\The Fifty-Second Anniversary of EI performances, the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirty-Fifth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)
Katherine Liberovskaya, curator
MARCH 2025 – All events at 7PM in all places
Please note all the different venues for this series
Suggested donation $10 except Monday 31st at Zürcher Gallery 2 sets / $20
Alex Chechile (Providence, RI) – at Harvestworks Monday 24
Using findings from his psychoacoustic research on the perception of spectrally complex difference tones, Alex Chechile will perform works from his On the Sensations of Tone series; the pieces explore expanded layers of spatial depth created by tones that are generated by the ear and appear localized within the head; the multichannel works will employ modular synthesizers and Chechile’s custom Ear Tone Toolbox, and the concert will be accompanied by an artist/research talk on difference tones and otoacoustic emissions – alexchechile.com
Thessia Machado & Ranjit Bhatnagar (NYC) – at Various/Artists Thursday 27
From an assortment of mechanical, acoustic, organic, and sometimes electronic sound-making objects, Bhatnagar and Machado tease out loops, drones, voices, and textures in an unpredictable landscape; misusers of tools & devices, senses-focused, the duo sings the unsung song of the objects – thessiamachado.com – moonmilk.com
Eric Letourneau (Montreal, Canada) – at Various/Artists Friday 28
Eric Létourneau utilizes his queer body to interweave oblique ways of combining experimental music and performance art; he is interested in queer phenomenology as a way of apprehending research-creation; the sound performance Joncs cagettes bassesterres incorporates minimalist elements that open up a fantasmatic world in which traditional dialectical models are blurred in favor of a transductive aesthetic through sound and action; with Brian McCorkle, Yvette Massoudi, and Katherine Liberovskaya – http://systememinuit.com/actions
Benton C. Bainbridge (Erie, PA) – at Various/Artists Saturday 29
Benton C Bainbridge will present an abridged account of 4+ decades of electronic art experimentation, with stories of folx and the spaces they ran to support the creative underground, such as Phill Niblock and the Experimental Intermedia loft; Benton will also talk about future plans for FEED.art, a new space he’s building for media arts in downtown Erie, PA –
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_C_Bainbridge
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 21 curated by Katherine Liberovskaya – at Various/Artists Sunday 30
Wow! who would have thought that Screen Compositions would continue beyond 20 years into a third decade? but here we are, with our 21st edition, still bringing you a yet new collection of ever intriguing and enthralling 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: Jo Andres / Hahn Rowe; CHIKA / Hiromi Kiba; Agnes Gruz / Nikolaus Gerszewski; Carmen-Sibha Keiso / Bonnie Mercer; Scott Kiernan / Shelley Hirsch; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock; Andrew Neumann / Robert Poss; Phill Niblock / Tim Shaw; Monika Trotula / Mia Zabelka + Stefan Strasser + Tungu; Alessandra Zucchi / Antonio Della Marina
Charmaine Lee (NYC) – at Zürcher Gallery Monday 31
Solo improvisation for voice and electronics, exploring feedback and sonic palettes between wires and breath –
www.charmainelee.com
MV Carbon (NYC) – at Zürcher Gallery Monday 31
Prioritizing sound exploration over traditional musical structures, rhythm and emotion weave and unravel as dense orchestrations magnify the ritual embedded within music; chaotic moments of sonic trajectory are leveled with contrasting elements of pure tone; percussive backgrounds are created with hand made instruments as electric cello is processed through a meticulous chain of effects; structure is established then shifts, allowing sound to metamorphosize into space –
mvcarbon.com
Venues:
Harvestworks: 596 Broadway #602, New York, NY 10012 – www.harvestworks.org
Various/Artists: 19 Essex St, New York, NY 10002 – www.variousartistsrecords.com/19essex
Zürcher Gallery: 33 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012 – www.galeriezurcher.com
Experimental Intermedia, www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org, 212 431 5127
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
