EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Thirty-ninth Anniversary of EI performances at 224
Centre Street, The Forty-fourth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental
Intermedia, the Forty-fourth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and,
not least,
The Twenty-third Annual Festival with no fancy
name, Part One (or A)
Phill Niblock, curator
December
2012
David Linton, David First, David
Watson (NYC) Wednesday
12
D D D @ XI on XII /XII /XII Why would three
veteran musicians, with back-stories crossing the last three decades of New
York experimental music, undertake a joint event at Experimental Intermedia
- welcome to the Creepy Triangle
Variety Show: Ex Post Facto: David
First, David Linton, & David Watson : guitars, video, feedback, drones,
bagpipes, percussion, voice, electronics and distended cinema; reshuffling their
decks, dealing a fresh round and waiting to take you away - @ XI XII/XII/XII @ IX
Linton: http://bi-cam-rl.tumblr.com/;
http://bicameralresearch.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch?feature=mhee
http://bicameral.multiply.com/
First: http://www.davidfirst.com/
Zach Layton (NYC) Thursday
13
New
works for bowed electric guitar and electronics...a series of improvised and
composed works exploring non-standard tunings and aperiodic rhythmic structures
derived from autonomic nervous system activity zachlaytonindustries.com
Al Margolis and Doug Van Nort (USA) Friday
14
For this laptop duo
project, the musicians utilize acoustic materials and capture/transform one
another's sound in an endless loop; both use digital means - Van Nort tends to
favor sculpting/ stretching from small sound fragments, while Margolis often
likes to make collages out of
larger sound segments; they
will be joined by Katherine Liberovskaya providing live video; you can hear
them:
Jon
Abbey (USA)
DJing
continuously from 3-11 PM Saturday
15
Erstwhile
Records programs a very special day/night of electroacoustic music created from
2009-2012, including work from Keith Rowe, Jason Lescalleet, Toshiya Tsunoda,
Michael Pisaro, Taku Unami, Toshimaru Nakamura, Antoine Beuger, and many more.
Frédéric
Acquaviva (FR / Berlin) Sunday
16
A
three hour concert with four pieces mixing texts sounds and instruments into
both a conceptual and physical sound by one of the radical french experimental
acousmatic composers; world creations of "Lore Ipsum", a voices
+ electronic composition and " {...} " (2010), the total
compression of his sounds works since 1990; his new CD-DVD "Aatie"
(2011-2012 with videos) and "Le Disque"(2009-2010), with sounds
recorded in a BDSM dungeon and psychiatric hospital, partly created in NY last
year; with Frédéric Acquaviva, spatialization and Loré Lixenberg (UK),
mezzo-soprano www.frederic-acquaviva.net
Rie Nakajima and Miki Yui (J, GB; J, De) Monday
17
Accompaniment
for A-O-I-E-U
Rie Nakajima meets Miki Yui
found objects, toy-instruments playing with small
sounds;
real sounds playing with acoustic memories
Bolsa
Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese Intermedia
Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermedia
performance by:
Ana Carvalho (Portugal) Wednesday 19
with
Andrea Parkins and Ben Owen - “Refractive composition for live video and sound
in two parts” develops from multiple experiments with refraction, where chance
is essential in the connection between process and performance, and between
structures of collaboration and of creation
Our programs are supported by the New York
State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at
Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm, unless otherwise
advised 212 431 5127, 431 6430
On December 20, 5 - 7pm, at White Box, 329 Broome
Street, NYC - there will be a book launch for a new book of articles about
Phill Niblock, which will include 4 DVDs of video, entitled "Working
Title".
The event will be part of: Ear to the Earth, in
collaboration with MA.P.S at White Box: 100 x John - A festival of sound and image
In the spirit of the 100th
anniversary year of his birth, this festival salutes John Cage for his
leadership in what Joel Chadabe called "the great opening up of music to
all sounds".
Thursday December 20 -5 - 10pm - opening
party; Program:
5-7 - Meet
Phill Niblock: Working Title, a book release reception ; 7-10 - Cageian
mix; Friday,
December 21 - 8pm - multimedia introduction; performances; Saturday,
December 22- noon - 10pm
- sounds and images; Sunday,
December 23 - noon - 10pm
- sounds and images and Christmas party
And for the second time in history, Phill Niblock will
be at Roulette in Brooklyn on Friday December 21, the Winter Solstice, for six
hours of Music and Film/Video – 6pm to 12am
ROULETTE,
509 Atlantic Ave (and 3rd Ave), Brooklyn,
(917) 267-0363
www.roulette.org
For
$10 tickets for this concert, you can book online and use the coupon code - Niblock2012 (it's not case sensitive). You can book until 4pm the day of
the concert, and you cannot have this price at the door.
Please respond to
pniblock@compuserve.com