Phill Niblockフィル・ニブロック

Phill Niblock (mixed sound collage pieces) & Katherine Liberovskaya (live video), & Jim O'Rourke, opening act: o.blaat

Phill Niblock (b. 1933) is a New York-based minimalist composer, filmmaker, multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. Niblock has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. Niblock continues to influence a generation of musicians, especially younger players from a variety of genres including Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo.

Opening act: o.blaat

"Car Décalé (Légèrement) / Because Shifted (Slightly)"

Set one: Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya

In this live set Niblock mixes between audio pieces based on diverse field recordings which are very different from his music compositions. Liberovskaya mixes video with Jitter/Max/MSP from a vast personal database of clips shot over the past fifteen years.

Set two: Music by Phill Niblock

Zrost (23:30, 2004) Martin Zrost, soprano saxophone, recorded samples
Valence (23:03, 2005) Julia Eckhardt, viola, recorded samples
Poure (23 min, 2008) Arne Deforce, cello, recorded samples
Phill Niblock plays a live computer part with several pieces
Images by Phill Niblock: video from the "Movement of People Working" series – China88, Japan89, Brasil84, etc.

Artist Info:

Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60's he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world among which: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; ZKM; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard; World Music Institute at Merkin Hall NYC. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the curator of EI's XI Records label. In 1993 he was part of the formation of an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - which supports an artist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label.
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Katherine Liberovskaya

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal, Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Hitoshi Kojo, Zanana, and David Watson. Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/audio artists including: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, o.blaat, murmer, Andre Goncalves, Monique Buzzarte, Anthony Coleman, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Alessandro Bosetti, Audrey Chen, Marina Rosenfeld, Anne Wellmer, among others. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace Videographe, Montreal and Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007) as well as the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason in NYC.

Jim O'Rourke

o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)

Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artivist, social composer, and a core member of SHARE (http://share.dj), o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship with sounds in sociological, cultural, and/or psychological environments.
o.blaat performed and/or presented works in various locations worldwide including: Whitney Museum of Art, NYC; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum, DIA:Beacon, Cornell University, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; MIT, Boston, MA; MUTEK festival, Montreal, Canada; ClubTransmediale, Berlin, Germany; Ultrahang festival, Budapest, Hungary; Netmage festival and Interferenze Festival in Italy; City Sonic festival in Belgium; Medien Kultur Haus in Wels, Vienna Konzerthaus and Alte-Schmiede in Vienna, Austria; Skolska28 Gallery, Institut Intermedii, and National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; ICA London, Tate Britain and Fortescue Avenue Gallery in UK.
o.blaat has collaborated with numerous artists including: Miguel Frasconi, Ricardo Arias, Klaus Filip, Noid, Toshio Kajiwara, Ikue Mori, Kaffe Matthews, Marina Rosenfeld, Takehisa Kosugi, Steinbrüchel, DJ Olive, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Tetsuji Akiyama, Aki Onda, Adriana Sã, John Klima, Anthony Coleman, 242.pilots, Nobukazu Takemura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, among others.
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