EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Forty-third Anniversary of EIperformances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-eighth Anniversary of the Foundingof Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-eighth Anniversary of the 224 CentreStreet loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual "Festival with no fancy name," Part One (orA) Phill Niblock, curator December2016
Mia Zabelkaand Katherine Liberovskaya Tuesday 13 Zabelka's solo work is an ongoing process of de-and re-construction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range ofthe instrument using live electronic devices and preparing it through theinsertion of alien objects between or on the strings; she is continuouslyexploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back theboundaries in experimental performances and compositions that questionestablished notions, improving the available techniques and given structures;Liberovskaya has been exploring improvised live visuals in the context of livemusic/sound concert situations since the early 2000s, collaborating withnumerous music and sound artists; her live visuals seek to create improvisatory"music" for the eyes; they span a wide variety of approaches fromstraightforward real-time montage and processing of pre-recorded material tothe use of diverse kinds of live cameras to capture live "events" onthe concert stage and integrate them to the image mix; at EI, MZ and KL willcontinue an on-going collaboration where gesture and image dialogue throughsurveillance technology www.miazabelka.com
Mimmo Napolitano (SEC_)& Mario Gabiola (Italy) Wednesday14 Italian duo known as Aspec(t), appreciated for their original mix ofelectro-acoustic detailed improvisation and power electronics/noise visceralattitude; they use reel-to-reel tape machine, feedback systems, self-builtsynthesizers and audio samples to produce frenetic structures, twistedrhythms, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of thesoundscape and the time stream www.toxorecords.com/aspec(t) -"Con il sostegno del progetto - With the support of the project DE.MO/MOVIN'UP I sess.2016" - Promoted by: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities andTourism; General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and UrbanSuburbs; General Directorate for Performing Arts; and GAI – Association for theCircuit of the Young Italian Artists
Biliana Voutchkova (Bulgaria, Berlin) and Michael Thieke (Berlin) Thursday15 The violin and clarinet duo’s new program works with the theme of blur in the field of music, on thelevel of formal composition as well as in the details of the musical material;the music’s structure creates a blur; improvised parts alternate with fields ofpre-structured material in which tape-recordings of the duo are duplicated bylive performance http://www.bilianavoutchkova.net/ http://www.michael-thieke.de/ Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding In cooperation with theGoethe-Institute Chicago
Christina Wheeler (Los Angeles/Berlin) Friday16 Tres Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs: A three-part, solocomposition in audience-generated, chance order and direction, for voice,electric mbira, electric autoharp, Q-Chord, delay loops, and electroniceffects processing www.christinawheeler.com
Amnon Wolman (Israel) and Neil Leonard(Boston) Saturday17 A new collaboration between Neil Leonard and AmnonWolman called Security VehiclesOnly that employs two poems by John Ashbery; the piece is scheduledfor premiere at the Tectonics Festival in Tel Aviv in November; at EI, Security Vehicles Only will beperformed together with Amnon’s FlaggerAhead for visual live performers that will be presented by a groupof student-artists from Boston http://www.neilleonard.com,https://soundcloud.com/amnon-wolman https://vimeo.com/amnonwolman http://www.amnonwolman.org/ http://downloads.strikingmechanism.com/album/for-phill
Jenny Pickett &Julien Ottavi (UK/France) Sunday 18 Solar Return - Nantes based artistsJenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi created Solar Return in 2009; takingelectromagnetic phenomena as a starting point for their audio creations; theyhave produced various scores for dual audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronicsetc...which reflect patterns and electromagnetic events such as solar flaresand inner citymobile phone mastsas well as the unfathomable audio world of kitchen appliances; through theirperformances the duo tunnel deep into the world of frequency, static and soundas a physical experience http://jennypickett.co.uk- http://www.noiser.org http://bruitbrut.lautre.net/
Junko Wada and Hans Peter Kuhn (Berlin) Monday19 3 Dreams - These dreams are not necessarily what you dream of, they arerather these kind of dreams one really dreams, a bit between nightmare andAlice’s Wonderland; not really bad dreams but also not the dreams of the bestworlds; the first dream is this dream where your body is too slow for reachingthe aim, everybody knows that; the second is a wild story where all kind ofconnections and happenings are possible and the third one is the one that israther relaxing and meditative www.junkowada.de www.hanspeterkuhn.com
Johan Vandermaelen (Belgium) Tuesday20 About the weather - a spatial installation about the unremarkable slowprocesses and sounds that surround us; Objects, fileplayers, singing stones http://bamart.be/nl/artists/detail/285 https://soundcloud.com/user-918816603
Our programs aresupported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron CoplandFund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on theArts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York StateLegislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org andwww.XIrecords.org 9pm
Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours ofMusic and Film on Wednesday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight - the WinterSolstice Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 AtlanticAve, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org
A list of the CDs available on the XI Records label:
Phill Niblock -Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk - Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek -Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman - 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 - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music ByPhill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron - Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode -Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs - Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart- Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo - Experimenting WithHousehold Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - Logos Works (XI 117); AnneaLockwood/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 For Long Strings (XI 122); TomJohnson - The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band - 90% Post Consumer Sound(XI 124); Philip Corner - 40 Years And One (XI 125); Gen Ken Montgomery -Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher - Room Pieces (XI 127); AlanLicht - 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); Michael VincentWaller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger - Raw/Re: Space (XI 137) Coming Soon:Releases by Dan Joseph (XI 138) and Leslie Ross (XI 139) The FollowingReleases Are 2 CDs For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128,XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137; The Following Releases Are 3CDs For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135
All of the XI CDsare available for sale from our website (www.xirecords.org), as well as fromForced Exposure (USA) (www.forcedexposure.com) and Amazon.com. Titles are alsoavailable through Metamkine (France) (www.metamkine.com) and Soundohm (Italy)(www.soundohm.com). All releases are also available digitally through outletssuch as iTunes, Spotify.com, Amazon.com, emusic.com, boomkat.com and others.