Experimental Intermedia

The Fortieth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, the Twenty-eight Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator

December 2019

Walter Branchi (Rome) and Kristin Jones (New York) Monday 9

Images of Time by Jones and music from Intero by Branchi; alternating filmic work by Jones and individual compositions by Branchi; video editing by Jacob Nelson; sound engineer Daniel Neumann; Images of Time are an evolving series of filmic works composed independently and woven together with the music of Roman composer Walter Branchi; the works frame the world from a single position so as to slow down and magnify the most fundamental daily phenomena: the cycle of light, wind and weather; the images are intended as quiet meditations on the nuances and subtle events perpetually occurring in nature; composed of thousands of individual instances photographed seconds apart, the images are then reassembled at different tempos into lyrical sequences, then intricately interwoven with the ethereal musical compositions by Branchi; the compositions that coexist with the Images of Time are pieces of his lifelong work: Intero
http://www.kristinandreajones.com http://www.walter-branchi.com

David First (NYC) Tuesday 10

Choir Practice: New works for current and outmoded technologies, just intonation video and correlated waveforms, two- way causations inspired by a third, gestural improvisations through safe-cracked spelunking; featuring Sam Kulik, trombone and Ian Douglas-Moore, guitar
http://www.davidfirst.com https://davidfirst.bandcamp.com

Ritwik Banerji (USA) Wednesday 11

An astromusicological encounter with the Maxineans; whereas it would seem tonight’s event falls into the canonical, traditional genre of audiovisual performance, it’s better understood as a bridging of social science, interstellar ethnography, and the arts; we will engage in a collaborative exercise in understanding the culturally-specific sonic motion practices of beings living in a distant region of space called M9, ruled by the spirit of Maxine, a brainchild who has fled earth and declared that all sound was already motion; in this region of space, Maxineans have developed a wide variety of expressive — or really just practical — practices which allow them to deal with Maxine’s whims; on screen we see a live feed sent back to earth from a remote exploration vehicle in deep space; on earth, live sound from EI is sent back to M9, thereby allowing navigation and interaction according to the bizarre laws of physics of M9. Live performers are Hamilton Berry, cello, and Tony Malaby, saxophone
https://www.ritwikbanerji.net

Aki Onda (USA, Japan) Thursday 12

“Reflections and Repercussions” 2018, a multi-media performance exploring the interplay among luminosity, acoustic, and architectural relationships within the space.; performing with various types of lighting equipment such as theater lights, flashlights, bare light bulb, mirrors and other objects, I arrange and rearrange the tools composing the visual and aural as a total environment; the complex relationship between the concrete and the ephemeral is explored https://akionda.net/

Paul Devens (Maastricht Netherlands) Friday 13

An artist working in the field of composed sounds, architecture, acoustics and he researches history and social structures; he will perform a couple of new pieces, based upon improvisation and experimental technologies; electro- magnetic and conductive fields will be used to mix pre-recorded synthesized sounds into a new composition, recorded noises of air conditioning systems and fans in public space will feature in a soundscape and other experiments will be performed live at the concert; also another new work will be performed: with artist Eline Kersten, Devens developed a work featuring found coral skeletons from the Caribbean island of Curacao; with digital imageprocessing- and sonification techniques, the work addresses the collision between ecology and economy, Supported by IBB Curacao and the Mondriaan Fund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Devens https://www.pauldevens.com

Gudinni Cortina (Mexico) and Mario De Vega (Mexico, Berlin) Sunday 15

Overtones, interruptions and concrete sounds melted as an audio-visual setup; a dialog executed by two players with different vocabularies and intentions, including a third role: A messenger; present, admiring devotion and commitment http://mariodevega.info http://gudinni-cortina.com/

João Castro Pinto and Sofia A. Carvalho (Portugal) Monday 16

SPECTRUM EXTENSO is an audiovisual intermedia performance, which is a work-in-progress, that consists in a reflection centered on the work of the Portuguese poet Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952); João Castro Pinto will process sounds and images, in real time, and also excerpts of several of the more impressive and profound poems, interpreted live by Sofia A. Carvalho; the sound and visual landscapes will be juxtaposed with words, phrases and variable duration vocal utterances, that will wander through the live electroacoustic processes, turning the primary meaning of the poet1s words into new levels of signification and therefore creating impromptu audiovisual scenery
http://www.agnosia.me https://lisboa.academia.edu/SofiaAlexandraCarvalho
Andrea Parkins (New York, Berlin)
https://soundcloud.com/jcastropinto https://grimaceseditions.org/hiante-2/

Wednesday 18

presents a new long-form work for multi-diffusion fixed media, incorporating her live interventions on electronically- processed accordion, amplified objects, and electronic processing; her works feature subtle sonic examination of everyday objects and surfaces, the layering of extended accordion techniques with multi-pitched electronic feedbacks, and the investigation of embodiment and chance with her custom-designed virtual instruments; this new project addresses her sonic materials both past and present: amplified drawing tools, electronic and acoustic instruments, the- body-as-foley, objects, images, gesture-presence-absence https://soundcloud.com/andreaparkins

Annabelle Playe (France) Thursday 19

Sound is a physical experience: density, intensity, variations and saturation; GEYSER, composed in three parts, deploys an energy with strong contrasts around sound shots sometimes stripped, sometimes massive; clear sounds, pure timbres switch to distortion evoking the subterranean eruption and the release of tension; her live music is based on a device made of analog synthesizers; sound is weaving between electronic and electroacoustic music, some of them made from different sources (voices, concrete sounds) are processed, put into spaces and mixed to analog http://www.annabelleplaye.comhttps://vimeo.com/201441665 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NKZaaF0tKc

Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430 www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org9pm

XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI Records.org website:

Phill Niblock – Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk – Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek – Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman – Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson – Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach – Celestial Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward – Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman – Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low – Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock – Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron – Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode – Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs – Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart – Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo – Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo – Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson – Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue – Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein – The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock – YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen – Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson – The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band – 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI 124); Philip Corner – 40 Years And One (XI 125); Gen Ken Montgomery – Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher – Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht – A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman – My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt – The Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky – Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson – Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher – Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph – Electroacoustic Works (XI 138); Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard – Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digital only release; Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross – drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141) Coming Soon: Tom Chiu (XI 142)

The Following Releases Are 2 Cds For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; XI 140; XI 141 The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135
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Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch and Rebekkah Palov – A Video Event
Monday 11

Carrier Band: Bode, Deutsch and Palov, with historical recordings by Harald Bode,1949-1986, and Pauline Oliveros,1970-2002; the video “Uber Organ” was made at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY and at Peer Bode’s home studio on his hand-built, custom Dave Jones Design, digital frame buffer – experimental video instrument; much as life moves forward and back, so do the frames of the video frame buffer with its 48 frame digital-memory-chamber used for looking and considering nearly fifty years of Harald Bode’s notebooks; spanning the years 1937 to 1986, the notebooks of pioneering electronic instrument designer Harald Bode are spaces where a new thinking about sound and future electronic instruments evolved and percolated.; a number of new videos as well as “Uber Organ” will be accompanied by the live electroacoustic music of Carrier Band with Peer Bode performing vocoder/language, Rebekkah Palov DJ and real-time processed samples from the Harald Bode Archive and Andrew Deutsch with live mix featuring the unpublished recordings of Pauline Oliveros
peerbode.com
http://www.art-into-life.com/product-list/188
https://vimeo.com/andrewdeutsch
rebekkahpalov.us
https://andrewdeutschmagicif.bandcamp.com/releases

Chuck Bettis and Dave Grant (New York)
Tuesday 12

SNAKE UNION is Chuck Bettis (electronics) & David Grant (modular synth). a duo that works in improvisational rhythmic explorations that match analog synths and digital sound processing, modular wires and max patches. By turns psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed out, the sequenced collides with the freeform as these two soundmakers push into new realms With live video projections by Katherine Liberovskaya
https://snakeunion.bandcamp.com
http://chuckbettis.com

James Fei (Oakland) and Kato Hideki (New York)
Wednesday 13

James (analog electronics) and Kato (bass, electronics) have been working together since 2002; with a shared interest in translating studio recording techniques to live performance and vice versa, the duo’s release Sieves was created with multiple processes where live electronic improvisations were subjected to radical mixing and reverberation in an echo chamber; their performance practice continued to shift over the years through the investigation of feedback, speaker-room interaction and analog circuitry   
www.jamesfei.com
www.katohideki.com

Shalom Gorewitz  (New Jersey)   A Video Event
Thursday 14

The poet Wallace Stevens said that art should be abstract, change, and give pleasure; with the addition of risk, this describes recent work by pioneer video artist Shalom Gorewitz; the screening will include Gorewitz’ infamous strip tease to the national anthem from the early 1970s; a new 360 video Goat’s Head recorded on one of the most dangerous beaches in California; DTTV (dystrumpia television) which explores the causes and possible antidotes for this psycho-traumatic disorder; and collaborations with the poet Rachel Hadas; one of their projects, Elegy for Stivenson Magloire, celebrates the work of an extraordinary Haitian artist Gorewitz met in Port au Prince in 1992 who was assassinated shortly after; Arcade Fire member Richard Parry gave permission to use his music for the soundtrack
http://www.gorewitz.com

Shelly Silver (New York) – A Video Event
Friday 15

In Shelly Silver’s frog spider hand horse house, the effort of all things to keep existing has been observed by someone with a camera who seems, as far as personality goes, to be no one; this acutely neutral watcher—curious and patient, pushing very close and holding steady there registers the super-focused effort of all creatures toward the expression of vitality, the stubborn going-on in time of particularly shaped and textured bodies; the first in Silver’s trilogy on our current moment of destabilization, where the animal, vegetable and mineral are jolting into reconfiguration; animals and children are being placed on the frontline of this change and they are the soft and hard focus of frog spider hand horse house

Bull.Miletic (Oslo) – A Video Event
Sunday 17

PROXISTANT VISION – a selection of three videos from the body of work created along Bull.Miletic’s ongoing artistic research project focused on the proliferation of new aerial moving imaging technologies and the emergence of a visual modality they call proxistance; the videos are single-channel versions of the three multi-media artworks realized in collaboration with Holly L. Aaron, Mark Boswell, Tom Gunning, Danielle Jorgens, Christopher Myers, Jan C. Schacher and Phill Niblock, whose music features in one of the videos; the production of the artworks was generously supported by Arts Council Norway, Arts Research Center and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society at University of California, Berkeley, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Media and Communication at University of Oslo, and Department of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago
http://bull.miletic.info

SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 15 – curated by Katherine Liberovskaya.  –  A Video Event
Monday 18

Fifteen years! seems like the first edition was only yesterday… for this 15th edition Screen Compositions presents as every year a 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: Miah Artola / Hitomi Honda; Pip Chodorov / Charlemagne Palestine; Kostas Chondros / Giovanni Lami; Michael Delia / Al Margolis; Andrew Demirjian / Matthew Gantt; Richard Garet / Michael Waller; Phill Niblock / William Hooker; Anna Pasztor / Žibuoklė Martinaitytė; Andrea Saggiomo aka 70fps. / SEC_ aka Mimmo Napolitano; Guillaume Vallée / Data Slum (Martin Rodriguez & Leon Louder)

Biliana Voutchkova and Al Margolis (If Bwana) (Berlin, New York)
Tuesday  19

a first encounter of bi and al will occur publicly tonight; a phenomena of reaching far beyond the trivia of a first meeting, they will go straight (and deeply) into a musical communication based on devotion, long experience and trust; using strings, reeds, objects, contact mics (or all of the above), listening, responding, conversing; Al describes his most recent work as “quiet wall” or the search for the sounds between: bi’s work focuses on detail and slowly developing textures, but still allowing unexpected surprises; they’ll merge with the flow of the current moment, or perhaps with the edge of nothing    
www.bilianavoutchkova.net
http://ifbwana.bandcamp.com/

Catherine Lamb and Phill Niblock
Thursday 21

Ensemble neoN visits Experimental Intermedia on the occasion of the release of the group’s new album NEON: NIBLOCK/LAMB on Hubro; in addition to Niblock’s Two Tea Roses, the group will give the American premiere of Catherine Lamb’s Parallaxis Forma; Ensemble neoN is a Norwegian contemporary music group working across artistic forms, collaborating with visual artists and performers such as Susanna, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Johannes Kreidler, Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld, Jan St. Werner; neoN strives to listen to a world that is constantly changing. It is this attitude that keeps challenging and expanding the ensemble’s musical language  With the friendly support of stikk.no
ensembleneon.no

The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fithtieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival  with no fancy name, Part One (or A)

Marla Hlady and Christof Migone (Toronto)     Friday 7

They collaborate on somatic performance and mechanized kinetics with sound at the centre; they each have individual practices that began in the late 1980s/early 1990s; they started collaborating in 2015 with a project at the Errant Bodies project space in Berlin and have since performed at Ftarri (Tokyo), the Art Gallery of Ontario and Array Music (Toronto); their strategies include: Shifting singulars into plural; adding ad infinitum, but then distilling until densities emerge; some humour tinged with pathos; taking the word ‘concern’ seriously, yet steeped in explorations that retain a notion of play; rerouting, reinjecting, responding; finding edges; mining particularities; rippled resonances; subtle alterations of tension and attention; moored, anchored even, yet nimble, and at times furtive
http://marlahlady.com/               http://christofmigone.com/

Claudia Robles (Colombia/Germany)   Monday 10
Her work and research cover different aspects of visual and sound art, which span from audiovisual fixed-media compositions to performances and/or installations featuring the interaction with biomedical signals; on this occasion, she presents some of her audiovisual compositions and the performance SKIN – a piece in which she interacts with sounds and images through her skin’s moisture measured by a GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) interface; variations of values in skin moisture are an indication of psychological or physiological arousal, such as stress or relaxation; the visual environment of SKIN is therefore created by microscopic images from the performer’s skin recorded in real-time whilst the sound environment is transformed by the performer’s emotional states through the measurement of her skin’s moisture               www.claudearobles.de

Robert Poss (New York)  Tuesday 11
Distortion, drones, dystopia, optimism and a layer cake of electronics; Poss will present new and old pieces for electric guitar including from his recent release Frozen Flowers Curse The Day; Jennifer Coates will provide a painterly visual accompaniment  https://www.robertposs.com/          http://www.jenniferlcoates.com/
Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache, New York City) Wednesday 12
From the rosined-out beast of Ortman’s tough stained violin emerges deranged crumpled wings twirling in starlight and oil slickness and shininess; bearing heavy use of amplification and effects, she also incorporates over-rosining to add smoke, dust, wind and slow-motion grittiness in her scored / improvised compositions for amplified violin, Apache violin, whistles, tree branches, slides, guitar picks, bells and tuning fork; with live video projections by Katherine Liberovskaya       https://thedustdiveflash.bandcamp.com

Ben Richter (Los Angeles)      Thursday 13
Is a composer, accordionist, and director of New York’s Ghost Ensemble, whose music explores the perceptual experience of music through subtly shifting timbres, distant pulses, and sliding microtonal fluctuations that create sound-worlds of constant transformation; Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Oceancombines recorded and live prepared accordion to conjure the voice of the primordial Earth-wide ocean, a mesmerizing dreamscape of shimmering just-intonation harmonies and sliding, moaning melodies that carry the listener deep into an otherworldly abyss
www.benrichtermusic.com      http://infrequentseams.bandcamp.com/album/panthalassa-dream-music-of-the-once-and-future-ocean-2

Matt Rogalsky (Canada)   Friday 14
Visitations and Revisitations; new pieces out of old: defining resonances of familiar and unfamiliar musics, explored through spectral slicing and suspension http://mattrogalsky.bandcamp.com           http://mrogalsky.net

Leslie Ross  (Maine)  Monday 17
In tide wave, a quadraphonic video installation, each change from mud flats to high tide and back is transformed into corresponding and overlapping sound waves; this preset will open an evening of new pieces for multi-mic’ed bassoon, quadraphonic speakers and other peripherals; the crossover terrain of timbre and pitch, the inherent dissonance between harmonics of any two consonances, and the tensions between lunar and solar cycles all play a part in the performance, the whole interspersed with miniature acoustic improvisations
http://leslieross.net/otherT.html

Tim Shaw and John Bowers (UK)   Tuesday 18
Since 2015, they have been developing a creative practice they have come to call ‘mythogeosonics’; Mythogeosonics works with an extended conception of field recording to incorporate such diverse practices as geophysical data sonification and paranormal investigation; think of all the fields: radio, magnetic, electric, esoteric; we cross between on-site investigation, installation-making, soundwalks, and an improvisatory performance practice combining soundscapes, documentary recordings, film, text, and process material using modular synthesizers, resonant found objects, DIY software and self-made instruments; think of all the ways that the mythogeosonic can be heard, witnessed, appreciated and transformed; this performance will serve as an Annual Review drawing on our collective archive from 2018 as well as local investigations carried out in New York City
https://tim-shaw.net           http://www.jmbowers.net/

Gerard Lebik (Poland)  Wednesday 19
“Air on Air” (2018) is a spatial composition that uses the propagation of a pure sine wave as the main principle in creating a spatial acoustic environment; placing hanging, rotating sound objects that generate white noise created by the compressed, expanding air gives it an ambisonic character; spatial composition modeled due to the specific acoustics of the place in which it is presented      http://gerardlebik.net/     http://festiwal.sanatoriumdzwieku.pl/en/
http://gerardlebik.blogspot.com/

Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013   212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org     9pm

It is the 50th anniversary of the 224 Centre Street Loft and the founding by Elaine Summers of the Experimental Intermedia Foudation, 1968

December 16, Sunday – A Record Release Party, at 9pm but you may come at 7pm and have sonmething to drink and listen to some samples of sound

*On Important Records – Phill Niblock music played by David Gibson on cello, from the 70s and 80s   www.importantrecords.com

*On Superior Viaduct – a reissue of the second India Navigation LP – Niblock for Celli / Celli Plays Niblock, and a reprint of the first LP – Nothing to Look At, Just a Record

*On the Bozzini String Quartet label – Two pieces for orchestra – Baobab and Disseminate, with all parts played by the quartet,    www.quatuorbozzini.ca

*On XI – Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140)
This 2 CD set is a perfect combination of flavors that slowly reveal
themselves as you spend more time enjoying it. It has marvelous layers
of sonic explorations that slowly unfold and draw you in.

*On XI – Leslie Ross – drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141)
A 2 CD set of eleven compositions for bassoon composed and performed
by Leslie Ross, internationally renowned instrument builder and
uncompromising creative musician.

and

December 21, 6pm to midnight, the Winter Solstice at Roulette, in Brooklyn, 6 hours of Phill Niblock films and music, Roulette.org

XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI Records.org website:
Phill Niblock – Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk – Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek – Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman – Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson – Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach – Celestial Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward – Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman – Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low – Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock – Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron – Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode – Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs – Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart – Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo – Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo – Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson – Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue – Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein – The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock – YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen – Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson – The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band – 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI 124); Philip Corner – 40 Years And One (XI 125); Gen Ken Montgomery –
Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher – Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht – A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman – My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt – The Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky – Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson – Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher – Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph – Electroacoustic
Works (XI 138); Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard – Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) digital only release; Cecilia Lopez – Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI 140); Leslie Ross – drop by drop, suddenly (XI 141) Coming Soon: Tom Chiu (XI 142)

The Following Releases Are 2 Cds For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137, XI 138; XI 140; XI 141 The Following Releases Are 3 Cds For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135

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The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fithtieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eight Annual Festival  with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)

Phill Niblock, curator

Jim Denley (Australia)
Friday 2
The Ditch: David Watson (guitar and bagpipes) and Mij Yelned (Australia, prepared bass flute and alto sax) and Chris Mann (voice and text); Chris and Mij formed Machine for Making Sense in the late 1980’s, Chris in Melbourne and Mij in Sydney; Mij and David first played together in Sydney in the 1990s — making “Bit Part Actor” (Braille Records) together with Mij’s other Machine for Making Sense colleagues and Ikue Mori; David has resided in NYC since 1987 and often playing with Chris; Mij and David have occasionally met on David’s trips downunder, when he crosses The Ditch (Tasman Sea) to perform in Sydney; they’ve only played all together once – NYC sometime in the early 2000s?

http://theuse.info/

https://xirecords.bandcamp.com/album/fingering-an-idea
www.splitrec.com

Nate Wooley (New York) and Nicola L. Hein (Berlin)
Sunday 4
The trumpet player and guitarist will follow a philosophical question and play a conceptual composition – What is skeptic improvisation? The question of what it means to be skeptical about improvisation and to be an improvising skeptic will be followed; it is the scepticism of the musicians regarding destiny, habitus, certainties, playing and the sense-games of musical action; the composition serves to irritate the players and their certainties; it is about the challenge of thinking, the aesthetic thinking about thinking with the means of improvised music,, playing around and with the limits of musical thought; revolving around the impossibility of an hyperbolic skepsis, watching the certainties arise on their own, which Nietzsche and Wittgenstein understood as an inherent feature of (musical) grammar; the aim is the idiosyncratic aesthetics of the sceptic musical act

http://natewooley.com/

Abigail Child (New York) A Video Event
Thursday 15
“A BRACE OF SHAKES”—A selection of short films (16mm and digital) from across three decades, exhibiting “a playful musicality and poetic and rigorous compression…working against the manufactured ambush that images have in store;” Child has long created a subtle form of agitprop, exploring issues of gender and class through montage, with a fearless sense of structure and unself-conscious delight in the visual; she has worked with downtown musicians including John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Andrea Parkins and Marty Ehrlich, all of whose music will befeatured in the films shown tonight

www.abigailchild.com

Perry Bard (New York) A Video Event
Friday 16
A program of timely political shorts from 1997 to the present dealing with Nazis, heightened security, immigration, and war; No Flak, a recent text animation in collaboration with Richard Sullivan, links the attitudes of Dada and Theatre of the Absurd to the current administration referencing the despotic King Ubu, 1984, and Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Capitalism and the End of Sleep; followed by a crowdsourced version of Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake

www.perrybard.net.
dziga.perrybard.net archived at
http://rhizome.org/art/artbase/artwork/man-with-a-movie-camerathe-global-remake/

Pierre Marietan (Paris) A Video Event
Sunday 18
This is an invitation for you to use your power of ubiquity; it is proposed here with the transfer of a distant world to the moment of your listening and gaze onto the present; I have traveled the World and captured 32 short visual sequences and recorded and retained 37 audio situations; with these elements I have composed a set juxtaposing/superimposing images and music independently from each other, leaving the freedom of interpretation between sight and sound up to the spectator; it is by this perceptible process that the gift of ubiquity is acquired

RencontreArchitecturemusiqueecologie.co

Screen Compositions 14, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya A Video Event
Monday 19
For the 14th year, Screen Compositions brings you, as every time, a 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: Charlotte Clermont / Alain Lefebvre ; Katherine Liberovskaya / Ranjit Bhatnagar ; Francesca Llopis / Barbara Held ; Milosz Luczynski / Marek Choloniewski ; Noriko Nakano / Akio Mokuno with Hitomi Honda ; Rob Parrish / Richard Chartier ; Emily Pelstring / Katherine Kline ; Lorenzo Sanjuan / Bob Bellerue ; Jorge Simonet / Francisco Lopez ; Beth Warshafsky / Gerry Hemingway

Bettina Wenzel (Germany)
Wednesday 21
Elastic materials are stretchable, over-stretchable and mostly unbreakable; a vocal research based on that principle leads to fall-out frequencies and wanted side effects that provide the main sound material for an ongoing research; unadulterated and therefore natural, the resonating body generates extreme – minimal and maximal – sound vibrations instantly shaped into musical structures; this can be done in the way of a sculptor and by accepting the uncontrollable part; one of the most recent results is “head oscillator”, a serie of productive voice glitches

http://www.wenzelvoice.de

Guy De Bievre (Brussels)
Thursday 22
Drone Shyness, version for trombone and lap steel guitar; is a study of the becoming or not becoming of drone, investigating how much change and interruption “drone music” can tolerate before it becomes something else; with Peter Zummo, trombone

www.guydebievre.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zummo

Clarence Barlow (Santa Barbara, Barcelona)
Friday 23
Since about thirty years ago, the composer has been making films to accompany or illustrate his music; the video component is either based on the compositional principle of the music, or based on visual material by other artists, from film archives, or recorded on site

www.clarlow.org

Ricardo Arias (Colombia) and Judy Dunaway (US)
Sunday 25
Both  have separately specialized in free improvisation and experimental music on
the latex balloon for decades, making it their main instrument; Arias’ background as a percussionist led him to develop the “balloon kit”(“batería global”), and Dunaway’s
background as a guitarist led her to approach each size and shape of
balloon as a solo instrument; they will combine their expertise to expand and explore the details of their shared world and present heretofore unimagined sonic landscapes; this concert marks the first meeting of these two avant-garde virtuosi

http://www.judydunaway.com/judy-dunaway-and-ricardo-arias-duets.html

Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013   212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org 9pm

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

A special event for the end of January, two special artists coming through town:

Anne-F Jacques (Montreal) + Ryoko Akama (Japan, England)
Monday January 29, 9pm

Failed Experiments, this is their first appearance in the USA; is their performance/installation series comprised of small objects, motors, fans and magnets; these animated contraptions are the result of their precarious studio experiments; the work is never complete but is forever – a work in progress; sounding objects are arranged and assembled in the space as to make tiniest tonal occurrences to sporadical patterns of noise; the audience will experience papers, bottles, wood branches, hearing aids, brass, all mundane materials scattering around in order to magnify the architecture of the space
This collaboration was first presented at Algomech Festival (2017, UK).

anne-fff.tumblr.com/
www.ryokoakama.com
www.melangeedition.com
www.mumeipublishing.com
www.amespace.uk

The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eighth Annual Festival  with no fancy name, Part One (or A)

Phill Niblock, curator

Tibor Szemzo and László Goz   (Budapest)
Monday 11
Counter/culture Closure Night: Part One – Experimental Intermedia and Balassi Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center, New York is co-presenting the first CLOSURE NIGHT of the Center’s COUNTER/CULTURE programming series; to celebrate and wrap-up the events which were focusing on artistic resistance during the era of state Socialism in Hungary around the Sixties and Seventies; founders of the world-renowed Group 180, Tibor Szemzo (visuals, music, narration, flutes) and László Goz (bass trumpet, sea shells) will give a very special  cinematographic music event paying homage to the Hungarian avantgarde film and music scene of the given decades and will prepare for the evening with a specially curated, exclusive program  http://szemzo.org/en/tibor-szemzo-2/

http://www.culturehungary.org

Henry Flynt (New York)
Tuesday 12
“You Are My Everlovin’”, for rock electric violin and amplified tambura; Tambura: C.C. Hennix, playing a Pandit Pran Nath tambura; This is a semi-composed, semi-improvised duet,  it was premiered in SOHO in June 1981, and the recording of that performance has been released three times; the piece is literally an alap in the broad sense of the word, that is, a complete performance without drums; the violin is conventionally tuned and the pedal point is D; the musical material is wide-ranging—all the same, two gats were at the core of the original performance; at times, Flynt alludes to Shuddh Todi by tonicizing f#; for the rest of it, he alludes to various musics outside the European orbit and also to various compositions of his henryflynt.org;  http://www.recorded.com/releases/003.html 

https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/upcoming/products/henry-flynt-you-are-my-everlovin-cdeverlovin-cd

Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett (Conn, New York)
Wednesday 13
For their first performance together, Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett will fill a table with transduced tubes, 3D printed shapes, amplified objects, and cassette recorders; feedback will be used to explore spaces large and small while software and hardware instruments capture sound as a material to be sculpted in time; both are composers, artists, and performers in equal and sometime not equal parts, so no particular preference will be given to whether the sounds are loud or soft or short or long but a great deal of attention will almost certainly be paid to listening in the moment

http://www.onelonelypixel.org
http://vimeo.com/sethcluett
http://soundcloud.com/sethcluett  
http://www.paulamatthusen.com/

Bernd Klug (New York)
Thursday 14
‘sides-systems under test’ is a live sound work based on ongoing research about the physical impact of societies as acoustic properties; it traces the question of what happens if we temporally, spatially and intellectually feedback our lack of control over the world; maybe void and silence are not too far apart and active listening can be an information session about our inabilities, a benefit for our crumbled actions, a funeral party for lost dreams and a launch of attempts and approaches

http://klug.klingt.org

David Lee Myers (New York)
Friday 15
CD release party and performance by Myers, who sometimes works under the name Arcane Device; the album “Ether Music” is produced by the new music champion Starkland label; he will be performing his signature “Feedback Music” on decades-evolving matrix-mixed sound processors accompanied by projected lissajou graphics created directly from his sounds; marking the 30th anniversary of Feedback Music, this is Myers’ only performance this year!

http://www.pulsewidth.com  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytqotxofy6Q   
https://davidleemyers.bandcamp.com

Michael Schumacher (New York)
Sunday 17
The Portable Multi-Channel Sound System is a musical instrument designed specifically for Michael J. Schumacher’s spatialized compositions; building on the pioneering work of composers such as Alvin Lucier and Maryanne Amacher, presentations explore the relationship between musical form and architectural space and how this relationship can inform listening; combining installation and performance, algorithmic composition and improvisation, this goes beyond acoustics to the way people inhabit and use spaces, creating paradigms for listening and formal expectations

http://michaeljschumacher.com/PM-CSS

Lucie Vítková (Czech Republic/New York)
Monday 18
MUSIC DOMESTIC is an album, released on the New York label Bánh Mì Verlag in March 2017; it is a series of performances focused on domestic space; in each piece, an automatic domestic instrument such as vacuum cleaner, kettle, washing machine, toilet, shower, heating and fans is played together with 2 accordions, hichiriki, voice, harmonica, objects and electronics; the music aesthetics are derived from a gentle manipulation of the domestic instruments, followed by my set of instruments; I am going to play four pieces from this album live, with the domestic instruments found at the venue

https://soundcloud.com/banhmiverlag/lucie-vitkova-music-domestic-excerpt

Yasunao Tone  (New York)
Tuesday 19
He has collaborated with Prof. Tony Myatt, University of Surrey UK, and a team of researchers including Dr. Paul Modler, with the support of the ISSUE Project Room in 2016; a series of performances using Tone’s MP3 Deviation software were captured in a laboratory then used to train Kohoen Neural Networks to develop artificial intelligences that can simulate several of his performance approaches; the AIs are integrated in a software framework and computer performance system that extracts attributes from the audio they generate to “listen” to the output and make performance actions as if they were virtual Tone performers; five versions of Tone AI exist in the performance software, each of which exhibits certain responses modeled on those previously adopted by Tone; in performance, Tone will deviate and control AI versions of himself along with the mechanisms that each AI uses to hear and respond to the audio they generate; deviating and corrupting the technologies designed to simulate his own performances, deviating and interacting live with AI versions of himself as performer; special guest artist, Ami Yamasaki, outstanding voice performance artist

Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013   212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org     9pm

Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours of Music and Film on Thursday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight – the Winter Solstice at Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217 http://www.roulette.org

XI CDs are now available for sale on the www.XI Records.org website:

Phill Niblock – Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk – Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek – Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman – Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson – Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach – Celestial Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward – Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman – Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low – Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock – Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron – Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode – Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs – Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart – Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo – Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo – Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson – Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue – Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein – The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock – YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen – Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson – The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band – 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI 124); Philip Corner – 40 Years And One (XI 125); Gen Ken Montgomery – Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher – Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht – A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman – My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt – The Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky – Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson – Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher – Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (Dvd-Rom); David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger -/RAW:ReSpace/ (XI 137); Dan Joseph – Electroacoustic Works (XI 138)

Coming Soon: Releases By Leslie Ross (XI 140), Tom Chiu (XI 141)
Amnon Wolman/Neil Leonard – Security Vehicles Only (XI 139) – Our first digital only release. Recorded live at Experimental Intermedia performance. Available on bandcamp as well as through most digital outlets (iTunes etc). The cover art and full notes for the release will be on the www.experimentalintermedia.org website, and in a form to print and place into a burned CD case
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June 4, 8pm, Montreal – Bozzini String Quartet plays Phill Niblock at Suoni Per Il Popolo Music Festival, LA SALA ROSSA, 4848 St.Laurent, Montréal, Qc

www.suoniperilpopolo.org

This concert includes two pieces for orchestra, Disseminate and Baobab, played by multples of the Bozzini String Quartet, recorded in Montreal on May 31 and June 1; and three pieces of music with film/video, by Phill Niblock

June 8, 9 10, in Torino Italy
PHILL NIBLOCK – PLAY IT LOUD! UN PROGETTO IN COOPERAZIONE TRA:
Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Conservatorio di Torino
Università di Torino, Superbudda, produced by Stefano Bassanese

June 8 – 11 am
AULA 12 – PALAZZO NUOVO, Via Sant’Ottavio 20 (Università di Torino)
Interview with Phill Niblock, by Giacomo Albert, Riccardo Fassone, Vincenzo Santarcangelo, Stefano Bassanese (Conservatorio di Torino)
Corso di Semiologia del film e dell’audiovisivo , Andrea Valle
Laurea magistrale in Cinema e Media

Concert, 9pm:
Phill Niblock: the movement of the artist working, with music
Piazza Bodoni, Salone Concerti Del Conservatorio
http://www.conservatoriotorino.gov.it/evento/play-it-loud/

Music and Film by Phill Niblock:
Unipolar Dance per viola, violino – Li Xinyu: violino, Giorgia Lenzo: viola
Nagro (aka Organ) per organo a canne – Matteo Cotti: organo
First out per chitarra elettrica – Carlo Barbagallo: chitarra elettrica
Film: China88

June 9:
AULA 40 – CONSERVATORIO, 10am
Phill Niblock: workshop with the composition students
SMET – Scuola di Musica Elettronica,

SUPERBUDDA, Docks Dora / Via Valprato 68, hours 4 to 11pm
http://www.superbudda.com/
The Movement of People Working, with Music – installazion with 3 screens and I video monitor

1 China88 1:50:21
2 Brasil84 1:17:16
3 Hong Kong & Hungary 1:51:20
4 BayJames 24:46

1 Japan89 1:58:35
2 Peru – Mexico 1:14:14
3 China86 1:15:14
4 Brasil83 53:05

1 China87 1:40:56
2 TresFamilias 1:16:49
3 Lesotho 42:27
4 Arctic 38:45
5 Portugal 50:33

1 Remo Osaka 1:59:02
2 Romania 1:14:41
3 Sumatra 4:14:36
(on video monitor)
Cotinuous music in the hall

Concert at 9pm
Stosspeng per 2 chitarre elettriche – Amos Cappuccio e Luca Morino: chitarra elettrica

June 10 – CINEMA MASSIMO – SALA UNO, Via Giuseppe Verdi,18
4:30pm -Thomas Maury, Niblock’s Sound Spectrums [2016-2017] (70′)
The first screening of this version of Thomas Maury’s documentary of Phill Nilbock

6pm – Phill Niblock, Six Films [1966-1969] (79′)
MORNING (1966-69) from an idea by Phill Niblock and Jean Claude Van Itallie, filmed by PN, text by Lee Worley and Michael Corner, with members of the Open Theater Group. Black and White 16mm film.
THE MAGIC SUN (1966 – 68) with members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. Filmed with a high
contrast Black and White 16mm film.
DOG TRACK (1969) A film by Phill Niblock, with a found text read by Barbara Porte. Color 16mm film.
ANNIE (1968) A portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound collage sound track. Color 16mm film.
MAX (1966 – 68) An image collage film /portrait of Max Neuhaus, with a collage sound track by Max Neuhaus. Black and
White 16mm film.
RAOUL (1968 – 69) A portrait of the painter Raoul Middleman, with extensive use of time-lapse film technique. The sound
track is improvised by Raoul Middleman and Phill Niblock. Color 16mm film.

9pm – Phill Niblock, Video-concerto
Recent HD Videos [2013-2016] (100′)
Meudrone 1, Agosto, DH Sand-Water, Vent 4, Meudrone 2
e l’esecuzionie dal vivo di:
9pm – Phill Niblock, Video-concerto
Recent HD Videos [2013-2016] (100′)
Meudrone 1, Agosto, DH Sand-Water, Vent 4, Meudrone 2
e l’esecuzionie dal vivo di:
Held Tones (1981) per flauto, Alessandra Giura Longo: flauto
Sweet Potato (2001) per clarinetto basso,, Takayo Hiramatsu: clarinetto basso
Twelve Tones (1977) per contrabbasso, Michele Anelli: contrabbasso
A Third Trombone (1979/1994) per trombone, Stefano Cicerone: trombone
Ronet (2014) per sassofono tenore, Pasquale Calò: sassofono tenore

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.

erstwhilerecords.com

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

https://vimeo.com/yingliu

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

https://vimeo.com/user1940280/videos

The Forty-third Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-eighth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-eighth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual “Festival  with no fancy name,” Part One (or A)

Phill Niblock, curator             December 2016

Mia Zabelka and Katherine Liberovskaya              Tuesday 13

Zabelka’s solo work is an ongoing process of de- and re-construction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range of the instrument using live electronic devices and preparing it through the insertion of alien objects between or on the strings; she is continuously exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in experimental performances and compositions that question established notions, improving the available techniques and given structures; Liberovskaya has been exploring improvised live visuals in the context of live music/sound concert situations since the early 2000s, collaborating with numerous music and sound artists; her live visuals seek to create improvisatory “music” for the eyes; they span a wide variety of approaches from straightforward real-time montage and processing of pre-recorded material to the use of diverse kinds of live cameras to capture live “events” on the concert stage and integrate them to the image mix; at EI, MZ and KL will continue an on-going collaboration where gesture and image dialogue through surveillance technology

www.miazabelka.com

Mimmo Napolitano (SEC_) & Mario Gabiola  (Italy)
Wednesday 14

Italian duo known as Aspec(t), appreciated for their original mix of electro-acoustic detailed improvisation and power electronics/noise visceral attitude; they use reel-to-reel tape machine, feedback systems, self-built synthesizers and audio samples to produce frenetic structures, twisted rhythms, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of the soundscape and the time stream

www.toxorecords.com/aspec(t)

– “Con il sostegno del progetto – With the support of the project DE.MO/MOVIN’UP I sess. 2016” – Promoted by: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Suburbs; General Directorate for Performing Arts; and GAI – Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists

Biliana Voutchkova (Bulgaria, Berlin) and Michael Thieke (Berlin)
Thursday 15

The violin and clarinet duo’s  new program works with the theme of blur in the field of music, on the level of formal composition as well as in the details of the musical material; the music’s structure creates a blur; improvised parts alternate with fields of pre-structured material in which tape-recordings of the duo are duplicated by live performance

http://www.bilianavoutchkova.net/
http://www.michael-thieke.de/

Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institute Chicago

Christina Wheeler (Los Angeles/Berlin)
Friday 16

Tres Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs: A three-part, solo composition in audience-generated, chance order and direction, for voice, electric mbira, electric autoharp, Q-Chord, delay loops, and electronic effects processing

www.christinawheeler.com

Amnon Wolman (Israel) and Neil Leonard (Boston)
Saturday 17 

A new collaboration between Neil Leonard and Amnon Wolman called Security Vehicles Only that employs two poems by John Ashbery; the piece is scheduled for premiere at the Tectonics Festival in Tel Aviv in November; at EI, Security Vehicles Only will be performed together with Amnon’s Flagger Ahead for visual live performers that will be presented by a group of student-artists from Boston

http://www.neilleonard.com, https://soundcloud.com/amnon-wolman
https://vimeo.com/amnonwolman
http://www.amnonwolman.org/
http://downloads.strikingmechanism.com/album/for-phill

Jenny Pickett & Julien Ottavi (UK/France)
Sunday 18

Solar Return – Nantes based artists Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi created Solar Return in 2009; taking electromagnetic phenomena as a starting point for their audio creations; they have produced various scores for dual audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronics etc…which reflect patterns and electromagnetic events such as solar flares and inner city mobile phone masts as well as the unfathomable audio world of kitchen appliances; through their performances the duo tunnel deep into the world of frequency, static and sound as a physical experience

http://jennypickett.co.uk
http://www.noiser.org
http://bruitbrut.lautre.net/

Junko Wada and Hans Peter Kuhn (Berlin)
Monday 19

3 Dreams – These dreams are not necessarily what you dream of, they are rather these kind of dreams one really dreams, a bit between nightmare and Alice’s Wonderland; not really bad dreams but also not the dreams of the best worlds; the first dream is this dream where your body is too slow for reaching the aim, everybody knows that; the second is a wild story where all kind of connections and happenings are possible and the third one is the one that is rather relaxing and meditative

www.junkowada.de
www.hanspeterkuhn.com

Johan Vandermaelen (Belgium)   
Tuesday 20

About the weather – a spatial installation about the unremarkable slow processes and sounds that surround us; Objects, fileplayers, singing stones

http://bamart.be/nl/artists/detail/285
https://soundcloud.com/user-918816603

Our programs are supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013   212 431 5127, 431 6430

www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org     9pm   

 Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours of Music and Film on Wednesday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight – the Winter Solstice 

Roulette Intermedium, Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, www.roulette.org

A list of the CDs available on the XI Records label:

Phill Niblock – Four Full Flutes (XI 101); Lois V Vierk – Simoom (XI 102); Guy Klucevsek – Flying Vegetables Of The Apocalypse (XI 104); David Behrman – Unforeseen Events (XI 105); Tom Johnson – Music For 88 (XI 106); Mary Jane Leach – Celestial Fires (XI 107); Fast Forward – Same Same (XI 108); Ellen Fullman – Body Music (XI 109); Jackson Mac Low – Open Secrets (XI 110); Phill Niblock – Music By Phill Niblock (XI 111); Allison Cameron – Raw Sangudo (XI 112); Daniel Goode – Clarinet Songs (XI 113); Mary Ellen Childs – Kilter (XI 114); Richard Lainhart – Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue (XI 115); Peter Zummo – Experimenting With Household Chemicals (XI 116); Logos Duo – Logos Works (XI 117); Annea Lockwood/Ruth Anderson – Sinopah (XI 118); Eliane Radigue – Trilogie De La Mort (XI 119); Malcolm Goldstein – The Seasons: Vermont (XI 120); Phill Niblock – YPGPN (XI 121); Paul Panhuysen – Partitas For Long Strings (XI 122); Tom Johnson – The Chord Catalogue (XI 123); Ellen Band – 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI 124); Philip Corner – 40 Years And One (XI 125); Gen Ken Montgomery – Pondfloorsample (XI 126); Michael J. Schumacher – Room Pieces (XI 127); Alan Licht – A New York Minute (XI 128); David Behrman – My Dear Siegfried (XI 129); Warren Burt – The Animation Of Lists And The Archytan Transpositions (XI 130); Matt Rogalsky – Memory Like Water (XI 131); David Watson – Fingering An Idea (XI 132); Michael J. Schumacher – Five Sound Installations (XI 133) (DVD-Rom); David First – Privacy Issue (XI 134); Charlie Morrow – Toot! (XI 135); Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore (XI 136); Ulrich Krieger – Raw/Re: Space (XI 137) 

Coming Soon: Releases by Dan Joseph (XI 138) and Leslie Ross (XI 139) 

The Following Releases Are 2 CDs For The Price Of 1: XI 115, XI 121, XI 126, XI 127, XI 128, XI 129, XI 130, XI 131, XI 132, XI 136, XI 137; The Following Releases Are 3 CDs For The Price Of 2: XI 119, XI 134, XI 135 

 All of the XI CDs are available for sale from our website (www.xirecords.org), as well as from Forced Exposure (USA) (www.forcedexposure.com) and Amazon.com. Titles are also available through Metamkine (France) (www.metamkine.com) and Soundohm (Italy) (www.soundohm.com). All releases are also available digitally through outlets such as iTunes, Spotify.com, Amazon.com, emusic.com, boomkat.com and others.

– Thursday January 7th, 9pm

String Noise (Pauline Kim-Harris and Conrad Harris duo) play Niblock, Margolis, and more. With live video by Katherine Liberovskaya.

An evening of string, electronics and video compositions and improvisations, including a world premiere for String Noise by Al Margolis, Niblock’s “Unipolar Dance” (2013) composed for the duo, and a new visual score by Liberovskaya.

– Friday January 8th, 9pm

Sand Works. A program of three screen works from 2015 by Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock all related to sand. Including one world premiere and two NY premieres. World premiere of “Timepiece/Maize” (video: Liberovskaya / music: Niblock). NY premieres of “DH Sand-Boat” (video+sound: Niblock) and “Rake” (video+sound: Liberovskaya).

– Sunday January 10th, 2 parts/acts: 7:30pm & 9pm (come to both!)

OptoSonic Tea presents:

Gen Ken Montgomery’s Super Group – audio-visual scored improvisation

For the first time since it’s creation in 2015 at MOMA/PS1 Allgold Printshop: Gen Ken Montgomery’s Super Group. The Super Group is a electro-acoustic and visual immersive project Montgomery conceived to explore graphic notation. It features the incredible talent of artists and performers he has been fortunate to know in the 35 years he has been involved in the New York Experimental and Underground music scene. The Super Group continues his work with the spatialization of sound that began with his octophonic concert compositions under the tutelage of Berlin composer Conrad Schnitzler in the 1980s. He first presented these 8-channel electronic music concerts at Generator, the sound art gallery he founded in 1989 in NYC, and has continued to work with multi-channel sound since.

Music/sound and film/video artists TBA.

OptoSonic Tea is an on-going series of periodic meetings or salons, started in 2006 by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer, dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses primarily on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. The live presentations are followed by a discussion about the artists’ practices over a cup of green tea.

The EI programs are supported by The David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

And a couple of concerts by Phill Niblock, not at EI:

January 9, Saturday, 7:30, Maurits Wouters’ documentary of Phill Niblock at Iliya Fridman’s gallery in Soho, and a concert by Phill Niblock, with the three newest pieces of music and recent videos

A NY premier of First Out, with David First, guitar; V&LSG, with Lore Lixenberg, voice and Guy De Bievre, lap steel guitar; DreGliss, with Erik Drescher, glissando flute
Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street, N Y NY 10013, between Varick and Hudson
(646) 345-9831 http://www.fridmangallery.com

January 19, Tuesday 9:00pm, – LOCK iT DOWN, at The Sump, 1563 Decatur St, Ridgewood Queens, NY 11385, curated by David Watson

Phill Niblock music, playing Bag, for bagpipes, with David Watson, and other pieces;
and maybe other acts

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