Interview in Audiovisual Salvage
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The Fortieth Anniversary of EI performances
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Fortieth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-fifth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least,
The Twenty-fourth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March 2013
Thursday 14
Walter Branchi (Italy)
I think of music in a systemic way; I think of my music as a single, great composition formed of parts that can be performed separately but are not isolated from one another; I think of my music as a whole (as an “Intero”), which will take my entire life to compose and which will never be completed; “Un grande canto,” where every part includes the whole and is included by it; what I am going to present tonight are three recent parts of Intero - In memoriam György Ligeti - Sensibile - Behold.; and a time lapse video: Blue Mountain Lake that Kristin Jones has been working on that is set to my music
www.walter-branchi.com
Friday 15
Krzysztof Knittel and Andrei Smirnov (Poland and Russia)
Smirnov, playing 3D Theremin + MaxMSP; Knittel, playing interactive monochord (based on infra-red beams), iPhone and iPad - will perform three pieces: Brain Jazz 2, El. Free improv 2, Free for(m) Macwin 3 (Brain Jazz 2 is a performance/installation based on interactive brain-wave biofeedback system - all processes depend on mimics of the face of the performer)
asmir.info
knittel.wizya.net
https://vimeo.com/16889938
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6B6s8Ctjcs
Sunday 17
Cat Lamb (USA)
shade/gradient - viola, voice, formant/filtered oscillators
http://sacredrealism.org/catlamb/
Tuesday 19
Dan Joseph (USA)
The Brooklyn-based composer performs works for electro-acoustic hammer dulcimer and field recordings with guest artist Andrea Williams
http://www.danjoseph.org
Sunday 24
Grahame Weinbren (USA)
Letters consists of an indeterminate number of films, each one minute in duration, and connected―in one way or another―with a letter of the alphabet. It is a kind of test-ground for ideas about cinema, both technical and conceptual, but also for another kind of idea, the externalization of an inner life, inasmuch as that tired phrase describes anything
grahameweinbren.net
Monday 25
Screen Compositions 9 - Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
The ninth edition of Screen Compositions is once again a collection of 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: Nathalie Bujold / Gerard Leckey + Lary 7; Nisi Jacobs / Michael Schumacher; Chris Jordan / Dok Gregory; Katherine Liberovskaya / Guy de Bievre; Diane T Tremblay / Sylvie Chenard; Ursula Scherrer / Brian Chase; Joel Schlemowitz / Rebecca Moore; Elaine Wood / Rick Breault; Erik Z / Brian Chase
Tuesday 26
Carlos Casas (Spain)
A selection of Fieldworks films from his award winning trilogy End, these fieldworks are video notes in between field recordings and radio frequencies captured in locations in some of the most extreme environments on the planet - Patagonia, Aral, Siberia; these single channel films will be followed by a two screen projection and live soundtrack of Tundra, a film about a day in the life of a reindeer herder community in Siberia
carloscasas.net
Friday 29
Kristin Norderval and Kevin Norton (USA)
KN2 - an evening of improvisations - Kevin on percussion and vibes, and Kristin on acoustic vocals, pre-recorded sounds of prepared pianos, and live audio processing of all of the above; they are joined by Katherine Liberovskaya working her magic with live video processing
www.myspace.com/kristinnorderval
www.kevinnorton.com
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013
9pm Tel: 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
Summary of Events
Phill writes:
"I know you've been missing those emails with my tour info. So here is a biggish one, after my dislocation from touring in November 2012."
Live at Cafe Oto | 28th February 2012
In 2013 minimalist composer Phill Niblock celebrates his 80th year with a massive retrospective at the Lausanne Contemporary Art Centre and a few select dates across Europe with saxophonist and electronic musician Thomas Ankersmit including this concert at Café Oto where the pair will present a selection of new works alongside 'Sweet Potato' for Basset Horn/Bass Clarinet/Eb Clarinet - a piece that was written for American clarinetist and sound artist Carol Robinson in 2001 and featured on the 'Touch Food' set of recordings (reissued by Touch in 2013). This evening's concert will be performed with live contribution from David Ryan on bass clarinet.
A Major Phill Niblock Retrospective | Lausanne January to May 2013
January 29th to May 12th, 2013
Mathieu Copeland, curator
A Phill Niblock retrospective in Lausanne, Switzerland - the exhibition will be realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and the Musée de l’Elysée (the national museum devoted to photography)
Phill Niblock - Working Title
Phill Niblock
Working Title
2012
édition bilingue (français/anglais)
à paraître
Un panorama des activités de l'artiste multimédia et compositeur new-yorkais depuis les années 1960, à travers des essais de musicologues, critiques et historiens de l'art, de nombreuses illustrations, des partitions et 4 films sur DVD.
A collection edited by Yvan Etienne
www.lespressesdureel.com/
www.lespressesdureel.com/collection_serie.php?id=28&menu=1
EI Winter 2012
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Thirty-ninth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-fourth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-fourth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-third Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A): Phill Niblock, curator
December 2012
Wednesday 12th
David Linton, David First, David Watson (NYC)
D D D @ XI on XII /XII /XII
Why would three veteran musicians, with back-stories crossing the last three decades of New York experimental music, undertake a joint event at Experimental Intermedia - welcome to the Creepy Triangle Variety Show: Ex Post Facto: David First, David Linton, & David Watson: guitars, video, feedback, drones, bagpipes, percussion, voice, electronics and distended cinema; reshuffling their decks, dealing a fresh round and waiting to take you away
@ XI XII/XII/XII @ IX
Linton:
bi-cam-rl.tumblr.com/
bicameralresearch.blogspot.com/
www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch?feature=mhee
bicameral.multiply.com/
First:
http://www.davidfirst.com/
Watson:
www.hsmithagency.com/watson/index.html
www.youtube.com/user/davidwatson
Thursday 13th
Zach Layton (NYC)
New works for bowed electric guitar and electronics...a series of improvised and composed works exploring non-standard tunings and aperiodic rhythmic structures derived from autonomic nervous system activity
zachlaytonindustries.com
Soundcloud.com/zachlayton
Friday 14th
Al Margolis and Doug Van Nort (USA)
For this laptop duo project, the musicians utilize acoustic materials and capture/transform one another's sound in an endless loop; both use digital means - Van Nort tends to favor sculpting/ stretching from small sound fragments, while Margolis often likes to make collages out of larger sound segments; they will be joined by Katherine Liberovskaya providing live video; you can hear them:
zeromoon.com/releases/al-margolis-doug-van-nort-live-from-dli-zero126/
Saturday 15th
Jon Abbey (USA) DJing continuously from 3-11 PM
Erstwhile Records programs a very special day/night of electroacoustic music created from 2009-2012, including work from Keith Rowe, Jason Lescalleet, Toshiya Tsunoda, Michael Pisaro, Taku Unami, Toshimaru Nakamura, Antoine Beuger, and many more.
erstwhilerecords.com
Sunday 16th
Frédéric Acquaviva (FR / Berlin)
A three hour concert with four pieces mixing texts sounds and instruments into both a conceptual and physical sound by one of the radical french experimental acousmatic composers; world creations of "Lore Ipsum", a voices + electronic composition and " {...} " (2010), the total compression of his sounds works since 1990; his new CD-DVD "Aatie" (2011-2012 with videos) and "Le Disque"(2009-2010), with sounds recorded in a BDSM dungeon and psychiatric hospital, partly created in NY last year; with Frédéric Acquaviva, spatialization and Loré Lixenberg (UK), mezzo-soprano
www.frederic-acquaviva.net
www.lorelixenberg.com
Monday 17th
Rie Nakajima and Miki Yui (J, GB; J, De)
Accompaniment for A-O-I-E-U
Rie Nakajima meets Miki Yui
found objects, toy-instruments playing with small sounds;
real sounds playing with acoustic memories
www.rienakajima.com
www.mikiyui.com
Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese Intermedia Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermedia performance by:
Wednesday 19th
Ana Carvalho (Portugal)
with Andrea Parkins and Ben Owen - “Refractive composition for live video and sound in two parts” develops from multiple experiments with refraction, where chance is essential in the connection between process and performance, and between structures of collaboration and of creation
Portfolio:http://cargocollective.com/visual-agency;
Personal blog: http://ephemeral-expanded.tumblr.com; Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/visualagency
Long term project: www.vjtheory.net
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm, unless otherwise advised 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
On December 20, 5 - 7pm, at White Box, 329 Broome Street, NYC - there will be a book launch for a new book of articles about Phill Niblock, which will include 4 DVDs of video, entitled "Working Title".
The event will be part of: Ear to the Earth, in collaboration with MA.P.S at White Box: 100 x John - A festival of sound and image
In the spirit of the 100th anniversary year of his birth, this festival salutes John Cage for his leadership in what Joel Chadabe called "the great opening up of music to all sounds".
Thursday December 20th
5-10pm: opening party
5-7: Meet Phill Niblock: Working Title, a book release reception
7-10: Cageian mix
Friday, December 21th
8pm: multimedia introduction; performances
Saturday, December 22th
Noon-10pm: sounds and images
Sunday, December 23
Noon-10pm: sounds and images and Christmas party
And for the second time in history, Phill Niblock will be at Roulette in Brooklyn on Friday December 21st, the Winter Solstice, for six hours of Music and Film/Video – 6pm to 12am
ROULETTE, 509 Atlantic Ave (and 3rd Ave), Brooklyn, (917) 267-0363
For $10 tickets for this concert, you can book online and use the coupon code - Niblock2012 (it's not case sensitive). You can book until 4pm the day of the concert, and you cannot have this price at the door.
Please respond to pniblock@compuserve.com
Experimental-Intermedia mailing list
https://mailman.thing.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/experimental-intermedia
Films shown at Soundfjord | 1st July 2012
July 1st 8pm Soundfjord at V22 Space (F2 Large Space):
Phill Niblock: 3 Compositions (Sweet Potato, Twelve Tones, Disseminate) and ‘The Movement of People Working’ (China 1988, Japan 1989) - David Ryan,dir./Clarinets Ian Mitchell, Clarinets, Alison Blunt, Violin, Joe Zeitlin, cello, Dominic Lash, Contrabass
+ related event: 3pm David Ryan - Via di San Teodoro 8 (a film featuring Giacinto Scelsi's house in Rome) V22 Cinema Space http://www.v22collection.com/club/event.php?ID=108
(PN is NOT to be there)
Phill Niblock | Live Events Summer 2012
June 21 (the summer solstice) – a Phill Niblock concert at Roulette with the Dither Guitar Quartet (James Moore, Joshua Lopes, Gyan Riley, Grey McMurray) playing Two Lips, a scored orchestra piece. Neil Leonard playing saxophone with Sax Mix and Zrost. Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang, tenor trombone; James Rogers, bass trombone, will play A Third Trombone. And maybe a surprise, like two films not seen in years.
Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave at Third Ave, Brooklyn NY, 8pm
http://artonair.org/series/experimental-intermedia-concerts
Experimental Intermedia Concerts - On the Air - Archived
David Weinstein, Program Director, ARTonAIR.org, The Clocktower Gallery & Radio,
108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA, Office: 212-233-1096
July 3 - Q-O2 Workplace in Brussels Belgium, 8pm, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages; +32 (0)2 245 48 24; curated by Julia Eckhardt http://www.q-o2.be,
Al Margolis (If Bwana), Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock, A Variation of Sets
Guy De Bievre will play guitar with PN and collaborate with AM
July 7 - Experimental Intermedia House Window Gallery, 6pm +
Sassekaai 45, Gent Belgium www.experimentalintermedia.be
An exhibition opening by Katherine Liberovskaya
July 12 - klang.haus Festival - Untergreith 216, a-8443 Sankt Johann im Saggautal, South Styria (Graz, Austria) Curated by Mia Zabelka www.klang-haus.at
including: Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock and Al Margolis (If Bwana)
17 July,21 čas (9pm), Beograd 11000, Serbia
Phill Niblock, If Bwana, Katherine Liberowskaya – SAD, performans „Varijacije sa setovima“ („A Variations by Sets“)
Višestruki performans video umetnika na polju savremene muzike i eksperimentalnih zvukova.
Opis festivala. Ring Ring festival je već 17 godina važan deo beogradske kulturne ponude i pokazatelj otvorenosti i znatiželjnosti beogradske publike. Pored glavnog festivala počeo je da radi i World Music festival „Todo Mundo“, tako da nije iznenađenje što su u programu „Ring Ring na Belefu“ i World Music i nešto drugačija, tipična Ring Ring muzika, spojeni u jedno. Festival će činiti sedam koncerata i muzičkih performansa i to u junu i u julu.
We'll play FIVE MORE STRING QUARTETS (by Phill Niblock) on the opening concert of the BIENNALE in VENEZIA. My quartet is called QUARTETTO PROMETEO and is this year's winner of the Silver Lion in the Biennale. Another concert will be on the 6th of OCT 2012, and it will be played again, then. Francesco Dillon, francescodillon@gmail.com
EI March 2012
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Thirty-eighth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-third Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-third Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least,
The Twenty-second Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March 2012
Carl Stone Tuesday 20
New pieces for laptop electronics from 2011 and 2012
http://www.sukothai.com http://rlsto.net
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carl-Stone/50688882909
Mia Zabelka Wednesday 21
Project M - Mia Zabelka, e-violin, voice, electronics, contact microphones; Mia Makela, visuals; with special guest Martin Janicek, sonic objects - Zabelka's new solo focuses on the development of experimental improvisational techniques with the voice and violin, a process she calls "automatic playing"; she explores the relationships between the body, gesture, sound, machines and space using also live electronics to expand the sonic spectrum; the visualization of Mia Makela creates a synaesthetic experience; Martin Janicek - sculptor, sound artist and musician from Prague, CZ, works with acoustic qualities of various materials; he will use the sonic objects realized during the ongoing residency at Triangle Art Association studios NY (supported by Visegrad Fund) www.miazabelka.com www.miamakela.net http://efemera-ephemera.org/events/Echofluxx11/MJanicek/index.html
Christian Kobi (Bern) Thursday 22
"untitled #2" for saxophone was developed in Budapest between summer and winter 2011; it explores the non-understanding of a language, on the inner search for articulation, and the
microscopic examination of voice, air, and the instrument; it is the second part of a solo
saxophone trilogy, following the 2010 piece "Canto" www.christiankobi.ch trailer: http://vimeo.com/32783672
Alwynne Pritchard (UK/Norway) Friday 23
The composer and vocalist (voice, harmonica, electronics) will perform a set based on sentimental 19th century parlor songs
www.alwynnepritchard.co.uk www.myspace.com/alwynnepritchard
Gert-Jan Prins (Amsterdam , NL) Sunday 25
Will present a solo electronics set: Cavity: the NYC version; combining the use of self-built analogue equipment with an awareness of aural surfaces and dimensions, creating dense textures colored by rumbles, inner bass waves, a rattle, a flow…; how to empty a space after saturating it, how to play with expectations by reversing them…; spatial sense: both the sense of sculpting space with frequencies, and the sense of space inside electronic circuits…; open form /closed system…energetic, urgent, temporal, visceral, and delicate www.gjp.info
Screen Compositions 8 Monday 26
curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
The eighth edition of Screen Compositions is, as always, a collection of 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: Carlos Andrade / Rafael Attias; Elle Burchill / Andrea Monti; Macha Godovannaya / Phil Corner; Ali Hossaini / Paola Prestini; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock; Jenny Pickett / Julien Ottavi; Nana Schulz / Josef Novotny; Peter Shapiro / Chuck Bettis; Steina / Joan La Barbara
Screen Compositions - Solo Practices Tuesday 27
curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
Screen Compositions - Solo Practices presents, for the first time in the context of this series, visual-sonic single-channel screen works where the same artist is responsible for both the image and the music/sound; with pieces by: Betsey Biggs; Richard Garet; Miya Masaoka; Ikue Mori; Phill Niblock; Michael Northam; Andrea Parkins; Matt Rogalsky; Byron Westbrook; followed by several audio-video pieces by Richard Lainhart - who sadly suddenly passed on December 30th - as a small homage to his life and work
Koosil-ja and Geoff Matters (Korea, New York) Wednesday 28
Ecology of Image of Body (March 2012 edition) - choreographer Koosil-ja, assisted by media artist Geoff Matters, shares a glimpse into her current experiments and explorations; using the body in motion, brainwaves, sound, image, and words, Koosil-ja questions the boundaries of the body, the nature of presence, and the definition of Dance www.dancekk.com
Emanuel Pimenta (Portugal) Thursday 29
Beethoven's Cage, M and Ocean 2: three concerts and two movies, all simultaneous;
50 minutes www.emanuelpimenta.net
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm, 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
