Phill Niblock

EI March 2012

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:14:58 +0000

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

Interview in The Wall Street Journal

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:21:11 +0000

You can read an interview with Phill here in The Wall Street Journal "Sound can change your perception," he said. "You start off hearing one thing, but when you begin to give up listening to one certain aspect of it or trying to intellectualize it, it opens up and you begin to float."

December 2011

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:23:56 +0000

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 One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator December 2011 Marko Ciciliani (Vienna) 6pm until 10:30pm Sunday Sunday 11 In the 4.5 hour long sound-art composition "Pop Wall Alphabet" Ciciliani explores the sound characteristics of 26 pop artists, by working with dense superimposing of songs and their spectral extractions, searching for “the sound” which has gained an almost mythical criteria in pop production; different degrees between abstraction and recognizability, combined with subtle psychoacoustic effects, turn this piece into a personal, immersive and sensual listening experience http://www.ciciliani.com Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada), Chantal Dumas (Canada), Shelley Hirsch (NY) Monday 12 "9-9-18"; Liberovskaya (live video) invites Dumas (field recordings, laptop) and Hirsch (voice, words) to join forces for an evening where disparate fragments of life, scenes, stories, compositions, sounds and images come together and apart as they form a series of ever-changing fleeting audio-visual worlds Stefano Pilia (Italy) Tuesday Tuesday 13 Will present his electric guitar solo set: a music percourse between textural melodies and sound relations with space, memory and time suspension www.blindsuncrows.wordpress.com Hans Tammen (New York) Wednesday 14 With the Third Eye Orchestra, Hans uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multi-movement piece for a 15-piece ensemble + live sound processing. The music is inspired by West African roots of Jazz, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Steve Coleman, and Stravinsky’s layering or Steve Reich’s phase techniques; with Mari Kimura, Jason Hwang, Stephanie Griffin, Tomas Ullrich, Briggan Kraus, Marty Ehrlich, Robert Dick, Detlef Landeck, Dafna Naphtali, Ursel Schlicht, Denman Maroney, Nick Didkovsky and Satoshi Takeishi http://tammen.org/third-eye-orchestra/ John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Tom Hamilton (New York) Thursday 15 Composers Inside Electronics, a group known for its pioneering home-built electronics and early "Circuit Bending," will present an evening of new and classic electronic works including "Speaking in Tongues" (2011) by John Driscoll for ultrasonic instruments, "Rainforest I" (1968) by David Tudor for amplified table-top resonant objects, and a collaborative improvisation Maria Chavez (New York) Friday16 As a continuation of Chavez's interest in removing the turntable from her practice, this performance will take place as 2 short pieces; the first piece will represent the diminishment of the turntable as a tool with Chavez using a portable turntable and a single record; the second piece will shift the focus away from the tool and solo performance setting; the piece then becomes a collaboration with Daniel Neumann in an ongoing study on sound placement and individual perspective within a space www.mariachavez.org www.danielneumann.wordpress.com
Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese Intermedia Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermedia performance by: Laetitia Morais (Portugal) Sunday 18 “Missing for 10 years” - this performance articulates concepts like the anxiety caused by the lack of bonds when crossing an ocean, with 10 years of absence defined by law to the term of a life existence; sea salt is the most relevant element in this piece, as it shapes the sound, according to its density Dani Ploeger (United Kingdom / Netherlands) Monday 19 Body Surveillance #1 (Ruhrpott Boogie) is a performance installation with three chairs (I sit on one of them) a television (I watch it), plastic bag (I breathe into it), a fan (sometimes it switches on), loudspeakers and some other things www.danielploeger.org www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/211305
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
And for the first time in history, Phill Niblock will be at Roulette in Brooklyn on Wednesday December 21, the Winter Solstice, for six hours of Music and Film/Video – 6pm to 12am ROULETTE, 509 Atlantic Ave (At the Corner of 3rd Ave), Brooklyn, (917) 267-0363 www.roulette.org

Autumn 2011

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:30:12 +0000

A few present, future and past events, since the last update. A short list, present (now, today), future, and then the past – passed, but in the full description list.
Sept 14, 1300h ISEA Istanbul – Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/other-event/phill-niblock-and-thomas-ankersmit-performance
Warsaw Autumn Festival www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl OCHOTA SPORTS CENTRE, Warsaw, 22:30, September 16 Phill Niblock, sound and image projection - The Movement of People Working And September 17, 1200 (noon), AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM Meet the composer: Phill Niblock (Talk), Organized by Warsaw Autumn
Wednesday 21 September 2011 8pm, Agora Hydro-Quebec, Coeur des sciences, 175, avenue du President Kennedy, Montreal, Québec An Evening of Improvised Images and Sounds - Katherine Liberovskaya (Mtl) live video mixing with Phill Niblock (NY) live sound collage and David First (NY) live guitar and laptop
Sept 30 - Oct 2 - Grand opening Fabrique "cultural center" - Nantes FR - Installation Phill Niblock - Plateforme intermedia - / Concert Friday the 30th of September Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya - 6.30pm to 10pm - Plateforme Intermedia / Fabrique.
Neon Marshmallow Music Festival NYC 2011 | October 14 : 15 : 16 | Public Assembly Brooklyn www.neonmarshmallow.com Friday October 14th - Grouper, Kevin Drumm, The Men, Phill Niblock, James Ferrro
Also, I am curating a series of concerts at “The Stone”: thestonenyc.com Experimental Intermedia / XI Records at the Stone, curated by Phill Niblock October 18 - 30 2011 Please check the website for details The full thing (but not much more info) Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya - a residency and performance event (July 30) in the mountains near Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy At Archiaro (www.archiaro.it), produced by Tommaso Cosco - t.cosco@libero.it
Aug 6 – SoundRes 2011 in Lecce Puglia Italy, KL & PN - www.soundres.org August 11 – 13 Hotel Pupik (Schrattenberg) Festival, Austria – Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya make a surprise concert, Sept 13 at 11am - hotelpupik.org August 15 – Sept 4, Ostrava New Music Days, Ostrava CZ, Phill Niblock, new orchestra piece, Baobab, played Sept 3 www.newmusicostrava.cz
Café Oto, London, Thursday 8 September 2011, 8pm Listen To This: Micromusic / Apartment House Listen to This is a series of music concerts curated by composers. Micromusic, the second in the series, is a concert of where music is sampled, transcribed, saturated, over-amplified and held under the microscope.   Curated by Joanna Bailie, the evening features three major pieces for chamber ensemble and electronics performed by Apartment House.   American composer Phill Niblock’s 5 More String Quartets features four amplified live musicians playing over a stack of overdubbed string quartet recordings. Johannes Kreidler's in hyper intervals smashes expectations of remix culture, creating a rebellious union of the acoustic and electronic. Atopia (hyperamplified) by Yannis Kyriakides explores the relationship between loudness and distance, inspired by the sounds of sand drifting past a kitchen window in Cairo. http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/micromusic.shtm
Sept 14, 1300h ISEA Istanbul – Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/other-event/phill-niblock-and-thomas-ankersmit-performance
Warsaw Autumn Festival www.warszawska-jesien.art.pl OCHOTA SPORTS CENTRE, Warsaw, 22:30, September 16 Phill Niblock, sound and image projection - The Movement of People Working
September 17, 1200 (noon), AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM Meet the composer: Phill Niblock (Talk), Organized by Warsaw Autumn
Wednesday 21 September 2011 8pm, Agora Hydro-Quebec, Coeur des sciences, 175, avenue du President Kennedy, Montreal, Québec An Evening of Improvised Images and Sounds - Katherine Liberovskaya (Mtl) live video mixing with Phill Niblock (NY) live sound collage and David First (NY) live guitar and laptop Presented by Liberovskaya in partial fulfillment of the requirements for her PhD in The Study and Practice of Art (Doctorat en Etudes et Pratiques des Arts) at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) http://www.uqam.ca/campus/pavillons/co.htm
Sept 30 - Oct 2 - Grand opening Fabrique "cultural center" - Nantes FR - Installation Phill Niblock - Plateforme intermedia - / Concert Friday the 30th of September Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya - 6.30pm to 10pm - Plateforme Intermedia / Fabrique.
Neon Marshmallow Music Festival NYC 2011 | October 14 : 15 : 16 | Public Assembly Brooklyn There will be an hour of Reyka vodka open-bar on Friday & Saturday for all attendees. We will also have an hour of open-bar with Asahi Beer on all 3 nights. Seven events in four days. Full spectrum Bunker Sound system. We will also be having an opening reception at the Clocktower Gallery on October 13th. You can find tickets here: http://www.neonmarshmallow.com/2011newyorkcity/tickets
Friday October 14th - Grouper, Kevin Drumm, The Men, Phill Niblock, James Ferrro Soiree After Party - Veronica Vascika (DJ sets), Xeno & Oaklander (Performance)
Saturday October 15th - Tim Hecker, Mark Fell, Phoenecia, Blues Control Soiree After Party - Spinoza (DJ sets), Rene Hell (Performance)
Sunday October 16th | Day Show - Rhys Chatham, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Ryley Walker Sunday October 16th | Night Show - Mandelbrott & Sky, La Big Vic, Joe Lentini, Forma Palmetto Moon Electronic Group www.neonmarshmallow.com

Summer is simmering

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:54:26 +0000

A few events by Phill Niblock and others, the summer is simmering...
A synopsis: Installations by PN and Katherine Liberovskaya – July 8 opening Kunsthaus Viernheim: Rathausstraße 36, 68519 Viernheim www.kunsthaus-viernheim.de Performances by PN, KL, and Al Margolis (If Bwana) at ECHOFLUXX 11, Tracfačka Arena in Prague, The Czech Republic, from July 12-16th, presented by Efemera of Prague (http://efemera-ephemera.org), curated by Dan Senn 2 pieces for flute by PN in a concert by Erik Drescher, July 14,   St.Elisabeth-Kirche,  Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin
ARTMUSE BOCHOLT, Bocholt, Germany, 16-17. July 2011 - Among many acts, Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya and Al Margolis (If Bwana) will make presentations – A Variation of Sets, on the 16th at 9pm
PN and KL, A residency and performance event (July 30) in the mountains near Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy At Archiaro www.archiaro.it, produced by Tommaso Cosco
PHILL NIBLOCK (USA) und KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA (Canada) ELECTRIC CURRENTS Experimental Intermedia 08.07. – 06. 08. 2011 Kunsthaus Viernheim/Kunstverein Viernheim Eröffnung: Freitag 08.Juli., 19:00 Uhr im Kunsthaus Viernheim Begrüßung: Fritz Stier (Kunstverein Viernheim) Einführung: Georg Dietzler (Künstler-Kurator für Sparten übergreifende Künste, Köln) Niblock shows Topolo 1 and 2 (video) and China 86,87,88 slides Liberovskaya shows Inside Paiva (video KL and sound PN) and Upwind (silent version) Kunsthaus Viernheim: Rathausstraße 36, 68519 Viernheim www.kunsthaus-viernheim.de Kunstverein Viernheim: Hügelstraße 24, 68519 Viernheim www.kunstverein-viernheim.de Öffnungszeiten: Do. und Fr. 15:00 – 18:00 Uhr / Sa. 10:00 – 13:00 Uhr
ECHOFLUXX 11: a 5-day festival of composer-filmmaker presented new music and media art at the Tracfačka Arena in Prague, The Czech Republic, from July 12-16th, presented by Efemera of Prague (http://efemera-ephemera.org) Guests include: Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya & Al Margolis, Stanislav Abrahám, Michal Rataj, Peter Szely, Martin Janaček & Petr Ferenc, Martin Blažíček & Krystof Topolski, Anja Kaufmann & Frances Sanders, George Cremaschi, Hana Železná, Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik, and The International Space Band (PN, KL, and AM on July 12) EchoFluxx 11, Nova Hudba A Medialni Umeni, Trafacka Arena, Prague, Cervenec 12 - 16, Zdarma
K O M P L E X X X - 2 Solokonzerte für Flöte & Elektronik    13. & 14. Juli 2011 at   St.Elisabeth-Kirche,  Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin Two concerts produced by and featuring Erik Drescher (flute)
K O M P L E X X X 2 - 14. Juli 2011, 20 Uhr  Gérard Pape Harmonies of Time and Timbre I ( 2011) UA Flöte und 8-kanaliges Tonband Phill Niblock Winterbloom Too (1983) Baßflöte und Tonband Held Tones (1982) Flöte und Tonband Erik Drescher, Flöte ; Daniel Plewe, Elektronik ; Gérard Pape, Klangregie  Phill Niblock expects to be present, but just hanging out
ARTMUSE BOCHOLT, Bocholt, Germany, 16-17. July 2011 Among many acts, Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya and Al Margolis (If Bwana) will make presentations – A Variation of Sets, on the 16th at 9pm http://artmuse.eu/bocholt/
The Spinning Mill in Bocholt The old spinning mill, which is currently under reconstruction, will open its doors for two summer days, the artMUSE Festival in Bolcholt. artMUSE is the very first event taking place at the almost renovated spinning mill. Therefore the curatorial concept is strongly based on the venue’s atmosphere and its future role in forming the culture of Bocholt and the region. The spinning mill was the witness of industrial revolution, the flourish of textile industry; it was abandoned as the postindustrial and digital revolution made it economically inefficient and finally useless. The artists invited to artMUSE Festival are all reflecting on this phenomena, the changes brought by digital revolution in the society , the industry culture and the region’s everyday life. The invited artists using the tools of new media, basically digital equipment to evoke different segments of the above mentioned historical and present issues. Furthermore the artworks are “woven through” with references to textile.
A residency and performance event (July 30) in the mountains near Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy At Archiaro www.archiaro.it, produced by Tommaso Cosco

Some Live Events In June

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:47:11 +0000

June 11, 9pm – Japan Benefit at EI, including Rei Nakajima, Keiko Uenishi, Katherine Liberovskaya, and a screening of Japan89, a film by Phill Niblock, with music. The film, Japan 89, was filmed in coastal villages north of Sendai, Japan, and along the south coast of Hokkaido Island. These villages were destroyed by the Tsunami of March 11 2011, and many of the people were lost. Proceeds from this event will go to the Japan Society's "Japan Earthquake Relief Fund" http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake At Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, NY experimentalintermedia.org
June 13 (Monday), 7pm – Video screening by Phill Niblock at Microscope Gallery, (Topolo 1 and 2, and Remo Osaka2) MICROSCOPE, 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn NY 11221, 347.925.1433 www.microscopegallery.com
June 19 (Sunday) at Pianos, 7pm – Music by Phill Niblock and Michael V Waller - NewIdeas MusicSeries @ Pianos (158 Ludlow / Stanton) http://www.michaelvincentwaller.com/newideas-musicseries
End Times festival June 24-26. PN Saturday June 25 at 10:20 at Silent Barn - a noise & experimental music festival at the Silent Barn and Outpost in Brooklyn. it will be 3 nights of music, with movies, workshops, installations, potlucks, BBQs and good times. Al Margolis and Katherine Liberovskaya also have a set that night. Bob Bellerue - halfnormal@gmail.com www.halfnormal.com/endetymes/

PN Calendar | Spring 2011

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:41:13 +0000

March 22, 23, 24 - Maerzmusik at Berghain , Berlin www.maerzmusik.de / www.berlinerfestspiele.de - Video and Music Installations by Phill Niblock
March 31 - Borderline Festival, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece - Phill Niblock & Τhomas Ankersmit http://sgt.gr/en/programme/event/131
April 2 - Cinéma du réel , Centre Pompidou, 25, rue du Renard, Paris, France http://www.cinemadureel.org Two films by Phill Niblock – Brasil84 with music, and The Magic Sun
April 7 - Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock @ the wulf. 1026 s santa fe ave #203 (code 2-0-3 to enter) la ca 90021 **entrance on sacramento side** 9pm http://www.thewulf.org
April 24 - Electron Festival, Geneva, Switzerland - Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://www.electronfestival.ch/2011/fr/dates.html?ditto_gd_documents=316
April 27 - Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia - Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://www.uniandes.edu.co/ (but not yet available on the website)
May 7 - Multiplace Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit http://multiplace.org/ (but not yet available on the website)
May 9 Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit - Archa Theater, Prague http://www.stimul-festival.cz/
May 17 Caen Normandy France ]interstice[ Festival, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit www.station-mir.com
May 19 – Instants Chavires, Paris, with Thomas Ankersmit http://www.instantschavires.com/
May 20 - A concert in Paris with a piece by Phill Niblock, Ensemble Le Balcon, Eglise Saint Merri, 76 rue de la Verrerie, PARIS, 8pm – “Concert américain” http://lebalcon.com/

Phill Niblock | England, February 2011

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:28:25 +0000

Feb 16 at Brunel University, Music Department, London, with Bob Gilmore - A seminar at 6 followed by the concert at 7.30, with a student orchestra playing PN orchestra pieces Feb 17, 8pm, at Café OTO, London – a Brunel University event, with a student orchestra playing PN orchestra pieces - 22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL (see below) Feb 23 at Bath Spa University, England – Music, sponsored by James Saunders

Live at Café Oto | 17th February 2011

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:08:17 +0000

BRUNEL SOUND SERIES: PHILL NIBLOCK THURSDAY 17th February 2011 Tickets : £8 adv / £10 door Door Times : 8pm Phill Niblock's music is the emancipation of the drone, the splitting into atomic parts of dozens of flailing, beating frequencies singing out loudly in close acoustical proximity to each other. His works are broad oceans of sound, where very little really "happens" but where there is a great deal to be heard, felt, and pondered. His music involves electronic manipulation of acoustical sound sources recorded over the years by several generations of musicians, playing every instrument under the sun from flute, bass clarinet, saxophone, trombone, digeridoo, to electric guitar, bowed piano, cello, organ, hurdy-gurdy, and much else. Recordings of single held tones are layered into textures rich in micro-nuance, building into imposing, complex soundscapes. Tonight he presents his work with live musicians. This is the second event in Brunel@Café Oto, a new series of events organised in collaboration with the Music Department at Brunel University, tonight taking advantage of a rare Niblock appearance in the UK. A review can be read here

CHINA '88

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:30:10 +0000

CHINA '88 Excerpt from Phill Niblock on Vimeo.

Various Things

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:29:23 +0000

On New Music Box, the online magazine published by the American Music Center, Phill Niblock is interviewed by Frank J. Oteri. The December issue. Their front cover blurb on the website (nice, smiley picture there, too): Phill Niblock: Connecting the Dots Phill Niblock Niblock never formally studied musical composition and did not even start composing until he was 35. Four decades later, he's more fired up than many composers one-third his age, and his mind-bending sonic experiences attract devotees of experimental music and even the indie rock and laptop crowds. www.newmusicbox.org www.amc.net
Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit interviewed by The Wire On Air (Derek Walmsley) On Resonance FM London – www.resonancefm.com (archived). Full details: www.thewire.co.uk/articles/5445/
October 27, noon to three – Kurt Gottschalk hosts Phill Niblock on WFMU 91.1, live, playing music by PN and a few hours of PN’s Jazz Faves “Just prior to his appearance at the Ear to the Earth Festival in NYC, drone pioneer Phill Niblock will pay a visit to the WFMU studios to chat and guest DJ. While his own music is noted for its length and stillness (he does a 6-hour concert at his loft every December), Niblock is a huge fan of early jazz and bebop, and will be bringing some of his favorite high-speed saxophone music to play on the air. “ KG Miniature Minotaur Radio, Wednesdays at Noon - a link to listen to the live stream or archive (plus the above and anything else anyone could need) is here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KU
Touch Radio 57 | Phill Niblock A web radio program 19.11.10 - Sound Delta – 39:16 - 192 kbps 1. Zound Delta (21:52) 2. Bells & Timps (5:30) 3. BuchBel (11:54) Zound Delta was made at a residency with the European Sound Delta Project in 2009. The sounds were recorded from the mouth of the Danube River at the Black Sea, - to about 200km upstream, at Russe Bulgaria. In Russe, there was a festival, and the finished piece was played. There were boats (Belgian barges outfitted as living boats) starting at the mouth of the Danube and the Rhine Rivers, with changing residents, for several months. www.sound-delta.eu Bells & Timps was made using church bells in Gent Belgium, recorded by Godfried Willem Raes of Logos Foundation, in 1986. I modified the time by stretching vastly, and some changes in pitch as well. BuchBel was recorded during an overnight train ride from Bucharest to Belgrade. All sounds are from the train, with many layerings. The train trip was immediately after the festival in Russe, Bulgaria, in 2009. All of the pieces were made in ProTools. Subscribe to the TouchPod podcast of TouchRadio via the iTunes Music Store
Sonic Circuits presents on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 8:00pm Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA A Variation of Sets by Al Margolis (If, Bwana) / Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock Part 1: Live Video by Katherine Liberovskaya, with live mixing of audio pieces by Phill Niblock Part 2: Al Margolis (If, Bwana) music (prerecorded and live sounds) Part 3: Katherine Liberovskaya, live video and Al Margolis (If, Bwana), music (prerecorded and live sounds) Part 4: Music and Film (video) by Phill Niblock www.dc-soniccircuits.org/calendar/show/23/2010-12-11-phill-niblock-katherine-liberovskaya-al-margolis-artisphere/
At Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, New York, December 21 Phill Niblock (New York) 6pm until 12am Tuesday 21 Now 77 (gulp), and doing still, six hours of films and music for the winter solstice; many new hours of 16mm film transferred to video, and some of that newly modified for the better, plus 16mm film projection www.experimentalintermedia.org
burble |ˈbərbəl| verb [ intrans. ] make a continuous murmuring noise : the wind burbled at his ear. • speak in an unintelligible or silly way, typically at unnecessary length : he burbled on about annuities | [ trans. ] he was burbling inanities. • Aeronautics [often as n. ] ( burbling) (of an airflow) break up into turbulence. noun continuous murmuring noise. • rambling speech : an hour of boring burble. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [to bubble] ): imitative. Current senses date from the late 19th cent.

Carlos Casas and Phill Niblock at the Torino Italy Film Festival

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:55:14 +0000

VISIONAIR-10 : Carlos Casas + Phill Niblock Avalanche On Saturday 27th November 2010 at 6.30 pm, at blank, the premiere of "Avalanche", a video created by Carlos Casas featuring music composed by Phill Niblock. A second screening will have place saturday 4th December at 5 pm. This event is included in the 28th Torino Film Festival official programme. info here

Touch Radio 57 | Phill Niblock

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:16:44 +0000

19.11.10 - Sound Delta – 39:16 - 192 kbps 1. Zound Delta (21:52) 2. Bells & Timps (5:30) 3. BuchBel (11:54) Zound Delta was made at a residency with the European Sound Delta Project in 2009. The sounds were recorded from the mouth of the Danube River at the Black Sea, - to about 200km upstream, at Russe Bulgaria. In Russe, there was a festival, and the finished piece was played. There were boats (Belgian barges outfitted as living boats) starting at the mouth of the Danube and the Rhine Rivers, with changing residents, for several months. Bells and Timps was made using church bells in Gent Belgium, recorded by Godfried Willem Raes of Logos Foundation, in 1986. I modified the time by stretching vastly, and some changes in pitch as well. BuchBel was recorded during an overnight train ride from Bucharest to Belgrade. All sounds are from the train, with many layerings. The train trip was immediately after the festival in Russe, Bulgaria, in 2009. All of the pieces were made in ProTools. Subscribe to the TouchPod podcast of TouchRadio via the iTunes Music Store Play "Sound Delta" www.sound-delta.eu www.phillniblock.com

Winter 2010

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:06:15 +0000

Experimental Intermedia The Thirty-seventh Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-second Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-second Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-first Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A). [Phill Niblock, curator]
December 2010
Sunday 5th Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjorgeengen (France, Norway) The performance does not have a specific title, it’s live video / sound / performance - video is audio generated and produced in real time with no pre-recorded images; they have been working on this project for several years; it deals with a precarious situation both artistically and technically resulting in a music / video performance that cannot be easily preconceived... www.scaruffi.com/avant/rowe
Monday 6th MIha Ciglar (Slovenia) will perform an improvised set based on "no input mixing board" feedback concepts and present the recent research project that is being developed at IRZU, where we are working on a method for creating a tactile feedback signal with acoustic pressure waves, utilizing airborne ultrasound to generate a force field in mid-air that can be sensed in a tactile way; the interface we developed allows a musician to feel the actual sound (its temporal and harmonic texture) while allowing him to mold and shape it - change its acoustic appearance directly with his hands. www.ciglar.mur.at www.irzu.org
Wednesday 8 th John Hudak (New York) will present a collection of electroacoustic miniatures inspired by European folk melodies, Asian street songs, and the inflections inherent in the speaking voices of various peoples of the world; from the murmurings of medieval monks to the songs of birds, a splendid time is guaranteed for all. johnhudak.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com/johnhudaksound www.johnhudak.net
Friday 10th Byron Westbrook (New York) To celebrate the first cd release of Byron Westbrook's CORRIDORS project on Sedimental Records, showcasing works for multi-channel audio and video; partially composed and partially improvised, CORRIDORS takes pre-processed instrumental improvisations and re-distributes them through a customized multi-channel audio system, reacting to the response of a performance space; video elements are sources of light processed to reduce identification of form, object and location. www.byronwestbrook.com www.myspace.com/corridors www.sedimental.com
Friday 17 Dafna Naphtali and Chuck Bettis (New York) CHATTER BLIP is a duo performance piece by Chuck, electronics/voice and Dafna, electronics/processing/voice, an interstellar multi-character audio operetta involving a multitude of human, alien, and machine voices, in a mash-up of primal and classic sci-fi, electro-acoustics and lo-fi video communications. www.dafna.info chuckbettis.com/ www.tinyurl.com/chatterblip
Sunday 19th boris d hegenbart-matsui and Volker Straebel (Berlin) A double bill of electronic music from Berlin: Hegenbart presents his “musicforclouds”, a live performance utilizing synthetic sound in slowly evolving layered processes of meteorological beauty; Straebel premiers two of his “sound observations”, in which soundscape recordings (one from Niblock’s fire escape) are superimposed and then spacialised and closely observed by means of sliding filters. www.soundblocks.de www.straebel.de
Monday 20th Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese Intermedia Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves, presents an intermedia performance by Carlos Manuel Da Silva Antonio (Portugal). shadoWMan (Kako) - (self)-made movie, a poetic machine that tangles and redistributes sounds and images, subjects and objects, actions and perceptions; an inorganic machine that brings up a heart beat as an organ to materialize an arithmetic of emotions; a film-poem that produces de-configured spaces – a movie that makes itself from the inside. www.facebook.com/shadowman72
Tuesday 21st Phill Niblock (New York) 6pm until 12am Now 77 (gulp), and doing still, six hours of films and music for the winter solstice; many new hours of 16mm film transferred to video, and some of that newly modified for the better, plus 16mm film projection www.phillniblock.com www.experimentalintermedia.org Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund, and the Phaedrus Foundation 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 9pm $4.99 212 431 5127, 431 6430, www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org All of the EI December concerts are being streamed on free103point9 Online Radio; to hear the live stream during the posted events: www.free103point9.org (we start to stream at about 9:30)

Autumn 2010

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:09:22 +0000

A few events in October and into November, for me. Since there are so many words, so much text, I make a digest, with just the names of places and cities, websites, first. All events, except one, are within two weeks from now. Phill Niblock Oct 14 - The Red Room, Baltimore - http://www.redroom.org/ Oct 15 - Bowerbird Presents GATE @ The Rotunda, Philadelphia - www.bowerbird.org/ Oct 16 - Electric Temple Presents: Drone Marathon http://www.issueprojectroom.org/ Oct 24 - Pianos, 158 Ludlow St, New York http://pianosnyc.com/ Oct 27 – PN live on WFMU 93.9, noon to 3pm http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KU Oct 31 - Ear to the Earth Festival, at Loewe Theatre, NYU, NYC http://www.eartotheearth.org/ Nov 19 - St.Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London - http://bit.ly/PR-Niblock-TA
Experimental Music and Film at The Red Room, 425 E. 31st Street, Baltimore, Md. 21218 Thursday, October 14th, $6 Doors open at 8:30 http://www.redroom.org/ Curated by John Berndt
A night of Experimental Artists from New York with Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya and Al Margolis (If, Bwana) Bowerbird Presents GATE @ The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia October 15th, Friday, 8pm; FREE www.bowerbird.org/ PHILL NIBLOCK, KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA and AL MARGOLIS (IF, BWANA) Curated by Dustin Hurt
October 16 2:00pm until 2am - Electric Temple Presents: Drone Marathon http://www.issueprojectroom.org/ At ISSUE PROJECT ROOM , the Old American Can Factory  232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor  Brooklyn, NY 11215
Electric Temple will present a day long musical event focusing on contemporary performers working with long sustained tones and sounds. The program will feature 6 musicians curating segments of the event. Audience members are welcome to come and go as they please. Sets curated by Phill Niblock, with: Music: David First, Leslie Ross, Al Margolis (If Bwana), Phill Niblock Images: Katherine Liberovskaya, Richard Garet, Phill Niblock Tony Conrad Marcia Bassett with Margarida Garcia and Barry Weisblat, Aki Onda Kyle Bobby Dunn Noveller Ancient Ocean/Tom Carter/Century Plants
Sunday, October 24 at 8:00pm NewIdeas MusicSeries II, curated by Michael Waller Pianos, 158 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002, FREE http://pianosnyc.com/ Michael J. Schumacher + Nisi Jacobs (11:10 pm) Phill Niblock + Katherine Liberovskaya with Shelley Hirsch (10:20 pm) Tom Chiu (9:40 pm) Michael Vincent Waller (9:00 pm) Richard Garet (8:20 pm)
October 27, noon to three – Kurt Gottschalk hosts Phill Niblock on WFMU 93.9, live, playing music by PN and a few hours of PN’s Jazz Faves “Just prior to his appearance at the Ear to the Earth Festival in NYC, drone pioneer Phill Niblock will pay a visit to the WFMU studios to chat and guest DJ. While his own music is noted for its length and stillness (he does a 6-hour concert at his loft every December), Niblock is a huge fan of early jazz and bebop, and will be bringing some of his favorite high-speed saxophone music to play on the air. “ KG Miniature Minotaur Radio, Wednesdays at Noon - a link to listen to the live stream or archive (plus the above and anything else anyone could need) is here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KU
On Sunday, October 31 2010, 8pm, Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya will have a set in the Ear to the Earth Festival, at the Frederick Loewe Theatre, NYU, 35 West 4th Street, NYC Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya's Sound Delta +, a live audio/video performance created during the European Sound Delta project — a nomadic art residency, they collected audio and video material for two weeks along the Danube River, from the delta between Romania and Bulgaria and upstream to Russe in Bulgaria. The Sound Delta + performance in this festival will incorporate material from the Danube residency as well as other related recordings and footage into a live mix. Michael Fahres is also on this program.
On Friday, October 28, 8pm, at the Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, NYC Kristin Norderval with Katherine Liberovskaya. Matt Rogalsky is also on this program Kristin Norderval will perform a multi-media work for voice, interactive audio processing and live video processing (Katherine Liberovskaya). Tattooed Ghosts is part of FLUDD - Virtual Polar Icecap Meltdown, a larger work that is inspired by, and uses excerpts from, Dina Von Zweck’s monumental literary work of the same name. Here, melting icecaps are conceived of as a flood of waters releasing the Arctic’s profound secrets. In the final three sections of this work, presented here as Tattooed Ghosts, myth, poetry and song trace the accumulation of ocean contaminants.
Ear to the Earth 2010: Water and the World October 27—November 1, 2010, New York City, Produced by Electronic Music Foundation www.eartotheearth.org/ www.emfproductions.org/ R. Murray Schafer / Bernie Krause & Yolande Harris / Annea Lockwood / Matt Rogalsky Kristin / Norderval / New York Soundscape Paula Matthusen & Miguel Frasconi & Aleksei Stevens / New York Soundscape - Liz Phillips - Jennifer Stock - REC Youth Sound Ecology Group / Matt Burtner & Scott Deal / Maggi Payne / David Monacchi / Michael Fahres / Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya / Andrea Polli / Charles Lindsay & David Rothenberg
Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit Play at St.Leonard's Shoreditch, London Produced by Andi Studer, Cenatus CIC 19 November 2010, doors 8pm St.Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, Shoreditch High St, London E1 6JN http://bit.ly/PR-Niblock-TA http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151938088175565
plus an Experimental Intermedia event: Tuesday October 19th 2010, 8pm, at Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013, 212 431 5127, 212 431 6430 A party to celebrate the release of David First’s “Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996 – 2009)” – a 3-CD set on XI Records The evening will include a special performance of First’s “A Bet on Transcendence Favors the House” with Jane Scarpantoni/cello, Christopher McIntyre/trombone, Peter Zummo/trombone & D. First/guitar & laptop, with visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya. Music will start about 9:30. For this evening the 3-CD set will be available for the special price of $20