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DECEMBER 2017 PERFORMANCE SERIES 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 |
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| Tibor Szemzo and László Goz (Budapest) |
Monday 11
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| 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 |
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Henry Flynt (New York) [ CONCERT IS CANCELLED ] |
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 |
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Paula Matthusen and Seth Cluett (Conn, New York) |
Wednesday 13 |
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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/ |
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Bernd Klug (New York) |
Thursday 14 |
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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 |
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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! www.pulsewidth.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytqotxofy6Q
https://davidleemyers.bandcamp.com |
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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 |
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Lucie Vítková (Czech Republic/New York) |
Monday
18 |
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DOMESTIC is an album, released on the New York label Bánh Mě 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 |
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Yasunao Tone (New York) |
Tuesday 19 |
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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
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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  |
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224
Centre
Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
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