The Nineteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A)
Phill Niblock, Curator | December 2008

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will present a journey into the sound of the image and the image of the sound following a residency focusing on experimentation with electronically generated and/or processed audio and video signals at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY; Wellmer: live music & audio control to generate sound and image; Liberovskaya: live video & video control to process sound and image; Katherine Liberovskaya wishes to thank the Conseil des Arts et Des Lettres du Quebec for their support    nonlinear.demon.nl   Many thanks to STROOM DEN HAAG for their financial support  stroom.nl/

likes it when the audience appreciates a full body massage and falls asleep; his multi-oscillator sine waves correspond with not only the physical audience but also with the interior architecture; this Stockholm-based maverick will now do his first "real" New York concert since the debut at CBGBs in 1990    freq-out.org, cmvonhausswolff.net    elgaland-vargaland.org    niklasbelenius.com

Abbey (Erstwhile Records) and Lescalleet (Glistening Examples) program a very special day / night of electroacoustic music created from 2005-2008; Lescalleet may occasionally join in with live accompaniment and/or perform on his own; previously unreleased pieces will be part of the program, including future Erstwhile releases as well as gems from Lescalleet's archives    erstwhilerecords.com discogs.com/artist/Jason+Lescalleet

Red Monochrome / Bruno S; he is a postdigital artist living and working in Brussels, active in different media - his work integrates sound, colour, composition, space and athematics and is linked with the mathematical sublime and postminimalism    quix.org     cheloniamydas.org

on doublebass and electronics, respectively, have been working together since 2002; for this concert they will work with improvised and pre-composed elements, as well as other acoustic instrumentalists to realize an evening length work for contrabass, electronics, trombone, viola, and flute    rasbliutto.net/library

is an artist working with several media; the main ontological focus of his work and thinking has been the question of Time; he will present "Fissural", a result of his research and work during the fellowship; a sound and image piece without duration, taking off from a certain idea of the City

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

In this program discrete and microscopic nuances are highlighted and given a place in space when the instrument - bassoon - is micro-miked with numerous microphones: each source sent to its own speaker (placing the listener inside the player and instrument) - boundary terrain is opened and explored as definition between timbre and pitch dissolve    leslieross.net

So what's new?- well, after 75 years he can still do six hours of music and film/video on the winter solstice; 6pm until 12am of the longest night of the year    phillniblock.com

Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund For Music, The Amphion Foundation, and the Phaedrus Foundation