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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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EI December 2015, concerts
by Phill Niblock 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

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EI March 2015
by Phill Niblock 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-firstAnniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-sixthAnniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-sixthAnniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-fifthAnnual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (orB) PhillNiblock, curator March 2015 JoeDiebes (New York) Saturday7 Diebes and members of the BOTCH ensemble perform scenes and studies thatconstitute the next illogical steps in the newly minted genre of broken-wordopera http://vimeo.com/47378201 AndrewLafkas (New York) Sunday8 Two Paths with Active Shadows Under Three Moons and Surveillance (Third Phase); an ongoing ensemble piece organized by Andrew Lafkas;developed and realized by Rick Brown, Todd Capp, Sandy Gordon, Sean Meehan,Leif Sundstrom, Marcia Bassett, Barry Weisblat, Gill Arno, Wolfgang Gil, DanielNeumann, Ben Owen, Patrick Holmes, Kurt Ralske, Che Chen, Laura Ortman, MichaelBullock, and Andrew Lafkas http://www.sacredrealism.org/andrewlafkas/index.html Volkmar Klien (Austria) Monday9 Variations in Air Pressure - Weiping Lin, violin; Volkmar Klien,composition, electronics; music - to all intents and purposes - is a ratherephemeral affair; mere changes in air pressure lacking meteorologicalsignificance; etymology of the German words 'Rausch' (inebriation) and'Rauschen' (noise, as in: white noise) reveals an intricate linkage betweenconcepts of acoustic noise, intoxication, and intense pleasure; nnd it is notwithout reason that the meanings of these words connect www.volkmarklien.com www.weipinglin.com Anna Homler and MichaelDelia (LA and NY,Prague) Wednesday11 Idiosyncratic improvisers, Anna Homler sings in alternative languagesand plays toys and devices, while Michael Delia plays an array of homemadeinstruments and sound sculptures; together with special guests AlMargolis (live electronics, laptop and acoustic) and Katherine Liberovskya(improvised live video) they will create a unique bricolage evening of soundand video www.annahomler.com mad.node9.org Cecilia Lopez (Argentina) and Carrie Schneider (New York) Thursday12 The collaborators will present newworks along with Burning House (2013), a film installation with score composedand performed by Lopez´s Música Mecánica para Chapas and with imageby Schneider; Música Mecánica para Chapas is a device that consistsof amplified sheets of metal played by a variable number of performers;these large sheets of stainless steel, rigged with piezoelectric contactmicrophones, are used as resonant materials to generate acoustic feedback andfilter sound; as a gesture against entropy, over the course of two and halfyears, Schneider built a dozen identical wooden houses on an island in themiddle of a lake in rural Wisconsin, and burned each of them down, all whilefilming from the same vantage point on land www.cecilia-lopez.com www.carrieschneider.net Madelon Hooykaas(Netherlands) A Video Event Friday13 This evening will consist of live drawing in combination with videoprojection and sound of several new works; the second part will be a dualscreen piece of my newest project about blind female shamans in Japan; my workdeals with the relation between nature, spirituality and the invisible http://www.madelonhooykaas.net http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelon_Hooykaas Lovid(New York) A Video Event Sunday 15 Will perform with a combination of handmade analog and digitalinstruments; the performance will center on an audiovisual composition wherethe video and sound are translated from the same electric signal; LoVid's workexplores the translation of the electric signal into visible and audiblecompositions; in recent works, they have been expanding their practice to thinkof the space of the performance, as well as the space between performers andaudiences, as part of the instrument itself; for this performance LoVid willincorporate infrared LED light-beams that will be used to trigger video andsound clips; they will be joined by an ensemble of MFA in Sound-Art studentsfrom Columbia University www.lovid.org SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 11,curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Monday 16 The eleventh edition of Screen Compositions is as ever a collection ofintersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen worksrepresenting dynamic two-way collaborations between video/film artists andsound/music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with nolive or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Gill Arno / Gudinni Cortina + Rolando Hernandez; Sten Backman / DanielRozenhall; Lea Bertucci / CarverAudain; Jean Bourbonnais / Blake Hargreaves + Katherine Kline (a.k.a.Dreamcatcher); Jeff Donaldson / Bob Bellerue; Phill Niblock / Rhodri Davies;Sabrina Ratte / Roger Tellier-Craig; Billy Roisz / Toshimaru Nakamura; Sofiavon Bustorff / Guy de Bievre Michael Vincent Waller (New York) and Phill Niblock (NewYork) Wednesday 18 A dual record release event: The South Shore on XI Records // Brazil 84 on Mode Records,Double-Release Party; MichaelVincent Waller's debut full-length album release with chamber works from thelast four years; this 2-CD release features album art photography by PhillNiblock, and liner notes by "Blue" Gene Tyranny; performances for theevening will include string quartet, trio, viola and piano duo, and cellosolos; with Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim-Harris, Christine Kim, Daniel Panner,and Marija Illic http://michaelvincentwaller.com A DVD of film to video and music, on Mode Records, Brazil 84 is from Niblock’sseries “The Movement of People Working;” with a booklet of essays by Niblock,the late Bob Gilmore (music), Carlos Casas (film) and Johan Vandermaelen (therecordings) http://moderecords.com/catalog/273-niblock.html Memorialfor Elaine Summers (1925 - 2014) Friday 20 Video / film co-curated by Taketo Shimada andPhill Niblock - Three finished film pieces, and screening of video clips of notwell known work; People may speak of Elaine, if they like ElodieLauten (1950 - 2014) and John Scherman Saturday21 A Wake for composer Elodie Lauten andsongwriter/guitarist John Scherman (founding members of Arthur's Landing, whoworked with Arthur Russell) - curated by Steven Hall and Ernie Brooks https://soundcloud.com/elodie-lauten https://soundcloud.com/arthurs-landing 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 AndrewCuomo 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 Elaine Summers (1925 - 2014) was the founder of ExperimentalIntermedia in 1968 (officially, The Elaine Summers Experimental IntermediaFoundation); there will be a memorial for her at Judson Memorial Church, 55Washington Square South, New York, on February 28, from 6 - 10pm XI CDs are now available for saleon the www.XI Records.org website Phill Niblock - Four FullFlutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying VegetablesOf The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); TomJohnson - Music For 88 (Xi 106); Mary Jane Leach - Celestial Fires (Xi 107); FastForward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music (XI 109); Jackson MacLow - Open Secrets (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); ElianeRadigue - 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 (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); Coming Soon: Releases ByUlrich Krieger (XI 137) And Leslie Ross (XI 138) The Following Releases Are2 Cds For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136; The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135

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phill niblock in paris, not april
by Phill Niblock 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Sorry about all these sudden and simultaneous emails But I haven't done one in quite a while This one is about two events in Paris And one of them will be on the net, a radio broadcast on FranceMusique, maybe with me speaking french in some else's voice On Tuesday November 25, at 10:30 at night in Europe, but 4:30 in theafternoon in EST, and NY It may also be archived The other is a three hour concert at Centre Pompidou In the basement, in the big theater, three video images and livemusicians 25 November 2014, at 22h30, radio program onFrance Musique, Paris - Des Aventures Sonores Phill Niblock – interview and live in the studio On air and streaming http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/des-aventures-sonores/2014-2015/phill-… 29 November 2014, at 19h00 (3 hour concert), Grande salle - Centre Pompidou, Paris Phill Niblock - The Movement Of People Working, films/video With his music featuring Kasper Toeplitz and Deborah Walker https://www.centrepompidou.fr I'm off to the Radio France studios to record the program, on Mondayafternoon Other recent things in Europe: Oktober 26 (Sunday) 2014, 20:00hr Kunsthalle Basel,Basel Ch 20:00 Andrea Parkins (Sound-ist Fluxus Drone Experimentation) 21:00 Alan Licht (Guitar, Drones) 22:00 Phill Niblock (Soundstreams, Drones, Moving Images) Projekt: Klappfon / Rumort http://transborder.info/events/andrea-parkins-us-phill-niblock-us-alan-lich… Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Expozice Nove Hudby (Festival) OpeningConcert Besedni dum -  Concert Hall, Brno CZ, 7:00 PM 27th Exposition Of New Music HENRYK MIKOŁAJ GÓRECKI Concerto for harpsichord (or piano) andorchestra, op. 40 (version for piano), PHILIP GLASS Concerto for harpsichordand orchestra (Czech premiere); JUSTĖ JANULYTĖ Elongation of Nights, PHILLNIBLOCK #9 (Number Nine) world premier (composer's personal presence) Sára Medková (piano), Martin Hroch (harpsichord), Brno PhilharmonicOrchestra, Maciej Tworek (conductor) www.filharmonie-brno.cz Wien Modern Festival, at Alte Schmiede I, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Wien, Austria November 1 (Saturday) 2014, 17:00 Admission free Eine Kooperation von WIEN MODERN und der Alten Schmiede Phill Niblock, Music and Film/Video Martin Zrost, soprano saxophone and guitar http://www.wienmodern.at/Home/Event?event-id=000000e9h58h000ee450 November 8 - Slow Festival - Concertgebouw, Brugge Belgium, 1500hr Phill Niblock, the Movement of People Working films, three cellopieces for Arne Deforce, a set by Thomas Ankersmit (and many other sets that day) http://www.concertgebouw.be November 16, Sunday, Theater Rampe, Filderstrasse 47, 70180 Stuttgart, in cooperationwith SWR2 1700 - Thomas Ankersmit, 1800 - Phill Niblock http://theaterrampe.de/ November18, 14:30 A lecture by Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit about their work at theExperimental Lab of the Institute for Music and Media, Georg-Glock-Straße 15,D-40474 Duesseldorf, Germany http://musikundmedien.net November 19, 21hr, Approximation Festival, at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf Phill Niblock and Thomas Anksersmit http://www.approximation-festival.de

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Events in New York for Phill Niblock in December
by Phill Niblock 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

A couple of events in New York for Phill Niblock in December December 7, Sunday, 6pm, Entertaining Science, at The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street,  NewYork, NY 10014  SO YOU THINK YOU’VE HEARD IT ALL? The brain does marvelous things with the variety of sensory “inputs”entering it – light, sound, touch. This program pairs a sage of musicaland film “minimalism” who specializes in pieces with very extended pitches,Phill Niblock, with the help of David Watson, bagpipes, and with a young masterof the way acoustic signals are processed in the brain, Nima Mesgarani fromColumbia’s Electrical Engineering Department to lead you to think about soundin unusual ways. Phill’s music is an exploration of sound textures created invery dense, often atonal tunings. Listen, and you’ll hear things that youcannot imagine could have been heard. Nima designs experiments probing how ourbrain hears speech, and thinks about interfacing brain signals to machines. Helikes to invert things, so he will tell us what a ferret hears when you speakto it. Sounds have textures, they overlay and interlace. And the braindoes things with them that you could not imagine! http://corneliastreetcafe.com/ https://corneliastreetcafe.wordpress.com/entertaining-science/ http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~nima/web/Home.html www.experimentalintermedia.org December 21, Sunday, from5pm until 11pm, the Winter Solstice, six hours of Phill Niblock At Roulette in Brooklyn, 509 Atlantic Ave at ThirdAve Music and Film / Video www.roulette.org I am happy to announce the release of a newDVD on the Mode label (Mode 273) Brazil84,the film, with three pieces for orchestra, as music A filmfrom the Movement of People Working series, and recently transferred from 16mmfilm to video TheMusic: “ThreeOrchids,” for three orchestras – Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble, conducted byPetr Kotik, Merkin Hall, NYC, live recording by Paul Geluso, June 3 2004 “Tow byTom,” for two orchestras – Trio Scordatura (Amsterdam) and the Nelly BoydEnsemble (Hamburg), mixed / multitrack recordings of the two ensembles, one onthe left channel, the other on the right. Trio Scordatura (Alfrun Schmid,voice; Elisabeth Smalt, viola, Bob Gilmore, synth); Nelly Boyd (Jens Roehm,synth [single analog oscillator, Dave Smith Evolver]; Jan Feddersen, e-bowguitar; Peter Imig, violin; Robert Engelbrecht, cello) TrioScordatura recorded by Johan Vandermaelen at Amplus, Aaigem, Belgium, March 12008; Nelly Boydrecorded by Jens Roehm and Julia Berg in the Christianskirche, Hamburg, March 9 2009 “ThreeOrchids,” – Trio Scordatura plus one, mixed / multitrack recording. TrioScordatura (Alfrun Schmid, voice; Elisabeth Smalt, viola; Bob Gilmore,keyboard) with Guy De Bièvre, dobro. played with e-bow; Recorded by JohanVandermaelen at Amplus, Aaigem, Belgium, August 13-14 2007 Mixingand mastering by Johan Vandermaelen of both the 5.1 surround sound and thestereo tracks. It is available from forcedexposure.com (US) and frommetamkine.com (France) and elsewhere

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Exp Intermedia December Concert Series
by Phill Niblock 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

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Experimental Intermedia March concert series, NYC
by Phill Niblock 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

E XPERIMENTAL I NTERMEDIA The Fortieth Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-fifth Anniversary of the Foundingof Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-fifth Anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet loft, and, not least, The Twenty-fourth Annual Festival with nofancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator March 2014 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: Pedro Sousa (Portugal) Friday 7 A Songfor True: Performance for Plural Larynx: "Using as an inspiration -Jerry True, an American saxophonist who used an air compressor to be able toplay saxophone following a throat cancer operation, this composition aims atthe experimentation of the saxophone as an unusual medium for the creation ofdrone music - exploring the microtonal, reflective and acoustic properties ordifferences that are characteristic of these woodwind instruments http://www.facebook.com/Pedro.Sousa.Musician https://soundcloud.com/pedro-sousa-a-carajillo Benjamin Thigpen and Stefano Bassanese (USA/Italy/France) Sunday9 Les Frères Bobine - Paris-basedelectroacoustic composers working regularly at GRM and fascinated by electromagnetismand gesturality; they collaborate on sonic research experiments and performinstant collective compositions based on newly-invented instruments and (silent)magnetic feedback loops; they will perform Les Aimants by Stefano Bassanese, malfunction30931 by Benjamin Thigpen, and a new collective work,Induction http://www.benjaminthigpen.net; http://www.stefanobassanese.eu/ https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-thigpen/sets; https://soundcloud.com/user4482641 Sarah Halpern (New York) A Video Presentation Monday10 Aseries of collages made with printed text, found images and discarded film,mounted onto 35mm leader and projected frame by frame through a film stripprojector; each of these new compositions presents the viewer with suggestivelanguage and imagery, as an experiment in the perception of meaning sarahhalpern.com MaricaRadojčić Prešić (Belgrade, Serbia) A Video Presentation Tuesday11 BRANCHING: - DIGITAL AMBIENT:diffracted projections of 3D animations and video, digital sound, soundeffects; the artist wasinspired by the tree; expertsand public have found the project as a kind of mathematical poetic ambience throughwhich public can walk - the tree is one of the oldest symbols with layers ofmeanings developed through history; old meanings culminated in the twentiethcentury with the mathematical theory oftrees; and the branchingitself, so much more powerful than the human step-by-step traveling through thecrags of its own existence, has a power of growing-up, but also the power ofdisappearance – fatal power of Death http://youtu.be/Hi82udn6Nr4,http://youtu.be/1e8p3D4JNdU Marco Donnarumma (UK) Wednesday 12 BiophysicalMusic: This concert includes two music performances, Music for Flesh II andOminous both for the Xth Sense, a biophysical musical instrument I perform withsince 4 years; in these pieces I create music by literally composing in realtime the sounds emitted by my body muscular tissues; by performing physical,whole-body gestures, muscle sounds are produced by my limbs, amplified, livesampled, and diffused through loudspeakers; the natural sound of my flesh andits virtual counterpart blend together into an unstable sonic object; this iswhat I call biophysical music, music that is a joint result of bioacoustic bodymechanisms and physical performance http://marcodonnarumma.com http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/xth-sense/ HallveigAgustsdottir (Belgium, Iceland) Thursday13 FromGraphic Score To Sound Drawing - herperformances are purified reflections on sound and image, finding their rootsin the 'graphic score' as it started to appear in the 1950s in the works ofcomposers such as J. Cage, E. Brown, and M. Feldman; each drawing leads towardsand is at the same time the immediate result of a new composition; theimprovised communication between artist, computer and musician creates anenvironment where sound and image combine and conduct each other - what remainsis a witness; a drawing / a video composition capturing the gesture of drawing,melody and rhythm; with David Watson, collaboration http://www.hallveiggkagustsdottir.com/ SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 10 curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Saturday22 AVideo Presentation Screen Compositionscelebrates its 10th edition this year! as always a collection of intersectionsof moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamictwo-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artistsspecifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performancecomponent; featuring collaborations by: Carlos Casas / Ghedalia Tazartes;Bradley Eros / Rachael Guma; Kit Fitzgerald / Peter Gordon; Richard Garet /Wolfgang Gil; Sarah Halpern / Matt Wellins; Victoria Keddie / Scott Kiernan;Hedya Klein / Bulbul; Carole Kim / Toshimaru Nakamura + Lewis Keller; KatherineLiberovskaya / Al Margolis (If,Bwana); Marie Verry / Yvan Etienne Our programs are supported by the NewYork State Council on the Arts, The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc,the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation 224 Centre Street at Grand, ThirdFloor, N Y 10013 9pm 212 431 5127, 4316430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org

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