please respond to pniblock@compuserve.com, not to the sending address EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-Ninth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Forty--Second Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator
December 2022
Shift, 411 Kent Ave, Brooklyn - 12/12 and 12/15 - 411kent.org/shift Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, NYC - 12/19 and 12/20 - fridmangallery.com WhiteBox, 9 Ave B, NYC - 12/13, 14, 16 - whiteboxnyc.org
All concerts at 8PM in all places
Tom Hamilton (New York) and Thessia Machado (Brazil/New York) at Shift Monday 12
A first-time collaboration reflecting parallel and divergent journeys and experiences. Uncertainty and physicality explored through autonomous, yet simultaneous relationships. Electronics and other stuff. lovely.com/artists/a-hamilton.html thessiamachado.com Cleek Schrey (USA) at WhiteBox Tuesday 13
The composer and fiddler will present new work for vibrating strings and playback, including new field recordings from an ongoing project in Kentucky
Lee Gilboa (Israel, based in Providence RI) at WhiteBox Wednesday 14
Will present two multichannel fixed media compositions centered around the speaking voice, the first piece - Through The Halls, was created in collaboration with, and features vocalist Chanan Ben Simone, the second piece - Halves of a Story, features a speaking chorus and the rapper SAMMUS leegilboa.org Pauline Kim Harris (New York City) at Shift Thursday 15
Music to include a NEW WORK dedicated to Phill Niblock with violin duo String Noise in collaboration with Katherine Liberovskaya, video paulinekimharris.com stringnoiseduo.com
Gryphon Rue (New York City) at WhiteBox Friday 16
His music is constructed of complex patterns derived from instruments such as bowed hand saws, harmonium, and custom synthesizers, the music discloses a fascination with mimetic potential—the ability to suggest biological actions, molecular events, possession, nourishment—and is above all, made with people's pleasure in mind; joined by Will Epstein on piano, synthesizer, and soprano saxophone gryphonrue.bandcamp.com/album/a-spirit-appears-to-a-pair-of-loversgryphonrue.com/ Instagram: 4n_objx Frédéric Acquaviva and Loré Lixenberg (London) at Fridman Gallery Monday 19
His "ANTIPODES" (69'), for live mezzo (Loré Lixenberg), dead electronics, video and the recorded voices of the artists Joël Hubaut and Dorothy Iannone, was composed in 2019 at EMS, Stockholm, described by Olaf Nicolaï as "a provocative sign against the background of today's listening environment", "ANTIPODES" was awarded the prestigious Karl Sczuka Prize in 2020 and was premiered at Donaueschingen Festival in 2021 frederic-acquaviva.net lorelixenberg.art
Laurie Schwartz (Berlin) at Fridman Gallery Tuesday 20
with Anna Clementi (Berlin) and Risa Mickenberg (New York) + special guests: presenting tuned-in/tuned-out works and mash-ups interrogating the space between music composition, theater, performance art, and
absurdist spectacle; materials integrate the operatic voice, field recordings, conversations, images, and wooden cell phones; Dangerous Women and Dada; DIVAS DESVIANTES meets THE HERMETTES. With support from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. lauranera.com annaclementi.com risamickenberg.com
Our programs are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of office of theGovernor and the New York State Legislature.
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013, 212 431 5127, 431 6430 experimentalintermedia.org and XIrecords.orgWe are now streaming the concerts live on the Wave Farm Website: wavefarm.org/radio/partner-streams/schedule/e7hkxyPlease note our brand new release:
Michael Winter – Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut / a lot of tiles (trivial scan) (XI 148)
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 (XI 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); Dan Joseph - Electroacoustic Works (XI 138); Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digital only release; Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross – drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141); Phill Niblock/The Dorf – Baobab / Echoes (XI 142); Dave Seidel – Involution (XI 143); Tom Chiu - The Live One (XI 144); Phill Niblock - NuDaf (XI 145/AKOH 145); Neil Leonard – Sonance for the Precession (LP) (XI 146/AKOH 146); Amnon Wolman – Book/DVD (XI 147/AKOH 147); Michael Winter – Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut CD2: a lot of tiles (trivial scan) (XI 148) XI releases are available for sale on our website (XIrecords.org), as well as from Forced Exposure (USA) (forcedexposure.com). Titles are also available through Amazon.com, Bandcamp (xirecords.bandcamp.com) and Soundohm (Italy) (soundohm.com). All releases are also available digitally through outlets such as Spotify etc.
And a new release by Phill Niblock on Touch - Working Title, on a USB stick in a CD size digipak, with two films - China88 and Japan89, each two hours long and four hours of PN Music, also in a separate CD quality file, and available from Forcedexposure.com in the US and Soundohm.com in Europe
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, XI 137, XI 138; XI 140; XI 141; 142; 143; 144; 148. The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135
Coming Soon: Matt Rogalsky (XI 149); Merche Blasio/Lucie Vitkova (XI 150)
And the latest edition of Phill Niblock's Six Hour Winter Solstice Concert at Roulette on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, with a number of Live Guest Artists, from 6pm until midnight