The Fifty-First Anniversary of EI performances, the Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirty-Fourth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Katherine Liberovskaya, curator (with a couple of Phill Niblock’s left-over curating wishes)
DECEMBER 2024 – All events at 7PM in all places
Please note all the different venues for this series
Suggested donation $10 except Wednesday 11th at Zürcher Gallery 2 sets / $20
Reg Bloor (NYC) – at Zürcher Gallery Wednesday 11
Frantic solo guitar mix of dissonant No Wave, Out Jazz, and screechy Metal delivered with high energy, inventive chords, and angular atonality, not to mention an impish sense of humor – https://regbloor.com/
C. Spencer Yeh (NYC) – at Zürcher Gallery Wednesday 11
Solo improvisations with violin, electronics, voice; Over the years I’d find myself constricting the moves I’d employ and deploy, in the pursuit of some kind of advanced strategy in lieu of conventional music know-how; You know, the whole “I’m going to stop doing that thing I always do” — pushing against innate manic cadences and nervous tendencies while abandoning genuine headway; While I would find myself eventually painted into a corner again (and still feeling dissatisfied), in time I’d drawn up a nice big map of many trails to many corners; So now I just take that map and fold it over itself, see where to go – https://linktr.ee/dronedisco
Kevin Ramsay + Yuma Uesaka (NYC) – at Harvestworks Thursday 12
Duo Daxophone / Electronics (Kevin Ramsay) and Contrabass Clarinet (Yuma Uesaka); improvised performance with through composed miniatures as a base utilizing concatenative synthesis, granular synthesis techniques to blend
spontaneous improvisation with noise – https://kevinramsaysound.com/ – https://www.yumasax.com/
Nina Sobell (NYC) – at EHF Friday 13
Travel with us through Nina Sobell’s video explorations which interweave various aspects of this multidisciplinary artist’s 50+ year practice; integrating elements of consciousness, perception, connection, communication, play, interactivity, collaboration, sculpture, drawing, brainwaves, telepathy, natural energies, senses, sound waves, documentation, autobiography, electronics, emerging technologies, glitch and performance, Sobell’s unique series of video fusions defy categorization – https://www.ninasobell.com/
Zoe Beloff (NYC) – at EHF Saturday 14
Three works – a dialog across time, the past constructed in the present; A brief presentation of “Beyond” (1997) an interactive work, a sketchbook for everything that I had yet to do; “Charming Augustine” (2005), a 16mm stereoscopic film explores the origins of narrative cinema in the documentation of psychic disturbance; “Exile” (2017) the film finds philosopher Walter Benjamin and playwright Bertolt Brecht still in exile here in New York at the beginning of the first Trump administration – http://www.zoebeloff.com/
Jenn Grossman (NYC) – at Harvestworks Monday 16
A night of (im)material resonance — First, a live performance rendition of her multichannel sound object installation: Fenestra (Transparencies), made of acrylic panels and surface transducers; We listen through physical surfaces, like a sonic skin, a connective membrane; Followed by a screening of recent audiovisual collage work; ephemeral, transportive – jenngrossman.net; https://jenngrossman.bandcamp.com/
Ian Douglas-Moore + Dominic Coles (NYC) – at WhiteBox Tuesday 17
Ian Douglas-Moore (guitar/electronics) and Dominic Coles (electronics) will present music in solo and duo configurations; These new works operate at the margins of perception, touching our auditory capacities at their various thresholds for sensing; Or, put another way: an evening of music that is sparse, quiet, loud, and dense – http://dotdotdotdotdotdot.com/id-m; https://www.dominiccolesmusic.com; https://dominiccolesmusic.bandcamp.com/music
Hans Tammen + Marcus Cummins + Shelley Hirsch (NYC) – at WhiteBox Wednesday 18
In his Eigengrau series Hans Tammen explores overtones and noises that are emerging from pianos, guitars and other stringed instruments affected by vibrations from transducers; At EI he is joined by Marcus Cummins on soprano saxophone, and Shelley Hirsch on voice – https://tammen.org/Eigengrau
Venues:
– Zürcher Gallery: 33 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012 – www.galeriezurcher.com
– Harvestworks: 596 Broadway #602, New York, NY 10012 – www.harvestworks.org
– Emily Harvey Foundation (EHF): 537 Broadway #2, New York, NY 10012 – www.emilyharveyfoundation.org
– WhiteBox: 9 Ave B, New York, NY 10009 – https://whiteboxnyc.org
Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 – 212 431 5127
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
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
Phill Niblock Winter Solstice 2024
Saturday December 21st, the Winter Solstice at Roulette, 6pm to midnight, Six Hours of Music and Film by Phill Niblock.
@ Roulette Intermedium Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org
A huge Thank You to Roulette for hosting the Solstice again this year even with Phill no longer with us!
