Please note that the Tuesday 16th concert at Harvestworks is at 7pm. And Friday 19th at Fridman Gallery is back to 8pm and is a double-bill, 2 concerts back-to-back...

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*EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA*

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

*Katherine Liberovskaya, curator *

*DECEMBER 2025 - All events 8PM except 16 December 7PM*

*Please note the different venues for this series*

*Suggested donation $10 all nights except Friday 19th at Fridman Gallery 2 sets / $20*

*Al Margolis with Tom Law (New York) - at Various/Artists 8pm Wednesday 10*

A solo; a solo and a half; a duo; Margolis will play a solo set for stringed instrument, contact mic(s), objects/junk, etc; Tom Law will live sample/transform a Margolis tape piece; Al and Tom will then perform a set as their project Duo Denum; with some live video participation by Katherine Liberovskaya; *ifbwana.bandcamp.com http://ifbwana.bandcamp.com/* ; *bigsphinx.bandcamp.com http://bigsphinx.bandcamp.com/*

*Marcia Bassett & Chuck Bettis (NYC) - at Various/Artists 8pm Thursday 11*

Synth duo focused on improvised techniques that explore layered textures and deep dronescapes; *marciabassett.org http://marciabassett.org/* ; *www.chuckbettis.com http://www.chuckbettis.com/* ; *yewrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunview http://yewrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunview*

*Ras Burnett (NYC) - at Various/Artists 8pm Friday 12*

Ras Burnett is a saxophonist-composer-musicologist-educator; he commenced his musical engagement in 1987 with free jazz and reggae; Ras believes in and advocates the positive energy of creative music; featuring Ras Burnett-Tenor Sax; Tor Snyder-Guitar & Electronic Sound; Dave Ross-Guitar; *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Moshe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Moshe*

*Scott Kiernan (NYC) - at Various/Artists* *8pm **Saturday 13*

A screening night of analog and real-time video from the last 15 years: often with a focus on the perils of translation through technology, forced "syntax errors" and a re-shaping of language through the video signal; projects span live performances, TV broadcast experiments, collaborations with musicians, multi-channel works and more; scottkiernan.com

*Elaine Summers Centennial (NYC) - at Various/Artists 8pm Sunday 14*

Bringing Elaine Summers home to be featured among the events of the thirty-fifth annual series produced by Experimental Intermedia - the very organization she founded back in 1968 - this tribute screening will show five of her early film-works as part of the Centennial year celebrations of her legacy; a choreographer, filmmaker, originator of the movement practice Kinetic Awareness and intermedia artist, Summers was interested in exploring what film could do that dance could not, and how they could work together to create a temporary third, new entity that she referred to as intermedia; two of the works were created with late EIF director Phill Niblock as cinematographer; curated by Katherine Liberovskaya, introduction-video by Thomas Körtvélyessy, special thanks to Gustavo Matamoros (subtropics), Freddy Jouwayed, the Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts; *elainesummersdance.com http://elainesummersdance.com/*

*Mariana Carvalho (Berlin, Germany) - at Harvestworks 7pm Tuesday 16*

Two pieces for an amplified head, transducers and a tiny speaker in the mouth; Mariana shares her (internal) listening to pre-recorded material such as prepared piano, mouth-to-mouth vocals, voices, seashells and text excerpts; sometimes she sings and eats; *marianacarvalho.me http://marianacarvalho.me/* ; *sellopostal.bandcamp.com/album/me-alimento-de-voces http://sellopostal.bandcamp.com/album/me-alimento-de-voces*

*Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Paris, France) - at Fridman Gallery 8pm Friday 19*

Minos Circuit Rewired (2024 - 2025) : performance for microphone feedback and bassoon; Minos Circuit Rewired is a site-specific exploration of the contingent musicality of feedback; through microphone feedback, various resonant spaces - the cavities of a disassembled bassoon, the concert room itself – are made audible, turning physical volume into frequency and unintended harmony; *portraitsgrm.bandcamp.com/album/minos-circuit http://portraitsgrm.bandcamp.com/album/minos-circuit*

*Kristin Norderval with Miguel Frasconi* * (NYC) - at Fridman Gallery Friday 19*Kristin Norderval and Miguel Frasconi stretch time and coax sounds from thin air with gesturally controlled multiphonic vocals, glass objects and electronics; their improvising partners - glass in various stages of devolution, and the EVII (the Expanded Vocal Improvising Instrument) - require presence, flow, and learning to handle whatever surprises they mete out; just like life; *www.kristinnorderval.com http://www.kristinnorderval.com/*; *frasconimusic.bandcamp.com http://frasconimusic.bandcamp.com/*

*Venues:*

Various/Artists: 19 Essex St, New York, NY 10002 - www.variousartistsrecords.com/19essex

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

Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002 - www.fridmangallery.com

*As well*: Phill Niblock - Winter Solstice at Roulette: Six Hours of Music and Film on Sunday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight Roulette Intermedium Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org

https://roulette.org/event/phill-niblock-winter-solstice-2025/

*Exper**imental Intermedia, **www.experimentalintermedia.org http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/ and **www.XIrecords.org* http://www.xirecords.org/, *212 431 5127*

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

*XI Records CDs:*

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:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph - Electroacoustic Works (XI 138); Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard - Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digital only release; Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross – drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141); Phill Niblock/The Dorf – Baobab / Echoes (XI 142); Dave Seidel – Involution (XI 143); Tom Chiu - The Live One (XI 144); Phill Niblock - NuDaf (XI 145/AKOH 145); Neil Leonard – Sonance for the Precession (LP) (XI 146/AKOH 146); Amnon Wolman - Book/DVD (XI 147/AKOH 147); Michael Winter – Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut/a lot of tiles (trivial scan) (XI 148); Matt Rogalsky – Visitations and Revisitations (XI 149); Merche Blasco/Lucie Vítková - Blasco / Vítková / Anette (XI 150); Upcoming: Julian Knowles, David First

XI releases are available for sale on our website (www.xirecords.org), as well as from Forced Exposure (USA) (www.forcedexposure.com); titles are also available through Amazon.com, Bandcamp (xirecords.bandcamp.com) and Soundohm, Italy (www.soundohm.com); most releases are also available digitally through outlets such as Spotify etc.