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MARCH 2020 PERFORMANCE SERIES The Forty-Seventh Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fifty-Second Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Second Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirtieth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator |
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| Dafna Naphtali
(New York) and Edith Lettner (Austria) |
Sunday 8
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| We Q: the
duo, started in 2017; they found instant common language as
improvisers, with Lettner on soprano & alto saxophone and
Armenian duduk, and Naphtali doing live sound processing of
Lettner’s instruments and her own voice; We Q goes on polythymic
benders, with extravagant overtones, feedback loops and synaptic
fire dances, like a Schreckschraube juggling filtered alien sales
calls with echos of Carmina Burana and post-post-post-post whatever
it is they thought they were doing http://dafna.info/ http://edith-lettner.net/ |
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Sarah Weaver (New York) |
Tuesday 10 |
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Taylor and Daniel Pinheiro: Synchrony Series, Duplexity State;
performance of electroacoustic works from new double album release
“Synchrony Series: Music of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations”
(SyncSource Label) including “Symmetry of Presence” (David Taylor,
bass trombone, S W, electronics) and “Sound in Peace” dedicated to
Pauline Oliveros (S W, spoken voice, electronics). Premiere of
audio/video network arts piece “Duplexity State” (S W, electronics,
Daniel Pinheiro, movement and visuals, remote performer live via the
internet) https://www.sarahweaver.org/syncsource/label |
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John King and David Watson (New York) |
Wednesday 11 |
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collaboration between two long-time New York music creators: David
Watson on Great Highland Bagpipes and Scottish smallpipes, and John
King playing viola; a conversation of drones, tones, listening and
playing, extreme frequency and amplitude explorations will ensue http://johnkingmusic.com https://davidwatsonmusic.net |
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Carl Stone (Tokyo) and Ulrich Krieger (Los Angeles) |
Friday 13 |
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Event Cancelled - Music & Video will be played Stone (live electronics) and Krieger (saxophone) have been working together as a duo for a few years; they are listening into the depths of the instruments, using microphones and electronics to facilitate hidden sounds to emerge, thereby creating quasi-hyper-realistic soundscapes from lush to hard where saxophone sounds and the electronics merge and become indistinguishable http://www.rlsto.net/Nooz/ http://www.ulrich-krieger.com/ |
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Kathy High (New York State) A Video Event
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Saturday 14 |
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Event Cancelled - Music & Video will be played I have been deep in art and science investigations, particularly trying to understand the interconnections of our ecosystems, our immune systems, and our microbiomes; of late, I have been making videos that are obsessed with the gut microbiome and becomings; I will show a smattering of works on this night: documentary, speculative and otherwise https://www.kathyhigh.com/ |
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Luca Forcucci (Italy/Switzerland) |
Sunday 15 |
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Cancelled - Music & Video will be played Alerta ! is a poem of the Brazilian author Oswald de Andrade about dictatorship during the 1960-1980’s in Brazil, resistance and love; the composition is a process based work: The poem told by the composer Jorge Antunes was recorded in Recife (Br); graphic scores were then given to a cellist (Noémie Braun), and a percussionist (Lucas Gonseth) in La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH); the resulting material was recorded and recombined, brought forward in Switzerland, in Portugal, now in the USA, until its unknown final form https://lucaforcucci.com/ with support from Nicati -de Luze Foundation and Pro Helvetia |
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Jens Brand (Berlin) |
Monday
16 |
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the intense collaboration of Ben Manley and Dan Evans Farkas; they are collaborating in one way or the other on the basis of overlapping unaltered individual approaches on time consuming media since the middle of the 90s; this concert will be not so loud but somtimes not so not so loud and most likely be loud enough to consider bringing earplugs a good idea; the performance will feature Dan's Frankenstein related approach to live electronics (By sewing together the various electronic devices with patch cords, I seek a sound that makes the soul shout out: “It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!") and in particular the use of a lot of toy walkie talkies; Ben will generate electroacoustic sounds and let them bloom and decay, several times, and Jens will focus on a somewhat medieval-backwards visions of electronic music without speakers, featuring the NEW mechanic orchestra of ratchets and the first presentation of the mysterious and automatic quartet of the FHDCMS (four harmonic dc motors sisters) http://www.jensbrand.com/ |
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Walter Wright (Massachusetts) On Line Event (View
Here) |
Friday
20 |
| Psychology
says that “we see what we think we see”; Light falls on the retina
and the resulting stimulation is transmitted by the optic nerve to
the brain; the brain forms an image, resolves 3D, compares it to the
last image thus detecting movement, checks for imminent danger and,
finally, compares it to images already stored in memory. The result
loops through the mind/body system resulting in an emotional
reaction, producing meaning; reality is, in a sense, obscured by our
own perceptions; as video artists, it is up to us to dis-cover or
un-cover reality, then re-present or re-imagine reality in a manner
that changes the viewers perception, to inform rather than affirm,
to create rather than imitate - Videos by Walter Wright and a
performance by Walter Wright and Al Margolis aka Elka
Bong https://nohtv.wordpress.com/ |
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SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 16 - curated by Katherine
Liberovskaya |
Sunday
22 |
| On Line Event (View
Here) For its 16th edition Screen Compositions brings you again without fail a collection of inspiring and inspired 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: Benton Bainbridge / Barbara Held; Nathalie Bujold / Michel Langevin (Voivod); Alexandra Dementieva / Guy De Bièvre; Bradley Eros / Lea Bertucci; Muyassar Kurdi / Ka Baird; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock; Geoff Matters / Mike Lerner; Eiichi Tosaki & Jutta Pryor / Hitomi Honda; Twin Automat (Irini Karayannopoulou+Sandrine Cheyrol) / Yannis Saxonis; Adriana Vila Guevara / Alfredo Costa Monteiro |
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| Tony Martin (New York) A Video Event | Tuesday 24 |
| He sees Video as a joining place;
Recipes can bring together - Live electronics -
personal/custom/invented and computer modulated; Variable voltage
interfaces; Observation by camera; Abstract video and optical
translating; Hands-on drawing and painting-in-time using projection
equipment; Personal optical and mirror techniques; Collaborative
Sound composition; This program will feature works from the 1970's,
1990's and Now http://www.tonymartinartist.net/ |
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| NH (Berlin) and Viola Yip (New York) | Wednesday 25 |
| Hein (guitar, electronics) and Yip
(lightbulbs, electronics) are an transdisciplinary duo that creates
immersive site-specific performances and installations bridging the
vibrations of light and sound; trained as musicians, both of them
are interested in looking into the ontology of sound and how musical
experience can be transformed beyond its common material: sound; in
their duo project they research about the possibilities of light as
an expanded musical material; connecting lightbulbs, electronics and
electric guitar as an integrated instrument; in their performances
they utilize lights and sounds as equally important and yet
dialectical musicalmaterials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhDK4GkFVM |
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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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