E XPERIMENTAL I NTERMEDIA
The Fortieth Anniversary of EI
performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding
of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-fifth Anniversary of the 224 Centre
Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-fourth Annual Festival with no
fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March 2014
Bolsa
Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese Intermedia
Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermedia
performance by:
Pedro Sousa (Portugal) Friday 7
A Song
for True: Performance for Plural Larynx: "Using as an inspiration -
Jerry True, an American saxophonist who used an air compressor to be able to
play saxophone following a throat cancer operation, this composition aims at
the experimentation of the saxophone as an unusual medium for the creation of
drone music - exploring the microtonal, reflective and acoustic properties or
differences that are characteristic of these woodwind instruments http://www.facebook.com/Pedro.Sousa.Musician
Benjamin Thigpen and Stefano Bassanese (USA/Italy/France) Sunday
9
Les Frères Bobine - Paris-based
electroacoustic composers working regularly at GRM and fascinated by electromagnetism
and gesturality; they collaborate on sonic research experiments and perform
instant collective compositions based on newly-invented instruments and (silent)
magnetic feedback loops; they will perform Les Aimants by Stefano Bassanese, malfunction30931 by Benjamin Thigpen, and a new collective work,
Induction
Sarah Halpern (New York) A Video Presentation Monday
10
A
series of collages made with printed text, found images and discarded film,
mounted onto 35mm leader and projected frame by frame through a film strip
projector; each of these new compositions presents the viewer with suggestive
language and imagery, as an experiment in the perception of meaning sarahhalpern.com
Marica
Radojčić Prešić (Belgrade, Serbia) A Video Presentation Tuesday
11 BRANCHING: - DIGITAL AMBIENT:
diffracted projections of 3D animations and video, digital sound, sound
effects; the artist was
inspired by the tree; experts
and public have found the project as a kind of mathematical poetic ambience through
which public can walk - the tree is one of the oldest symbols with layers of
meanings developed through history; old meanings culminated in the twentieth
century with the mathematical theory of
trees; and the branching
itself, so much more powerful than the human step-by-step traveling through the
crags of its own existence, has a power of growing-up, but also the power of
disappearance – fatal power of Death http://youtu.be/Hi82udn6Nr4,
http://youtu.be/1e8p3D4JNdU
Marco Donnarumma (UK) Wednesday 12
Biophysical
Music: This concert includes two music performances, Music for Flesh II and
Ominous both for the Xth Sense, a biophysical musical instrument I perform with
since 4 years; in these pieces I create music by literally composing in real
time the sounds emitted by my body muscular tissues; by performing physical,
whole-body gestures, muscle sounds are produced by my limbs, amplified, live
sampled, and diffused through loudspeakers; the natural sound of my flesh and
its virtual counterpart blend together into an unstable sonic object; this is
what I call biophysical music, music that is a joint result of bioacoustic body
mechanisms and physical performance
Hallveig
Agustsdottir (Belgium, Iceland) Thursday
13
From
Graphic Score To Sound Drawing - her
performances are purified reflections on sound and image, finding their roots
in the 'graphic score' as it started to appear in the 1950s in the works of
composers such as J. Cage, E. Brown, and M. Feldman; each drawing leads towards
and is at the same time the immediate result of a new composition; the
improvised communication between artist, computer and musician creates an
environment where sound and image combine and conduct each other - what remains
is a witness; a drawing / a video composition capturing the gesture of drawing,
melody and rhythm; with David Watson, collaboration
http://www.hallveiggkagustsdottir.com/
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 10 curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Saturday
22
A
Video Presentation
Screen Compositions
celebrates its 10th edition this year! as always 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: Carlos Casas / Ghedalia Tazartes;
Bradley Eros / Rachael Guma; Kit Fitzgerald / Peter Gordon; Richard Garet /
Wolfgang Gil; Sarah Halpern / Matt Wellins; Victoria Keddie / Scott Kiernan;
Hedya Klein / Bulbul; Carole Kim / Toshimaru Nakamura + Lewis Keller; Katherine
Liberovskaya / Al Margolis (If,Bwana); Marie Verry / Yvan Etienne
Our programs are supported by the New
York 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, Third
Floor, N Y 10013
9pm 212 431 5127, 431
6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and
www.XIrecords.org