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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fourth Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the Foundingof Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-ninth Anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual Festival with nofancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock,curator March 2017
Sergey Komarov andAlexey Grachev (Russia) Friday3 Subjectivization of Sound, a sound performance that graduallytransforms into an interactive installation - is based on interaction withspace and viewers; by contrasting and matching two principles of the synthesisof electronic sound, analog and digital, each time the audio artists createa new sound that includes the sense of space, people and everything aroundthem. the chief instruments of Grachev are the development environment Max/MSPand the platform Arduino for communication with space, and the analog modularsynthesizer of Komarov; the mobility and variability of the performance are ofgreat significance: any available equipment which happens to be on the site canbe used; An Audio Performance Project by CYLAND Media Art Lab
Matt Mottel and KevinShea (New York) Sunday 5 Endgame of the Anthropocene is Talibam!’s (MattMottel - synthesizers and Kevin Shea- drums, electronics) first cinematic performance ofthrough-composed ecogothic geosonics; it is the soundtrack to 2048’s despoticnationalism and crumbling international infrastructure,underscoring an eco-mercantilistic tragedy and the desperate plundering ofAntarctica, the last pristine landscape on Earth; it is a dystopian sonicpronouncement of failed socio-environmental memes, and features Talibam!’semergence into hyperkinetic rhythm-based instrumental/electronic music; thismusic will be released on ESP-DISK inthe second half of 2017 www.talibam.bandcamp.com youtube.com/talibambam
BarryWeisblat (New York) Wednesday8 Known for performance with live electronics // a rare presentationof mundane field recordings gathered in quadraphonic arrangements usingextended recording techniques and various self-made transducers which will beon display
Vytautas V. Jurgutis,Vaclovas Nevcesauskas (Lithuania) A Video Event Thursday 9 METROSCAN: A live audiovisual concert by Jurgutis (live electronics) andNevcesauskas (live video) which reflects electronics, glitch, beats, noise,realtime generated computer graphics, visuals, various nowadaysdata streams, post-urban and post-internet aesthetics; the title of the workhas derived from Metro, Metropolis, Metronome, Metrics and similar meanings andinspirations, these many-sided concepts are digitally objectified andoriginally developed in this project; the project is based on a purely digitalaesthetics where specially live generating visual structures and diligentimages interflow and interact with sophisticated electronic music - endlesslayers and textures of purely digital sound balanced on the edge of audibility,peculiar and diverse rhythms and pulsations www.youtube.com/user/Metroscan1 Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture andMinistry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
TomHamilton Friday10 ZeroCrossing Inquiry - something old, something new: Robert Ashley's 1979 text"A Last Futile Stab at Fun," read by Mimi Johnson, with newelectronic music composed and performed by Tom Hamilton; plusHamilton's "Beacon" for solo flute and electronics, performed byJacqueline Martelle. http://15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-tom-hamilton/pa...
Jon Abbey(USA) DJingcontinuously from 3-11 PM Sunday12 Erstwhile Records programs a very special day/night ofelectroacoustic music created from 2013-2016, including work from ToshiyaTsunoda, Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto, Graham Lambkin, TakahiroKawaguchi/Utah Kawasaki, Hong Chulki/Ryu Hankil, Michael Pisaro, KevinDrumm/Jason Lescalleet, Keith Rowe and more. Also Gabi Losoncy (GrahamLambkin-Community) and Devin DiSanto (Michael Pisaro-Anabasis) will beperforming live simultaneously with the mentioned works after guidance from theinitial composers beforehand. erstwhilerecords.com
Ying Liu(China, New York) A VideoEvent Monday13 “Wow, can’t believe that’swhat you think of me…” An evening of virtual reality and performancecelebrating tiny, trivial thoughts and creativity, and incomplete information;punctuating the night will be videos using my “tattooing” technique, whichsuperimposes animation on to live action https://vimeo.com/yingliu SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 13- Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Tuesday14 It's the thirteenth year of Screen Compositions; in Chinese culture (andwe're in Chinatown) 13 is very lucky and means "definitely vibrant";so this 2017 edition presents a most definitely vibrant collection ofintersections of moving image with sonic art; a programof screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations betweenvideo/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended forsingle-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuringcollaborations by: Magdalena Campos-Pons / Neil Leonard; Paul Clipson / ByronWestbrook; Julie Doucet / Anne-f. Jacques; Janene Higgins / Cassis B Staudt;Luis Macias / Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Geoff Matters / Dok Gregory; LaetitiaMorais / Carlos Guedes; Dafna Naphtali / Hans Tammen; Mercedes Peris /Ferrer-Molina; Paola Pisani / Alessandro Fogar
Jacob Burckhardt (NewJersey) AVideo Event Wednesday15 Across the river to the west, another land, another home; New Moviesof children, storms, industry, wastelands, looming New York, dancing in thestreet; with sound tracks by composers such as Marc Ribot and Cenk Ergun, orwith improvised noises https://vimeo.com/user1940280/videos Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia TeitelbaumFund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and theNew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomoand the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm, except as noted
XI CDs are now available for sale on thewww.XI Records.org website: Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes(XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying Vegetables OfThe Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); TomJohnson - Music For 88 (Xi 106); Mary Jane Leach - Celestial Fires (Xi 107);Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music (XI 109); JacksonMac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music By Phill Niblock (XI111); Allison Cameron - Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode - Clarinet Songs (XI113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart - Ten ThousandShades 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); MalcolmGoldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); PaulPanhuysen - Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The ChordCatalogue (XiI 123); Ellen Band - 90% Post Consumer Sound (Xi 124); PhilipCorner - 40 Years And One (Xi 125); Gen Ken Montgomery - Pondfloorsample (XI126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces (Xi 127); Alan Licht - A New YorkMinute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - TheAnimation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky -Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); MichaelJ. 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) Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 139), Tom Chiu (XI 140) The Following Releases Are 2 CdsFor The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For ThePrice Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135
Dan Joseph recordrelease party March 18, Saturday, at 8pm (note that that is not 9pm) Marking the release of his new 2-CDrelease Electroacoustic Works (XI 138), Dan Joseph will perform anextended version of his solo piece Dulcimer Flight, as well asoffer an installation realization of Periodicity Piece #6 thatwill play before and after his performance
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Phill Niblock at The Tate Modern The Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG http://www.tate.org.uk
Sunday 26 March, 7pm: Live performance of Environments III (100mile Radius, 16mm) and Environments IV (Ten Hundred Inch Radii, 16mmfilm) and Music, with live musicians and dance, 2.5 hours, entrance fee
Monday27 and Tuesday 28 March, 10am-6pm: Installation of triple digitalprojection (Environments II, III and IV) and Music by PN
TateMusic and Dance Live Program, the 26th: Ronet- Neil Leonard, tenor saxophone; First Out - David First, guitar; Surge 2 -Thomas Ankersmit, analog synth; V&LSG - Lori Lixenberg and Guy De Bievre,voice and lap steel guitar; Elisabeth Schilling, dance On the 26th, doors at 6,performance 6:30-9pm http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights/n...