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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
http://dafna.info/  —  http://edith-lettner.net/
 
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 musicalmaterialshttps://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:
https://wavefarm.org/radio/partner-streams/schedule/e7hkxy
 
 
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