A few - Events for Phill Niblock, January - March 2014
Jan 15 , Klub Katarakt Festival 37
A premier of a new
piece for three orchestras, commisioned by the Katarakt Festival
"Three Petals" for the ensembles - Nelly Boyd, Hamburg;
Trio Scordatura +, Amsterdam; Neon Ensemble, Oslo
Three Petals is originally conceived to be performed by three ensembles
plus pre-recorded playback. The first performance (by the commissioners - Klub Katarakt Festival in Hamburg) will take
place in separate but contiguous halls. The audience can only hear the complete
work by walking through the spaces. The piece could also be performed by three
separated ensembles in one common space (e.g., a concert hall).
The first and third ensemble move up a semitone
through the piece (one from F to F#, the other from C to C#), while the second
ensemble remains « stationary » around A. This, theoretically, results in a
move, over 24 minutes, from major to minor, albeit blurred by the microtonal
character of the totality.
D i e Ö f f n u n
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Kampnagel Hamburg
Jan 27 - A set in a concert at Club Transmediale, Hebbel
Theater 2, Berlin
Featuring a new performance and recording of the orchestra
piece - "Baobab" by the Zinc and CopperWorks brass quartet, plus a
performance of "Vlada"
for viola d'amore, with Elisabeth Smalt; AshEli, with Eli Keszler, percussion
Jan 30 - Thursday - A concert by Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit - at KörberForum,
produced by Elbe Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany, www. elbphilharmonie.de
Feb 5, Wednesday - A concert at the Logos Foundation in Gent
Belgium, playing a piece realized for the Logos Robot Orchestra, "One Blue
Rose", Vlada BC, with Elisabeth Smalt, viola d'amore; and others,
www.logosfoundation.org
Feb 24 - 28, a
series of lectures and concerts by Phill Niblock at Dartmouth College, Hanover
NH, with Carlos Casas and Neil Leonard + students from Berklee College of
Music, Boston
March 25 - 30 - University of Maine, campuses at Orono and
Farmington, a series of lectures and concerts, with Katherine Liberovskaya,
Alan Margolis, Neil Leonard, produced by Gustavo Aguilar
Please respond to this email to - pniblock@compuserve.com