Electroacoustic Works (XI 138) Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 140),Tom Chiu (XI 141) AmnonWolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) – Our first digital onlyrelease. Recorded live at Experimental Intermedia performance. Available onbandcamp as well as through most digital outlets (iTunes etc) Thecover art and full notes for the release will be on the www.experimentalintermedia.orgwebsite, and in a form to print and place into a burned CD case

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Phill Niblock in the late spring
by Phill Niblock 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

A few events for the late spring by Phill Niblock please respond to this email at pniblock(a)compuserve.com not to the sending address phill June 4, 8pm, Montreal -Bozzini String Quartet plays Phill Niblock at Suoni PerIl Popolo Music Festival, LA SALA ROSSA, 4848 St.Laurent, Montréal, Qc www.suoniperilpopolo.org This concert includes two pieces for orchestra, Disseminate and Baobab,played by multples of the Bozzini String Quartet, recorded in Montreal on May31 and June 1; and three pieces of music with film/video, by Phill Niblock June 8, 9 10, in TorinoItaly PHILL NIBLOCK – PLAY IT LOUD! UN PROGETTO IN COOPERAZIONE TRA: MuseoNazionale del Cinema, Conservatorio di Torino Universitàdi Torino, Superbudda, produced by Stefano Bassanese June 8 - 11 am AULA 12 - PALAZZO NUOVO,Via Sant'Ottavio 20 (Università di Torino) Interview with Phill Niblock, by Giacomo Albert, Riccardo Fassone, Vincenzo Santarcangelo,Stefano Bassanese (Conservatorio di Torino) Corso di Semiologia del film e dell'audiovisivo , Andrea Valle Laurea magistrale in Cinema e Media ====== Concert, 9pm: Phill Niblock: the movement of the artist working, with music Piazza Bodoni, Salone Concerti Del Conservatorio http://www.conservatoriotorino.gov.it/evento/play-it-loud/ Music and Film by Phill Niblock: Unipolar Dance per viola, violino – Li Xinyu: violino, Giorgia Lenzo: viola Nagro (aka Organ) per organo a canne - Matteo Cotti: organo First out per chitarra elettrica - Carlo Barbagallo: chitarra elettrica Film: China88 ======= June 9: AULA 40 - CONSERVATORIO, 10am Phill Niblock: workshop with the compositionstudents SMET - Scuola di Musica Elettronica, SUPERBUDDA, Docks Dora / Via Valprato 68,hours 4 to 11pm http://www.superbudda.com/ The Movement of People Working, with Music - installazion with 3 screens and I video monitor 1 China88 1:50:21 2 Brasil84 1:17:16 3 Hong Kong & Hungary 1:51:20 4 BayJames 24:46 1 Japan89 1:58:35 2 Peru - Mexico 1:14:14 3 China86 1:15:14 4 Brasil83 53:05 1 China87 1:40:56 2 TresFamilias 1:16:49 3 Lesotho 42:27 4 Arctic 38:45 5 Portugal 50:33 1 Remo Osaka 1:59:02 2 Romania 1:14:41 3 Sumatra 4:14:36 (on video monitor) Cotinuous music in the hall Concert at 9pm Stosspeng per 2 chitarre elettriche - AmosCappuccio e Luca Morino: chitarra elettrica June 10 - CINEMAMASSIMO - SALA UNO, Via Giuseppe Verdi,18 4:30pm -Thomas Maury, Niblock’s Sound Spectrums[2016-2017] (70') The first screening of this version ofThomas Maury's documentary of Phill Nilbock 6pm - Phill Niblock, Six Films [1966-1969](79') MORNING (1966-69) from an idea by PhillNiblock and Jean Claude Van Itallie, filmed by PN, text by Lee Worley and Michael Corner, with members of the OpenTheater Group. Black and White 16mm film. THE MAGIC SUN (1966 - 68) with members ofthe Sun Ra Arkestra, music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. Filmed with a high contrast Black and White 16mm film. DOG TRACK (1969) A film by Phill Niblock,with a found text read by Barbara Porte. Color 16mm film. ANNIE (1968) A portrait of the dancer AnnDanoff, with a sound collage sound track. Color 16mm film. MAX (1966 - 68) An image collage film/portrait of Max Neuhaus, with a collage sound track by Max Neuhaus. Black and White 16mm film. RAOUL (1968 - 69) A portrait of thepainter Raoul Middleman, with extensive use of time-lapse film technique. Thesound track is improvised by Raoul Middleman andPhill Niblock. Color 16mm film. 9pm - Phill Niblock, Video-concerto Recent HD Videos [2013-2016] (100') Meudrone 1, Agosto, DH Sand-Water, Vent 4,Meudrone 2 e l’esecuzionie dal vivo di: 9pm - Phill Niblock, Video-concerto Recent HD Videos [2013-2016] (100') Meudrone 1, Agosto, DH Sand-Water, Vent 4,Meudrone 2 e l’esecuzionie dal vivo di: Held Tones (1981) per flauto, AlessandraGiura Longo: flauto Sweet Potato (2001) per clarinetto basso,,Takayo Hiramatsu: clarinetto basso Twelve Tones (1977) per contrabbasso,Michele Anelli: contrabbasso A Third Trombone (1979/1994) per trombone,Stefano Cicerone: trombone Ronet (2014) per sassofono tenore, Pasquale Calò: sassofonotenore

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Phill Niblock at the Tate Modern
by Phill Niblock 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Please do not respond to this address, but to pniblock(a)compuserve.com Phill Niblock at The Tate Modern The Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG http://www.tate.org.uk Sunday 26 March, 7pm: Live performance of Environments III (100Mile Radius, 16mm) and Environments IV (Ten Hundred Inch Radii, 16mmfilm) and Music, with live musicians and dance, 2.5 hours, entrance fee Monday27 and Tuesday 28 March, 10am-6pm: Installation of triple digitalprojection (Environments II, III and IV) and Music by PN TateMusic and Dance Live Program, the 26th Ronet- Neil Leonard, tenor saxophone FirstOut - David First, guitar Surge2 - Thomas Ankersmit, analog synth V&LSG- Lori Lixenberg and Guy De Bievre, voice and lap steel guitar ElisabethSchilling, dance Onthe 26th, doors at 6, performance6:30-9pm http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights/… theBMW Tate Live Exhibition series, full program info: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights No1 March 24th On the first night of the BMW Tate Live Exhibition Lorenzo Sennipremieres two new iterations of live electronic music sets investigating theculture and mechanisms of dance music. No2 March 25th No3 26th Phill Niblock,and installations the 28th and 29th during the day, and free No4 29th Join us for an insightful video lecture presented by CAMP No5 31th Carlos Casas and others -> Experience immersive livecinema in the Tanks No6 1st April (fools day) See the UK premiere of Ligia Lewis’minor matter forthe ones not knowing Tate Modern well they should be there in time to makingtheir way to The Tanks http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/tanks

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EI March Concert Calendar
by Phill Niblock 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

please do not respond to this address, but to: pniblock(a)compuserve.com EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fourth Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the Foundingof Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-ninth Anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual Festival with nofancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock,curator March 2017 Sergey Komarov andAlexey Grachev (Russia) Friday3 Subjectivization of Sound, a sound performance that graduallytransforms into an interactive installation - is based on interaction withspace and viewers; by contrasting and matching two principles of the synthesisof electronic sound, analog and digital, each time the audio artists createa new sound that includes the sense of space, people and everything aroundthem. the chief instruments of Grachev are the development environment Max/MSPand the platform Arduino for communication with space, and the analog modularsynthesizer of Komarov; the mobility and variability of the performance are ofgreat significance: any available equipment which happens to be on the site canbe used; An Audio Performance Project by CYLAND Media Art Lab Matt Mottel and KevinShea (New York) Sunday 5 Endgame of the Anthropocene is Talibam!’s (MattMottel - synthesizers and Kevin Shea- drums, electronics) first cinematic performance ofthrough-composed ecogothic geosonics; it is the soundtrack to 2048’s despoticnationalism and crumbling international infrastructure,underscoring an eco-mercantilistic tragedy and the desperate plundering ofAntarctica, the last pristine landscape on Earth; it is a dystopian sonicpronouncement of failed socio-environmental memes, and features Talibam!’semergence into hyperkinetic rhythm-based instrumental/electronic music; thismusic will be released on ESP-DISK inthe second half of 2017 www.talibam.bandcamp.com youtube.com/talibambam BarryWeisblat (New York) Wednesday8 Known for performance with live electronics // a rare presentationof mundane field recordings gathered in quadraphonic arrangements usingextended recording techniques and various self-made transducers which will beon display Vytautas V. Jurgutis,Vaclovas Nevcesauskas (Lithuania) A Video Event Thursday 9 METROSCAN: A live audiovisual concert by Jurgutis (live electronics) andNevcesauskas (live video) which reflects electronics, glitch, beats, noise,realtime generated computer graphics, visuals, various nowadaysdata streams, post-urban and post-internet aesthetics; the title of the workhas derived from Metro, Metropolis, Metronome, Metrics and similar meanings andinspirations, these many-sided concepts are digitally objectified andoriginally developed in this project; the project is based on a purely digitalaesthetics where specially live generating visual structures and diligentimages interflow and interact with sophisticated electronic music - endlesslayers and textures of purely digital sound balanced on the edge of audibility,peculiar and diverse rhythms and pulsations www.youtube.com/user/Metroscan1 Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture andMinistry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania TomHamilton Friday10 ZeroCrossing Inquiry - something old, something new: Robert Ashley's 1979 text"A Last Futile Stab at Fun," read by Mimi Johnson, with newelectronic music composed and performed by Tom Hamilton; plusHamilton's "Beacon" for solo flute and electronics, performed byJacqueline Martelle. http://15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-tom-hamilton/p… Jon Abbey(USA) DJingcontinuously from 3-11 PM Sunday12 Erstwhile Records programs a very special day/night ofelectroacoustic music created from 2013-2016, including work from ToshiyaTsunoda, Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto, Graham Lambkin, TakahiroKawaguchi/Utah Kawasaki, Hong Chulki/Ryu Hankil, Michael Pisaro, KevinDrumm/Jason Lescalleet, Keith Rowe and more. Also Gabi Losoncy (GrahamLambkin-Community) and Devin DiSanto (Michael Pisaro-Anabasis) will beperforming live simultaneously with the mentioned works after guidance from theinitial composers beforehand. erstwhilerecords.com Ying Liu(China, New York) A VideoEvent Monday13 “Wow, can’t believe that’swhat you think of me…” An evening of virtual reality and performancecelebrating tiny, trivial thoughts and creativity, and incomplete information;punctuating the night will be videos using my “tattooing” technique, whichsuperimposes animation on to live action https://vimeo.com/yingliu SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 13- Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Tuesday14 It's the thirteenth year of Screen Compositions; in Chinese culture (andwe're in Chinatown) 13 is very lucky and means "definitely vibrant";so this 2017 edition presents a most definitely vibrant collection ofintersections of moving image with sonic art; a programof screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations betweenvideo/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended forsingle-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuringcollaborations by: Magdalena Campos-Pons / Neil Leonard; Paul Clipson / ByronWestbrook; Julie Doucet / Anne-f. Jacques; Janene Higgins / Cassis B Staudt;Luis Macias / Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Geoff Matters / Dok Gregory; LaetitiaMorais / Carlos Guedes; Dafna Naphtali / Hans Tammen; Mercedes Peris /Ferrer-Molina; Paola Pisani / Alessandro Fogar Jacob Burckhardt (NewJersey) AVideo Event Wednesday15 Across the river to the west, another land, another home; New Moviesof children, storms, industry, wastelands, looming New York, dancing in thestreet; with sound tracks by composers such as Marc Ribot and Cenk Ergun, orwith improvised noises https://vimeo.com/user1940280/videos Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia TeitelbaumFund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and theNew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomoand the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm, except as noted XI CDs are now available for sale on thewww.XI Records.org website: Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes(XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying Vegetables OfThe Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); TomJohnson - Music For 88 (Xi 106); Mary Jane Leach - Celestial Fires (Xi 107);Fast Forward - 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 (XI113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart - Ten ThousandShades 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); MalcolmGoldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); PaulPanhuysen - Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The ChordCatalogue (XiI 123); Ellen Band - 90% Post Consumer Sound (Xi 124); PhilipCorner - 40 Years And One (Xi 125); Gen Ken Montgomery - Pondfloorsample (XI126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces (Xi 127); Alan Licht - A New YorkMinute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - TheAnimation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky -Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); MichaelJ. 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) Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 139), Tom Chiu (XI 140) The Following Releases Are 2 CdsFor The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For ThePrice Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135 Dan Joseph recordrelease party March 18, Saturday, at 8pm (note that that is not 9pm) Marking the release of his new 2-CDrelease Electroacoustic Works (XI 138), Dan Joseph will perform anextended version of his solo piece Dulcimer Flight, as well asoffer an installation realization of Periodicity Piece #6 thatwill play before and after his performance ========= Phill Niblock at The Tate Modern The Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG http://www.tate.org.uk Sunday 26 March, 7pm: Live performance of Environments III (100mile Radius, 16mm) and Environments IV (Ten Hundred Inch Radii, 16mmfilm) and Music, with live musicians and dance, 2.5 hours, entrance fee Monday27 and Tuesday 28 March, 10am-6pm: Installation of triple digitalprojection (Environments II, III and IV) and Music by PN TateMusic and Dance Live Program, the 26th: Ronet- Neil Leonard, tenor saxophone; First Out - David First, guitar; Surge 2 -Thomas Ankersmit, analog synth; V&LSG - Lori Lixenberg and Guy De Bievre,voice and lap steel guitar; Elisabeth Schilling, dance On the 26th, doors at 6,performance 6:30-9pm http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights/…

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Experimental Intermedia December 2016 Calendar
by Phill Niblock 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-third Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-eighth Anniversary of the Foundingof Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-eighth Anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual "Festival with no fancy name," Part One (orA) Phill Niblock, curator December2016 Mia Zabelkaand Katherine Liberovskaya Tuesday 13 Zabelka's solo work is an ongoing process of de-and re-construction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range ofthe instrument using live electronic devices and preparing it through theinsertion of alien objects between or on the strings; she is continuouslyexploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back theboundaries in experimental performances and compositions that questionestablished notions, improving the available techniques and given structures;Liberovskaya has been exploring improvised live visuals in the context of livemusic/sound concert situations since the early 2000s, collaborating withnumerous music and sound artists; her live visuals seek to create improvisatory"music" for the eyes; they span a wide variety of approaches fromstraightforward real-time montage and processing of pre-recorded material tothe use of diverse kinds of live cameras to capture live "events" onthe concert stage and integrate them to the image mix; at EI, MZ and KL willcontinue an on-going collaboration where gesture and image dialogue throughsurveillance technology www.miazabelka.com Mimmo Napolitano (SEC_)& Mario Gabiola (Italy) Wednesday14 Italian duo known as Aspec(t), appreciated for their original mix ofelectro-acoustic detailed improvisation and power electronics/noise visceralattitude; they use reel-to-reel tape machine, feedback systems, self-builtsynthesizers and audio samples to produce frenetic structures, twistedrhythms, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of thesoundscape and the time stream www.toxorecords.com/aspec(t) -"Con il sostegno del progetto - With the support of the project DE.MO/MOVIN'UP I sess.2016" - Promoted by: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities andTourism; General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and UrbanSuburbs; General Directorate for Performing Arts; and GAI – Association for theCircuit of the Young Italian Artists Biliana Voutchkova (Bulgaria, Berlin) and Michael Thieke (Berlin) Thursday15 The violin and clarinet duo’s new program works with the theme of blur in the field of music, on thelevel of formal composition as well as in the details of the musical material;the music’s structure creates a blur; improvised parts alternate with fields ofpre-structured material in which tape-recordings of the duo are duplicated bylive performance http://www.bilianavoutchkova.net/ http://www.michael-thieke.de/ Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding In cooperation with theGoethe-Institute Chicago Christina Wheeler (Los Angeles/Berlin) Friday16 Tres Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs: A three-part, solocomposition in audience-generated, chance order and direction, for voice,electric mbira, electric autoharp, Q-Chord, delay loops, and electroniceffects processing www.christinawheeler.com Amnon Wolman (Israel) and Neil Leonard(Boston) Saturday17 A new collaboration between Neil Leonard and AmnonWolman called Security VehiclesOnly that employs two poems by John Ashbery; the piece is scheduledfor premiere at the Tectonics Festival in Tel Aviv in November; at EI, Security Vehicles Only will beperformed together with Amnon’s FlaggerAhead for visual live performers that will be presented by a groupof student-artists from Boston http://www.neilleonard.com,https://soundcloud.com/amnon-wolman https://vimeo.com/amnonwolman http://www.amnonwolman.org/ http://downloads.strikingmechanism.com/album/for-phill Jenny Pickett &Julien Ottavi (UK/France)  Sunday 18 Solar Return - Nantes based artistsJenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi created Solar Return in 2009; takingelectromagnetic phenomena as a starting point for their audio creations; theyhave produced various scores for dual audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronicsetc...which reflect patterns and electromagnetic events such as solar flaresand inner citymobile phone mastsas well as the unfathomable audio world of kitchen appliances; through theirperformances the duo tunnel deep into the world of frequency, static and soundas a physical experience http://jennypickett.co.uk- http://www.noiser.org http://bruitbrut.lautre.net/ Junko Wada and Hans Peter Kuhn (Berlin) Monday19 3 Dreams - These dreams are not necessarily what you dream of, they arerather these kind of dreams one really dreams, a bit between nightmare andAlice’s Wonderland; not really bad dreams but also not the dreams of the bestworlds; the first dream is this dream where your body is too slow for reachingthe aim, everybody knows that; the second is a wild story where all kind ofconnections and happenings are possible and the third one is the one that israther relaxing and meditative www.junkowada.de www.hanspeterkuhn.com Johan Vandermaelen (Belgium) Tuesday20 About the weather - a spatial installation about the unremarkable slowprocesses and sounds that surround us; Objects, fileplayers, singing stones http://bamart.be/nl/artists/detail/285 https://soundcloud.com/user-918816603 Our programs aresupported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron CoplandFund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on theArts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York StateLegislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours ofMusic and Film on Wednesday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight - the WinterSolstice Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 AtlanticAve, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org A list of the CDs available on the XI Records label: 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 - CelestialFires (XI 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music(XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music ByPhill 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 WithHousehold Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI 117); AnneaLockwood/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); TomJohnson - 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); AlanLicht - 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 VincentWaller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger - Raw/Re: Space (XI 137) Coming Soon:Releases by Dan Joseph (XI 138) and Leslie Ross (XI 139) The FollowingReleases 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; The Following Releases Are 3CDs For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135 All of the XI CDsare available for sale from our website (www.xirecords.org), as well as fromForced Exposure (USA) (www.forcedexposure.com) and Amazon.com. Titles are alsoavailable through Metamkine (France) (www.metamkine.com) and Soundohm (Italy)(www.soundohm.com). All releases are also available digitally through outletssuch as iTunes, Spotify.com, Amazon.com, emusic.com, boomkat.com and others.

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Exp Intermedia March concerts
by Phill Niblock 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-second Anniversary of EI performances at 224Centre Street, The Forty-seventh Anniversary of the Founding of ExperimentalIntermedia, the Forty-seventh Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and,not least, The Twenty-sixth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two(or B) Phill Niblock, curator March 2016 Peter Wießenthaner (Frankfurt am Main) Wednesday 16 Hitmachine •SOUND and COLOUR • for filter sounds, bass- and piccolo-glissando flutes,animation, 4 loudspeakers, 1 subwoofer; filters unite a compactpercussion-sound-like machine; Hitmachine is a dynamic system in MAX and isrunning independently, without repetition and generates a connection of toneand picture in an almost infinite variation; sounds from bass- andpiccolo-glissando-flutes flank the main stream of the filter-sounds; thesound-data generate coloured lines and place them in the screen - Hitmachine,work in progress www.wiessenthaner.de John Wiese (Los Angeles) Thursday 17 Works primarilyin sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well asscoring for large ensembles; he will be presenting new sounds recorded atINA/GRM's studio http://www.john-wiese.com/ http://johnwiese.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLPIU_2o6JkZ11uL6pP8MAYdlMz49lQXtL&v=6Ve… Byron Westbrook (New York) Friday 18 Premiering new electronic works for two, three, and four-channelaudio; featuring experiments with phase relationships, synthesized ASMR, fakefield recordings, and the occasional no-downbeat-rhythm byronwestbrook.com Michael Lytle (New York) Wednesday 23 POOL is a groupof composer/performers, one each from a major instrumental group: Strings -Stephanie Griffin, viola; Reeds - Michael Lytle, bass and contra bassclarinets; Percussion - Denman Maroney, piano; Voice - Dafna Naphtali, voiceand electronics; Brass - Steve Swell, trombone Babeth M. VanLoo (Amsterdam) A Video Event Thursday 24 The media-artistand filmmaker will show several video installations: 1- Meditation /Radiation, 3 channels; 17 min - Kobe Japan, Paro Bhutan, Amsterdam; 2- ArtLiberation - In me, in you: 7 min - mixed media, and live performance; 3-Joseph Beuys - Das Kapital; 24 min - Mixed media - a: Venice Biennale, Beuysinstalling Das Kapital, no dialogue, music score by Charles Neville; b: Beuysdiscussing his broadened concept of art; As part of this centerpiece, Babethinvites you for a dialogue about her teacher, Beuys, his legacy and visionabout the democratization of money versus the monopolization of capital Marica Radojčićand Miroslav Miša Savić (Belgrade) A Video Event Friday 25 Music Hologram – Nikola Tesla, an audio-visualproject; Miša (audio - his first published CD) and Marica (visual ambience – videoand 3D animations) were inspired by Nikola Tesla:his inventions and experiments (high voltage electricity, artificial lightings,Tesla coil) as well as his intriguing personality (rare ability of mentalvisualisation, phobias and obsessions, particularly that one with numbers – thenumber 3 playing an important role); following Tesla’s ideas Marica examinesthe cognitive role of images, forgotten for centuries, but everywhere acceptedin ancient cultures https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=kR7xow31DuY, https://youtu.be/dP40QA22a-8 Andrew Neumann (US) A Video Event Saturday 26 Three (or Four)Video Projections: An evening of live video/musicalinteractions: “Craneology V3”: shot from one window over threeyears, a meditation on labor, construction, and weather patterns -“Double/Psycho”: a formal reconstruction of Hitchcock’s film and VanSant’s remake, a truly new psycho emerges - “Split:Riddle”, are-examination of the opening scene from “The Killers”, one of the finest (and)most confusing of all film noir’s; “Streaming Fields of LavaLamps”: a meditation on lava lamps, asparagus, andchairlifts.…it’s that obvious; Live musical andinteractive video switching included throughout www.adneumann.com https://soundcloud.com/andrew-neumann Screen Compositions 12: curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Monday 28 Now in its twelfth year - the 2016 editionof Screen Compositions presents, as every time, an excitingcollection of intersections of moving image with sonic art; a programof screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations betweenvideo/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended forsingle-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuringcollaborations by: Nayantara Bhattacharya Reed / Rick Reed; Nathalie Bujold /Isabelle Bozzini (Bozzini Quartet) + Taylor Brook; Kenneth Curwood / JonasReinhardt; Richard Garet / Daniel Neumann; Katherine Liberovskaya / PhillNiblock; Jeanne Liotta / Zach Layton; Diane Ludin / Dan Vatsky / Gill Arno;Claire Willemann / Julien Pauthier; Elaine Wood / Rick Breault Our programs are supported by The David & SylviaTeitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the PhaedrusFoundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support ofGovernor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature 224 CentreStreet at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.organd www.XIrecords.org 9pm XI CDs are nowavailable for sale on the www.XI Records.org website: 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 - CelestialFires (Xi 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music(XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music ByPhill 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 WithHousehold Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI 117); AnneaLockwood/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); TomJohnson - The Chord Catalogue (XiI 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); AlanLicht - 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); MichaelVincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger - /RAW:ReSpace/ (XI137); Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 138) The FollowingReleases 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; The Following Releases Are 3 Cds ForThe Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135 OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS March 11-15: Mise-en-Abyme: Blurring Boundaries between Real andAudiovisual a solo exhibition by Katherine Liberovskaya Opening: Friday March 11,2016, reception for the artist at 7pm Open to the public SaturdayMarch 12 and Sunday March 13, between 4 - 7 pm At Harvestworks, 596 Broadway#602, New York , NY 10012; 212-431-1130 Katherine Liberovskaya, mostoften active in experimental video and live video improvisation withexperimental music composers and musicians, presents two sculpturalclosed-circuit object-video-audio installation works from her on-going seriesshe calls "Strange Loops (between Real and Audiovisual)". Combiningcertain material elements with simple movement mechanisms, their real-timeelectronic image and sound capture and playback, as well as video and audiofeedback, these hybrid works obscure the limits between physical and mediareality. Two special concerts at EI after the main festival: Emanuel Pimenta(Switzerland-Brazil-Portugal-Italy) Tuesday March 29 METAMORPHOSIS |opera for inner voices by emanuel pimenta | libretto by rené berger - his lastwork | world première | 7 continents | 70 cities | 77 radio stations | 40countries | covering c. 57,510,000 sq miles (c. 148,940,000 km2) through c.24,859 miles (c. 40,007 km) | in 40 minutes | 1 act | made in 7 years (2009-2016) | music score on Bucky Fuller's dymaxion | anopera for inner voices, radios and the sound of planet earth captured at anorbital track of around 300 miles (500 km) of altitude | celebrating thecentennial of René Berger | http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/Berger100/metamorphosis Gustavo Matamoros (Miami/Venezuela) Friday April 1 CTURNS50 - An evening-long piecein four channels emerging from multiple recorded sound sources, some generatedfrom scratch in the studio and some recorded in urban and natural settings suchas the Florida Everglades www.subtropics.org/gustavomatamoros

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A few things at EI and elsewhere
by Phill Niblock 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

Happy New Year! Join us for 3 special evenings to kick off the newyear at EI EXPERIMENTALINTERMEDIA 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y10013 212 431 5127, 212 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org - Thursday January 7th, 9pm String Noise (Pauline Kim-Harris and Conrad Harrisduo) play Niblock, Margolis, and more. With live video by KatherineLiberovskaya. An evening of string, electronics and videocompositions and improvisations, including a world premiere for String Noise byAl Margolis, Niblock's "Unipolar Dance" (2013) composed for the duo,and a new visual score by Liberovskaya. - Friday January 8th, 9pm Sand Works. A program of three screen works from2015 by Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock all related to sand. Includingone world premiere and two NY premieres. World premiere of"Timepiece/Maize" (video: Liberovskaya / music: Niblock). NY premieresof "DH Sand-Boat" (video+sound: Niblock) and "Rake"(video+sound: Liberovskaya). - Sunday January 10th, 2 parts/acts: 7:30pm &9pm (come to both!) OptoSonic Tea presents: Gen Ken Montgomery's Super Group - audio-visualscored improvisation For the first time since it's creation in 2015 atMOMA/PS1 Allgold Printshop: Gen Ken Montgomery's Super Group. The Super Groupis a electro-acoustic and visual immersive project Montgomery conceived toexplore graphic notation. It features the incredible talent of artists andperformers he has been fortunate to know in the 35 years he has been involvedin the New York Experimental and Underground music scene. The Super Groupcontinues his work with the spatialization of sound that began with hisoctophonic concert compositions under the tutelage of Berlin composer ConradSchnitzler in the 1980s. He first presented these 8-channel electronic musicconcerts at Generator, the sound art gallery he founded in 1989 in NYC, and hascontinued to work with multi-channel sound since. Music/sound and film/video artists TBA. OptoSonic Tea is an on-going series of periodicmeetings or salons, started in 2006 by Katherine Liberovskaya and UrsulaScherrer, dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound whichfocuses primarily on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussionmeetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film,live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the differentways they can come into interaction with live audio. The live presentations arefollowed by a discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ The EI programs are supported by The David &Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the PhaedrusFoundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support ofGovernor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature And acouple of concerts by Phill Niblock, not at EI: January 9, Saturday, 7:30, Maurits Wouters'documentary of Phill Niblock at Iliya Fridman's gallery in Soho, and a concertby Phill Niblock, with the three newest pieces of music and recent videos A NY premier of First Out, with David First,guitar; V&LSG, with Lore Lixenberg, voice and Guy De Bievre, lap steelguitar; DreGliss, with Erik Drescher, glissando flute Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street, N Y NY 10013, between Varickand Hudson (646) 345-9831 http://www.fridmangallery.com January19, Tuesday 9:00pm, - LOCK iT DOWN, at The Sump, 1563 Decatur St, Ridgewood Queens, NY11385, curated by David Watson PhillNiblock music, playing Bag, for bagpipes, with David Watson, and other pieces;and maybe other acts

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Phill Niblock in the Czech Republic
by Phill Niblock 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Here is notice of a special thing, a re-visit to a retrospective whichoriginated in Lausanne Switzerland in 2013, with a press release Phill Brno CZ - Phill Niblock retrospective November 24 2015 - January24 2016, Brno House of Arts Museum, or, Dum Panu z Kunstatu, Galerie G99, Dominikánská 9, produced and curated by JozefCseres and Mathieu Copeland http://www.dumumeni.cz/en/vystava/exhibition_programme_of_the_brno_house_of… -- Works from 1961 until the present with a concert on November 23 in the Planetarium http://virtualni.hvezdarna.cz/ http://www.hisvoice.cz/cz/articles/detail/2775 (in Czech language, but with somepictures) Nov 27 - rAdioCUSTICA PremEdition - Czech Radio ladislav.zelezny(a)rozhlas.cz A radio premier of a new guitar piece by PhillNiblock, for David First, titled "First Out"; broadcast on the 27th andalso available online And a few other things until the end of theyear: Dec 5 - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - The NovasFrequencias Festival- Dec 1 to 8, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit on Dec 5 novasfrequencias.com Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours of Music andFilm on December 21, from 5pm to 11pm - the Winter Solstice (Roulette Intermedium,Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org) December 27, 9pm - Phill Niblock DVD presentation,a new DVD on the VonArchives label (Italy): T H I R, a film from 1971/72, ofmaterials from nature, and alternate musics, with notes by Abigail Nelson andJuan Carlos Kase; Carlos Casas, the producer, will be present At Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, NYNY A bit of press: "Workin’ for a title" Phill Niblock – a Retrospective Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno - CZ 25 11 2015 - 24 01 2016 Curated by Mathieu Copeland and Jozef Cseres For over 50 years, Phill Niblock has produceda multidisciplinary oeuvre through “Intermedia art”. Combining minimalistmusic, conceptual art, structuralist cinema, systematic or political art,Niblock strives to transform our perception and experience of time. Admittedly one of the greatest experimentalcomposers of our time, Phill Niblock initiates his career as a photographer.Born in 1933 in Anderson - Indiana, a jazz aficionado, he settles in New Yorkin 1958. Niblock starts photography in 1960 and for four years specialises inportraits of jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn and DukeEllington, whom he follows frequently to recording sessions and concerts. Inthe mid-60s, he shifts from photography to film, and encouraged by ElaineSummers, choreographer and founder of the “Experimental Intermedia”, he startsrealising films for dancers and choreographers at the Judson Church Theater, includingYvonne Rainer, Meredith Monk or Lucinda Childs. From 1968 on, Phill Niblockfocuses on music and composes his first pieces, which – according to the artist– must be listened to at loud volume in order to explore their overtones. Hepursues his film projects independently, including his monumental piece, The Movement of People Working, aseries of films lasting over 25 hours, realised between 1973 and 1991, in whichthe repetitive nature of work movements acts as a direct echo to his minimalistmusical compositions. Since the mid-60s, his analogue photographicwork explores New York’s architecture and urban planning. The sequencing andlayout of his images offer a mapping of the location and object photographed,such as abandoned buildings on Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island) (1966),the areas fallen into disuse in South Bronx (1979) or the facades of SoHoBroadway district (1988). Starting in 1966, Phill Niblock engages in areflexion about the projection of moving images through a series of films andslideshows. Produced between 1966 and 1969, Six Films, a series of short films with sound realised with 16mmfilm, heralds his experimental method through portraits of artists andmusicians such as Sun Ra and Max Neuhaus. His obsession for and celebration ofthe individual is again at the heart of his series of videos entitled Anecdotes from Childhood. Realisedbetween 1985 and 1992, this series explores the notion of memory and theexpression of a personal history through intimate portraits. Starting in 1968, the artist begins toexperiment a combination of his visual productions with his musical scores inorder to create architectural and environmental compositions with sound. The Environments series, recreated hereby the artist for the first time since it was last shown in 1972, extractsthrough images the reality of several environments, all the while generating adense and intense temporary environment of projected images, music and movementthroughout the museum space. Presented for the first time in its entirety,re-edited and remastered by the artist for the retrospective, the series offilms The Movement of People Working portrayhuman labour in its most elementary form. Filmed on 16mm colour film, and lateron video, in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, the Arctic,Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China and Japan – with more than 25 hoursof film footage, The Movement ofPeople Working focuses on work as a choreography of movements andgestures, dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of labourers’actions. Phill Niblock said of these that The Movement of People Working «came out of necessity because Iwas doing music performances with live dancers, and it was too cumbersome andexpensive to tour with so many people. So I started doing those films that Icould project when performing». These films are accompanied by the wholecorpus of Niblock’s slowly evolving, harmonically minimalist music, realisedbetween 1968 and 2011. The sound level of these compositions offers a visceralexperience of the long drones and inhabits the ringing, beating overtones.These scores, presented in the exhibition as photostats realized for hispersonal exhibition at London’s ICA in 1982, are the composer’s mixinginstructions and are not used by the musician during the performance. Whilemoving through space, he plays with the recorded material, sometimes creatingtonalities that coincide with the recording or, on the contrary, that producedissonances. The result is a constant movement of beat, rhythm and pulsation,as well as changing and continuous harmonics during his own motion throughspace. The layering of tones echoes the repetitions of the workers’ actions;the evolution of the films on each screen (changing throughout the day),combined with a program that randomly plays back different music pieces,results in a constant renewal of forms, continuously offering an exhibition ofnew juxtapositions of sound and image. The Movement ofPeople Working offers a strong social and political comment, ashighlighted by the title and represented by the closeness with the workers. Inthis, the series of film echoes the work of several filmmakers including JeanLuc Godard or Chris Marker who as from 1967 gave workers the cameras andinformed them of cinematic techniques so that they could actually make theirown films. In a fascinating turn of events, rather than doing fictional or puredocumentary film, some workers formed the Groupes Medvekine and decided to filmthemselves working. This retrospective was first shown in LausanneSwitzerland in 2013, co-produced by the Musée de l’Elysée and the CentreCircuit for Contemporary Art - Lausanne, and was curated by Mathieu Copeland.

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