The Forty-fourth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-ninth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
March 2017
Sergey Komarov and Alexey Grachev (Russia)
Friday 3
Subjectivization of Sound, a sound performance that gradually transforms into an interactive installation – is based on interaction with space and viewers; by contrasting and matching two principles of the synthesis of electronic sound, analog and digital, each time the audio artists create a new sound that includes the sense of space, people and everything around them. the chief instruments of Grachev are the development environment Max/MSP and the platform Arduino for communication with space, and the analog modular synthesizer of Komarov; the mobility and variability of the performance are of great significance: any available equipment which happens to be on the site can be used; An Audio Performance Project by CYLAND Media Art Lab
Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea (New York)
Sunday 5
Endgame of the Anthropocene is Talibam!’s (Matt Mottel – synthesizers and
Kevin Shea- drums, electronics) first cinematic performance of through-composed ecogothic geosonics; it is the soundtrack to 2048’s despotic nationalism and crumbling international infrastructure, underscoring an eco-mercantilistic tragedy and the desperate plundering of Antarctica, the last pristine landscape on Earth; it is a dystopian sonic pronouncement of failed socio-environmental memes, and features Talibam!’s emergence into hyperkinetic rhythm-based instrumental/electronic music; this music will be released on ESP-DISK in the second half of 2017
www.talibam.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/talibambam
Barry Weisblat (New York) Wednesday 8
Known for performance with live electronics // a rare presentation of mundane field recordings gathered in quadraphonic arrangements using extended recording techniques and various self-made transducers which will be on display
Vytautas V. Jurgutis, Vaclovas Nevcesauskas (Lithuania) – A Video Event
Thursday 9
METROSCAN: A live audiovisual concert by Jurgutis (live electronics) and Nevcesauskas (live video) which reflects electronics, glitch, beats, noise, realtime generated computer graphics, visuals, various nowadays data streams, post-urban and post-internet aesthetics; the title of the work has derived from Metro, Metropolis, Metronome, Metrics and similar meanings and inspirations, these many-sided concepts are digitally objectified and originally developed in this project; the project is based on a purely digital aesthetics where specially live generating visual structures and diligent images interflow and interact with sophisticated electronic music – endless layers and textures of purely digital sound balanced on the edge of audibility, peculiar and diverse rhythms and pulsations
www.youtube.com/user/Metroscan1
Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
Tom Hamilton
Friday 10
Zero Crossing Inquiry – something old, something new: Robert Ashley’s 1979 text “A Last Futile Stab at Fun,” read by Mimi Johnson, with new electronic music composed and performed by Tom Hamilton; plus Hamilton’s “Beacon” for solo flute and electronics, performed by Jacqueline Martelle.
http://15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-tom-hamilton/page-1
Jon Abbey (USA) – DJing continuously from 3-11 PM
Sunday 12
Erstwhile Records programs a very special day/night of electroacoustic music created from 2013-2016, including work from Toshiya Tsunoda, Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto, Graham Lambkin, Takahiro Kawaguchi/Utah Kawasaki, Hong Chulki/Ryu Hankil, Michael Pisaro, Kevin Drumm/Jason Lescalleet, Keith Rowe and more. Also Gabi Losoncy (Graham Lambkin-Community) and Devin DiSanto (Michael Pisaro-Anabasis) will be performing live simultaneously with the mentioned works after guidance from the initial composers beforehand.
Ying Liu (China, New York) – A Video Event
Monday 13
“Wow, can’t believe that’s what you think of me…” An evening of virtual reality and performance celebrating tiny, trivial thoughts and creativity, and incomplete information; punctuating the night will be videos using my “tattooing” technique, which superimposes animation on to live action
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 13 – Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
Tuesday 14
It’s the thirteenth year of Screen Compositions; in Chinese culture (and we’re in Chinatown) 13 is very lucky and means “definitely vibrant”; so this 2017 edition presents a most definitely vibrant 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: Magdalena Campos-Pons / Neil Leonard; Paul Clipson / Byron Westbrook; Julie Doucet / Anne-f. Jacques; Janene Higgins / Cassis B Staudt; Luis Macias / Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Geoff Matters / Dok Gregory; Laetitia Morais / Carlos Guedes; Dafna Naphtali / Hans Tammen; Mercedes Peris / Ferrer-Molina; Paola Pisani / Alessandro Fogar
Jacob Burckhardt (New Jersey) – A Video Event
Wednesday 15
Across the river to the west, another land, another home; New Movies of children, storms, industry, wastelands, looming New York, dancing in the street; with sound tracks by composers such as Marc Ribot and Cenk Ergun, or with improvised noises
