The Emitter Micro Festival 2013 will feature performances by Phill Niblock, Thomas Ankersmit, Kim Cascone, Jochen Arbeit+Hopek Quirin, Rinus Van Alebeek+Barbara Lazara, Seiji Morimoto, Louis Laurain, Schneider TM+kptmichigan, David Gomez (aka Krapoola) and LOUP, as well as workshops and talks with Peter Cusack, Udo Noll and Derek Holzer.

June 30, 6 pm, Pulheim-Stommeln (suburb of Cologne)

Alte Kirche St. Martin, Ingendorfer Str, 50259 Pulheim-Stommeln

A concert of Phill Niblock, with his music and film:

FeedCorn Ear, played by Arne Deforce and A Cage of Stars, played by Rhodri Davies,

Part of the series raumklaenge, curatorical team: Harald Kimmig and Georg Dietzler

www.raumklaenge.de / www.gerngesehen.de

4th July Walcheturm Zuerich

Tomas Korber + Konus Quartett "Musik für ein Feld" for electronics and saxophone quartet

Phill Niblock + Konus Quartett "To Two Tea Roses"

Phill Niblock + Tomas Korber, N. N. "Two Lips"

Phill Niblock + Konus Quartett "Sax Mix"

5th July Dampfzentrale Berne

Phill Niblock + Konus Quartett "To Two Tea Roses"

These are ongoing or past.

However, the retrospective continues only until May 12.

Phill Niblock retrospective in Lausanne CH - the exhibition will be realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne - http://www.circuit.li/ ) and the Musée de l’Elysée (the national museum devoted to photography - http://www.elysee.ch/ ), Mathieu Copeland, curator; January 29 until May 12, 2013

A review from 1973, of a concert / performance of my Environments series.

www.vasulka.org/archive/Artists4/Niblock,Phil/general.pdf

A documentary video by Frederick Bernas of Phill Niblock:

Minimalist composer Phill Niblock has been living in his Chinatown loft since the late 1960s, and curating concerts there for almost as long.

This film explores Niblock's work, and tracks its significance for New York's downtown experimental music scene – past and present...

Published online by The Wire magazine – February 6, 2013.

Watch here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/watch-an-exclusive-video-about-phill-niblock

An interview of Phill Niblock by Yusef Sayed:

http://audiovisualsalvage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/working-life-conversation-with-phill.html

Concert by Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit, Feb 7 2013

Musee dArt Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, 1, place Hans-Jean Arp

Strasbourg, France www.musees.strasbourg.eu

A book launch for "Working Title", articles about Phill Niblock, edited by Yvan Etienne, published by Les Presses du Réel, with 4 DVDs included http://www.lespressesdureel.com/

Saturday February 9 at 7PM at Palais de Tokyo, Paris www.palaisdetokyo.com/fr/

Intervenants : Phill Niblock et Kasper Toeplitz: Atau Tanaka, Mathieu Saladin, Dan Warburton et Anne Roquigny, produced by Patrick Javault

ARANÉIDE (La Danse en Levitation), 14 & 15 FÉVR. 2013

Chorégraphie : Myriam Gourfink / trapèze : Clémence Coconnier / musique : Kasper T.Toeplitz / création lumière : Séverine Rième / réalisation structure : Pierre-Yves Guillaumin.

Phill Niblock, figure américaine du minimalisme, réalisateur de films et compositeur, pour plusieurs pièces emblématiques de son parcours.

Music and Films by PN, with Kasper Toeplitz, bass guitar and electronics

Le Manège de Reims Scène nationale, King's Fountain, in Reims France

www.manegedereims.com/

February 19, Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, Lisbon, Portugal - a jury to select an artist for a residency at Experimental Intermedia in New York for this year, the 20th year of the residency, sponsored by the Luso Americana Foundation and Gulbenkian Foundation

Phill Niblock and Al Margolis (If Bwana) in Lisbon Portugal

February 21 2013, 10PM

Galeria Ze Dos Bois, Rua da Barroca, nº 59, Lisbon, Portugal

http://www.ip.pt/zedosbois

February 27, Café Oto radio broadcast on ResonanceFM London, 10 / 11pm, with Rie Nakajima and Phill Niblock - https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/22-00-00-oto-broadcasts-5

Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit, concert, Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, London, February 28; www.cafeoto.co.uk

The Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University are delighted to announce the 3^rd annual Audiograft Festival of experimental music and sound art, 25 February–3 March. Featuring live performances by Phill Niblock, Daniel Teruggi, Thomas Ankersmit, John Tilbury, Pierre Berthet, Tim Parkinson, Valerio Tricoli, Susanna Borsch, installations by Rolf Julius, Max Eastley, Helmut Lemke, Kathy Hinde and more. PN and Thomas Ankersmit, March 2 at Modern Art Oxford's basement space

Dither Guitar Orchestra perform Phill Niblock's '2 Lips' at the Dither Extravaganza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toAV4z4E9-U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

There are a bunch pf Phill Niblock videos on "you tube", do a search

A review of the Café Oto concert. It is preceded by my comments.

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/review-phill-niblock-at-80.html

Retort comments from Niblock - this concert follows the form that i have used since the late '60s. i am not a stage front "star". i use the film to be my performance visuals. i choose to work with the materials i use so that i am not on stage.

the film itself, shot in video in osaka japan in 2009 / 2010 (not in the film series that i usually use from 1973 - 1991), was a premier showing for england, here.

two of the pieces of music will be on a new Touch double CD (out soon), the first piece - FeedCorn Ear, for cellist Arne Deforce, was finished and played in lyon in march 2012; the third piece - "Two Lips", played by the Coh Da guitar quartet, recorded in 2011 (a scored piece for ensemble from 2007) will be on the same touch CDs. neither piece has been played in england before. Sweet Potato has recorded tones by Carol Robinson, and was played live by David Ryan, and is on the re-released touch double CD - Touch Food

as far as i know, Sweet Potato has not been played in london before, and David Ryan was magnificent.

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/review-phill-niblock-at-80.html

'Phill Niblock at 80' (Café Oto, 28 February 2013. Drawing and review by Geoff Winston)

This was, in many ways, a lost opportunity. There had been a fair amount of low-key hype about Phill Niblock's concert at Café Oto, as part of his 80th birthday celebration, coinciding with his retrospective exhibition in Lausanne, yet although he was 'in the house', it was just as a shadowy presence, lurking entirely unannounced at the back of the room - either at the mixing desk or by the bar.

Given that it was to be a rare sighting in the UK of an influential figure in the New York's Minimalist firmament, it would have been fairer to his followers, and those just intrigued by the tantilising publicity, to have scheduled a pre-concert conversation with the composer/film-maker, and/or to devise a concert which involved Niblock performing onstage, or at the very least to have introduced him to the audience before the concert started or at its conclusion. The closest we'll get is Frederick Bernas's concise, well-paced short documentary about Niblock.

The net result was a curiously impersonal non-encounter, leavened only by David Ryan's excellent interaction on bass clarinet - recalling Dolphy's significant impact on Reich on seeing him live - during a section of the lengthy 'Sweet Potato', a composition from Niblock's Xenakis Centre Paris residency in 2001. Sampled tones from the instrument were the partial subject matter of multi-tracked, pre-prepared drones of fluidity verging perilously close to the soporific in the packed, airless room, which played alongside the projection of an excerpt from his 1988/89 film series, 'The Movement of People Working', shot in small workshops in China and Japan.

Against the intently observed takes of workshop process, primarily in a fish preparation factory (‘101 Things to do with a Dead Fish’?) and food and veneer production workshops, the dense, minimally accented flux acted like a soundtrack. The audience, probably drawn by the musical promise, were unwittingly, or cynically, turned into a cinema audience, as the film was the only visual focus offered. As with Niblock's non-appearance, one did question the validity of constantly recycling his archive films to form the visual element of a performance/installation; the challenge of creating a new visual artefact with interactive components for this special event would have been much more satisfying.

If the sonic proposition, compelling to a degree as it was, would have offered a more challenging aspect, building on the kind of intense and expressive involvement that Ryan demonstrated, then the concert might have taken on a mythic dimension. As it as, it was a bit of a damp squib, as evidenced by the tepid applause at its termination.

Earlier, in solo performance, Thomas Ankersmit, a frequent collaborator of Niblock's, got to grips with a two-panel analogue synthesiser in a flush of synthetic abstraction and imagism which evoked the blustering wind catching the sails out at sea and rhythmic aircraft choppers, with skids and deep drones evaporating in to flickering intrusions and elusive tinnitus-like whistles.

The whole concert could have been a more imaginatively connected and integrated event and, given Café Oto's superb track record, it was a shame that its promise was not fulfilled.

On Saturday, March 02, 2013

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/03/review-phill-niblock-at-80.html

Johnson Memorial Art Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont, Sunday, March 10,

Music and Film / Video by Phill Niblock, Neil Leonard playing saxophones, produced by Heimo Wallner

Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7PM, Wellesley College, Jewett Art Gallery, 106 Central Street,

Wellesley, MA, 02481 - Free and open to the public

Music of Phill Niblock, Neil Leonard, saxophones

March12 2013, 7 - 9PM; MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Wiesner Bldg. (E15-224), 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139; Free and open to the public, act.mit.edu

http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/working-title-a-phill-niblock-book-launch/

Event Title: Working Title, A Phill Niblock Book Launch

Join us for the launch of Working Title, a monograph on the avant-garde musician, filmmaker, and performer Phill Niblock. Written in both French and English, the book provides an in-depth look at Niblock’s musical and cinematographic work, as well as historical background, philosophical insights and technical advice. The book is accompanied by two double-sided DVDs of atypical videos: Remo Osaka, a continuation of The Movement of People Working series; two separate DVDs of the Anecdotes from Childhood; and Katherine Liberovskaya’s 70 for 70 (+1), Seventy (one) Sides of Phill Niblock. The evening includes a live performance of Two Lips, a piece written by Niblock and recorded in 2011 by three different guitar quartets. At MIT, Two Lips will be played by students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute under the direction of Neil Leonard: Yun Yun Huang, Andrew Ikenberry, Jason Lim, Aseem Suri, and William Wingnall.

An introduction by Florian Hecker.

Fri, March 22, 2013 - 8:00pm, Issue Project Room

For Electronics and Instruments: Al Margolis and Phill Niblock

at 110 Livingston Street., Brooklyn (Greenpoint) Entrance at 22 Boerum Place

In this evening of live electronics and instrumentalists, Al Margolis premieres a new quartet of bassoonist Leslie Ross, trombonist Monique Buzzarté, live video by Katherine Liberovskaya, and Margolis on laptop. Phill Niblock presents his now-classic "Sethwork", a duo for laptop and guitar featuring David Watson.

April 6, 8:15pm - Counterflows Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, at the CCA, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://blog.counterflows.com/

Counterflows is pleased to present for the last session at the CCA Counterflows Saturday and as part of the celebrations of Phill Niblock at 80, this intriguing and exciting duo. Ankersmit will perform a short solo set which then will lead into the pair performing together and ending with Niblock’s own music and images filling the CCA auditorium with the intense aural experience and the visual bombardment of his studies of people at work. The set will contain older pieces and also completely new work. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Phill Niblock has not only proven himself as one of the most preeminent composers of the American musical avantgarde, but also an accomplished filmmaker and performer.

Amori Water will play at the Listening Gallery, SFCA [isaw+subtropocs] :: studio 101, 924 Lincoln road, miami beach :: until May 1, 2013 ::

“Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A Japanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play in it. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part. And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8 tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.” — Phill Niblock http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2013/04/11/phill-niblock-aomori-water/