Come out for a very Cool evening!
at Le Petit Versailles garden
247 East 2nd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, with an alternate entrance at 346 East Houston Street
It’s a screening of ‘Ice-Out SP”
2017, 60 minutes, HD, color, stereo
video: Katherine Liberovskaya (2016)
music: Phill Niblock “Stosspeng” (2007) (from Touch Strings, Touch Records TO:79)
A 59 minute extreme close-up long take of ice cubes slowly melting until they become just water in a stainless steel sink to Phill Niblock’s composition “Stosspeng” (2007) featuring Susan Stenger and Robert Poss on guitars and bass guitars.
– Joined by David Watson live on electric guitar
It’s part of a full day of activities MELT ICE MELT from noon to 10pm
https://www.alliedproductions.org/news/melt-ice-melt
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/melt-ice-melt-tickets-1996900350704
free 🙂
Katherine Liberovskaya is an intermedia artist based in NYC. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced numerous fixed videos, video installations and performances shown around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on collaborations with composers and sound artists notably in live video+sound concert situations where she seeks to create “music” for the eyes. For over 22 years she collaborated on many projects with her partner composer/intermedia artist Phill Niblock as well as many other composer/musicians. Recent collaborators include Katie Porter, Laura Ortman, Sarah Bernstein, Keiko Uenishi, Mia Zabelka and Al Margolis. She is currently the artistic director of Experimental Intermedia NYC.
Phill Niblock (1933-2024) was an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. Since the mid-60’s he was making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world. He made thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres generating many other tones in the performance space. He was, since 1985, the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation NYC where he had produced Music and Intermedia presentations from 1973 to 2023 and curated EI’s XI Records label until 2023. Phill Niblock’s music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode, Matiere Memoire, Room 40, and Touch labels. DVDs of films and music are available on the Extreme label and Von Archive. In 2014, he was the recipient of the prestigious John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
David Watson is an experimental musician. His work encompasses improvisation, composition and scoring for film and dance. He plays guitar and bagpipes, and is known for creating a vocabulary for bagpipes as a new-music instrument, He worked with Phill Niblock for 30 years, culminating in Exploratory.Watson (2021). For over twenty years his trio with Lee Ranaldo and Tony Buck, Glacial, has made slow moving sonic shifts and sheets of sound, documented by On Jones Beach (Three Lobed). Since 2016 he has organized and presented hundreds of new music concerts in New York under the auspices of WOrK, Shift, FourOneOne and now Striped Light. In 2025 the Foundation of Contemporary Arts awarded him the Alvin Lucier award for experimental music.
