A Variation of Sets by Phill Niblock / Katherine Liberovskaya / Al Margolis (If, Bwana)
live sound and video mix concert
Thursday, January 12th at 8pm
10 Channel Center St., Boston
suggested donation $10
• Part 1: Katherine Liberovskaya, live video and Al Margolis (If, Bwana),music (prerecorded and live sounds) (approx. 30min)
* Part 2: Al Margolis (If, Bwana) music (prerecorded and live sounds)(approx. 30min)
*
Part 3: Live Video by Katherine Liberovskaya, with live mixing of audio
pieces by Phill Niblock. 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.(approx. 40min)
a
co-production of Mobius and Studio Soto, with special thanks to
Non-Event, who will be producing a concert of Phill Niblock and his
music in April.
BIOS:
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.
Since 1985, he has been the director ofthe Experimental Intermedia
Foundation in New York(<http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/>)
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 ofEI's XI Records label. In 1993 was
formed an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI
v.z.w. Gent - to support the artist-in-residence house and installations
there. Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai and Touch
labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label. www.phillniblock.com www.experimentalintermedia.org
Katherine
Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal, Canada andNew
York City. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has
produced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown
aroundthe world. Since 2001 her work mainly focuses on collaborations
with composers/sound artists mainly in live video+sound performance.
Among these:Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Keiko Uenishi
(o.blaat), Zanana,Hitoshi Kojo, Tom Hamilton, David Watson, Anne
Wellmer, David First, and many others. In addition to her art practice
she has concurrently always been involved in the programming and
organization of diverse media artevents, notably with Studio XX and
Espace Vidéographe in Montreal, as well as Experimental Intermedia, NY
(Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,2009, 2010) and the
OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC. www.liberovskaya.net
Al
Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette
underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music, co-founder of
experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the name If,
Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous
studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. Currently
Margolis is label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable
Music; plays bass guitar in the legendary punk/post-punk band Styrenes;
and continues his work as If, Bwana. He has recorded and/or performed
with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique Buzzarté, Katherine
Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane
Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, and Dave Prescott, among
others. www.pogus.com www.myspace.com/ifbwana
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