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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty- fth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator
December 2019
Walter Branchi (Rome) and Kristin Jones (New York) Monday 9
Images of Time by Jones and music from Intero by Branchi; alternating filmic work by Jones and individual compositions by Branchi; video editing by Jacob Nelson; sound engineer Daniel Neumann; Images of Time are an evolving series of filmic works composed independently and woven together with the music of Roman composer Walter Branchi; the works frame the world from a single position so as to slow down and magnify the most fundamental daily phenomena: the cycle of light, wind and weather; the images are intended as quiet meditations on the nuances and subtle events perpetually occurring in nature; composed of thousands of individual instances photographed seconds apart, the images are then reassembled at different tempos into lyrical sequences, then intricately interwoven with the ethereal musical compositions by Branchi; the compositions that coexist with the Images of Time are pieces of his lifelong work: Intero
http://www.kristinandreajones.com http://www.walter-branchi.com
David First (NYC) Tuesday 10
Choir Practice: New works for current and outmoded technologies, just intonation video and correlated waveforms, two- way causations inspired by a third, gestural improvisations through safe-cracked spelunking; featuring Sam Kulik, trombone and Ian Douglas-Moore, guitar
http://www.davidfirst.com https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com
http://www.davidfirst.com https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com
Ritwik Banerji (USA) Wednesday 11
An astromusicological encounter with the Maxineans; whereas it would seem tonight's event falls into the canonical, traditional genre of audiovisual performance, it's better understood as a bridging of social science, interstellar ethnography, and the arts; we will engage in a collaborative exercise in understanding the culturally-specific sonic motion practices of beings living in a distant region of space called M9, ruled by the spirit of Maxine, a brainchild who has fled earth and declared that all sound was already motion; in this region of space, Maxineans have developed a wide variety of expressive -- or really just practical -- practices which allow them to deal with Maxine's whims; on screen we see a live feed sent back to earth from a remote exploration vehicle in deep space; on earth, live sound from EI is sent back to M9, thereby allowing navigation and interaction according to the bizarre laws of physics of M9. Live performers are Hamilton Berry, cello, and Tony Malaby, saxophone
https://www.ritwikbanerji.net
Aki Onda (USA, Japan) Thursday 12
"Reflections and Repercussions" 2018, a multi-media performance exploring the interplay among luminosity, acoustic, and architectural relationships within the space.; performing with various types of lighting equipment such as theater lights, flashlights, bare light bulb, mirrors and other objects, I arrange and rearrange the tools composing the visual and aural as a total environment; the complex relationship between the concrete and the ephemeral is explored https://akionda.net/
Paul Devens (Maastricht Netherlands) Friday 13
An artist working in the field of composed sounds, architecture, acoustics and he researches history and social structures; he will perform a couple of new pieces, based upon improvisation and experimental technologies; electro- magnetic and conductive fields will be used to mix pre-recorded synthesized sounds into a new composition, recorded noises of air conditioning systems and fans in public space will feature in a soundscape and other experiments will be performed live at the concert; also another new work will be performed: with artist Eline Kersten, Devens developed a work featuring found coral skeletons from the Caribbean island of Curacao; with digital imageprocessing- and sonification techniques, the work addresses the collision between ecology and economy, Supported by IBB Curacao and the Mondriaan Fund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Devens https://www.pauldevens.com
Gudinni Cortina (Mexico) and Mario De Vega (Mexico, Berlin) Sunday 15
Overtones, interruptions and concrete sounds melted as an audio-visual setup; a dialog executed by two players with different vocabularies and intentions, including a third role: A messenger; present, admiring devotion and commitment http://mariodevega.info http://gudinni-cortina.com/