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.com www.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.html www.soundcloud.com/lea-bertucci www.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.org andwww.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