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MARCH 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-eighth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator |
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| Peer Bode, Andrew
Deutsch and Rebekkah Palov - A Video Event |
Monday 11
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| Carrier Band:
Bode, Deutsch and Palov, with historical recordings by Harald
Bode,1949-1986, and Pauline Oliveros,1970-2002; the video "Uber
Organ" was made at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY
and at Peer Bode's home studio on his hand-built, custom Dave Jones
Design, digital frame buffer - experimental video instrument; much
as life moves forward and back, so do the frames of the video frame
buffer with its 48 frame digital-memory-chamber used for looking and
considering nearly fifty years of Harald Bode's notebooks; spanning
the years 1937 to 1986, the notebooks of pioneering electronic
instrument designer Harald Bode are spaces where a new thinking
about sound and future electronic instruments evolved and
percolated.; a number of new videos as well as "Uber Organ" will be
accompanied by the live electroacoustic music of Carrier Band with
Peer Bode performing vocoder/language, Rebekkah Palov DJ and
real-time processed samples from the Harald Bode Archive and Andrew
Deutsch with live mix featuring the unpublished recordings of
Pauline Oliveros peerbode.com;
art-into-life.com/product-list/188;
vimeo.com/andrewdeutsch;
rebekkahpalov.us
andrewdeutschmagicif.bandcamp.com/releases |
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Chuck Bettis and Dave Grant (New York) |
Tuesday 12 |
| SNAKE UNION
is Chuck Bettis (electronics) & David Grant (modular synth). a
duo that works in improvisational rhythmic explorations that match
analog synths and digital sound processing, modular wires and max
patches. By turns psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed out, the
sequenced collides with the freeform as these two soundmakers push
into new realms With live video projections by Katherine
Liberovskaya snakeunion.bandcamp.com chuckbettis.com |
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James Fei (Oakland) and Kato Hideki (New York) |
Wednesday 13 |
| James (analog
electronics) and Kato (bass, electronics) have been working together
since 2002; with a shared interest in translating studio recording
techniques to live performance and vice versa, the duo’s release
Sieves was created with multiple processes where live electronic
improvisations were subjected to radical mixing and reverberation in
an echo chamber; their performance practice continued to shift over
the years through the investigation of feedback, speaker-room
interaction and analog circuitry jamesfei.com katohideki.com |
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Shalom Gorewitz (New Jersey) |
Thursday 14 |
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Wallace Stevens said that art should be abstract, change, and give
pleasure; with the addition of risk, this describes recent work by
pioneer video artist Shalom Gorewitz; the screening will include
Gorewitz’ infamous strip tease to the national anthem from the early
1970s; a new 360 video Goat’s Head recorded on one of the most
dangerous beaches in California; DTTV (dystrumpia television) which
explores the causes and possible antidotes for this psycho-traumatic
disorder; and collaborations with the poet Rachel Hadas; one of
their projects, Elegy for Stivenson Magloire, celebrates the work of
an extraordinary Haitian artist Gorewitz met in Port au Prince in
1992 who was assassinated shortly after; Arcade Fire member Richard
Parry gave permission to use his music for the
soundtrack gorewitz.com |
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Shelly Silver (New York) A
Video Event |
Friday 15 |
| In Shelly
Silver’s frog spider hand horse house, the effort of all things to
keep existing has been observed by someone with a camera who seems,
as far as personality goes, to be no one; this acutely neutral
watcher—curious and patient, pushing very close and holding steady
there registers the super-focused effort of all creatures toward the
expression of vitality, the stubborn going-on in time of
particularly shaped and textured bodies; the first in Silver’s
trilogy on our current moment of destabilization, where the animal,
vegetable and mineral are jolting into reconfiguration; animals and
children are being placed on the frontline of this change and they
are the soft and hard focus of frog spider hand horse house |
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Bull.Miletic (Oslo) A Video
Event |
Sunday 17 |
| PROXISTANT VISION – a
selection of three videos from the body of work created along
Bull.Miletic’s ongoing artistic research project focused on the
proliferation of new aerial moving imaging technologies and the
emergence of a visual modality they call proxistance; the videos are
single-channel versions of the three multi-media artworks realized
in collaboration with Holly L. Aaron, Mark Boswell, Tom Gunning,
Danielle Jorgens, Christopher Myers, Jan C. Schacher and Phill
Niblock, whose music features in one of the videos; the production
of the artworks was generously supported by Arts Council Norway,
Arts Research Center and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine,
& Society at University of California, Berkeley, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Department of Media and
Communication at University of Oslo, and Department of Cinema and
Media Studies at University of Chicago bull.miletic.info |
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SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 15 - curated by Katherine
Liberovskaya |
Monday
18 |
| Fifteen
years! seems like the first edition was only yesterday... for this
15th edition Screen Compositions presents as every year a collection
of intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen
works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/film
artists and sound/music artists specifically intended for
single-channel projection with no live or performance component;
featuring collaborations by: Miah Artola / Hitomi Honda; Pip
Chodorov / Charlemagne Palestine; Kostas Chondros / Giovanni Lami;
Michael Delia / Al Margolis; Andrew Demirjian / Matthew Gantt;
Richard Garet / Michael Vincent Waller; Phill Niblock / William
Hooker; Anna Pasztor / Žibuokl? Martinaityt?; Andrea Saggiomo aka
70fps. / SEC_ aka Mimmo Napolitano; Guillaume Vallée / Data Slum
(Martin Rodriguez & Leon Louder) |
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Biliana Voutchkova and Al Margolis (If Bwana) (Berlin,
New York) |
Tuesday
19 |
 A first encounter of bi and al will occur publicly tonight; a
phenomena of reaching far beyond the trivia of a first meeting, they
will go straight (and deeply) into a musical communication based on
devotion, long experience and trust; using strings, reeds, objects,
contact mics (or all of the above), listening, responding,
conversing; Al describes his most recent work as "quiet wall" or the
search for the sounds between: bi's work focuses on detail and
slowly developing textures, but still allowing unexpected surprises;
they'll merge with the flow of the current moment, or perhaps with
the edge of nothing bilianavoutchkova.net
/ifbwana.bandcamp.com/ |
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Catherine Lamb and Phill Niblock |
Thursday
21 |
| Ensemble neoN visits Experimental
Intermedia on the occasion of the release of the group's new album
NEON: NIBLOCK/LAMB on Hubro; in addition to Niblock's Two Tea Roses,
the group will give the American premiere of Catherine Lamb's
Parallaxis Forma; Ensemble neoN is a Norwegian contemporary music
group working across artistic forms, collaborating with visual
artists and performers such as Susanna, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier,
Johannes Kreidler, Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld, Jan St. Werner;
neoN strives to listen to a world that is constantly changing. It is
this attitude that keeps challenging and expanding the ensemble’s
musical language With the friendly support of stikk.no
ensembleneon.no |
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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
9pm |
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