New York’s Roulette is offering a feature of Niblock.
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.orgThursday, October 18th – Saturday, October 20th
Phill Niblock
Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who also runs the
Experimental Intermedia Foundation in SoHo, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic
music guaranteed to mess with your head. The works are constituted of
sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (all
strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change their
timbre and pitch characteristics. Niblock’s big microtonal drones develop
without melody or rhythm, according to an almost imperceptible,
geographically slow notion of movement. His recent films are painstaking
studies of manual labor, giving a poetic dignity to the sheer grueling slog
of fishermen at work, rice-planters, log-splitters, water-hole dredgers and
other backbreaking toilers. Beyond the stunning sounds and hypnotic images,
Niblock deliberately designs systems wherein his materials intersect in
unintentional, yet uncanny combinations to which the audience can¹t help but
superimpose its own meanings and forms.Thursday, October 18th
Program includes: Guitar too, for four: Version Three (Rafael Toral, Robert
Poss, Susan Stenger, David First on guitars played with E-bows) and
Stosspeng (2007) for two guitars in stereo (Susan Stenger and Robert Poss on
electric guitars and electric basses).Friday, October 19th: Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya: Video /
Sound Collaboration
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 using Jitter/Max/MSP and drawing from a vast
personal database of clips shot over the past fifteen years. Katherine
Liberovskaya is a Canadian video & media artist, working predominantly in
experimental video since the late eighties. In 2003 she began exploring live
video mixing in improvisation with live new music/sound. Since, she has
performed live video mixing at a variety of venues in NY, Montreal and
Europe with a number of music/sound artists including: o.blaat, Toshio
Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, Vortex, Anthony Coleman and Al Margolis (aka If
Bwana.) The program includes: A new piece for Organ (World Premier), Three
Orchids for three orchestras (performed by Trio Scordatura plus one [Alfrun
Schmid, voice; Elisabeth Smalt, viola; Bob Gilmore, synthesizer; plus Guy De
Bievre, dobro]) and 4 Chorch +1 (2007).Saturday, October 20th
The program includes: Six Pieces for Ulrich Krieger, didjeridu and
saxophones, Didjeridoos and Don’ts, Ten Auras Live, Sea Jelly Yellow,
Parker’s Altered Mood, aka, Owed to Bird, Alto Tune and Sax Mix. Ulrich
Krieger on didjeridu and alto, tenor and bari saxes.
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