Phill Niblock
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- PHILL NIBLOCK and KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA (LIVE VIDEO PROJECTIONS)
- W/ RICK REED (BUCHLA BOX) + X TARA BHATTACHARYA (MOOG)
Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer, multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant-garde ever since. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. He's worked with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo on "Guitar two, for four". Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones. Since 1968 Phill has also put on over 1000 concerts in his loft space, including Ryoji Ikeda, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jim O'Rourke. Phill 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. The layering of long tones only very slightly distinct in pitch creates a multitude of beats and generates complex overtone patterns and other fascinating psychoacoustic effects. The combination of apparently static surface textures and extremely active harmonic movement generates a highly original music that, while having things in common with early drone-based Minimalism, is utterly distinct in sound and technique.
Complimentary Beverages Provided by Dos Equis and Bone Spirits
