EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI
performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of
Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street
loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival with no fancy
name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock,
curator March 2019
Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch
and Rebekkah Palov A Video Event Monday
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Carrier
Band: Bode, Deutsch and Palov, with historical recordings by Harald
Bode,1949-1986, and Pauline Oliveros,1970-2002; the video "Uber
Organ" was made at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY and at
Peer Bode's home studio on his hand-built, custom Dave Jones Design, digital
frame buffer - experimental video instrument; much as life moves forward and
back, so do the frames of the video frame buffer with its 48 frame
digital-memory-chamber used for looking and considering nearly fifty years of
Harald Bode's notebooks; spanning the years 1937 to 1986, the notebooks of
pioneering electronic instrument designer Harald Bode are spaces where a new
thinking about sound and future electronic instruments evolved and percolated.;
a number of new videos as well as "Uber Organ" will be accompanied by
the live electroacoustic music of Carrier Band with Peer Bode performing
vocoder/language, Rebekkah Palov DJ and real-time processed samples from
the Harald Bode Archive and Andrew Deutsch with live mix featuring the
unpublished recordings of Pauline Oliveros peerbode.com; http://www.art-into-life.com/product-list/188;
https://vimeo.com/andrewdeutsch;
rebekkahpalov.us https://andrewdeutschmagicif.bandcamp.com/releases
Chuck Bettis and Dave Grant
(New York)
Tuesday 12
SNAKE
UNION is Chuck Bettis (electronics) & David Grant (modular synth). a duo
that works in improvisational rhythmic explorations that match analog synths
and digital sound processing, modular wires and max patches. By turns
psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed out, the sequenced collides with the freeform
as these two soundmakers push into new realms With live video projections by
Katherine Liberovskaya https://snakeunion.bandcamp.com http://chuckbettis.com
James Fei (Oakland) and Kato
Hideki (New York)
Wednesday 13
James
(analog electronics) and Kato (bass, electronics) have been working together
since 2002; with a shared interest in translating studio recording techniques
to live performance and vice versa, the duo’s release Sieves was created with
multiple processes where live electronic improvisations were subjected to
radical mixing and reverberation in an echo chamber; their performance practice
continued to shift over the years through the investigation of feedback,
speaker-room interaction and analog circuitry www.jamesfei.com
www.katohideki.com
Shalom Gorewitz (New Jersey) A Video Event Thursday 14
The
poet Wallace Stevens said that art should be abstract, change, and give
pleasure; with the addition of risk, this describes recent work by pioneer
video artist Shalom Gorewitz; the screening will include Gorewitz’ infamous
strip tease to the national anthem from the early 1970s; a new 360 video Goat’s
Head recorded on one of the most dangerous beaches in California; DTTV
(dystrumpia television) which explores the causes and possible antidotes for
this psycho-traumatic disorder; and collaborations with the poet Rachel Hadas;
one of their projects, Elegy for Stivenson Magloire, celebrates the work of an
extraordinary Haitian artist Gorewitz met in Port au Prince in 1992 who was
assassinated shortly after; Arcade Fire member Richard Parry gave permission to
use his music for the soundtrack http://www.gorewitz.com
Shelly Silver (New
York) A Video
Event Friday 15
In
Shelly Silver’s frog spider hand horse house, the effort of all things to keep
existing has been observed by someone with a camera who seems, as far as
personality goes, to be no one; this acutely neutral watcher—curious and
patient, pushing very close and holding steady there registers the
super-focused effort of all creatures toward the expression of vitality, the
stubborn going-on in time of particularly shaped and textured bodies; the first
in Silver’s trilogy on our current moment of destabilization, where the animal,
vegetable and mineral are jolting into reconfiguration; animals and children
are being placed on the frontline of this change and they are the soft and hard
focus of frog spider hand horse house
Bull.Miletic (Oslo) A Video
Event Sunday 17
PROXISTANT
VISION – a selection of three videos from the body of work created along
Bull.Miletic’s ongoing artistic research project focused on the proliferation
of new aerial moving imaging technologies and the emergence of a visual
modality they call proxistance; the videos are single-channel versions of the
three multi-media artworks realized in collaboration with Holly L. Aaron, Mark
Boswell, Tom Gunning, Danielle Jorgens, Christopher Myers, Jan C. Schacher and
Phill Niblock, whose music features in one of the videos; the production of the
artworks was generously supported by Arts Council Norway, Arts Research Center
and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society at University of
California, Berkeley, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Department of Media and Communication at University of Oslo, and Department of
Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago http://bull.miletic.info
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 15
- curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
A Video Event
Monday
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Fifteen
years! seems like the first edition was only yesterday... for this 15th
edition Screen Compositions presents as every year a collection of
intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program
of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between
video/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended for
single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring
collaborations by: Miah Artola / Hitomi Honda; Pip Chodorov / Charlemagne
Palestine; Kostas Chondros / Giovanni Lami; Michael Delia / Al Margolis; Andrew
Demirjian / Matthew Gantt; Richard Garet / Michael Waller; Phill Niblock /
William Hooker; Anna Pasztor / Žibuoklė Martinaitytė; Andrea Saggiomo
aka 70fps. / SEC_ aka Mimmo Napolitano; Guillaume
Vallée / Data
Slum (Martin Rodriguez & Leon Louder)
Biliana Voutchkova and Al
Margolis (If Bwana) (Berlin, New York) Tuesday 19
a
first encounter of bi and al will occur publicly tonight; a phenomena of
reaching far beyond the trivia of a first meeting, they will go straight (and
deeply) into a musical communication based on devotion, long experience and
trust; using strings, reeds, objects, contact mics (or all of the above), listening,
responding, conversing; Al describes his most recent work as "quiet
wall" or the search for the sounds between: bi's work focuses on detail
and slowly developing textures, but still allowing unexpected surprises; they'll
merge with the flow of the current moment, or perhaps with the edge of nothing www.bilianavoutchkova.net http://ifbwana.bandcamp.com/
Catherine Lamb and Phill Niblock Thursday
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Ensemble
neoN visits Experimental Intermedia on the occasion of the release of the
group's new album NEON: NIBLOCK/LAMB on Hubro; in addition to Niblock's Two Tea
Roses, the group will give the American premiere of Catherine Lamb's Parallaxis
Forma; Ensemble neoN is a Norwegian contemporary music group working
across artistic forms, collaborating with visual artists and performers such
as Susanna, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Johannes Kreidler, Oren Ambarchi,
Marina Rosenfeld, Jan St. Werner; neoN strives to listen to a world that is
constantly changing. It is this attitude that keeps challenging and expanding
the ensemble’s musical language With the friendly support of stikk.no ensembleneon.no
Our programs are supported by The David
& Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the
Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N
Y 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and
www.XIrecords.org 9pm
XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI
Records.org website:
Phill Niblock - Four
Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying
Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - Unforeseen Events (XI
105); Tom Johnson - Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach - Celestial Fires
(XI 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music (XI
109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music By Phill
Niblock (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 With
Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI 117); Annea
Lockwood/Ruth Anderson - Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Mort
(XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock -
YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen - Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom
Johnson - The Chord Catalogue (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); Alan Licht - A New York
Minute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - The
Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky -
Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael
J. Schumacher - Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First –
Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller
– The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph
- Electroacoustic
Works (XI 138); Amnon
Wolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digital only release;
Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross – drop by drop,
suddenly (XI 141) Coming Soon: Tom Chiu (XI 142)
The Following Releases
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, XI 138; XI 140; XI 141 The Following
Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135