Phill Niblock, Curator | March 2007
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
212.431.5127 | 431.6430
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9pm, $4.99
Kahn uses percussion and analogue synthesizer, Mueller uses percussion and cassettes; both blur the realm of merely using percussion instruments as devices to be struck; as on their recent recording, "Supershells," they take the frequencies and textures of their instruments, and integrate them into one seemless mix; "Percussion is often subsumed within the densely swelling layers of electronic and manipulated sound...to a remarkable degree with the unstable, bottom-heavy, rather threatening electronic sounds which are characteristic of this impressive set." - Brian Marley, The Wire jasonkahn.net and jonmueller.net
This third edition of Screen Compositions is as usual 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: Benton-C Bainbridge / Bobby Previte; Betsey Biggs / Evidence (Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore); Cedrick Eymenier / Fennesz; Margarida Garcia / Manuel Mota; Kurt Ralske / Micheal Schumacher; Jennifer Reeves / Anthony Burr; Paul Ryan / Annea Lockwood; Shimpei Takeda / Michael Vernusky; Bas Van Koolwijk / Gert-Yan Prins; Ines Wickmann / Ingrid Drese
electroacoustics - mutli-channel - visual - performance - verbal images - AxIOm /thinking is form/Space leads to sound / cling wrap thinks visible / sonic surroundings / thinking is face/sonic atmosphere / stretched / where to go? See/listen at sistermanns.eu
The composer presents six recent pieces: four with performers-plus-octrophonic computer music and two as solo tapes; the program features the world premiere of a new work composed for flutist Jacqueline Martelle, "Les Flutes de Pan: Hommage a Debussy" (2005-6), as well as two works receiving their New York premieres: "Tableaux: Convolutions on a Theme" (2003-4), composed for saxophonist Stephen Duke and "Adagio: Convolutions on a Theme by Mozart" (2004-5), composed for clarinetist F. Gerard Errante; Bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern will perform Austin's "Threnos" (2001-2), for real and virtual bass clarinets, dedicated to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001; the two solo computer music tapes are his "Williams [re]Mix[ed]" (1997-2000) and "art is self-alteration is Cage is..." (1982, rev., 1993) music.unt.edu/cemi/larry_austin/index.htm
"Cetacea" is the Latin term for the group of marine mammals which includes whales; Fahres examines the relationship between the rhythmic structures of the clicking noises of dolphins and the polyrhythms of Senegal, as played by Doudou NiDiaye Rose, the master of the sabar drum and his ensemble; this composition consists of a recording of the ultrasound tones made by dolphins in the Duisburg Dolphinarium and subsequently transformed into audible frequencies; the concert is the tape version in 5.1 surround - following the concert, there will be a film which documents Cetacea; Supported by the Gaudeamus Contemporary Music Center, the Netherlands home.wanadoo.nl/michael.fahres/
The premiere of
Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa, a memorial fellowship named for the Portuguese
Intermedia Artist, sponsored by the Luso-Americana Foundation and the
Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, coordinated by Isabel Alves,
presents an intermedia performance:
Is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher in the application of
technology as a tool for artistic expression; this, the outcome of his
residence at EI, is a performance for a body in space interacting with an
audiovisual sensory system; recently developed movement based control
interfaces and new ideas about audiovisual expression form the core of his
presentation
he researches hardware-specific aspects of different powerbook-models, looking for instrumental qualities in uniformed machines; She influences video with extended vocal techniques, creating a play between reality and illusion, turning walls into waves hans-w-koch.net and mynetcologne.de/~nc-wenzelbe2/
Acoustic tuba solos; the Berlin-based tuba player presents a song book of noise; the instrument is treated as a labyrinth of tuning in which air may be trapped and redirected, producing sounds reminiscent both of industrial noise and analogue electronics; robinhayward.de
Performer, composer, sound poet and visual artist from Tokyo, known for his versatile style; he will present solo improvisations with voice, self-made instruments (electronic/amplified objects) and an original sensor system named "infrared sensor shirt," also introduces some works of Japanese sound poet; his performance is characterized by a sense of humor and a singular intensity with visual pleasure; this will be his first solo performance in the US; adachitomomi.com
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund For Music, the Phaedrus Foundation and The Amphion Foundation
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Activities of Experimental Intermedia v.z.w. Gent, Belgium
In 1993, the American artist Phill Niblock opened a house with
window gallery at Sassekaai 45, in Gent, Belgium.
Quickly the EI Huis became a meeting place for many local and international
artists and art lovers. In 1997, the co-ordinating committee - Phill
Niblock, Maria Blondeel, Zjuul Devens, Lieve D'hondt and Ludo Engels -
founded a Belgium organization, the Experimental Intermedia v.z.w. Gent. EI
presents 4 or more installations a year in the windows. The installations
can be seen from the street through two large windows: pedestrians, car
drivers, bikers and people on the tram cannot help but give attention to
the curved front with its two windows, bringing the art (often literally)
onto the street. By exploring the space and the environment, the artist can
surprise passers-by .EI has produced several projects in collaboration with
other international artists' organizations like Kunstcentrum Sittard,
Sittard (NL), MeX, Dortmund (D), ICAEE, Tokyo (JP), Voorkamer, Lier (B) and
Logos Foundation, Gent (B). The artists who have made installations,
listed in chronological order, are: Maria Evelein, the Netherlands; Sigrid
Lange, Germany; Michael Timpson, USA; Michael Vorfeld, Germany; Uli
Vonbank-Schedler, Austria; Harald Kubiczak, Germany; Alexandru Patatics,
Romania and Gerd Schmedes, Germany; Mike Metz, USA and Penelope Wehrli,
USA/ Germany (in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts, Gent);
Beverly Piersol, USA/ Austria and Gertrude Moser-Wagner, Austria; Juana
Valdes, Cuba/USA; Adri Huismann, The Netherlands; Kjell Bjoergeengen,
Norway; Claudia Wissman, Germany; Claudia Schmacke, Germany; Marica Presic,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Doris Koch, Germany; Esther Ferrer, France/Spain;
Ludwika Ogorzelec, France/Poland; Peter Schoutsen, Netherlands; Jozef
Cseres and Michael Murin, Slovakia; Steffen Muck, Germany; Maria Friberg
and John Oivind Eggesboe, of Sweden and Denmark; Mirjam Berloth, The
Netherlands; Beate Maria Woerz, Germany; Heike Kern, Germany ; Renate
Hoffman Korth, Germany, and Sonia Rodrigues, Portugal/ England; Leonidas
Martin Saura (Spain); Ursula Scherrer, Switzerland/USA; Jio Shimizu, Japan;
Minoru Sato, Japan; Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanoff, Bulgaria /
France; An Seebach, Germany; Anna Best, England; Paul Devens, The
Netherlands; ts Beall, USA and Glasgow; Ivan Smith, England; Sara
Hornbacher, USA; Yoshito Ikeda, Japan; Almut Rink and Christof Schlegel,
Austria; Sophie Nys, Belgium; Jurgita Remeikyte, Vilnius, Lithuania; Juul
Sadee, Netherlands; Doris Kuwert, Germany; Bruce Allan, England ; Carlos
Andrade, Colombia and Todd Ayoung, USA; Takahiko Iimura, Japan; Patrick
Beaulieu, Canada; Marieke De Munck, Belgium; Tim Vets & Erki De Vries,
Belgium; Adam Geczy, Australia; Katherine Liberovskaya, Canada; John Luther
Adams, USA
Please visit the EI Gent website: www.experimentalintermedia.be
XI Compact Disks currently available, check the website: www.XIrecords.org
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, XI 111; Allison Cameron, Raw Sangudo, XI 112; Daniel
Goode, Clarinet Songs, XI 113; Mary Ellen Childs, Kilter, XI 114; Peter
Zummo, Experimenting With Household Chemicals, XI 116; The Logos Duo,
Godfried-Willem Raes and Moniek Darge, Logos Works, XI 117; Annea Lockwood
and Ruth Anderson, Sinopah, XI 118; Eliane Radigue, Trilogie de la Mort, XI
119 (3 CDs for the price of two); Malcolm Goldstein, The Seasons:Vermont ,
XI 120; 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; Recent releases in our new two
CDs for the price of one series -- Richard Lainhart, Ten Thousand Shades
of Blue, XI 115; Phill Niblock, YPGPN, XI 121; 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; more to come, of course