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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Fithtieth Anniversary of the Founding ofExperimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Streetloft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival with no fancyname, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock,curator March 2018
JimDenley (Australia) Friday 2 The Ditch: David Watson(guitar and bagpipes) and Mij Yelned (Australia, prepared bass flute and altosax) and Chris Mann (voice and text); Chris and Mij formed Machine for MakingSense in the late 1980’s, Chris in Melbourne and Mij in Sydney; Mij and Davidfirst played together in Sydney in the 1990s — making “Bit Part Actor” (BrailleRecords) together with Mij’s other Machine for Making Sense colleagues and IkueMori; David has resided in NYC since 1987 and often playing with Chris; Mij andDavid have occasionally met on David’s trips downunder, when he crosses TheDitch (Tasman Sea) to perform in Sydney; they’ve only played alltogether once – NYC sometime in the early 2000s? http://theuse.info/ https://soundcloud.com/jim-denley https://xirecords.bandcamp.com/album/fingering-an-idea www.splitrec.com
NateWooley (New York) and Nicola L. Hein (Berlin) Sunday 4 The trumpet player andguitarist will follow a philosophical question and play a conceptualcomposition - What is skeptic improvisation? The question of what itmeans to be skeptical about improvisation and to be an improvising skeptic willbe followed; it is the scepticism of the musicians regarding destiny, habitus,certainties, playing and the sense-games of musical action; the compositionserves to irritate the players and their certainties; it is about the challengeof thinking, the aesthetic thinking about thinking with the means ofimprovised music,, playing around and with the limits of musicalthought; revolving around the impossibility of an hyperbolic skepsis,watching the certainties arise on their own, which Nietzsche and Wittgensteinunderstood as an inherent feature of (musical) grammar; the aim is theidiosyncratic aesthetics of the sceptic musical act http://natewooley.com/ https://nicolahein.com/
AbigailChild (New York) A Video Event Thursday 15 “A BRACE OF SHAKES”—Aselection of short films (16mm and digital) from across three decades,exhibiting "a playful musicality and poetic and rigorouscompression…working against the manufactured ambush that images have in store;”Child has long created a subtle form of agitprop, exploringissues of gender and class through montage, with a fearless sense ofstructure and unself-conscious delight in the visual; she has worked withdowntown musicians including John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman,Andrea Parkins and Marty Ehrlich, all of whose music will befeatured in thefilms shown tonight www.abigailchild.com
PerryBard (New York) A Video Event Friday 16 Aprogram of timely political shorts from 1997 to the present dealing with Nazis,heightened security, immigration, and war; No Flak, a recent text animation in collaboration with Richard Sullivan, links theattitudes of Dada and Theatre of the Absurd to the current administrationreferencing the despotic King Ubu, 1984, and Jonathan Crary's 24/7:Capitalism and the End of Sleep; followed by a crowdsourced version of Dziga Vertov's1929 masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake www.perrybard.net. dziga.perrybard.netarchived at http://rhizome.org/art/artbase/artwork/man-with-a-movie-camerathe-global-rem...
PierreMarietan (Paris) A Video Event Sunday 18 Thisis an invitation for you to use your power of ubiquity; it is proposed herewith the transfer of a distant world to the moment of your listening and gazeonto the present; I have traveled the World and captured 32 short visualsequences and recorded and retained 37 audio situations; with theseelements I have composed a set juxtaposing/superimposing images and musicindependently from each other, leaving the freedom of interpretation betweensight and sound up to the spectator; it is by this perceptible process that thegift of ubiquity is acquired ttps://pierremarietan.wordpress.com/ RencontreArchitecturemusiqueecologie.co
ScreenCompositions 14, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya A Video Event Monday 19 For the 14th year, Screen Compositions bringsyou, as every time, a collection of intersections of moving image with sonicart; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-waycollaborations between video/film artists and sound/music artists specificallyintended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component;featuring collaborations by: Charlotte Clermont / Alain Lefebvre ; KatherineLiberovskaya / Ranjit Bhatnagar ; Francesca Llopis / Barbara Held ; MiloszLuczynski / Marek Choloniewski ; Noriko Nakano / Akio Mokuno with Hitomi Honda; Rob Parrish / Richard Chartier ; Emily Pelstring / Katherine Kline ; LorenzoSanjuan / Bob Bellerue ; Jorge Simonet / Francisco Lopez ; Beth Warshafsky /Gerry Hemingway
Bettina Wenzel(Germany) Wednesday 21 Elasticmaterials are stretchable, over-stretchable and mostly unbreakable; a vocalresearch based on that principle leads to fall-out frequencies and wanted sideeffects that provide the main sound material for an ongoing research; unadulteratedand therefore natural, the resonating body generates extreme - minimal andmaximal - sound vibrations instantly shaped into musical structures; this canbe done in the way of a sculptor and by accepting the uncontrollable part; oneof the most recent results is "head oscillator", a serie ofproductive voice glitches http://soundcloud.com/bettina-wenzel,http://www.wenzelvoice.de
GuyDe Bievre (Brussels) Thursday 22 Drone Shyness, version fortrombone and lap steel guitar; is a study of the becoming or not becoming ofdrone, investigating how much change and interruption "dronemusic" can tolerate before it becomes something else; with Peter Zummo,trombone www.guydebievre.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zummo
ClarenceBarlow (Santa Barbara, Barcelona) Friday 23 Since about thirty yearsago, the composer has been making films to accompany or illustrate his music;the video component is either based on the compositional principle of themusic, or based on visual material by other artists, from film archives, orrecorded on site www.clarlow.org
RicardoArias (Colombia) and Judy Dunaway (US) - Sunday 25 Both have separately specialized in free improvisationand experimental music on the latex balloon fordecades, making it their main instrument; Arias’ background as a percussionistled him to develop the "balloon kit"("batería global”), andDunaway’s background as a guitaristled her to approach each size and shape of balloon as a soloinstrument; they will combine their expertise to expand and explore the detailsof their shared world and present heretofore unimagined sonic landscapes; thisconcert marks the first meeting of these two avant-garde virtuosi http://www.judydunaway.com/judy-dunaway-and-ricardo-arias-duets.html 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
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