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 Two (or B)
Katherine Liberovskaya, curator
DECEMBER 2025 – All events 8PM except 16 December 7PM
Please note the different venues for this series
Suggested donation $10 all nights except Friday 19th at Fridman Gallery 2 sets / $20
Al Margolis with Tom Law (New York) – at Various/Artists 8pm Wednesday 10
A solo; a solo and a half; a duo; Margolis will play a solo set for stringed instrument, contact mic(s), objects/junk, etc; Tom Law will live sample/transform a Margolis tape piece; Al and Tom will then perform a set as their project Duo Denum; with some live video participation by Katherine Liberovskaya; ifbwana.bandcamp.com ; bigsphinx.bandcamp.com
Marcia Bassett & Chuck Bettis (NYC) – at Various/Artists 8pm Thursday 11
Synth duo focused on improvised techniques that explore layered textures and deep dronescapes; marciabassett.org ; www.chuckbettis.com ; yewrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunview
Ras Burnett (NYC) – at Various/Artists 8pm Friday 12
Ras Burnett is a saxophonist-composer-musicologist-educator; he commenced his musical engagement in 1987 with free jazz and reggae; Ras believes in and advocates the positive energy of creative music; featuring Ras Burnett-Tenor Sax; Tor Snyder-Guitar & Electronic Sound; Dave Ross-Guitar; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Moshe
Scott Kiernan (NYC) – at Various/Artists 8pm Saturday 13
A screening night of analog and real-time video from the last 15 years: often with a focus on the perils of translation through technology, forced “syntax errors” and a re-shaping of language through the video signal; projects span live performances, TV broadcast experiments, collaborations with musicians, multi-channel works and more; scottkiernan.com
Elaine Summers Centennial (NYC) – at Various/Artists 8pm Sunday 14
Bringing Elaine Summers home to be featured among the events of the thirty-fifth annual series produced by Experimental Intermedia – the very organization she founded back in 1968 – this tribute screening will show five of her early film-works as part of the Centennial year celebrations of her legacy; a choreographer, filmmaker, originator of the movement practice Kinetic Awareness and intermedia artist, Summers was interested in exploring what film could do that dance could not, and how they could work together to create a temporary third, new entity that she referred to as intermedia; two of the works were created with late EIF director Phill Niblock as cinematographer; curated by Katherine Liberovskaya, introduction-video by Thomas Körtvélyessy, special thanks to Gustavo Matamoros (subtropics), Freddy Jouwayed, the Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts; elainesummersdance.com
Mariana Carvalho (Berlin, Germany) – at Harvestworks 7pm Tuesday 16
Two pieces for an amplified head, transducers and a tiny speaker in the mouth; Mariana shares her (internal) listening to pre-recorded material such as prepared piano, mouth-to-mouth vocals, voices, seashells and text excerpts; sometimes she sings and eats; marianacarvalho.me ; sellopostal.bandcamp.com/album/me-alimento-de-voces
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Paris, France) – at Fridman Gallery 8pm Friday 19
Minos Circuit Rewired (2024 – 2025) : performance for microphone feedback and bassoon; Minos Circuit Rewired is a site-specific exploration of the contingent musicality of feedback; through microphone feedback, various resonant spaces – the cavities of a disassembled bassoon, the concert room itself – are made audible, turning physical volume into frequency and unintended harmony; portraitsgrm.bandcamp.com/album/minos-circuit
Kristin Norderval with Miguel Frasconi (NYC) – at Fridman Gallery Friday 19
Kristin Norderval and Miguel Frasconi stretch time and coax sounds from thin air with gesturally controlled multiphonic vocals, glass objects and electronics; their improvising partners – glass in various stages of devolution, and the EVII (the Expanded Vocal Improvising Instrument) – require presence, flow, and learning to handle whatever surprises they mete out; just like life; www.kristinnorderval.com; frasconimusic.bandcamp.com
Venues:
Various/Artists: 19 Essex St, New York, NY 10002 – www.variousartistsrecords.com/19essex
Harvestworks: 596 Broadway #602, New York, NY 10012 – www.harvestworks.org
Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002 – www.fridmangallery.com
As well:
Phill Niblock – Winter Solstice at Roulette: Six Hours of Music and Film on Sunday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight
Roulette Intermedium Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org
Phill Niblock Winter Solstice 2025: 6 Hours of Music and Film
