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