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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 Thirtieth Annual
Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or
B) Phill Niblock, curator
March 2020
Dafna Naphtali (New
York) and Edith Lettner (Austria) Sunday 8
We Q: the duo, started in 2017; they found instant
common language as improvisers, with Lettner on soprano & alto
saxophone and Armenian duduk, and Naphtali doing live sound processing of
Lettner’s instruments and her own voice; We Q goes on polythymic benders, with
extravagant overtones, feedback loops and synaptic fire dances, like
a Schreckschraube juggling filtered alien sales calls with
echos of Carmina Burana and post-post-post-post whatever it is they
thought they were doing
Sarah Weaver (New York) Tuesday 10
With David Taylor and Daniel Pinheiro: Synchrony Series,
Duplexity State; performance of electroacoustic works from new double album
release “Synchrony Series: Music of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations”
(SyncSource Label) including “Symmetry of Presence” (David Taylor, bass
trombone, S W, electronics) and “Sound in Peace” dedicated to Pauline Oliveros
(S W, spoken voice, electronics). Premiere of audio/video network arts piece
“Duplexity State” (S W, electronics, Daniel Pinheiro, movement and visuals, remote
performer live via the internet)
www.sarahweaver.org/syncsource/label
John King and David
Watson (New York) Wednesday 11
A first-time collaboration between two long-time New York
music creators: David Watson on Great Highland Bagpipes and Scottish
smallpipes, and John King playing viola; a conversation of drones, tones,
listening and playing, extreme frequency and amplitude explorations will ensue
http://johnkingmusic.com https://davidwatsonmusic.net
Carl Stone (Tokyo)
and Ulrich Krieger (Los
Angeles) Friday 13
Stone (live electronics) and Krieger (saxophone) have been
working together as a duo for a few years; they are listening into the depths
of the instruments, using microphones and electronics to facilitate hidden
sounds to emerge, thereby creating quasi-hyper-realistic soundscapes from lush
to hard where saxophone sounds and the electronics merge and become
indistinguishable
http://www.rlsto.net/Nooz/ http://www.ulrich-krieger.com/
Kathy High (New York
State) A Video Event Saturday 14
I have been deep in art and science investigations,
particularly trying to understand the interconnections of our ecosystems, our
immune systems, and our microbiomes; of late, I have been making videos that
are obsessed with the gut microbiome and becomings; I will show a smattering of
works on this night: documentary, speculative and otherwise
www.kathyhigh.com
Luca Forcucci (Italy/Switzerland) Sunday 15
Alerta ! is a poem of the Brazilian author Oswald de Andrade
about dictatorship during the 1960-1980’s in Brazil, resistance and love; the
composition is a process based work: The poem told by the composer Jorge
Antunes was recorded in Recife (Br); graphic scores were then given to a
cellist (Noémie Braun), and a percussionist (Lucas Gonseth) in La
Chaux-de-Fonds (CH); the resulting material was recorded and recombined,
brought forward in Switzerland, in Portugal, now in the USA, until its unknown
final form
www.lucaforcucci.com
with support from Nicati -de Luze Foundation and Pro
Helvetia
Jens Brand
(Berlin)
Monday 16
With the intense collaboration of Ben
Manley and Dan Evans Farkas;
they are collaborating in one way or
the other on the basis of overlapping unaltered individual approaches on time
consuming media since the middle of the 90s; this concert will be not so loud
but somtimes not so not so loud and most likely be loud enough to consider
bringing earplugs a good idea; the performance will feature Dan's Frankenstein
related approach to live electronics (By sewing together the various electronic
devices with patch cords, I seek a sound that makes the soul shout out: “It’s
alive! IT’S ALIVE!") and in particular the use of a lot of toy
walkie talkies; Ben will generate electroacoustic sounds and let them bloom and
decay, several times, and Jens will focus on a somewhat medieval-backwards
visions of electronic music without speakers, featuring the NEW mechanic
orchestra of ratchets and the first presentation of the mysterious and
automatic quartet of the FHDCMS (four harmonic dc motors sisters) www.jensbrand.com
Walter Wright
(Massachusetts) A Video Event Friday 20
Psychology says that “we see what we think we see”; Light
falls on the retina and the resulting stimulation is transmitted by the optic
nerve to the brain; the brain forms an image, resolves 3D, compares it to the
last image thus detecting movement, checks for imminent danger and, finally,
compares it to images already stored in memory. The result loops through the
mind/body system resulting in an emotional reaction, producing meaning; reality
is, in a sense, obscured by our own perceptions; as video artists, it is up to
us to dis-cover or un-cover reality, then re-present or re-imagine reality in a
manner that changes the viewers perception, to inform rather than affirm, to
create rather than imitate - Videos by Walter Wright and a performance by
Walter Wright and Al Margolis aka Elka Bong
https://nohtv.wordpress.com/
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS
16 - curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Sunday 22nd
For its 16th edition Screen Compositions brings you again
without fail a collection of inspiring and inspired 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: Benton Bainbridge / Barbara Held; Nathalie Bujold / Michel
Langevin (Voivod); Alexandra Dementieva / Guy De Bièvre; Bradley Eros / Lea
Bertucci; Muyassar Kurdi / Ka Baird; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock;
Geoff Matters / Mike Lerner; Eiichi Tosaki & Jutta Pryor / Hitomi Honda;
Twin Automat (Irini Karayannopoulou+Sandrine Cheyrol) / Yannis Saxonis; Adriana
Vila Guevara / Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Tony Martin (New
York) A Video Event Tuesday 24
He sees Video as a joining place; Recipes can bring together - Live electronics -
personal/custom/invented and computer modulated;
Variable voltage interfaces; Observation by camera; Abstract video and optical translating;
Hands-on drawing and painting-in-time using projection equipment; Personal
optical and mirror techniques; Collaborative Sound composition; This program
will feature works from the 1970's, 1990's and Now www.tonymartinartist.net/intermedia
Nicola L. Hein
(Berlin) and Viola Yip (New
York)
Wednesday 25
Hein (guitar, electronics) and Yip (lightbulbs, electronics)
are an transdisciplinary duo that creates immersive site-specific
performances and installations bridging the vibrations of light and sound;
trained as musicians, both of them are interested in looking into the ontology
of sound and how musical experience can be transformed beyond its common
material: sound; in their duo project they research about the possibilities of
light as an expanded musical material; connecting lightbulbs, electronics and
electric guitar as an integrated instrument; in their performances they utilize
lights and sounds as equally important and yet dialectical
musicalmaterials
https://nicolahein.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhDK4GkFVM
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
www.experimentalintermedia.org and
www.XIrecords.org 9pm
We are now streaming the concerts live on the Wave Farm
Website:
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 (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) Coming Soon: Tom Chiu (XI 142)
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 The Following
Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135