Are you walking around with a strange post-worldcup abstinence? After hours and hours with humming from the african horn, the world suddenly feels so quiet. Of course there exsists a composition written for the instrument, “#Vuvuzela concerto in B flat”. But in you hunt for a similar kick to the one you got from the long noise concert they called the world cup, you have already digested that. But dont despair! The musica made by the minimalist composer Phill Niblock is described as “no melodies, no harmonies, no rhythm, no bullshit”. His compositions make the vuvuzelas seems thin and tiny. Check out YPGTPN or “Disseminate” and get yourself ready for thick, brain melting hordes of toneclusters. Deafening volume recommended for maximum effect! (Morgenbladet, Norway)
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Phill Niblock (1933-2024, USA) was an artist whose fifty-year career spanned minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. Since 1985, he served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honoured with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award.
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Recent Posts
Phill Niblock on Bandcamp
You can purchase Phill Niblock CDs on Bandcamp
Phill Niblock Says…
A Sense of Time: Phill Niblock talks about his way into music, the forming of Experimental Intermedia and working with video [Geeta Dayal, 2016]
Bomb Magazine by Natasha Kurchanova, 2015
Phill Niblock is a happy person... [Ibrahim Khider, 2005]
Phill Niblock at 70 [Rob Forman, 2003]
Phill Niblock on Long Wave
You can here an interview with Phill Niblock from October 2013 on Mike Harding's radio show, Long Wave