Live

At the 22nd edition of OUT.FEST in Barreiro, Portugal, October 1-4, there will be two moments dedicated to Phill Niblock’s work – a live performance of “G2, 44” and “First Out E” performed by André Gonçalves, Manuel Mota, Margarida Garcia and Rafael Toral on October 2nd (Phill Niblock’s birthdate), as well as an installation of “The Movement of People Working” film series, running all four days of the festival.

“With a strong connection to Portugal through his role as a mentor in the Ernesto de Sousa Grant of the Luso-American Development Foundation, he is honoured at this year’s OUT.FEST with the presentation of two works, “G2,44” and “First Out E”: long-duration constructions of dense harmonic fields conceived for electric guitar, from a period in which Niblock was exploring the instrument’s potential, coinciding with the presence of Rafael Toral in residence at Phill’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation (“G2,44” was premiered in 1996 by Toral and Jim O’Rourke in Chicago).

A significant moment, then, as – on what would have been the composer’s 93rd birthday – Rafael Toral, André Gonçalves, Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota, key figures in the Portuguese scene, former fellows mentored by Niblock and part of a circle of affinities shaped with him, which continues to carry his legacy forward, come together on guitars to let this music without beginning or end resound.”

“A central figure in experimental music for more than five decades, Phill Niblock developed a body of work in which sustained sound, duration and minute transformations invite radically different ways of listening. Alongside his music, he created “The Movement of People Working”, a vast silent film cycle observing manual labour around the world not as documentary, but as movement: a choreography of gestures, rhythms and time.

Presented throughout the four days of OUT.FEST, this installation brings together five films from the series, shot in Portugal, the Arctic, Brazil, Lesotho and Peru/Mexico, alongside a selection of Niblock’s compositions spanning several decades. In keeping with the composer’s own exhibition practice, image and sound are played independently, each from its own source, never synchronised and never paired in the same way twice. Each encounter produces new resonances, unexpected correspondences and fleeting alignments, while the daily reordering of both programmes ensures that no two visits are ever quite the same, inviting audiences to experience Niblock’s work as he so often conceived it: through time, chance and sustained listening.”

October 2, 18H (6PM) @ SIRB “Os Penicheiros” – Rua Almirante Reis 66, Barreiro, PT
Phill Niblock “G2,44” & “First Out E” by André Gonçalves, Manuel Mota, Margarida Garcia & Rafael Toral outfest.pt/eng/phill-niblock-g244-first-out-e-por-andre-goncalves-manuel-mota-margarida-garcia-rafael-toral/ purchase tickets from link below

October 1-4 @ O Espaço – Rua Dr. Câmara Pestana 45, Barreiro, PT

Phill Niblock’s “The Movement of People Working”
‘Portugal’, ‘Arctic’, ‘Brazil 84’, ‘Lesotho’, ‘Peru/Mexico’, accompanied by selected works of Phill Niblock’s music

installation opening times:
thursday, 1 oct: 6pm – 1am
friday & saturday, 2-3 oct: 3pm – 10pm
sunday, 4 oct: 2pm – 8pm
free admission
outfest.pt/eng/phill-niblock-the-movement-of-people-working-instalacao/

more info at outfest.pt – program page available from menu on upper right
tickets available at outfest.pt/eng/bilhetes/

The version of Phill Niblock’s The Magic Sun film that was recently restored by the Centre Pompidou is included in the Festival di Film by Villa Medici, which runs from 16-20 September. The Magic Sun will be part of the program curated by Rosa Barba on 19 September, which also includes her own film Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage and I’ve Heard Stories by Marwa Arsanios.

Location:
Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, Roma, Italia

See villamedici.it/it/programme/festival-di-film-2026

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.

Phill Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial Celebration in Music, Images, Words, Movements…

Saturday, October 5, 2024
12:00 pm
roulette.org/event/phill-niblock-forever/
FREE w/ rsvp – NOON to MIDNIGHT doors 11:30am
+ simultaneous Livestream (see info below)

Artist and curator Katherine Liberovskaya, Niblock’s partner of the last 22 years, puts together a Marathon 12 hour Memorial Celebration of the iconic minimalist composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock (1933-2024) a few days after what would have been his 91st birthday. The event brings together brief artistic interventions by a wide range of Phill’s close friends and colleagues, old and young, from near and from far, participating live in-person and remotely, via streaming and via video, in solos, duos, formations or several and orchestras, including among many others:

LIVE

David Gibson, Gerd Stern, Jim Staley + Shelley Hirsch + Susan Hefner, Yasunao Tone + Keiko Uenishi, Anthony Coleman Al Margolis + Leslie Ross, David Behrman + John King + Barbara Held + Yoshiko Chuma, Tom Buckner + Tom Hamilton, Sally Silvers + Bruce Andrews, Thomas Lehn + Tiziana Bertoncini, Byron Westbrooke, Katie Porter + Bob Bellerue, Dan Joseph +Yuko Otomo, Dave Soldier + David First + William Hooker, Matthew Ostrowski + Dafna Naphtali, Eric Letourneau, Elliott Sharp + Erica Hunt, Cecilia Lopez + Gill Arno, Miya Masaoka, Barry Weisblat + David Watson, Neil Leonard + Amnon Wolman, Alan Licht, Tara Bhattacharya + Matt Mottel, Laura Ortman, Earl Howard

Dark Circuits Orchestra

Lucie Vitkova, Marcia Bassett, Teerapat Parmongkol, Alex Zhu, Emad Jamal, Monica Rocha, Shoko Nagai, Crystal Penalosa, Chuck Bettis, Luke Dubois, Kamran Sadeghi, Michael Schumacher, David Galbraith, Daniel Neumann, Abby Davis, David Rothenberg, Ben Manley, Miguel Frasconi, Andrew Neumann, Laura Feathers, Larry Seven & Hans Tammen. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya.

The Orcehstra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Roberta Michel, Pablo O’Connell, Katie Porter, Bohdan Hilash, Sara Schoenbeck, Dirk Wels, Ser Konvalin, Blair Hamrick, Tim McCarthy, Sigrun Kahl, Kate Amrine, Thomas Verchot, Christopher McIntyre, Ben Stapp, Ron Caswell, Conrad Harris, Tom Chiu, Lynn Bechtold, Theresa Salomon, Mioi Takeda

Streaming or Video

Loré Lixenberg, Charlie Morrow, Marek Choloniewski, Kasper Toeplitz, Luciano Chessa, Jens Brand, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sergei Komarov, Alexey Grachev, Frederic Acquaviva, Logos, Kristof Lauwers, Moniek Darge, Godfried-Willem Raes, Bryan Eubanks, Biliana Voutchkova, Gerard Lebik, Jozef Ceres, Nicola Hein, Claudia Schmitz, Davide Capobianco, Matt Rogalski, Joao Castro Pinto, Rafael Toral, Julien Ottavi, Jeny Pickett, Ulrich Krieger, Rebekkah Palov, Julian Knowles, Nao Nishihara, Anna Clementi, Anna Frants, Anne Wellmer, Ursula Scherrer, Astrid S. Klein, Stefano Bassanese, Benjamin, Thigpen, Hedya Klein, Bradley Eros, Heimo Wallner, Carl Stone, Chika, Hiromi Kiba, Micheal Delia, Allessandra Zucchi, Antonio Della Marina, Alexandra Dementieva, Emilio Fantin, Francisco Janes, Irina Danilova, Janene Higgins, Jon Burris, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Janos Sugar, Joseph Sledgianowski, Laurie Schwartz, Lieve D’Hondt, Maria Blondeel, Rie Nakajima, Marie Roux, Hans V Koch, Pierre Berthet, Monika Weiss, Kurt Godttschalk, Mia Zabelka, Miah Artola, Milos Vojtechovsky, Annea Lockwood, Liz Phillips, Richard Garet, Seth Cluett, Laura Stayton, Adam Hogan, Susan Stenger, Robert Poss, Sara Sun, Micheal Timpson, Tim Shaw

…and more!

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h3nDaglp2I

This is a free event. Please help us honor Phill’s legacy and support the ongoing presentation of his work at Roulette by making a donation.

Thursday 28th March 7PM doors
Katherine Liberovskaya and David Watson: Compositions by Phill Niblock

e-flux
172 Classon Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205

www.e-flux.com/events/581285/katherine-liberovskaya-and-david-watson-nbsp-compositions-by-phill-niblock/

Join us at e-flux on Thursday, March 28 at 7pm for an event celebrating the life and work of avant-garde composer, photographer, filmmaker, videographer, and Experimental Intermedia founder Phill Niblock (1933–2024). Katharine Liberovskaya, Niblock’s longtime collaborator, will be joined by David Watson to present three pieces of music: “Expl. Watson” (a version of “Exploratory” written by Niblock for Watson), “Bag” (another composition written by Niblock for Watson), and one piece encompassing live-mixing of field recordings that Niblock gathered on his travels with Liberovskaya. These compositions will be accompanied by guitar, bagpipe, and video.

As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill Niblock stages his annual Winter Solstice concert for the 13th consecutive year at Roulette, with a special twist in honor of his 90th year on Earth: 24 hours of music and film. Running from 12pm to midnight on two consecutive days, this live performance will consist of 12 sublime hours of music and mixed media film and video each day, with special guest performers interspersed throughout.

roulette.org/event/phill-niblock-winter-solstice-2023/ | roulette.org/event/phill-niblock-winter-solstice-2023-2/

Please join us for our next Hyphen Hub Salon to celebrate the life and legacy of the acclaimed British experimental composer, turntablist, and multimedia artist, Philip Jeck who died last month in Liverpool. The evening will feature special guest performances by artists who worked and collaborated with him.

Featuring: Marina Rosenfeld, Phill Niblock, Ted Riederer, & Zachary Paul who will each pay tribute in their own unique way. 

When: Saturday May 7th 2022
Time: Doors: 6pm

Presented by: Hyphen Hub in partnership with Touch

Tickets: $10 at the door

RSVP to get location: asher@hyphenhub.com

HOT OFF THE PRESS

In NY and Vienna, simultaneously. with Mia live in Vienna and Katherine live in NY
And Phill shily pre-recorded

PhonoFemme 2021
on-site, on air, online
esel.at/termin/110664/phonofemme-2021

1.10.2021, 19.00h: Phonofemme Vienna and Experimental Intermedia New York – Online Event – with Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Daniel Neumann, Mia Zabelka

October 1st 19:00 (Vienna) / 13:00 (NYC)
in cooperation with The Austrian Cultural Forum NYC
live stream link:
acfny.org/event/virtual-performance-phonofemme-2021/

Set one:
Katherine Liberovskaya (Live Visual Foley) & Mia Zabelka (Violin and Electronics)

set two:
Phill Niblock (Music and Film)
Music:
– Browner (2020, 20:00) : Arne Deforce, cello; Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon
A world premiere !
– First Out (2015, 22:14) : David First, guitar
– V&LSG (2015, 21:20) :  Lore Lixenberg, voice and Guy De Bievre, lap steel guitar
Video:
– Meudrone1 (2013)
– Agosto (2014)
– DH Sand-Boat  (2015)

Streaming engineer: Daniel Neumann

From the Austrian Cultural Forum’ email:
October 1 | PhonoFemme2021

PhonoFemme sees itself as a platform for experimental music and sound art by women in Vienna. As a series of performances from October 1-3, 2021, the aim is to network the diverse international scene of female artists and to bring them into a communicative and aesthetic exchange. In cooperation with Experimental Intermedia New York, join us on October 1 at 1 PM EST / 7 PM CET for virtual streaming of Phonofemme Vienna and Experimental Intermedia New York with musicians Mia Zabelka, Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya and Daniel Neumann.

Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Here is an event that is live in Vienna, if you happen to be there – except for us, we are in NY and Barcelona, and we are live at the time it’s happening

Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya and Barbara Held

Tune in  – And thanks to our friends at klingt.org

DerBlödeDritteMittwoch #99
8. JULI 2020, doors: 19h30, program & streaming starts 20h sharp
LIVE: Steinergasse 8, 1170 Wien
live streaming auf: https://echoraeume.klingt.org

Sara Zlanabitnig (A) & Tomaš Grom (SLO): flute, electronics / double bass [konzert]

Kathrin Stumreich (A): “Klack und die Gesetze der Thermodynamik”[performance]

 Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya & Barbara Held (US):

A live video and sound set, streamed from Experimental Intermedia NYC and from Barcelona

All three of us for one set, with live visuals by Liberovskaya, and live flute and electronics by Held, and sound collage pieces by Niblock

And then Niblock Solo:
video screening: “The Movement of People Working”  – Phill Niblock

– Hungary, Hong Kong
“Praised Fan” by Phill Niblock ~17min, for bassoon; Dafne Vicent Sandoval: bassoon
“POOM” by Phill Niblock ~30:00min, for e-bowed guitar; Stephen O’Malley, guitar

due to limited admission please reserve via email to: bloedetickets@klingt.org

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https://echoraeume.klingt.org/
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This is an announcement about 4 online music events on June 19, 20 and 21
The letter is from Oda.co, the producer of these music events, and they feature Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya, and this is a test event of their website and eventual series of webcasts

On Saturday afternoon, the event will be a virtual premier of a new music piece by Phill, finished the day before, of course, named Poom, with Stephen O’Malley playing e-bowed guitar, from sound material recorded in the Trace Elements studio of Robert Poss, 28 minutes long

The event will begin with a set by Phill and Katherine Liberovskaya

An improvised sound collage by Katherine Liberovskaya & Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock: live mixing of field recordings
Katherine Liberovskaya: live small percussion instruments and other objects and gadgets

Note that the Saturday afternoon event is at 3pm NY time, and 9pm European time

You can see the poster with Katherine’ drawing and the on-line version of OdA’s newsletter

Letter from Oda.co

Hi!

Today we would like to invite you to spend the weekend with us and the artists Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya.

Regardless of what you know about the work of Phill and Katherine, speaking to someone like Perry is always interesting. Perry is a sound artist and the creator of the Oda speakers, which you will hear more about later this summer. Perry says: “Phill Niblock is often labelled a minimalist. This amounts to a dismissal. I would say monumentalist, because the sound is so thoroughly consuming, and commanding of attention. As when a tree falls in a forest, if you’re not giving this music your full attention does it even exist?”

Phill and Katherine have been collaborating together since the early 2000’s. In the past week, Perry has been working with them almost daily with sound-checks in advance of this weekend’s shows.

“You know, Katherine Liberovskaya is well known as a video artist, often collaborating with musicians to provide a visual element with musical qualities”, Perry says. “What I think is really interesting is, on this occasion, she is a musician. In this context she performs sound with visual qualities. It is hard not to conjure an image of how each sound is created.” He ends, “I so look forward to hearing this with Oda, which engages the room it is in so differently than any other speakers!”

Here is this weekend’s schedule:

Friday, June 19 at 9pm ET
Phill Niblock – Live
Vlada BC, for viola d’amore 20 min
Exploratory Ensemble Phoenix Basel 22 min
Noizzze One,for the I R E Trio 23 min
A Cage of Stars, for electric built harp 28 min
Five More String Quartets 25 min
127 min = 2 hr 7 min

Saturday, June 20 at 3pm ET
An improvised sound collage by Katherine Liberovskaya & Phill Niblock – Live
“POOM” by Phill Niblock – Live (World Premiere!)

Saturday, June 20 at 9pm ET
Phill Niblock – Live
Herbal Cooled2, for cello  23 min
ExploratoryTiltBrass,for brass ensemble 22min
Baobab Bozzini String Quartet 23 min
A Rooks Pun, for soprano saxophone  23 min
Bag, for Scotish bagpipes 21 min
Ronet, for tenor saxophone 21 min
135 min = 1 hour 15 min

Sunday, 21 at 9pm ET
Phill Niblock – Live
Guitar too, for Four-Massed, for many guitars played with e-bow 30 min
Exploratory Arditti String Quartet 23 min
Euph, for Two Belled Euphonium 24 min
FeedCorn Ear 30 min
Praised Fan, for bassoon 17 min
V&LSG, for voice and lap steel guitar 21 min
145 min = 1 hour 25 min

To listen, please visit live.oda.co at the performance times listed above. If you leave your browser open, the broadcast will begin automatically as they start.

Love,
Oda

A collaborative video by Phill Niblock and William Hooker
Music by William Hooker, Video by Phill Nilbock
“Hooker-Niblock” (2015-19; 17:49; HD)

To view, direct from Vimeo

or on our website

This piece was presented at Screen Compositions 15 (March 18th 2019) curated by Katherine Liberovskaya at the Experimental Intermedia NYC March 2019 Concert Series

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Fridman Gallery, NY, 169 Bowery NYC, exhibition of Phill Niblock photo works, etc. and three concerts, from November 24 2019 to January 6 2020

November 30, 9pm until midnight, rainy days festival: Philharmonie Luxembourg – Phill Niblock, «Night shift» Drones and films – Lydia Rilling, curator,

December 2 or 3, Karlsruhe Germany, ZKM

December 21, 6pm until midnight, Roulette, Atlantic Ave and 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn NY, the Winter Solstice, 6 hours of Phill Niblock films and music

October 13,13/15, Unsound Festival in Krakow Poland, at Forum Przestrzenie Klub

22:30 to 00:50 (140 minutes), last on the program, and oldest

Club 89 draws inspiration from the historic Crazy Dragon, which operated in the 90s in the Hotel Forum, one of the most luxurious hotels in Kraków . Named 89 – referencing the end of communism in Poland, and the year the club was built. The interiors have not been changed. The red velvet just like in “Twin Peaks Town” by David Lynch still dominates here. This place with an amazing atmosphere will host equally amazing musicians and artists on this year’s edition of Unsound Festival

October 17+, LUFF Festival in Lausanne CH, PN is the opening set
www.luff.ch

October from 19 till 24, in Singapore with Carlos Casas, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore,  NTU CCA Singapore is a national research centre of the Nanyang Technological University

October 16 – 27, 6pm opening the 16th;  “musiques murales”, group show with 19 composers curated by frédéric acquaviva, galerie satellite, 7, rue françois de neufchâteau 75011 paris (PN in this show but not in Paris)

October 26-29 in Marienbad CZ, with J Cseres – Marienbad Film Festival

October 31 – Instants Chavires, Paris – produced by Laurent Ligavent, with Thierry Madiot, trombone, live

And in Paris:

October 14 at 6pm in Eglise du Saint-Esprit, 186, avenue Daumesnil, Paris 12ème. Music by Phill Niblock.

Hampus Lindwall, organ. Free entrance. PN not there

October 20 at 8pm in Eglise Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement, 68, rue de Turenne, Paris 3ème. Program with music by Cory Arcangel, Marcel Duchamp & Phill Niblock. Hampus Lindwall, organ. Free entrance. PN not there

Nov 4,5,6 – Gaida Musica Festival, Vilnius Lithuania; on the 4th, #9.7 (Number Nine point Seven) for Orchestra and Solo Cello (2017, 30 min) with Juho Laitinen, cello, and  Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra; on the 6th, a concert with Film and Music by Phill Niblock

November 23, Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston Ontario, Canada, Nov 15 -24, with a concert by PN and an installation by Katherine Liberovskaya, 17th annual festival of Adventurous Sound Performance, produced by Matt Rogalsky

tonedeafkingston.org

Novmber 15, Dave Soldier’s class at Columbia Univ, sound art department, in the building with the original Columbia / Princeton Electronic Music Studios

December, first week  –  Gudinni/Jordan Paul, Oaxaca Festival, Mexico

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

December 22, at Holo in Bushwick, Elliot Sharp, Gil Kuno, Maciej Ozog, Gerard Lebik, Bob Bellerue, and Phill Niblock, a memorial / tribute for Zbigniew Karkowski