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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fifthAnniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fithtieth Anniversaryof the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival withno fancy name, Part One (or A) PhillNiblock, curator December2018
Marla Hlady and Christof Migone (Toronto) Friday 7 Theycollaborate on somatic performance and mechanized kinetics with sound at thecentre; they each have individual practices that began in the late 1980s/early1990s; they started collaborating in 2015 with a project at the Errant Bodiesproject space in Berlin and have since performed at Ftarri (Tokyo), the ArtGallery of Ontario and Array Music (Toronto); their strategies include:Shifting singulars into plural; adding ad infinitum, butthen distilling until densities emerge; some humour tinged withpathos; taking the word ‘concern’ seriously, yet steeped in explorations thatretain a notion of play; rerouting, reinjecting, responding; finding edges;mining particularities; rippled resonances; subtle alterations of tension andattention; moored, anchored even, yet nimble, and at times furtive http://marlahlady.com/ http://christofmigone.com/ ClaudiaRobles (Colombia/Germany) Monday 10 Her work and research cover different aspects ofvisual and sound art, which span from audiovisual fixed-media compositions toperformances and/or installations featuring the interaction with biomedicalsignals; on this occasion, she presents some of her audiovisual compositionsand the performance SKIN - a piece in which she interacts with sounds andimages through her skin’s moisture measured by a GSR (Galvanic Skin Response)interface; variations of values in skin moisture are an indication ofpsychological or physiological arousal, such as stress or relaxation; thevisual environment of SKIN is therefore created by microscopic images from theperformer’s skin recorded in real-time whilst the sound environment istransformed by the performer’s emotional states through the measurement of herskin’s moisture www.claudearobles.de RobertPoss (New York) Tuesday 11 Distortion,drones, dystopia, optimism and a layer cake of electronics; Poss will presentnew and old pieces for electric guitar including from his recent release Frozen Flowers Curse The Day;Jennifer Coates will provide a painterly visual accompaniment https://www.robertposs.com/ http://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ Laura Ortman (WhiteMountain Apache, New York City) Wednesday 12 Fromthe rosined-out beast of Ortman’s tough stained violin emerges derangedcrumpled wings twirling in starlight and oil slickness and shininess; bearingheavy use of amplification and effects, she also incorporates over-rosining toadd smoke, dust, wind and slow-motion grittiness in her scored / improvisedcompositions for amplified violin, Apache violin, whistles, tree branches,slides, guitar picks, bells and tuning fork; with live video projectionsby Katherine Liberovskaya https://thedustdiveflash.bandcamp.com BenRichter (Los Angeles) Thursday 13 Isa composer, accordionist, and director of New York’s Ghost Ensemble, whosemusic explores the perceptual experience of music through subtly shiftingtimbres, distant pulses, and sliding microtonal fluctuations that createsound-worlds of constant transformation; Panthalassa:Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean combines recorded and liveprepared accordion to conjure the voice of the primordial Earth-wide ocean, amesmerizing dreamscape of shimmering just-intonation harmonies and sliding,moaning melodies that carry the listener deep into an otherworldly abyss www.benrichtermusic.com http://infrequentseams.bandcamp.com/album/panthalassa-dream-music-of-the-onc... Matt Rogalsky (Canada) Friday 14 Visitations andRevisitations; new pieces out of old: defining resonances of familiar andunfamiliar musics, explored through spectral slicing and suspension http://mattrogalsky.bandcamp.com http://mrogalsky.net LeslieRoss (Maine) Monday 17 In tide wave, a quadraphonic videoinstallation, each change from mud flats to high tide and back is transformedinto corresponding and overlapping sound waves; this preset will open an eveningof new pieces for multi-mic'ed bassoon, quadraphonic speakers and otherperipherals; the crossover terrain of timbre and pitch, the inherent dissonancebetween harmonics of any two consonances, and the tensions between lunar andsolar cycles all play a part in the performance, the whole interspersed withminiature acoustic improvisations http://leslieross.net/otherT.html TimShaw and John Bowers (UK) Tuesday 18 Since2015, they have beendeveloping a creative practice they have come to call ‘mythogeosonics’;Mythogeosonics works with an extended conception of field recording toincorporate such diverse practices as geophysical data sonification andparanormal investigation; think of all the fields: radio, magnetic, electric,esoteric; we cross between on-site investigation, installation-making,soundwalks, and an improvisatory performance practice combining soundscapes,documentary recordings, film, text, and process material using modularsynthesizers, resonant found objects, DIY software and self-made instruments;think of all the ways that the mythogeosonic can be heard, witnessed,appreciated and transformed; this performance will serve as an Annual Reviewdrawing on our collective archive from 2018 as well as local investigationscarried out in New York City https://tim-shaw.net http://www.jmbowers.net/ GerardLebik (Poland) Wednesday 19 "Airon Air" (2018) is a spatial composition that uses the propagation of apure sine wave as the main principle in creating a spatial acousticenvironment; placing hanging, rotating sound objects that generate white noisecreated by the compressed, expanding air gives it an ambisonic character; spatialcomposition modeled due to the specific acoustics of the place in which it ispresented http://gerardlebik.net/ http://festiwal.sanatoriumdzwieku.pl/en/ http://gerardlebik.blogspot.com/ Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia TeitelbaumFund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and theNew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomoand the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm
It is the 50th anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet Loft and the founding by Elaine Summers of the Experimental IntermediaFoudation, 1968
December 16, Sunday - A Record Release Party, at9pm but you may come at 7pm and have sonmething to drink and listen to somesamples of sound
*On ImportantRecords - Phill Niblock music played by David Gibson on cello, from the 70s and80s www.importantrecords.com
*On SuperiorViaduct - a reissue of the second India Navigation LP - Niblock for Celli /Celli Plays Niblock, and a reprint of the first LP - Nothing to Look At, Just aRecord
*Onthe Bozzini String Quartet label - Two pieces for orchestra - Baobab andDisseminate, with all parts played by the quartet, www.quatuorbozzini.ca
*On XI - Cecilia Lopez- Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140) This 2 CD set is aperfect combination of flavors that slowly reveal themselves as you spendmore time enjoying it. It has marvelous layers of sonic explorationsthat slowly unfold and draw you in.
*On XI - Leslie Ross -drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141) A 2 CD set of elevencompositions for bassoon composed and performed by Leslie Ross,internationally renowned instrument builder and uncompromising creativemusician.
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December 21, 6pm to midnight, the Winter Solstice at Roulette, inBrooklyn, 6 hours of Phill Niblock films and music, Roulette.org
XI CDs are now available for sale on thewww.XIRecords.org website: PhillNiblock - Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); GuyKlucevsek - Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman -Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson - Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary JaneLeach - Celestial Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); EllenFullman - Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); PhillNiblock - Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron - Raw Sangudo (XI112); Daniel Goode - Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI114); Richard Lainhart - Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo -Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson - Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue -Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein - The Seasons: Vermont (XI120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen - Partitas For LongStrings (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); GenKen Montgomery - Pondfloorsample(XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht - A New YorkMinute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt - TheAnimation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky -Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea (XI 132); MichaelJ. Schumacher - Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First – PrivacyIssue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – TheSouth Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph -Electroacoustic Works(XI 138); Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digitalonly release; Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross –drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141) Coming Soon: Tom Chiu (XI 142)
TheFollowing Releases Are 2 Cds For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; XI 140; XI141 The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135