EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-third Anniversary of EI
performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-eighth Anniversary of the Founding
of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-eighth Anniversary of the 224 Centre
Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual "Festival
with no fancy name," Part One (or
A) Phill Niblock, curator December
2016
Mia Zabelka
and 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 of
the instrument using live electronic devices and preparing it through the
insertion of alien objects between or on the strings; she is continuously
exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the
boundaries in experimental performances and compositions that question
established notions, improving the available techniques and given structures;
Liberovskaya has been exploring improvised live visuals in the context of live
music/sound concert situations since the early 2000s, collaborating with
numerous music and sound artists; her live visuals seek to create improvisatory
"music" for the eyes; they span a wide variety of approaches from
straightforward real-time montage and processing of pre-recorded material to
the use of diverse kinds of live cameras to capture live "events" on
the concert stage and integrate them to the image mix; at EI, MZ and KL will
continue an on-going collaboration where gesture and image dialogue through
surveillance technology
Mimmo Napolitano (SEC_)
& Mario Gabiola (Italy)
Wednesday
14
Italian duo known as Aspec(t), appreciated for their original mix of
electro-acoustic detailed improvisation and power electronics/noise visceral
attitude; they use reel-to-reel tape machine, feedback systems, self-built
synthesizers and audio samples to produce frenetic structures, twisted
rhythms, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of the
soundscape and the time stream www.toxorecords.com/aspec(t)
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"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 and
Tourism; General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban
Suburbs; General Directorate for Performing Arts; and GAI – Association for the
Circuit of the Young Italian Artists
Biliana Voutchkova (Bulgaria, Berlin) and Michael Thieke (Berlin) Thursday
15
The violin and clarinet duo’s
new program works with the theme of blur in the field of music, on the
level 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 of
pre-structured material in which tape-recordings of the duo are duplicated by
live performance http://www.bilianavoutchkova.net/ http://www.michael-thieke.de/
Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
In cooperation with the
Goethe-Institute Chicago
Christina Wheeler (Los Angeles/Berlin) Friday
16
Tres Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs: A three-part, solo
composition in audience-generated, chance order and direction, for voice,
electric mbira, electric autoharp, Q-Chord, delay loops, and electronic
effects processing
Amnon Wolman (Israel) and Neil Leonard
(Boston) Saturday
17
A new collaboration between Neil Leonard and Amnon
Wolman called Security Vehicles
Only that employs two poems by John Ashbery; the piece is scheduled
for premiere at the Tectonics Festival in Tel Aviv in November; at EI, Security Vehicles Only will be
performed together with Amnon’s Flagger
Ahead for visual live performers that will be presented by a group
of student-artists from Boston
Jenny Pickett &
Julien Ottavi (UK/France)
Sunday 18
Solar Return - Nantes based artists
Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi created Solar Return in 2009; taking
electromagnetic phenomena as a starting point for their audio creations; they
have produced various scores for dual audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronics
etc...which reflect patterns and electromagnetic events such as solar flares
and inner city
mobile phone masts
as well as the unfathomable audio world of kitchen appliances; through their
performances the duo tunnel deep into the world of frequency, static and sound
as a physical experience http://jennypickett.co.uk
- http://www.noiser.org http://bruitbrut.lautre.net/
Junko Wada and Hans Peter Kuhn (Berlin) Monday
19
3 Dreams - These dreams are not necessarily what you dream of, they are
rather these kind of dreams one really dreams, a bit between nightmare and
Alice’s Wonderland; not really bad dreams but also not the dreams of the best
worlds; the first dream is this dream where your body is too slow for reaching
the aim, everybody knows that; the second is a wild story where all kind of
connections and happenings are possible and the third one is the one that is
rather relaxing and meditative www.junkowada.de www.hanspeterkuhn.com
Johan Vandermaelen (Belgium) Tuesday
20
About the weather - a spatial installation about the unremarkable slow
processes and sounds that surround us; Objects, fileplayers, singing stones
Our programs are
supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland
Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the
Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State
Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212
431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and
www.XIrecords.org 9pm
Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours of
Music and Film on Wednesday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight - the Winter
Solstice
Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 Atlantic
Ave, 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 - Celestial
Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward - Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman - Body Music
(XI 109); Jackson Mac Low - Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock - Music By
Phill 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 With
Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo - 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 For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom
Johnson - 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); 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); Michael Vincent
Waller – 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 Following
Releases 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 3
CDs For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135
All of the XI CDs
are available for sale from our website (www.xirecords.org), as well as from
Forced Exposure (USA) (www.forcedexposure.com) and Amazon.com. Titles are also
available through Metamkine (France) (www.metamkine.com) and Soundohm (Italy)
(www.soundohm.com). All releases are also available digitally through outlets
such as iTunes, Spotify.com, Amazon.com, emusic.com, boomkat.com and others.