EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-fifth
Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fithtieth 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 One (or A) Phill
Niblock, curator December
2018
Marla Hlady and Christof Migone (Toronto) Friday 7
They
collaborate on somatic performance and mechanized kinetics with sound at the
centre; they each have individual practices that began in the late 1980s/early
1990s; they started collaborating in 2015 with a project at the Errant Bodies
project space in Berlin and have since performed at Ftarri (Tokyo), the Art
Gallery of Ontario and Array Music (Toronto); their strategies include:
Shifting singulars into plural; adding ad infinitum, but
then distilling until densities emerge; some humour tinged with
pathos; taking the word ‘concern’ seriously, yet steeped in explorations that
retain a notion of play; rerouting, reinjecting, responding; finding edges;
mining particularities; rippled resonances; subtle alterations of tension and
attention; moored, anchored even, yet nimble, and at times furtive
Claudia
Robles (Colombia/Germany)
Monday 10
Her work and research cover different aspects of
visual and sound art, which span from audiovisual fixed-media compositions to
performances and/or installations featuring the interaction with biomedical
signals; on this occasion, she presents some of her audiovisual compositions
and the performance SKIN - a piece in which she interacts with sounds and
images through her skin’s moisture measured by a GSR (Galvanic Skin Response)
interface; variations of values in skin moisture are an indication of
psychological or physiological arousal, such as stress or relaxation; the
visual environment of SKIN is therefore created by microscopic images from the
performer’s skin recorded in real-time whilst the sound environment is
transformed by the performer’s emotional states through the measurement of her
skin’s moisture
www.claudearobles.de
Robert
Poss (New York) Tuesday 11
Distortion,
drones, dystopia, optimism and a layer cake of electronics; Poss will present
new 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 (White
Mountain Apache, New York City) Wednesday 12
From
the rosined-out beast of Ortman’s tough stained violin emerges deranged
crumpled wings twirling in starlight and oil slickness and shininess; bearing
heavy use of amplification and effects, she also incorporates over-rosining to
add smoke, dust, wind and slow-motion grittiness in her scored / improvised
compositions for amplified violin, Apache violin, whistles, tree branches,
slides, guitar picks, bells and tuning fork; with live video projections
by Katherine Liberovskaya https://thedustdiveflash.bandcamp.com
Ben
Richter (Los Angeles) Thursday 13
Is
a composer, accordionist, and director of New York’s Ghost Ensemble, whose
music explores the perceptual experience of music through subtly shifting
timbres, distant pulses, and sliding microtonal fluctuations that create
sound-worlds of constant transformation; Panthalassa:
Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean combines recorded and live
prepared accordion to conjure the voice of the primordial Earth-wide ocean, a
mesmerizing dreamscape of shimmering just-intonation harmonies and sliding,
moaning melodies that carry the listener deep into an otherworldly abyss
Matt Rogalsky (Canada)
Friday 14
Leslie
Ross (Maine) Monday 17
In tide wave, a quadraphonic video
installation, each change from mud flats to high tide and back is transformed
into corresponding and overlapping sound waves; this preset will open an evening
of new pieces for multi-mic'ed bassoon, quadraphonic speakers and other
peripherals; the crossover terrain of timbre and pitch, the inherent dissonance
between harmonics of any two consonances, and the tensions between lunar and
solar cycles all play a part in the performance, the whole interspersed with
miniature acoustic improvisations
Tim
Shaw and John Bowers (UK)
Tuesday 18
Since
2015, they have been
developing a creative practice they have come to call ‘mythogeosonics’;
Mythogeosonics works with an extended conception of field recording to
incorporate such diverse practices as geophysical data sonification and
paranormal 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 modular
synthesizers, 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 Review
drawing on our collective archive from 2018 as well as local investigations
carried out in New York City
Gerard
Lebik (Poland) Wednesday 19
"Air
on Air" (2018) is a spatial composition that uses the propagation of a
pure sine wave as the main principle in creating a spatial acoustic
environment; placing hanging, rotating sound objects that generate white noise
created by the compressed, expanding air gives it an ambisonic character; spatial
composition modeled due to the specific acoustics of the place in which it is
presented http://gerardlebik.net/ http://festiwal.sanatoriumdzwieku.pl/en/
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
It is the 50th anniversary of the 224 Centre
Street Loft and the founding by Elaine Summers of the Experimental Intermedia
Foudation, 1968
December 16, Sunday - A Record Release Party, at
9pm but you may come at 7pm and have sonmething to drink and listen to some
samples of sound
*On Important
Records - Phill Niblock music played by David Gibson on cello, from the 70s and
80s www.importantrecords.com
*On Superior
Viaduct - 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 a
Record
*On
the Bozzini String Quartet label - Two pieces for orchestra - Baobab and
Disseminate, with all parts played by the quartet, www.quatuorbozzini.ca
*On XI - Cecilia Lopez
- Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140)
This 2 CD set is a
perfect combination of flavors that slowly reveal
themselves as you spend
more time enjoying it. It has marvelous layers
of sonic explorations
that slowly unfold and draw you in.
*On XI - Leslie Ross -
drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141)
A 2 CD set of eleven
compositions for bassoon composed and performed
by Leslie Ross,
internationally renowned instrument builder and
uncompromising creative
musician.
and
December 21, 6pm to midnight, the Winter Solstice at Roulette, in
Brooklyn, 6 hours of Phill Niblock films and music, Roulette.org
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