The Fifty-First Anniversary of EI performances, the Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirty-Fourth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)      

Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock curators                                                

MARCH 2024   -   All events at 7PM in all places

Please note all the different venues for this series

Suggested donation $10 except Monday 18th at Zürcher Gallery 2 sets / $20

Dave Seidel (New Hampshire) - at Harvestworks                                                                                                             Sunday 17

A performance of the entirety of my three-part electronic drone work "Involution", from the eponymous XI Records release: A study in complex microtonal sonorities derived from various just intonation tunings and scales; This is the premiere of a new revision of the piece - https://mysterybear.net/ - https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/

Kaffe Matthews  (Berlin) - at Zürcher Gallery                                                                                                                      Monday 18

Live processing 15th century alchemical systems through the Riple; An instrument occupied with the generation and processing of all colours of noise, designed through discoveries made by the British alchemist George Ripley; Noise, colours, lightning, square waves and clocks, mashed with salt and fed by mercury to feed the Toad, the gold, the final output? Today with the WORM on vocals - www.kaffematthews.net

Sarah Bernstein (NYC) - at Zürcher Gallery                                                                                                                       Monday 18
Solo violin/voice performance utilizing heavily-processed sound and raw expression, melding noise, electronic improvisation, art rock and existential poetry into an ecstatic unity - https://sarahbernstein.com

Lary 7 (NYC) - at WhiteBox                                                                                                                                                Tuesday 19

Occupying a realm somewhere between science and music, is a leftover byproduct of the 20th Century tactile physical world . . . Lary 7 is 6 times detritus, plus 5 versions of mistakes, 4 excuses for failure, 3 of the most analog bumps on a log, 2 unexpected goofs, and 1 of the last living _____________s." (fill in the blank generation . . .with a word that doesn't make sense.)

William Hooker (NYC) - at WhiteBox                                                                                                                                Wednesday 20

"The Mind World"...Part 1 - is a solo auditory visual experience of sounds directed through spontaneous musical improvisations augmented by dance movements / as viewed by the audience; Thereby, exploring energy levels - directions and the communion (of the being /spirit) with the viewing audience; With dance by Yaching Cheung: In addition there will be a live improvisation with Phill Niblock's video-audio piece "Hooker-Niblock" (2015-19) 

https://www.williamhooker.com/

Joan Jonas (NYC) - at EHF                                                                                                                                             Friday 22

Joan Jonas will screen a selection of older and newer video works - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas

Rina Sherman (Paris) / Phill Niblock - at EHF                                                                                                                 Saturday 23

On one of my first trips to New York after coming to Paris in exile in 1984, Phill Niblock filmed a portrait of me in a series of portraits, Anecdotes From Childhood, that featured in his 2007 exhibition at the Gahlberg Gallery and was taken up in Working Title (2013) published by Presses du réel in a bilingual edition; Phill Niblock traveled constantly, and we saw each other often when he came to perform in Paris; In 2013, I made a cineportrait of him, "Phill Niblock, Minimalist Composer and Intermedia Artist" (Rina Sherman, VOICES, rencontres avec des personnes remarquables); Both portraits will be screened - www.rinasherman.com

3 moving image impressions of Phill Niblock - at EHF                                                                                                   Sunday 24

"Singterview with Phill Niblock" (2015) by Loré Lixenberg (London); "The Movement of Phill Niblock" (2015) by Maurits Wouters (Turnhout, Belgium); "PHILL NIBLOCK: The Movement of People Working, Centre Pompidou Paris 29 November 2014" (2015) by Gilles Paté (Paris)

SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 20 curated by Katherine Liberovskaya - at ISSUE                                                            Monday 25

This year Screen Compositions celebrates its 20th anniversary! Our jubilee edition brings you, as ever, a collection of always captivating and inspired intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Deborah Bernagozzi / Jason Bernagozzi; Patrick Bokanowski / Michele Bokanowski; Navel Cassidy / Michael Evans; Holly Fisher / Lois V Vierk; Gisela Gamper / Pauline Oliveros+Zach Layton+Jonas Braasch; Richard Garet / Barbara Held; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock+Francisco Janes; Ursula Scherrer / Marcia Bassett; Claudia Schmitz / Ute Wassermann; Sara C. Sun / Michael Vincent Waller

Venues:

Harvestworks: 596 Broadway #602, New York, NY 10012 - www.harvestworks.org

Zürcher Gallery: 33 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012 - www.galeriezurcher.com

WhiteBox: 9 Ave B, New York, NY 10009, at Houston Street - https://whiteboxnyc.org

Emily Harvey Foundation (EHF): 537 Broadway #2, New York, NY 10012, at Spring - www.emilyharveyfoundation.org

ISSUE Project Room: 22 Boerum Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11201 - https://issueprojectroom.org/

Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013   212 431 5127

www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org

Our programs are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, the Ulla Dydo Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of Renaissance Charitable Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature