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DECEMBER 2016 PERFORMANCE SERIES The Forty-third Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Forty-eighth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-eighth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-seventh Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator |
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| Mia Zabelka and Katherine Liberovskaya |
Tuesday 13 |
| Zabelka's
solo work is an ongoing process of de- and re-construction of the
violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range of the instrument
using live electronic devices and preparing it through the insertion
of alien objects between or on the strings; she is continuously
exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back
the boundaries in experimental performances and compositions that
question established notions, improving the available techniques and
given structures; Liberovskaya has been exploring improvised live
visuals in the context of live music/sound concert situations since
the early 2000s, collaborating with numerous music and sound
artists; her live visuals seek to create improvisatory "music" for
the eyes; they span a wide variety of approaches from
straightforward real-time montage and processing of pre-recorded
material to the use of diverse kinds of live cameras to capture live
"events" on the concert stage and integrate them to the image mix;
at EI, MZ and KL will continue an on-going collaboration where
gesture and image dialogue through surveillance technology www.miazabelka.com |
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| Mimmo Napolitano (SEC_) & Mario Gabola (Italy) | Wednesday 14 |
| Italian duo
known as Aspec(t), appreciated for their original mix of
electro-acoustic detailed improvisation and power electronics/noise
visceral attitude; they use reel-to-reel tape machine, feedback
systems, self-built synthesizers and audio samples to produce
frenetic structures, twisted rhythms, noise explosions, ancestral
cries, an unceasing perversion of the soundscape and the time
stream www.toxorecords.com/aspec(t) "Con il sostegno del progetto - With the support of the project DE.MO/MOVIN'UP I sess. 2016" - Promoted by: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Suburbs; General Directorate for Performing Arts; and GAI – Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists |
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| Biliana Voutchkova
(Bulgaria, Berlin) and Michael Thieke (Berlin) |
Thursday 15 |
| The violin and clarinet
duo’s new program works with the theme of blur in the field of
music, on the level of formal composition as well as in the details
of the musical material; the music’s structure creates a blur;
improvised parts alternate with fields of pre-structured material in
which tape-recordings of the duo are duplicated by live
performance www.bilianavoutchkova.net/
www.michael-thieke.de/ Supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding In cooperation with the Goethe-Institute Chicago |
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| Christina
Wheeler (Los Angeles/Berlin) |
Friday 16 |
| Tres
Es un Número Mágico: Kaleidoscopic Triptychs: A
three-part, solo composition in audience-generated, chance order and
direction, for voice, electric mbira, electric autoharp,
Q-Chord, delay loops, and electronic effects processing www.christinawheeler.com |
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| Amnon Wolman (Israel)
and Neil Leonard (Boston) |
Saturday 17 |
| A new
collaboration between Neil Leonard and Amnon Wolman
called Security Vehicles Only that employs two poems by
John Ashbery; the piece is scheduled for premiere at the Tectonics
Festival in Tel Aviv in November; at EI, Security Vehicles
Only will be performed together with Amnon’s Flagger
Ahead for visual live performers that will be presented by a
group of student-artists from Boston www.neilleonard.com soundcloud.com/amnon-wolman vimeo.com/amnonwolman amnonwolman.org/ downloads.strikingmechanism.com/album/for-phill |
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| Jenny Pickett & Julien Ottavi (UK/France) | Sunday 18 |
| Solar Return
- Nantes based artists Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi created Solar
Return in 2009; taking electromagnetic phenomena as a starting point
for their audio creations; they have produced various scores for
dual audio synths/oscillators/DIY electronics etc...which reflect
patterns and electromagnetic events such as solar flares and inner
city mobile phone masts as well as the unfathomable audio world of
kitchen appliances; through their performances the duo tunnel deep
into the world of frequency, static and sound as a physical
experience jennypickett.co.uk
www.noiser.org
bruitbrut.lautre.net/ |
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| Junko Wada and Hans
Peter Kuhn (Berlin) |
Monday
19 |
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Dreams - These dreams are not necessarily what you dream of, they
are rather these kind of dreams one really dreams, a bit between
nightmare and Alice’s Wonderland; not really bad dreams but also not
the dreams of the best worlds; the first dream is this dream where
your body is too slow for reaching the aim, everybody knows that;
the second is a wild story where all kind of connections and
happenings are possible and the third one is the one that is rather
relaxing and meditative www.junkowada.de
www.hanspeterkuhn.com |
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| Johan Vandermaelen (Belgium) | Tuesday 20 |
| About
the weather - a spatial installation about the unremarkable slow
processes and sounds that surround us; Objects, fileplayers, singing
stones bamart.be/nl/artists/detail/285 soundcloud.com/user-918816603 |
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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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Centre
Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm |
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