EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-first
Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-sixth
Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-sixth
Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-fifth
Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or
B) Phill
Niblock, curator
March 2015
Joe
Diebes (New York) Saturday
7
Diebes and members of the BOTCH ensemble perform scenes and studies that
constitute the next illogical steps in the newly minted genre of broken-word
opera
Andrew
Lafkas (New York) Sunday
8
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, Daniel
Neumann, Ben Owen, Patrick Holmes, Kurt Ralske, Che Chen, Laura Ortman, Michael
Bullock, and Andrew Lafkas
Volkmar Klien (Austria) Monday
9
Variations in Air Pressure - Weiping Lin, violin; Volkmar Klien,
composition, electronics; music - to all intents and purposes - is a rather
ephemeral affair; mere changes in air pressure lacking meteorological
significance; etymology of the German words 'Rausch' (inebriation) and
'Rauschen' (noise, as in: white noise) reveals an intricate linkage between
concepts of acoustic noise, intoxication, and intense pleasure; nnd it is not
without reason that the meanings of these words connect www.volkmarklien.com www.weipinglin.com
Anna Homler and Michael
Delia (LA and NY,Prague) Wednesday
11
Idiosyncratic improvisers, Anna Homler sings in alternative languages
and plays toys and devices, while Michael Delia plays an array of homemade
instruments and sound sculptures; together with special guests Al
Margolis (live electronics, laptop and acoustic) and Katherine Liberovskya
(improvised live video) they will create a unique bricolage evening of sound
and video
www.annahomler.com mad.node9.org
Cecilia Lopez (Argentina) and Carrie Schneider (New York) Thursday
12
The collaborators will present new
works along with Burning House (2013), a film installation with score composed
and performed by Lopez´s Música Mecánica para Chapas and with image
by Schneider; Música Mecánica para Chapas is a device that consists
of amplified sheets of metal played by a variable number of performers;
these large sheets of stainless steel, rigged with piezoelectric contact
microphones, are used as resonant materials to generate acoustic feedback and
filter sound; as a gesture against entropy, over the course of two and half
years, Schneider built a dozen identical wooden houses on an island in the
middle of a lake in rural Wisconsin, and burned each of them down, all while
filming from the same vantage point on land www.cecilia-lopez.com www.carrieschneider.net
Madelon Hooykaas
(Netherlands) A Video Event Friday
13
This evening will consist of live drawing in combination with video
projection and sound of several new works; the second part will be a dual
screen piece of my newest project about blind female shamans in Japan; my work
deals with the relation between nature, spirituality and the invisible http://www.madelonhooykaas.net
Lovid
(New York) A Video Event Sunday 15
Will perform with a combination of handmade analog and digital
instruments; the performance will center on an audiovisual composition where
the video and sound are translated from the same electric signal; LoVid's work
explores the translation of the electric signal into visible and audible
compositions; in recent works, they have been expanding their practice to think
of the space of the performance, as well as the space between performers and
audiences, as part of the instrument itself; for this performance LoVid will
incorporate infrared LED light-beams that will be used to trigger video and
sound clips; they will be joined by an ensemble of MFA in Sound-Art students
from 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 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:
Gill Arno / Gudinni Cortina + Rolando Hernandez; Sten Backman / Daniel
Rozenhall; Lea Bertucci / Carver
Audain; 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; Sofia
von Bustorff / Guy de Bievre
Michael Vincent Waller (New York) and Phill Niblock (New
York) Wednesday 18
A dual record release event:
The South Shore on XI Records // Brazil 84 on Mode Records,
Double-Release Party; Michael
Vincent Waller's debut full-length album release with chamber works from the
last four years; this 2-CD release features album art photography by Phill
Niblock, and liner notes by "Blue" Gene Tyranny; performances for the
evening will include string quartet, trio, viola and piano duo, and cello
solos; 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’s
series “The Movement of People Working;” with a booklet of essays by Niblock,
the late Bob Gilmore (music), Carlos Casas (film) and Johan Vandermaelen (the
recordings)
Memorial
for Elaine Summers (1925 - 2014)
Friday 20
Video / film co-curated by Taketo Shimada and
Phill Niblock - Three finished film pieces, and screening of video clips of not
well known work; People may speak of Elaine, if they like
Elodie
Lauten (1950 - 2014) and John Scherman
Saturday
21
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 AndrewCuomo 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
Elaine Summers (1925 - 2014) was the founder of Experimental
Intermedia in 1968 (officially, The Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia
Foundation); there will be a memorial for her at Judson Memorial Church, 55
Washington Square South, New York, on February 28, from 6 - 10pm
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 (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); 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);
Coming Soon: Releases By
Ulrich Krieger (XI 137) And Leslie Ross (XI 138)
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; The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of
2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135