Phill Niblock
Minimalist composer and multi-media musician Phill Niblock is the director of Experimental Intermedia in New York. Niblock has a background in film and photography, centering most of his early creative activity around the jazz musicians of the 1960s. Thereafter he made a series of films titled The Movement of People Working. His first musical compositions date from 1968. Unusually, even among the avant-garde composers of his generation, he has no formal musical training. His compositions are worked out intuitively rather than systematically, and he cites the musical activities of New York in the 1960s as a stimulus. Niblock's compositional process often begins with recording a single, absolute tone played by a specific musician with the breathing, attack and decay edited out. He has collaborated with a wide range of musicians including David Gibson, in the cello works of the 1970s; Petr Kotik, Susan Stenger, and Eberhard Blum, on Four Full Flutes; Rafael Toral, David First, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Susan Stenger, and Robert Poss on Guitar Too, for Four (G2,44+1x2) and many others. Niblock's music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations.
Programs
Walter Branchi, host
Stefano Pilia, Solo, host
Simon Whetham, host
Seth Cluett: Rock, Paper, Zither, host
Ricardo Arias, Looking Upwards, host
Rafael Toral, Space Studies, host
Pedro Sousa, A Song for True, host
Nikolaus Gerszewski and Gustavo Aguilar, Sonic Update, host
New Works from Zach Layton , host
Miha Ciglar, No Input Mixing, host
Michael Vincent Waller, The South Shore, host
Mia Zabelka, Project M, host
Maria Chavez, host
Madelon Hooykaas, Blind Female Shamans, host
Laetitia Morais, Missing for 10 Years, host
Krzysztof Knittel & Andrei Smirnov, Brain Jazz, host
Kristin Norderval & Kevin Norton, KN2, host
Kevin Norton & Morgan O'Hara, host
Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjorgeengen, host
John Hudak , host
John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein & Tom Hamilton, host
Joe Diebes & BOTCH, host
Jaime Oliver + Marco Donnarumma, Xth Sense, host
Jacques Diennet, Le Pic Saint Loup, host
Jaap Blonk, YappiScope, host
Hans Tammen & 3rd Eye Orchestra, Cladogram, host
Grahame Weinbren, Letters, host
Gert-Jan Prins, Cavity, host
Frédéric Acquaviva , host
Experimental Intermedia Concerts, producer
Dumas, Liberovskaya, Hirsch , host
Dani Ploeger, Body Surveillance #1, host
Dan Joseph & Andrea Williams, producer
Dafna Naphtali & Chuck Bettis, Chatter Blip, host
Creepy Triangle: David Linton, David First, David Watson, host
Christian Kobi, host
Chris Kubick, host
Cat Lamb, shade/gradient , host
Carver Audain, Hibernacula, host
Carlos Manuel Da Silva Antonio, host
Carlos Casas, End, host
Carl Stone, host
Byron Westbrook, Corridors, host
Anna Homler & Michael Delia, host
Andrea Belfi & Attila Faravelli, Tumble, host
Ana Carvalho, host
Alwynne Pritchard, host
Al Margolis: If, Bwana, host
Al Margolis & Doug Van Nort , host
Rie Nakajima & Miki Yui , host
