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EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA The Fifty-Second Anniversary of EI performances, the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia,the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirty-Fifth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A) Katherine Liberovskaya, curator DECEMBER 2025 - All events at 8PM except 16 December 7PM Please note all the different
venues for this series
All evenings in-person at 8pm except 16 December at 7pm, also streamed live on this website Suggested donation $10 all nights except Friday 19th at Fridman Gallery 2 sets / $20 |
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| Al Margolis with Tom Law (New York) - at Various/Artists |
8pm Wednesday 10 |
| A solo; a solo and a half; a duo; Margolis will play a solo set for stringed instrument, contact mic(s), objects/junk, etc; Tom
Law will live sample/transform a Margolis tape piece; Al and Tom will then perform a set as their project Duo Denum; with
some live video participation by Katherine Liberovskaya; - ifbwana.bandcamp.com - bigsphinx.bandcamp.com |
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| Marcia Bassett & Chuck Bettis (NYC) - at Various/Artists | 8pm Thursday 11 |
| Synth duo focused on improvised techniques that explore layered textures and deep dronescapes; -
marciabassett.org -
www.chuckbettis.com -
yewrecordings.bandcamp.com | |
| Ras Burnett (NYC) - at Various/Artists | 8pm Friday 12 |
| Ras Burnett is a saxophonist-composer-musicologist-educator; he commenced his musical engagement in 1987 with free
jazz and reggae; Ras believes in and advocates the positive energy of creative music; featuring Ras Burnett-Tenor Sax;
Tor Snyder-Guitar & Electronic Sound; Dave Ross-Guitar; - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Moshe |
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| Scott Kiernan (NYC) - at Various/Artists | 8pm Saturday 13 |
| A screening night of analog and real-time video from the last 15 years: often with a focus on the perils of translation
through technology, forced "syntax errors" and a re-shaping of language through the video signal; projects span live
performances, TV broadcast experiments, collaborations with musicians, multi-channel works and more; -
scottkiernan.com |
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| Elaine Summers Centennial (NYC) - at Various/Artists | 8pm Sunday 14 |
| Bringing Elaine Summers home to be featured among the events of the thirty-fifth annual series produced by Experimental
Intermedia - the very organization she founded back in 1968 - this tribute screening will show five of her early film-works
as part of the Centennial year celebrations of her legacy; a choreographer, filmmaker, originator of the movement practice
Kinetic Awareness and intermedia artist, Summers was interested in exploring what film could do that dance could not,
and how they could work together to create a temporary third, new entity that she referred to as intermedia; two of the
works were created with late EIF director Phill Niblock as cinematographer; curated by Katherine Liberovskaya,
introduction-video by Thomas Körtvélyessy, special thanks to Gustavo Matamoros (subtropics), Freddy Jouwayed, the
Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and the New York Public Library of the
Performing Arts; -
elainesummersdance.com
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| Mariana Carvalho (Berlin, Germany) - at Harvestworks | 7pm Tuesday 16 |
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Two pieces for an amplified head, transducers and a tiny speaker in the mouth; Mariana shares her (internal) listening to
pre-recorded material such as prepared piano, mouth-to-mouth vocals, voices, seashells and text excerpts; sometimes
she sings and eats; -
marianacarvalho.me -
bandcamp.com/alimento-de-voces
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| Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Paris, France) - at Fridman Gallery | 8pm Friday 19 |
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Minos Circuit Rewired (2024 – 2025) : performance for microphone feedback and bassoon; Minos Circuit Rewired is a
site-specific exploration of the contingent musicality of feedback; through microphone feedback, various resonant spaces
– the cavities of a disassembled bassoon, the concert room itself – are made audible, turning physical volume into
frequency and unintended harmony; -
bandcamp.com/minos-circuit
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| Kristin Norderval with Miguel Frasconi (NYC) - at Fridman Gallery | Friday 19 |
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Kristin Norderval and Miguel Frasconi stretch time and coax sounds from thin air with gesturally controlled multiphonic
vocals, glass objects and electronics; their improvising partners - glass in various stages of devolution, and the EVII (the
Expanded Vocal Improvising Instrument) - require presence, flow, and learning to handle whatever surprises they mete
out; just like life; -
kristinnorderval.com -
frasconimusic.bandcamp.com
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Venues: Various/Artists: 19 Essex St, New York, NY 10002 - variousartistsrecords.com/19essex Harvestworks: 596 Broadway #602, New York, NY 10012 - harvestworks.org Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002 - fridmangallery.com |
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As well: Phill Niblock - Winter Solstice at Roulette: Six Hours of Music and Film on Sunday, December 21, from 6pm to midnight Roulette Intermedium Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217 - roulette.org |
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Experimental Intermedia,
experimentalintermedia.org and
XIrecords.org - 212 431 5127
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Our programs are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, the Ulla Dydo Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of Renaissance Charitable Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature  |
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Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand,
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