EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street,The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, theFiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, TheTwenty-eighth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (orA) Phill Niblock, curator December2017
Tibor Szemzo and LászlóGoz (Budapest) Monday11 Counter/culture Closure Night: Part One - Experimental Intermedia and Balassi Institute -Hungarian Cultural Center, New York is co-presenting the first CLOSURE NIGHT ofthe Center's COUNTER/CULTURE programming series; to celebrate and wrap-up theevents which were focusing on artistic resistance during the era of stateSocialism in Hungary around the Sixties and Seventies; founders of theworld-renowed Group 180, Tibor Szemzo (visuals, music, narration, flutes) and LászlóGoz (bass trumpet, sea shells) will give a very special cinematographicmusic event paying homage to the Hungarian avantgarde film and music scene ofthe given decades and will prepare for the evening with a specially curated,exclusive program http://szemzo.org/en/tibor-szemzo-2/ http://www.culturehungary.org Henry Flynt (New York) Tuesday12 "You Are MyEverlovin’", for rock electric violin and amplified tambura; Tambura: C.C.Hennix, playing a Pandit Pran Nath tambura; This is a semi-composed,semi-improvised duet, it waspremiered in SOHO in June 1981, and the recording of that performance has beenreleased three times; the piece is literally an alap in the broad sense of the word, that is, a completeperformance without drums; the violin is conventionally tuned and the pedalpoint is D; the musical material is wide-ranging—all the same, two gats were at the core of the originalperformance; at times, Flynt alludes to Shuddh Todi by tonicizing f#; for therest of it, he alludes to various musics outside the European orbit and also tovarious compositions of his henryflynt.org; http://www.recorded.com/releases/003.html; https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/upcoming/products/henry-flynt-yo... Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett (Conn, New York) Wednesday 13 Fortheir first performance together, Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett will fill atable with transduced tubes, 3D printed shapes, amplified objects, and cassetterecorders; feedback will be used to explore spaces large and small whilesoftware and hardware instruments capture sound as a material to be sculpted intime; both are composers, artists, and performers in equal and sometime notequal parts, so no particular preference will be given to whether the soundsare loud or soft or short or long but a great deal of attention will almostcertainly be paid to listening in the moment http://www.onelonelypixel.org http://vimeo.com/sethcluetthttp://soundcloud.com/sethcluett http://www.paulamatthusen.com/ Bernd Klug (New York) Thursday14 ‘sides-systems under test’ is a live sound work based on ongoing research about thephysical impact of societies as acoustic properties; it traces the question ofwhat happens if we temporally, spatially and intellectually feedback our lackof control over the world; maybe void and silence are not too far apart andactive listening can be an information session about our inabilities, a benefitfor our crumbled actions, a funeral party for lost dreams and a launch ofattempts and approaches http://klug.klingt.org David Lee Myers (New York) Friday 15 CD release party andperformance by Myers, who sometimes works under the name Arcane Device; thealbum “Ether Music” is produced by the new music champion Starkland label; hewill be performing his signature “Feedback Music” on decades-evolvingmatrix-mixed sound processors accompanied by projected lissajou graphicscreated directly from his sounds; marking the 30th anniversary of FeedbackMusic, this is Myers’ only performance this year! www.pulsewidth.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytqotxofy6Q https://davidleemyers.bandcamp.com Michael Schumacher (New York) Sunday17 ThePortable Multi-Channel Sound System is a musical instrument designedspecifically for Michael J. Schumacher’s spatialized compositions; building onthe pioneering work of composers such as Alvin Lucier and Maryanne Amacher,presentations explore the relationship between musical form and architecturalspace and how this relationship can inform listening; combining installationand performance, algorithmic composition and improvisation, this goes beyondacoustics to the way people inhabit and use spaces, creating paradigms forlistening and formal expectations http://michaeljschumacher.com/PM-CSS Lucie Vítková (Czech Republic/New York) Monday 18 MUSIC DOMESTIC is an album, releasedon the New York label Bánh Mì Verlag in March 2017; it is a series ofperformances focused on domestic space; in each piece, an automatic domesticinstrument such as vacuum cleaner, kettle, washing machine, toilet, shower,heating and fans is played together with 2 accordions, hichiriki, voice,harmonica, objects and electronics; the music aesthetics are derived from agentle manipulation of the domestic instruments, followed by my set ofinstruments; I am going to play four pieces from this album live, with thedomestic instruments found at the venue https://soundcloud.com/banhmiverlag/lucie-vitkova-music-domestic-excerpt Yasunao Tone (New York) Tuesday19 Hehas collaborated with Prof. Tony Myatt, University of Surrey UK, and a team ofresearchers including Dr. Paul Modler, with the support of the ISSUE ProjectRoom in 2016; a series of performances using Tone’s MP3 Deviation software werecaptured in a laboratory then used to train Kohoen Neural Networks to developartificial intelligences that can simulate several of his performance approaches;the AIs are integrated in a software framework and computer performance systemthat extracts attributes from the audio they generate to “listen” to the outputand make performance actions as if they were virtual Tone performers; fiveversions of Tone AI exist in the performance software, each of which exhibitscertain responses modeled on those previously adopted by Tone; in performance,Tone will deviate and control AI versions of himself along with the mechanismsthat each AI uses to hear and respond to the audio they generate; deviating andcorrupting the technologies designed to simulate his own performances,deviating and interacting live with AI versions of himself as performer;special guest artist, Ami Yamasaki, outstanding voice performance artist www.Google him Our programs are supported by The David& Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, thePhaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with thesupport of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm
Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours ofMusic and Film on Thursday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight - the WinterSolstice Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 AtlanticAve, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org
XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI Records.org website: Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI102); Guy Klucevsek - Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); DavidBehrman - Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson - Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach - CelestialFires (XI 107); Fast Forward -Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - OpenSecrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); AllisonCameron - Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode - Clarinet Songs (XI 113); MaryEllen Childs - Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart - Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue(XI 115); Peter Zummo - Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); LogosDuo - Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson - Sinopah (XI 118);Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein - The Seasons:Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock - YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen - Partitas ForLong Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson - The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band - 90% PostConsumer Sound (XI 124); PhilipCorner - 40 Years And One (XI125); Gen Ken Montgomery - Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher -Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht- A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried (XI 129);Warren Burt - The Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130);Matt Rogalsky - Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson - Fingering An Idea(XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher - Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom);David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); MichaelVincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI137); Dan Joseph - Electroacoustic Works (XI 138) Coming Soon:Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 140),Tom Chiu (XI 141) AmnonWolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) – Our first digital onlyrelease. Recorded live at Experimental Intermedia performance. Available onbandcamp as well as through most digital outlets (iTunes etc) Thecover art and full notes for the release will be on the www.experimentalintermedia.orgwebsite, and in a form to print and place into a burned CD case