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DECEMBER 2019 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-eight Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator |
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| Walter Branchi
(Rome) and Kristin Jones (New York) |
Monday 9
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 https://www.ritwikbanerji.net |
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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/ |
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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. Thank you Omar Kuwas and
Tittel Boomgaard;Supported by IBB Curacao and the Mondriaan
Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Devens
https://www.pauldevens.com |
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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/ |
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Joćo 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); Joćo 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://soundcloud.com/jcastropinto https://lisboa.academia.edu/SofiaAlexandraCarvalho https://grimaceseditions.org/hiante-2/ |
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Andrea Parkins (New York, Berlin) |
Wednesday
18 |
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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 |
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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.com
https://vimeo.com/201441665 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NKZaaF0tKc |
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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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