EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-second Anniversary of EI performances at 224
Centre Street, The Forty-seventh Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental
Intermedia, the Forty-seventh Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and,
not least, The Twenty-sixth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two
(or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March 2016
Peter Wießenthaner (Frankfurt am Main)
Wednesday 16
Hitmachine •
SOUND and COLOUR • for filter sounds, bass- and piccolo-glissando flutes,
animation, 4 loudspeakers, 1 subwoofer; filters unite a compact
percussion-sound-like machine; Hitmachine is a dynamic system in MAX and is
running independently, without repetition and generates a connection of tone
and picture in an almost infinite variation; sounds from bass- and
piccolo-glissando-flutes flank the main stream of the filter-sounds; the
sound-data generate coloured lines and place them in the screen - Hitmachine,
work in progress www.wiessenthaner.de
John Wiese (Los Angeles)
Thursday 17
Works primarily
in sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as
scoring for large ensembles; he will be presenting new sounds recorded at
INA/GRM's studio
Byron Westbrook (New York)
Friday 18
Premiering new electronic works for two, three, and four-channel
audio; featuring experiments with phase relationships, synthesized ASMR, fake
field recordings, and the occasional no-downbeat-rhythm byronwestbrook.com
Michael Lytle (New York)
Wednesday 23
POOL is a group
of composer/performers, one each from a major instrumental group:
Strings -
Stephanie Griffin, viola; Reeds - Michael Lytle, bass and contra bass
clarinets; Percussion - Denman Maroney, piano; Voice - Dafna Naphtali, voice
and electronics; Brass - Steve Swell, trombone
Babeth M. VanLoo (Amsterdam)
A Video Event
Thursday 24
The media-artist
and filmmaker will show several video installations:
1- Meditation /
Radiation, 3 channels; 17 min - Kobe Japan, Paro Bhutan, Amsterdam; 2- Art
Liberation - In me, in you: 7 min - mixed media, and live performance; 3-
Joseph Beuys - Das Kapital; 24 min - Mixed media - a: Venice Biennale, Beuys
installing Das Kapital, no dialogue, music score by Charles Neville; b: Beuys
discussing his broadened concept of art; As part of this centerpiece, Babeth
invites you for a dialogue about her teacher, Beuys, his legacy and vision
about the democratization of money versus the monopolization of capital
Marica Radojčić
and Miroslav Miša Savić (Belgrade) A Video Event Friday 25
Music Hologram – Nikola Tesla, an audio-visual
project; Miša (audio - his first published CD) and Marica (visual ambience – video
and 3D animations) were inspired by Nikola Tesla:
his inventions and experiments (high voltage electricity, artificial lightings,
Tesla coil) as well as his intriguing personality (rare ability of mental
visualisation, phobias and obsessions, particularly that one with numbers – the
number 3 playing an important role); following Tesla’s ideas Marica examines
the cognitive role of images, forgotten for centuries, but everywhere accepted
in ancient cultures https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=kR7xow31DuY,
https://youtu.be/dP40QA22a-8
Andrew Neumann (US)
A Video Event
Saturday 26
Three (or Four)
Video Projections: An evening of live video/musical
interactions: “Craneology V3”: shot from one window over three
years, a meditation on labor, construction, and weather patterns -
“Double/Psycho”: a formal reconstruction of Hitchcock’s film and Van
Sant’s remake, a truly new psycho emerges - “Split:Riddle”, a
re-examination of the opening scene from “The Killers”, one of the finest (and)
most confusing of all film noir’s; “Streaming Fields of Lava
Lamps”: a meditation on lava lamps, asparagus, and
chairlifts.…it’s that obvious;
Live musical and
interactive video switching included throughout
Screen Compositions 12: curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
Monday 28
Now in its twelfth year - the 2016 edition
of Screen Compositions presents, as every time, an exciting
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: Nayantara Bhattacharya Reed / Rick Reed; Nathalie Bujold /
Isabelle Bozzini (Bozzini Quartet) + Taylor Brook; Kenneth Curwood / Jonas
Reinhardt; Richard Garet / Daniel Neumann; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill
Niblock; Jeanne Liotta / Zach Layton; Diane Ludin / Dan Vatsky / Gill Arno;
Claire Willemann / Julien Pauthier; Elaine Wood / Rick Breault
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 Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre
Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430
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); Ulrich Krieger - /RAW:ReSpace/ (XI
137);
Coming Soon:
Releases By 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
OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
March 11-15: Mise-en-Abyme: Blurring Boundaries between Real and
Audiovisual
a solo exhibition by Katherine Liberovskaya
Opening: Friday March 11,
2016, reception for the artist at 7pm
Open to the public Saturday
March 12 and Sunday March 13, between 4 - 7 pm
At Harvestworks, 596 Broadway
#602, New York , NY 10012; 212-431-1130
Katherine Liberovskaya, most
often active in experimental video and live video improvisation with
experimental music composers and musicians, presents two sculptural
closed-circuit object-video-audio installation works from her on-going series
she calls "Strange Loops (between Real and Audiovisual)". Combining
certain material elements with simple movement mechanisms, their real-time
electronic image and sound capture and playback, as well as video and audio
feedback, these hybrid works obscure the limits between physical and media
reality.
Two special concerts at EI after the main festival:
Emanuel Pimenta
(Switzerland-Brazil-Portugal-Italy)
Tuesday March 29
METAMORPHOSIS |
opera for inner voices by emanuel pimenta | libretto by rené berger - his last
work | world première | 7 continents | 70 cities | 77 radio stations | 40
countries | covering c. 57,510,000 sq miles (c. 148,940,000 km2) through c.
24,859 miles (c. 40,007 km) | in 40 minutes | 1 act | made in 7 years (2009-2016) | music score on Bucky Fuller's dymaxion | an
opera for inner voices, radios and the sound of planet earth captured at an
orbital track of around 300 miles (500 km) of altitude | celebrating the
centennial of René Berger | http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/Berger100/metamorphosis
Gustavo Matamoros (Miami/Venezuela)
Friday April 1
CTURNS50 - An evening-long piece
in four channels emerging from multiple recorded sound sources, some generated
from scratch in the studio and some recorded in urban and natural settings such
as the Florida Everglades www.subtropics.org/gustavomatamoros