1   6 or 7 CDs  – The Exploratory Project, now looks like it will be 7 CDs with 18 versions of the scored piece –  Exploratory, on the Matière Mémoire of Belgium label. The label wants to put each CD out separately, at first, like one every month or two, then make the box set, starting perhaps in January 2021

2   2 CDs – a 2 CD set of the 5 new music pieces commissioned by Mathieu Copeland, through the Hermes Foundation of Japan, to be published by Matière Mémoire, and to result in an Exhibition in the Hermes Gallery in Tokyo, of just these music pieces, with no visuals; the music: Poom, with Stephen O’Malley; Herbal Cooled, with Deborah Walker, ExplMaranha, with David Maranha; Expl, with a Japanese Choir; Noizze, with Kasper Toeplitz, bass; Franck Vigroux, guitar; Helene Brischand, harp,  as I R E

3   1 CD – a 2 CD set, with one of the CDs a scored piece – Baobab, played in Dortmund Germany by the Dorf ensemble of 35 musicians, in September 2019, with the second CD, pieces by Jan Klare, co-published by XI Records and Umland records

4   1 CD – a new piece – Nudaf, 65 minutes, with Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon, to be published in Israel by Amnon Wolman on the AKOH Media label (not yet out)

5   1 CD – Music for Organ, two pieces with Hampus Lindwall, organ, on the Matière Mémoire of Belgium label, on LP as well

An LP from BullMiletic of Oslo Norway, with two pieces by PN named Zoom Blue Dot 5 and 6, out soon

Lawrence English, of Room40 in Australia, is re-issuing two CDs of mine: – Ghosts and Others and Guitar Too, For Four
G2,44 was originally issued by Jim O’Rourke, on the Moikai Label
G2, 44 CD is now issued (July 2020) and can be ordered from:
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/g244-x2
and now he may re-issue the Extreme label DVD, of my films from Peru, Mexico, Hong Kong and Hungary with my music, published many years ago, and recently out of print

There is the project on the label Touch, with two films – China88 and Japan89, and four hours of music by me, to be published on a USB stick, but the production has been delayed but it will be out

Browner, a new piece, for the 20 artist project for Matière Mémoire, the Belgian label, which will result in 20 LPs with a new piece from each artist on one side, and an artwork (visual) from them, on the other; this piece made with materials from four artists – Arne Deforce, cello; Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon, recorded in Marcus Schmickler’s studio in Koln, with a Brauner microphone

A video on Vimeo  – HookerNiblock, IN SOLIDARITY, with the recent uprisings of Black Lives Matter, a collaborative video by Phill Niblock and William Hooker – “Hooker-Niblock” (2015-19; 17:49; HD)
William Hooker, music, Phill Niblock, video
To view:     http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/
This piece was presented at Screen Compositions 15 (March 18th 2019), Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya, at Experimental Intermedia NYC March 2019 Concert Series, and it was recently revised

I put a piece on Soundcloud.com – Vlada BC, with Elisabeth Smalt, viola d’amore, premiered in November 2013, a month after my 80th birthday, I like it very much, and I was only 80

And another project, a video with my music, which you can look at/listen to, here:
https://vimeo.com/user23843464/review/426865371/7aee624c95
Muna Tseng, dance; Phill Niblock, music and video, 1992

A new music piece by Phill Niblock, Poom (June 2020, 28 min), with e-bowed guitar tones by Stephen O’Malley, recorded at the Trace Elements Studio, NY, by Robert Poss, constructed and mixed at Experimental Intermedia in NY, by Phill Niblock

Contour Editions online project: ce.onl_0033; Artist: Katherine Liberovskaya with music by Phill Niblock; Title: Threshold of Predictability; Format: Online Screening; Date: 2020; Contour Editions is pleased to publish the video work Threshold of Predictability: A Trilogy by NYC based media artist Katherine Liberovskaya with music by the legendary composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock. Liberovskaya’s publication consists of three moving image pieces ranging between 30’ to 60’ where a single event unfolds its outcome slowly with transparency towards an inevitable conclusion. Each distinct piece features a different unmistakable drone music composition by Phill Niblock. The three pieces form a trilogy that spans approximately 138’ of audiovisual immersion. For listening and detailed information about Threshold of Predictability visit the publication page within catalog. To learn more about Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock please visit their profiles here: artists

A new LP and CD with Giovanni De Dona, of Bologna.it, with “Sound Collage” pieces, not music, – Crick (et); Bells & Timps, Bells Syros and Zound Delta

A double LP edition, from Soundohm.com in Milan IT, a re-issue of the XI CD – Four Full Flutes, PK,with Petr Kotik; SLS, with Susan Stenger, PK and SLS, a mix of those two pieces, and the full length of this piece, a premier; and Winterbloom Too,with Eberhard Blum; all on flute

Soon to be re-issued, the DVD of Six Films, newly retransferred from the 16mm films, in HD resolution, with newly mastered sound – The Magic Sun (the Sun Ra Arkestra); Annie; Max (Neuhaus); Raoul; Dog Track; Morning; on the Die Schachtel label, by Soundohm.com, in Milan IT; it was transferred at Postworks/Technicolor in NY and color balanced by Laura Stayton with Adam Hogan

I am playing at Roulette in NY, in my yearly December 21, Winter Solstice concert, six hours of music never before played at Roulette, most of them New York premiers, and many World premiers; there are another 3 to 6 hours of pieces, not played at Roulette, which would not fit in the program; the concert will be recorded and available after December 21 – roulette.org

And

A Listing of Exploratory projects, as of 2020:
I have a new, scored piece for ensemble – the full name is
“Exploratory, Rhine Version, Looking for Daniel”, 22 minutes
These are different versions of the score, played by the groups or solo artists mentioned

ExplPhoenixBasel, by the Ensemble Phoenix of Basel CH, the commissioners
ExplArdittiSQ, the Arditti String Quartet, recorded and played in Krakow, Sept 2019
ExplLisbon, self played ensemble by David Maranha
ExplWatson, David Watson, half scottish bagpipes, half e-bowed guitar
ExplTiltBrass, 2 flugelhorns, 4 trombones, 1 tuba
ExplFirstHarmonica, David First, bass harmonica, harmonica
ExplAddacSynth, Andre Goncalves, modular synthesizers
ExplAccordion, Ben Richter, accordions
ExplChangLambViola, Johnny Chang and Catherine Lamb, violas
ExplNellyBoydEns, mixed ensemble, 44 minute version,
ExplStringMachine – a new microtonal vibrating string machine made by
Peter Wiessenthaner of Frankfurt
ExplKonusSaxQuartet – with Christian Kobi of Bern
ExplRailtonCello – with Lucy Railton, of England, living in Berlin, with a group of 6 cellos
ExplVoxHumana, with the Vox Humana Choral Group of Tokyo, now recorded, Dec 2020

New ones:
ExplneoNEnsOslo, mixed ensemble, neoN Ensemble of Oslo, hasn’t been recorded yet
ExplOrganHampus, Hampus Lindwall of Brussels, church organ, not yet recorded
ExplMotors, using variable pitch/sounds of electric motors, by Jens Brand
ExplApartmentHouse, proposed by Anton Lukoszevieze

That’s 18 versions, or more, 6 or 7 CDs, to be published by the label – Matière Mémoire, from Belgium, hopefully to be out in 2021

This piece was commissioned and played in June, 2019, by the Ensemble Phoenix of Basel, and recorded, in a 32 minute version

On December 21,2020, a 6 hour concert by Phill Niblock at Roulette.org, in NY, links:

download: https://vimeo.com/roulettetv/download/479998676/082f30e823

vimeo: https://vimeo.com/479998676

A network arts event on May 24th, at 9pm Spanish (European) time, 3pm EDT (NY)
The link for the event – nownetarts.org/series

For May 24, 2020
I was very disappointed in not being able to go to Spain to make concerts in four venues in April. So we decided to organize a Zoom event for them. The museums are:

– C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C/ Carmen Olmedo Checa, Córdoba, Spain
Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Artistic Director – www.c3a.es

– Centro José Guerrero, Oficios, 8, 18001 Granada, Spain
Director – Francisco Baena – www.centroguerrero.es

– Museo Vostell Malpartida, Carretera de Los Barruecos, 10910 Malpartida de Cáceres, Spain
José Antonio Agúndez García, Director – museovostell.juntaex.es

– Phonos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Edifici Mercè, Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12
08002 Barcelona, Director Angel Faraldo – www.upf.edu/web/phonos

But everyone is invited to join the audience, in the greater world
Please!!  The link for the event – nownetarts.org/series

This is the program:

– Set 1:
Katherine Liberovskaya/ Barbara Held/ Phill Niblock
live video: Katherine Liberovskaya
live flute and electronics: Barbara Held
live sound collage: Phill Niblock

– Set 2:
Music and Film by Phill Niblock
Film/Video: China 88, a film from the Movement of People Working series, filmed in Sechuan Province in China in 1988
Music: Vlada BC, for viola d’amore;  Bag, for Scottish bagpipes; and Praised Fan, for bassoon

This event is co-produced with Sarah Weaver of NowNet Arts
The concert will take place in Zoom. Go the website on the concert day and click the event button to enter Zoom. The concert can be heard on a phone, tablet, or computer. Best quality with headphones or external speakers and wired internet connection www.nownetarts.org/series

Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60’s he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York – www.experimentalintermedia.org – where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 and the curator of EI’s XI Records label. Phill Niblock’s music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label. He is a retired professor at The College of Staten Island, the City University of NewYork. In 2014, he is the recipient of the John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
www.experimentallintermedia.org

Barbara Held flautista y compositora, vive en Barcelona. Su práctica como músico con formación clásica da prioridad a toda una vida de colaboración, de trabajo interdisciplinario en relación con otros artistas. Ha creado un conjunto muy personal de nuevo repertorio para flauta por compositores españoles y estadounidenses, incluido el “Autorretrato” de Alvin Lucier para flauta y anemómetro de viento, y trabajos de cine y performance con Carles Santos y el poeta Joan Brossa. Sus composiciones colaborativas de video y música se han presentado en entornos muy diversos, desde el “Z to A Festival” organizado por el Storefront for Art and Architecture en las calles de New York hasta el Festival LOOP de videoarte en Barcelona. Conocida por su sutil exploración del material sonoro, crea un trabajo de sonido sensible y enfocado que expone el detalle del espacio físico de la escucha.

Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian intermedia artist based in New York City. Involved in experimental video since the 80’s, she has produced numerous single-channel video art pieces, video installations and video performances, as well as works in other media, that have shown around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of moving image with sound/music in various both ephemeral and fixed forms (projections, installations, performance), notably through collaborations with many composers and sound artists in improvised live video+sound concert situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory “music” for the eyes. In 2014 she completed a PhD in art practice entitled “Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images Like a Musical Instrument” at the Universite du Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
www.facebook.com/liberovskaya

And the Second Announcement:

OUT NOW: ce.onl_0033

Contour Editions is pleased to publish the video work Threshold of Predictability: A Trilogy by NYC based media artist Katherine Liberovskaya with music by the legendary composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock. Katherine’s publication consists of three moving image pieces ranging between 30’ to 60’ where a single event unfolds its outcome slowly with transparency towards an inevitable conclusion. Each distinct piece features a different unmistakable drone music composition by Phill Niblock. The three pieces form a trilogy that spans approximately 138’ of audiovisual immersion. For listening and detailed information about Threshold of Predictability visit the publication page within catalog. To learn more about Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock please visit their profiles here: artists

This online project is the latest development to present works that explore the various possibilities of sound and moving image, while also engaging with studio experimentation, materiality, processes, and diverse techniques to create and treat material and media. Contour Editions’ continued effort is to reach audiences globally on a personalized level, facilitating the presentation of independent original works of art. Subsequently, establishing a community of artists sharing similar interests towards incrementally instituting a significant archive of media works.

Online project: ce.onl_0033
Artist: Katherine Liberovskaya with music by Phill Niblock
Title: Threshold of Predictability
Format: Online Screening
Date: 2020
Catalog

Contour Editions
www.contoureditions.com
info@contoureditions.com

At the Pompidou Center for the Cinema du Réel International Film Festival.

http://www.cinemadureel.org/film/niblocks-sound-spectrums-within-invisible-rivers/

The film questions eight years of one of the popes of minimalist music, a major figure to drone music. We visit his New York loft, a real lab that is both his home and his emblematic public concert hall since the sixties. We follow him in his endless tours, to have a glimpse at the secret part of one of the smartest composers alive. We are going to Brno where we follow him while he is setting up a major retrospective exhibition of his work. Phill Niblock went on unveilling his work, making the production of his music accessible to all. We resume following him through the breathtaking mountains of Schratenberg in Austria where he confronts nature or through Hamburg where he indulges on his teenage years in Indiana. We end up in Paris, attending a recording session. The film witnesses the elaboration of a composition with the doom-metal guitar player Stephen O’Malley. It is a sensitive apnea where music and image blend until both end up finding their climax.

www.cinemadureel.org

The Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG   http://www.tate.org.uk

 Sunday 26 March, 7pm: Live performance of Environments III (100 Mile Radius, 16mm) and Environments IV (Ten Hundred Inch Radii, 16mm film) and Music, with live musicians and dance, 2.5 hours, entrance fee

Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 March, 10am-6pm: Installation of triple digital projection (Environments II, III and IV) and Music by PN

Tate Music and Dance Live Program, the 26th

Ronet – Neil Leonard, tenor saxophone

First Out – David First, guitar

Surge 2 – Thomas Ankersmit, analog synth

V&LSG – Lori Lixenberg and Guy De Bievre, voice and lap steel guitar

Elisabeth Schilling, dance

On the 26th, doors at 6, performance 6:30-9pm

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights/night-three

the BMW Tate Live Exhibition series, full program info: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights

No 1 March 24th  On the first night of the BMW Tate Live Exhibition Lorenzo Senni premieres two new iterations of live electronic music sets investigating the culture and mechanisms of dance music.

No 2 March 25th

No 3 26th   Phill Niblock, and installations the 28th and 29th during the day, and free

No 4 29th   Join us for an insightful video lecture presented by CAMP

No 5 31th  Carlos Casas  and others -> Experience immersive live cinema in the Tanks

No 6  1st April (fools day) See the UK premiere of Ligia Lewis’ minor matter

for the ones not knowing Tate Modern well they should be there in time to making their way to The Tanks

www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/tanks

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Programme

Permanent Installation, South Terrace: Fujiko Nakaya, London Fog with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani
18.10 East Tank: CAMP Four-Letter Film
Until 18.30 Tanks foyer and East Tank: Isabel Lewis Occasion
18.30 South Tank: Phill Niblock 100 Mile Radius (Environment III) and T H I R (aka Ten Hundred Inch Radii) (Environments IV) 

The third night of the BMW Tate Live Exhibition is dedicated to a special live performance by pioneering artist and musician Phill Niblock, who was pivotal in defining the intermedia approach of the 1960s and 70s.

Niblock presents the last two works in his Environments series, ground-breaking experiments shown in New York City between 1968 and 1972 that combine multi-screen film projection, 35mm colour slides, and dance with original sound. The film materials have been reworked in the intervening years, migrating to video and digital media and will be premiered with new sound compositions played live. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience Niblock’s revolutionary experiments in the immersive presentation of film, music and dance.

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights/night-three

I have been remiss in sending this current events out. But this festival in Koln (Cologne), produced by Georg Dietzler, prompts me to do it. And the issue of a new double CD on Touch.

“Touch Five”, a new double CD on Touch, is published on October 14.
Music by Phill Niblock

CD One:
FeedCorn Ear – Arne Deforce, cello (2012, 29:48)
A Cage of Stars – Rhodri Davies, electric harp (2012, 28:18)

CD Two:
Two Lips – Zwerm Guitar Quartet (2011, 23 minutes)
Two Lips – Dither Guitar Quartet (2011, 23 minutes)
Two Lips – Coh Da Guitar Quartet (2011, 23 minutes)

Sept 28 – 30, Anthology Film Archives, NY – environments films, etc.

At anthology, i’ll show the three screens films from two of the Environments series – Hundred Mile Radius and Ten Hundred Inch Radii, on the 28. not shown since 1970 and 1972- www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

October 5 – Eybeam (540 W 21st St. New York, NY 1001; 9pm)

Daniel Neumann, producer. On the occasion of renowned experimental composer and filmmaker, Phill Niblock’s 80th birthday, CT-SWaM (Contemporary Temporary Sound Works and Music), Eyebeam’s late night concert series, presents the artist’s intermedia works in three constellations. Including the world premier of a new piece for two violins performed by Pauline Kim and Conrad Harris, and live video dedicated to and performed by Katherine Liberovskaya. The performances will include:World premiere of UNIPOLAR DANCE (an anagram of Pauline Conrad). Music by Phill Niblock, Live Video by Katherine Liberovskaya. This piece is dedicated to Katherine Liberovskaya.
Live sound collage in a duo with Katherine Liberovskaya on live video.
And A CAGE OF STARS with Rhodri Davies, electric harp (28 minutes), and
TWO LIPS, a version with the Coh Da guitar quartet (Robert Poss and David First play live in this concert; Susan Stenger, Seth Josel also on the recording) (23 minutes) and the premiere of the new video transfer of the film

BRASIL83.
These pieces are to be published on a new double CD on Touch – Touch Five, on October 14 2013, at the Kontraste Festival in Krems Austria.

October 6 – Silent Barn, Brooklyn, with Bob Bellerue

Silent Bomb :: experimental music events at Silent Barn, produced by the folks who bring you Ende Tymes Fest

Phill Niblock
Katherine Liberovskaya + Al Margolis + Leslie Ross
Marcia Bassett + Barry Weisblat
Bob Bellerue + Philip White + Jeff Donaldson
$7 Oct 6 8pm doors, 9pm music
Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave J/M Myrtle Broadway
https://www.facebook.com/events/862356473851913/876496802437880/

Oct 10 , Riga Latvia , Skanu Mez and CTM (Berlin) collaboration – PN, Stephan Mathieu, KTL – www.skanumezs.lv/‎

Oct 13 (arrive 11th) – Kontraste Festival, Krems Austria – guest-curated by the sonic acts team from amsterdam., with Thomas Ankersmit
It’s also a Touch artists event, and the new PN Double CD “Touch Five” will be released on

October 14 – www.kontraste.at

October 25 @ Beirut Art Center on the opening day of the Dream Machine Festival, Beirut Lebanon, with Katherine Liberovskaya and Thomas Ankersmit, and Magda Mayas playing N+M – http://www.beirut.com/l/28890

October 27 – Katherine Liberovskaya and Al Margolis opening at the EI house in Gent Belgium – www.experimentalintermedia.be

Oct 17 – Nov 10 , Koln PN festival, Georg Dietzler, producer; this festival is long, with many events – www.gerngesehen.de

November 15 – Arnolfini, Bristol, UK – Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 18 – Huddersfield Music Festival, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 20 – Manca Festival, Villa Arson, Nice Fr, with Thomas Ankersmit
November 23 – Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland, with Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 24 – Wroclaw (not confirmed)
Nov 26 – Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden,with Thomas Ankersmit
Nov 29, 30 – Mexx, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (PN installation)

other events of my work, but where i will not be present:

Nuit Blanche, Paris France

La Maison des Métallos in the Nuit Blanche, Paris Fr, October 5 2013
A twelve hour exhibition of the Movement of People Working films and music by Phill Niblock (six images and immersive sound). 7pm to 7am

Meudrone

Two huge videos, 30 hours of sound, two huge red sofas in André Bloc’s Habitacle, Meudon. An original space where the galerist Natalie Seroussi presents an unique multimedia performance of the world famous artist, Phill Niblock : Meudrone THIR. The spectator is deeply immersed in a both visual and sonorous experience. Creating a place of meditation.

These works, realized especially for this exhibition space by Phill Niblock, are directly inspired by the flora surrounding the site, and demonstrate the artist capacity to use and to mix music, videos and photography.

Born in Indiana in 1933, Phill Niblock, since the middle of the sixties, is specialized in the realization of multimedia performances. Mostly known for his minimalist compositor talents, he presents simultaneously during his concerts movies showing the movement of working persons or abstract pictures.

Phill Niblock is the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation since 1985. During his carreer, he realized more than 1000 performances, was the conservator of the novative XI Records label, and launched a second EI Space in Ghent, Belgium.
This installation on Sunday afternoons, can be visited by appointement during the year. Click here to contact the Galerie Natalie Seroussi.

I wrote a short preview of your Eyebeam show in the Wall Street Journal today (Oct 2), in print in the section “Greater New York” and online here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303918804579109702848623952.html?mod=WSJ_NY_Culture_LEFTTopStories
Andy Battaglia – www.andybattaglia.com

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Long Wave
8th October – Phill Niblock

Interview with Phill Niblock conducted by Mike Harding over a dodgy Skype connection from Phill’s hotel room in Japan, September 2013

Intros and outros recorded by Jana Winderen in Glasgow, 28th September and Pascal Wyse in London, 18th September; with thanks to Brains & Hunch.

Station IDs: BJNilsen

can be read here:
audiovisualsalvage.blogspot.co.uk

January 29th to May 12th, 2013

Mathieu Copeland, curator

A Phill Niblock retrospective in Lausanne, Switzerland – the exhibition will be realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and the Musée de l’Elysée (the national museum devoted to photography)

Phill Niblock
Working Title
2012
édition bilingue (français/anglais)
à paraître

Un panorama des activités de l’artiste multimédia et compositeur new-yorkais depuis les années 1960, à travers des essais de musicologues, critiques et historiens de l’art, de nombreuses illustrations, des partitions et 4 films sur DVD.
A collection edited by Yvan Etienne

www.lespressesdureel.com/
www.lespressesdureel.com/collection_serie.php?id=28&menu=1

Phill writes:

“I know you’ve been missing those emails with my tour info. So here is a biggish one, after my dislocation from touring in November 2012.”

Summary of events

July 1st 8pm Soundfjord at V22 Space (F2 Large Space):

hill Niblock: 3 Compositions (Sweet Potato, Twelve Tones, Disseminate) and ‘The Movement of People Working’ (China 1988, Japan 1989) – David Ryan,dir./Clarinets Ian Mitchell, Clarinets, Alison Blunt, Violin, Joe Zeitlin, cello, Dominic Lash, Contrabass
http://www.v22collection.com

+ related event: 3pm David Ryan – Via di San Teodoro 8 (a film featuring Giacinto Scelsi’s house in Rome) V22 Cinema Space http://www.v22collection.com/club/event.php?ID=108

(PN is NOT to be there)