Just another announcement of the EI December concert
series, now that we are almost halfway through
It has been a great series so far, and the
concerts are recorded and possible to see by the next day, in their entirety
Please respond to pniblock@compuserve.com, and
not to this address
Phill
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-Seventh Anniversary of EI
performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fifty-Second Anniversary of the Founding
of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Second Anniversary of the 224 Centre
Street loft, and, not least, The (Virtual) Fortieth Annual Festival with
no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill
Niblock, curator
December 2020
This edition of our concert series is entirely
virtual. Concerts will be streamed live from our website at 9pm sharp NYC time
on the dates listed:
Right after each concert we invite performers
and audience to join "The EI Virtual Kitchen Hang", our Zoom meeting
room, to interact between each other and with us.
The
EI Virtual Kitchen Hang Zoom link:
Meeting
ID: 212 076 5064
Passcode:
869302
Earl
Howard (New York)
Sunday 6
The
Program: Curtis 2019 - Kurzweill 2600 synthesizer, Live performance - 46
minutes and The Cold Hard Tooth 2020 - Alto- saxophone / composer and
performer-Live Performance 25 minutes; Notes about Curtis; It is often the case that music is defined by the
development of thematic elements which tell a story; the sound of the music is
a part of the elaboration of a story, whether in atonal, linear or nonlinear
music; Curtis has no themes, but there are many stories; these are not
statements in themselves - they are components of their environments; sound
does not only sing or harmonize - it is the substance and location of place,
mass, and flow - for the sound elements, representing field
recordings from an imaginary world earlhowardmusic.com
Bob Bellerue (New York)
Monday 7
"Imperfect Conditions" - macrotonal music from a cluttered
landscape, improvised resonance and feedback bobbellerue.net
Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett (UK, Fr)
Wednesday 9
Solar Return - //UniVERSE//
- Audio-visual performance using modular synth, crotales and mutant guitar-bass
- invented instruments in combination with live 3D animation of cosmic
astrophysics geometry; the artists duo Solar Return will once more embrace the
network
for a
cyber-performance through the fiber-optics into outer-space
Austin Larkin
(Connecticut)
Friday 11
Experiments and Observations on Different
Types of Reflection"; A solo performance of violin, light projector,
mirror, perspective, gesture, room www.austinlark.in
Gill Arno (New York)
Monday 14
Gill Arno’s current work explores sound/image
relationships through a process of animated
and sonified thermography; he is presenting a
series of short studies in which composition
and improvisation are variously combined;
Website (not updated since 1916) -
Ka Baird (New
York)
Tuesday 15
Ictum Exercises (Polyrhythmic Studies) is an
audiovisual performance that takes a single randomized pattern through several
permutations using electronics, flute, recorder, breath
Matthias Kaiser, Hans Tammen, Shoko Nagai (Cologne,
NY, NY)
Wednesday
16
Kaiser, violin; Nagai, Moog; Tammen, buchla; Human sound sources join over the
internet to freely exchange sonic explorations using acoustic, electroacoustic
and electronic systems; Kaiser performs from Cologne, Germany, and Nagai /
Tammen from NYC kaiserandsound.com shokonagai.net tammen.org
Mike Bullock
(Massachusetts)
Thursday 17
Hydrophonisphere is a solo performance using
the inner- & under-sounds of the flow and fall of water, filtered by
analog, digital, and mechanical means; the second in a three-part suite of
pieces that started with October's Ultrasonisphere
Our programs
are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus
Foundation, Fridman Gallery, and the New York State Council on the Arts with
the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature;
this project is also made possible with funds from the NYSCA Electronic
Media/Film in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund,
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
The video-audio recordings of the concerts will be posted on
our website the morning after each concert and will remain there until our next
series in March 2021