EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-second Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-seventh Anniversary of theFounding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-seventh Anniversary of the 224Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-sixth Annual Festival withno fancy name, Part One (or A) PhillNiblock, curator December2015
Richard Garet and MV Carbon (New York) Sunday13
Carbon (sonic strings, reel to reel tape, projection, oscillations,synthesis, and magic mechanisms) and Garet (electromagnetic waves, treatedtape, cracked media, sonification of light, background noise, computerprocessing, and projections), will join efforts to encapsulate the audience inan electronically induced, altered atmosphere, their sonics and projection transmutewith an alchemical style http://mvcarbon.com -- http://www.richardgaret.com
Nao Nishihara(Japan) Tuesday15
Gives a solo performance shedding light on the basic aspect of a humanbeing in the 21st century, using several sound equipments and accompanied byself-made machines with a simple mechanism, he tries to prompt himself andaudience to reconsider the human, the music and the space http://nishiharanao.blogspot.jp/
Kato Hideki, John King and Ursula Scherrer (Japan/USA/Switzerland) Wednesday16
Amorphous III - Kato (electronics and bass) and King (electronics andviola) with Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) will present their firstcollaboration, a performative installation of sound and light in which temporaland spatial changes (or no changes) are determined in real time; the audienceis encouraged to walk around during the installation katohideki.comjohnkingmusic.comursulascherrer.com
NicCollins (Chicago) Thursday17
Salvaged:he celebrates the release of his first DVD (with 5.1 sound!) with a concert ofmusic for multiple computers; with performances by PLOrk (The Princeton LaptopOrchestra) and special guests. www.nicolascollins.com,http://plork.princeton.edu/index.php
George Kentros, Mattias Petersson, Susanne Skog (Sweden) Friday18
"there are no more four seasons," a duo comprised of violinistKentros and live electronic musician, Petersson - will perform a 40-minuterecreation of the Biber passacaglia, reBiber, for violin, Kaoss pad, andcomputer; Skog´s sonic artwork thisevening is a premiere, referring to signals from radio beacons that once wererelied upon to navigate a route across the Baltic Sea http://www.nomoremusic.sehttp://www.susanneskog.se
This project is supported by the Swedish ArtsCouncil and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Chris Mann (New York,Australia) Saturday19
Things i'd like to have said - for example, www.theuse.info
Phill NiblockDVD presentation Sunday27
A new DVD on the VonArchives label (Italy) by PhillNiblock: T H I R, a film from 1971/72, of materials from nature, and alternatemusics, with notes by Abigail Nelson and Juan Carlos Kase; Carlos Casas, theproducer, will be present
Our programs are supportedby The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund forMusic, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts withthe support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.organdwww.XIrecords.org 9pm
Phill Niblockat Roulette for Six Hours of Music and Film on December 21, from 5pm to 11pm -the Winter Solstice (Roulette Intermedium,Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org)
XI CDs arenow available for sale on the www.XIRecords.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);
ComingSoon: Releases By Ulrich Krieger (XI 137) And Leslie Ross (XI 138)
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; The Following Releases Are3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135
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.comwww.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.commad.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.comwww.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.nethttp://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-lautenhttps://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.organdwww.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.XIRecords.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
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
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.htmlwww.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
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-first Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street,The Forty-sixth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, theForty-sixth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, TheTwenty-Fifth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)
Phill Niblock, curator
December2014
Ákos Rózmann(1939-2005) - at 6PM Thursday4
His legendary work ”Twelve Stations,” recently relased on the MEGOlabel (7CDs) -
presented in full scale: 6 hours 33 minutes 34 seconds in livediffusion by EMS director
Mats Lindström; presented by EMS/Elektronmusikstudion as part ofSwedish Energies 2014 http://issueprojectroom.org/program/swedish-energies-2014-ems-50http://editionsmego.com/release/SOMA021http://www.elektronmusikstudion.se/
Al Margolis (If, Bwana)(New York) Monday8
with Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) and Claire ElizabethBarratt and Joe
Burgio (movement) perform Margolis's Nocrem - a series of worksbased
on Cesare Pavese's poem Nocturne; first performance with livevideo
and movement and live mix of prerecorded sound/music includingspoken
text, voices, percussion and trumpet www.ifbwana.comwww.pogus.com
Jaap Blonk (Netherlands) Wednesday10
Presents "YappiScope": his first full show with visualprojections;
it contains new videos, scores he wanders through, interactiveanimations,
live sound to silent films and other new multi-media work
http://www.jaapblonk.com/http://www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/yappiscope.html
Roger Kleier (NewYork) Friday12
Roger Kleier (electric guitar), Brian Chase (drums and percussion),with Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboard); a trio born in a torrential rainstormmeets again to mix equal parts
drama and static, rhythm and abstraction, in a parallel universebuilt out of guitars, electronically altered guitars, drums, electronicallyaltered drums, and noisy altered
sample world
https://soundcloud.com/roger-kleierhttp://chasebrian.com/http://www.anniegosfield.com/
Emanuel Dimas de MeloPimenta (Lisbon) Sunday14
Voyager 66 = a trip - Route 66 = romantic reference - 66 streets,New York City - Voyager's
trip - space probe - Sounds out from the Solar system - Sounds of a 1977's planet Earth,inside the probe, now about 20 billion km from Earth - 37 years ago - acabalistic number!
Also a trip inside each one of us - The concert includes the soundsof the audience - It is a party! It is a celebration! Like life. - Your sound - voice, movements, words,silence,
glasses... everything - Inside outside - Starting when you arrive,ending when you go to
sleep - in another dimension - What reminds me Suzuki when he said:"The right art is purposeless, aimless!". - In this way, Voyager 66 has no explanation - It simply is http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/voyager66
Carver Audain (New York) Monday 15
My current work is an ongoing articulation of my interest intemporality and transition - aural intersections and physicality; a new piececomprised of prepared audio and radio will be presented along with recent workintended for a unique listening environment, such as the
one provided at EI www.carveraudain.com
Jacques Diennet (Marseille) Wednesday17
Le Pic Saint Loup - Jacques Diennet: composition, MIDI keyboard; JoeMcPhee:
saxophone, pocket trumpet; Richard Dubelski: percussion & voice;René Bottlang: piano; Suzanne Joubert: text; Julie Demaison: production /distribution; it does not apply here a descriptive music, but the re-drawing ofthe image and imagination of the first emotional charge, catalyzing a place,harmonies and melodic undulations that load causes, its faults
and escarpments - as a relief of mind; playing stretching, longsequences, also built on an adversarial principle (a dialogue ) between the abrupt tone, almost harshpercussive instruments (piano, percussion), their connotation"primitive", the saxophone and the most sophisticated digitaltechnology instruments - Pic Saint Loup tries slipping spatio -temporal
and thus blurs confused elements of the universe, water, earth, andbring the viewer to live
a contemplative experience
Production - Ubris Studio, with the support of Marseille City;Region PACA; General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône
Seth Cluett (US) Thursday18
The artist and composer presents a new long-form work for amplifiedpaper, oscillators and prepared zither http://www.onelonelypixel.orghttp://www.lineimprint.com/editions/cd/line_067/
Maurits Wouters (Belgium)with a documentary on Phill Niblock Friday 19
Arcadia is a non-narrative, meditative 70 minute film; the filmcontains 7 shots; it has one subject: a lake (and his mystic aura) - Arcadia isa meditative exercise in watching; the film was made in the context of a PhD about domestic andperformative filmpractice; it is funded by Brussels Art Platform http://www.brusselsartsplatform.be/
Our programs are supportedby The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc,
the Aaron Copland Fund forMusic, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New
York State Council on theArts with the support of Governor Andrew
Cuomo and the New YorkState Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y10013
9pm 212 431 5127, 4316430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
And for the fourth year, Phill Niblock will be at Roulette inBrooklyn on Sunday December 21, the Winter Solstice, for six hours of Music andFilm/Video – 5pm to 11pm (newtimes)
ROULETTE,509 Atlantic Ave (and 3rd Ave), Brooklyn, (917)267-0363
www.roulette.org
A special offer, all tickets for this event are $10
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.Musicianhttps://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.comhttp://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.organdwww.XIrecords.org
A few - Events for Phill Niblock, January - March 2014
Jan 15 , Klub Katarakt Festival 37
A premier of a newpiece for three orchestras, commisioned by the Katarakt Festival
"Three Petals" for the ensembles - Nelly Boyd, Hamburg;Trio Scordatura +, Amsterdam; Neon Ensemble, Oslo
Three Petals is originally conceived to be performed by three ensemblesplus pre-recorded playback. The first performance (by the commissioners - Klub Katarakt Festival in Hamburg) will takeplace in separate but contiguous halls. The audience can only hear the completework by walking through the spaces. The piece could also be performed by threeseparated ensembles in one common space (e.g., a concert hall).
The first and third ensemble move up a semitonethrough the piece (one from F to F#, the other from C to C#), while the secondensemble remains « stationary » around A. This, theoretically, results in amove, over 24 minutes, from major to minor, albeit blurred by the microtonalcharacter of the totality.
D i e Ö f f n u ng d e s R a u m s
Kampnagel Hamburg
www.klubkatarakt.netwww.facebook.com/klub.katarakt
Jan 27 - A set in a concert at Club Transmediale, HebbelTheater 2, Berlin
Featuring a new performance and recording of the orchestrapiece - "Baobab" by the Zinc and CopperWorks brass quartet, plus aperformance of "Vlada" for viola d'amore, with Elisabeth Smalt; AshEli, with Eli Keszler, percussion
Jan 30 - Thursday - A concert by Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit - at KörberForum,
produced by Elbe Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany, www. elbphilharmonie.de
Feb 5, Wednesday - A concert at the Logos Foundation in GentBelgium, playing a piece realized for the Logos Robot Orchestra, "One BlueRose", Vlada BC, with Elisabeth Smalt, viola d'amore; and others,
www.logosfoundation.org
Feb 24 - 28, aseries of lectures and concerts by Phill Niblock at Dartmouth College, HanoverNH, with Carlos Casas and Neil Leonard + students from Berklee College ofMusic, Boston
March 25 - 30 - University of Maine, campuses at Orono andFarmington, a series of lectures and concerts, with Katherine Liberovskaya,Alan Margolis, Neil Leonard, produced by Gustavo Aguilar
Please respond to this email to - pniblock(a)compuserve.com
A january event to start the new year
EXPERIMENTAL I NTERMEDIA
Isaac Diego 9pm,Monday, January 6
Isaac Diego, Ferrer-Molinaand Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez (Spain); with Jan Rohwedder and Stine Hertel asRotterdam Presenta (Germany)
The three Spanish soundartists will propose an event incorporating audio and video projections,harmonic chant and musical performances created from everyday objects;Rotterdam Presenta will join them with their mobile, massive spatial object -they plant a room into the space that allows them to import and play withconcrete auditive and visual realities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WISYDEz70http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGf1Y8mfiGwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx--GgSEmeIhttp://vimeo.com/59757849
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
212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.organdwww.XIrecords.org
phill niblock
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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 no fancyname, Part One (or A)
Phill Niblock, curator
December 2013
Tom Chiu (New York) Wednesday11
Pingpong effects, angular amplitudes, registral retrogrades, timbral topology, andemotive extremes all mesh into one in the blender of sonic ideas; variedvelocities throughout; violin and other sound-producing accessories included www.fluxquartet.com
Michael Evans and Susan Hefner (New York) Friday13
RoundSquare: Escapees from the usual musician/dancer roles improviseduets moving objects through space - using a washing machine guts drum,wood, skins, aluminum bowls, the back of a dryer, random sheet metal, pots andpans, and various motorized homemade instruments, sound makes movementmake sound; video collaborator Nelson Simon www.michaelevanssounds.comwww.susanhefner.com
TOITURE (Canada) Saturday14
Toitureis a Montreal-based duo collaboration that presents a sound performance forbass clarinet, percussions and an installation of small motors fixed ondifferent instruments; between a composed and an improvised playing, their work creates an interaction between thehuman and motorized feel that melds together in a surprising orchestration; theywill invite the live video artist Katherine Liberovskaya as a guest to jointhem for the second half http://www.toituremusic.com/
Chris McIntyre (New York) Sunday15
Brooklyn-basedcomposer/performer Chris McIntyre brings together two current projects, UllU and TILT Brass, for a special evening of collaborative music making; thefirst half features UllU, the ecstatic noise duo project of McIntyre andpercussionist Dave Shively (Either/Or); for the second half, a 6-piececompliment of TILT Brass joins the duo to perform works composed by McIntyre incollaboration with Shively (featuring the latter's innovative use of drums andmetal as feedback instruments); UllU is Chris McIntyre (trombone, Nord Lead 2,percussion) and David Shively (feed back percussion, analog organ); TILT Brassat EI is Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold on trumpet, Jen Baker and Will Lang ontrombone, and James Rogers on contrabass trombone cmcintyre.com / tiltbrass.org/ullumusic.com
Lea Bertucci (New York) Monday16
Acomposer, improvisor and sound artist who works with the Bass Clarinet in anelectro-acoustic context; her preparation of the instrument hinges on sustainedtones created by pitched feedback from two mics placed inside the chamber ofthe horn; through the use of extended technique, she is able to create a denseyet diverse sonic palette with sounds generated from creative misuse of hertools; a harsh tape collage of prepared piano, vibraphone and metal objectsaugments the two improvisational compositions she will present this evening
http://brokendiorama.com/Sounds.htmlwww.soundcloud.com/lea-bertucciwww.youtube.com/watch?v=L9kVXHfPVDA
Bob Bellerue (New York) Tuesday17
Performs improvised free-noisewithin resonating/feedback systems, using most of the following: amplifiedwhisk, janky wind organ, ultra-slack'd hollow body guitar, buzina, apito,gambuh suling, voice, radio, cassette tape, Supercollider programming, andelectronics bobbellerue.net
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.organdwww.XIrecords.org
And for the third year, Phill Niblock will be at Roulette inBrooklyn on Wednesday December 21, the Winter Solstice, for six hours of Music andFilm/Video – 6pm to 12am
ROULETTE,509 Atlantic Ave (and 3rd Ave), Brooklyn,(917) 267-0363
www.roulette.org
A special offer, alltickets for this event are $10
I have been remiss insending this current events out.
But this festival in Koln(Cologne), produced by Georg Dietzler, prompts me to do it.
And the issue of a newdouble CD on Touch.
Phill Niblock
Current Events
"Touch Five", a new double CD on Touch, is published onOctober 14.
Music by Phill Niblock
CD One:
FeedCorn Ear - Arne Deforce, cello (2012, 29:48)
A Cage of Stars - Rhodri Davies, electric harp (2012,28:18)
CD Two:
Two Lips - Zwerm Guitar Quartet (2011, 23 minutes)
Two Lips - Dither Guitar Quartet (2011, 23 minutes)
Two Lips - Coh Da Guitar Quartet (2011, 23 minutes)
(available from Touch, Metamkine Fr andForcedExposure.com US)
Sept 28 - 30, Anthology Film Archives, NY - environmentsfilms, etc.
at anthology, i'll show the three screens films from twoof the Environments series - Hundred Mile Radius and Ten Hundred Inch Radii, onthe 28. not shown since 1970 and 1972. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
October 5 - Eybeam (540 W 21st St. New York, NY 1001; 9pm)
Daniel Neumann, producer. On the occasion of renowned experimental composer andfilmmaker, Phill Niblock's 80th birthday, CT-SWaM (Contemporary Temporary SoundWorks and Music), Eyebeam’s late night concert series, presents the artist'sintermedia works in three constellations. Including the world premier of a newpiece for two violins performed by Pauline Kim and Conrad Harris, and livevideo dedicated to and performed by Katherine Liberovskaya. Theperformances will include:World premiere of UNIPOLAR DANCE (an anagram ofPauline Conrad). Music by Phill Niblock, Live Video by KatherineLiberovskaya. This piece is dedicated to Katherine Liberovskaya. Livesound collage in a duo with Katherine Liberovskaya on live video. And A CAGE OFSTARS with Rhodri Davies, electric harp (28 minutes), and TWO LIPS, a versionwith the Coh Da guitar quartet (Robert Poss and David First play live in thisconcert; Susan Stenger, Seth Joselalso on the recording) (23 minutes) and the premiere of the new video transferof the film BRASIL83. These pieces are to be published on a new double CDon Touch - Touch Five, on October 14 2013, at the Kontraste Festival in KremsAustria.
October 6 - Silent Barn, Brooklyn, with Bob Bellerue
Silent Bomb :: experimental music events at Silent Barn,produced by the folks who bring you Ende Tymes Fest
Phill Niblock
Katherine Liberovskaya + Al Margolis + Leslie Ross
Marcia Bassett + Barry Weisblat
Bob Bellerue + Philip White + Jeff Donaldson
$7 Oct 6 8pm doors, 9pm music
Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave J/M Myrtle Broadway
https://www.facebook.com/events/862356473851913/876496802437880/
Oct 10 , Riga Latvia , Skanu Mez and CTM (Berlin)collaboration - PN, Stephan Mathieu, KTL www.skanumezs.lv/
Oct 13 (arrive 11th) - Kontraste Festival, Krems Austria- guest-curated by the sonic acts team from amsterdam., with Thomas Ankersmit
It's also a Touch artists event, and the new PN DoubleCD "Touch Five" will be released on October 14 www.kontraste.at
October 25 @ Beirut Art Center on the opening day of theDream Machine Festival, Beirut Lebanon, with Katherine Liberovskaya and ThomasAnkersmit, and Magda Mayas playing N+M http://www.beirut.com/l/28890
October 27 - Katherine Liberovskaya and Al Margolisopening at the EI house in Gent Belgium www.experimentalintermedia.be
Oct 17 - Nov 10 , Koln PN festival, Georg Dietzler,producer; this festival is long, with many events www.gerngesehen.de
November15 - Arnolfini,Bristol, UK - Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 18 - Huddersfield Music Festival, Phill Niblock andThomas Ankersmit
Nov 20 -Manca Festival, Villa Arson, Nice Fr, with Thomas Ankersmit
November23 - Audio ArtFestival, Krakow, Poland, with Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 24 - Wroclaw (not confirmed)
Nov 26 - Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden,with Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 29, 30 - Mexx, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (PNinstallation)
other events of my work, but where i will not bepresent:
Nuit Blanche, Paris France
La Maison des Métallos in the Nuit Blanche, Paris Fr, October 52013
A twelve hour exhibition of the Movement of People Working filmsand music by Phill Niblock (six images and immersive sound). 7pm to 7am
Meudrone
Two huge videos, 30 hours of sound,two huge red sofas in André Bloc’s Habitacle, Meudon. An original space wherethe galerist Natalie Seroussi presents an unique multimedia performance of theworld famous artist, Phill Niblock : Meudrone THIR. The spectator isdeeply immersed in a both visual and sonorous experience. Creating a place ofmeditation.
These works, realizedespecially for this exhibition space by Phill Niblock, are directly inspired bythe flora surrounding the site, and demonstrate the artist capacity to use andto mix music, videos and photography.
Born in Indiana in 1933,Phill Niblock, since the middle of the sixties, is specialized in therealization of multimedia performances. Mostly known for his minimalistcompositor talents, he presents simultaneously during his concerts moviesshowing the movement of working persons or abstract pictures.
Phill Niblock is the director ofthe Experimental Intermedia Foundation since 1985. During his carreer, herealized more than 1000 performances, was the conservator of the novative XIRecords label, and launched a second EI Space in Ghent, Belgium.
This installation on Sundayafternoons, can be visited by appointement during the year. To contact theGalerie Natalie Seroussi :
evevements-seroussi(a)wanadoo.fr
I wrote a short preview of your Eyebeam show in the WallStreet Journal today (Oct 2), in print in the section "Greater NewYork" and online here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303918804579109702848623952.h…
Andy Battaglia www.andybattaglia.com andy.battaglia(a)gmail.com