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EI DECEMBER 2009
PERFORMANCE SERIES
The Thirty-Sixth
Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, the Forty-first
Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Forty-first
Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least,
The Twentieth Annual Festival with
no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, Curator
December 2009
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| Olivia Block (Chicago)
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Sunday 13
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The electroacoustic
composer and sound artist will present new pieces for solo violin and a collaborative
electroacoustic piece with a chamber ensemble; the musicians -
Alejandro Acierto, bass clarinet, clarinet; Erica Dicker, violin; Michael Evans,
percussion;
Alicia Lee, clarinet; Josh Sinton, bass clarinet; the second half of the program
will feature an audio/visual collaboration with local film/video artists Sandra
Leah Gibson and Luis Recoder oliviablock.net/
oliviablock.net/oblocknews.htm
myspace.com/oliviablock
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| Michael
Pisaro (Los Angeles) |
Monday 14 |
He is a guitarist and composer
whose music often involves sustained sounds of various kinds, fixed time structures
and interaction with the environment; he's a member of the Wandelweiser composers
collective wandelweiser.de/
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| Chantal
Dumas (Montreal) |
Wednesday 16 |
New work- "Mécanique
du quotidien - Fragments"; made of sounds from everyday life, the piece operates
between the narrative and the musical; les petits riens are the subtle sounds
that are too quiet to attract any attention or so usual that we don't perceive
them anymore; these can be parts of microcosms such as the insect world and computerized
environments, or reminiscences, fragments of melodies, that play in loops in our
brains, and of which we are the only listeners, or sounds from the past which
resurface from time to time; like a "curiosity cabinet", the piece brings
together a collection of sound objects with a taste for the incongruous and the
original; despite the desire to transfigure the reality of sounds, the piece is
primarily motivated by a wish to bring to light the rhythmical poetics of the
everyday...
kurtislesick.com/?page_id=45
actuellecd.com/en/bio/dumas_ch/discog/
openspace.ca/web/index.php?itemid=107
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| Richard
Lainhart (New York) |
Thursday 17 |
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Richard Lainhart, a composer, performer, and filmmaker,
will be presenting an evening of films and electronic music, including sections
from "No Other Time", a full-length intermedia performance combining
realtime analog electronics performance in four-channel playback with high-definition
computer-animated film projection. Lainhart will be accompanying his films,
whose abstract imagery is inspired by the organic processes of nature, with
his Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum modular analog synthesizer system.
otownmedia.com
vimeo.com/rlainhart
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| Guy
De Bievre (Belgium) |
Friday 18 |
"The Relative Probability
of Forming a Knot" (2009) is an open form, or flexible structure, composition;
'groove', 'stasis', 'long', 'slow' could be its keywords; it relies strongly on
the element of surprise as performers are not supposed to 'rehearse' the work
in any final form, but rather play it anew each time again without any common
agreements; performers will be Peter Zummo, trombone; Guy Klucevsek, accordion;
JD Parran, reeds; Guy De Bièvre, lap steel
guydebievre.org
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| Paul
Devens (Netherlands) |
Saturday 19 |
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This concert of Paul Devens will mark the release of
his new album "Ink Summit" (on vinyl); the album contains eight compositions
based upon field-recordings like the hum from air-vents from the streets, the
irregular sound-patterns of branches, shaken by the wind, scratching a hard
surface, the roar of a heating furnace, next to an extensive use of digital
processing and modular sound synthesis; it researches the edge in between the
concrete and a representation of reality as well as it encloses new and unheard
sounds; a new and custom made approach to "Ink Summit" will be explored
live during the concert at EI
pauldevens.nl
/pauldevens.blogspot.com
myspace.com/kendobahnorchestra
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| Phill
Niblock (Where?) |
6pm to midnight Monday
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Barely 76, and doing still, six hours of films and music
for the solstice; many new hours of 16mm film transferred to video phillniblock.com
experimentalintermedia.org
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Our programs are supported
by the New York State Council on the Arts,
the Aaron Copland Fund For Music and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at
Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 9pm,
or, as noted
212 431 5127, 431 6430, experimentalintermedia.org
and XIrecords.org
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Thinking green,
not only for the environment, but the cost of postage, we are going to drastically
reduce the number of announcements that we mail. If you would like to remain
on our mail list (U.S. postage paid, and elbow grease expended affixing stamps
and labels), you should send an email to pniblock@compuserve.com with
that info. And any changes in your address to be noted. Please add your email
address to the text.If you would like to be on our email announcement list,
and are not already, you could email that info. Our December and March calendars
will appear on the website - experimentalintermedia.org
Phill Niblock
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