Joan La Barbara at Roulette NYC Saturday
Dates:
Sat Nov 03, 2007 00:00 - Fri Nov 02, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:00 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Saturday, November 3rd
Joan La Barbara (Roulette TV Shoot)
New excerpts from "Shimmer", an opera in-progress, composed and performed by Joan La Barbara, featuring video by Kurt Ralske, and the New York Premiere of "ROTHKO".
Shimmer is heat rising from the desert floor, shimmer is light sparkling on water, shimmer is wraiths passing along the back walls, shimmer is the aurora borealis, shimmer is in ghostly conversations. “Shimmer” (2007) is the latest scene from an opera in-progress, for multiple voices and layered sonic “atmospheres”. Here, I am exploring sounds inside the mind, impossible sounds, fragile sounds, transparent, ghostly sounds, shimmering voices and modular fragments. A series of inhales with no exhale, separated by sonic blackness, silences of varying lengths are shattered by a sudden burst of underwater wails, as the work moves from interior to exterior space and back again.
"ROTHKO was conceived after my first visit to The Rothko Chapel in Houston. I was so moved and overwhelmed by the majesty, the depth and complexity of Mark Rothko’s exquisite final paintings that I wanted to create a work in homage to those images. In 1985, I composed “A Rothko Study” for voice and chamber ensemble, premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1986, I composed “ROTHKO” for multiple layers of vocal multiphonics and isolated, reinforced harmonics interwoven with bowed piano, and premiered the 8-channel work with live vocal overlay in the octagonal space of the Rothko Chapel, as part of the New Music America festival. Tonight’s performance is the New York premiere of a new mix combining elements of the original recordings with remixes from the version which appears on track 2 of my New World cd, “ShamanSong”. “ROTHKO” is both monochromatic and intricately infinite, as are the paintings which inspired it."
Joan La Barbara’s career as a composer/performer/sound artist has been devoted to exploring the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, going far beyond traditional boundaries, creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology. As an acknowledged pioneer in the field of contemporary classical music and Sound Art, she developed a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques, including multiphonics (the simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches), circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her "signature" sounds.
Using technology to research time and the atemporal, Kurt Ralske's video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt programmed and co-designed the 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. Kurt is the recipient of a 2007 Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship. He is Visiting Professor of Digital Art at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts, NYC, in the MFA Computer Art Department.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:00 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Saturday, November 3rd
Joan La Barbara (Roulette TV Shoot)
New excerpts from "Shimmer", an opera in-progress, composed and performed by Joan La Barbara, featuring video by Kurt Ralske, and the New York Premiere of "ROTHKO".
Shimmer is heat rising from the desert floor, shimmer is light sparkling on water, shimmer is wraiths passing along the back walls, shimmer is the aurora borealis, shimmer is in ghostly conversations. “Shimmer” (2007) is the latest scene from an opera in-progress, for multiple voices and layered sonic “atmospheres”. Here, I am exploring sounds inside the mind, impossible sounds, fragile sounds, transparent, ghostly sounds, shimmering voices and modular fragments. A series of inhales with no exhale, separated by sonic blackness, silences of varying lengths are shattered by a sudden burst of underwater wails, as the work moves from interior to exterior space and back again.
"ROTHKO was conceived after my first visit to The Rothko Chapel in Houston. I was so moved and overwhelmed by the majesty, the depth and complexity of Mark Rothko’s exquisite final paintings that I wanted to create a work in homage to those images. In 1985, I composed “A Rothko Study” for voice and chamber ensemble, premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1986, I composed “ROTHKO” for multiple layers of vocal multiphonics and isolated, reinforced harmonics interwoven with bowed piano, and premiered the 8-channel work with live vocal overlay in the octagonal space of the Rothko Chapel, as part of the New Music America festival. Tonight’s performance is the New York premiere of a new mix combining elements of the original recordings with remixes from the version which appears on track 2 of my New World cd, “ShamanSong”. “ROTHKO” is both monochromatic and intricately infinite, as are the paintings which inspired it."
Joan La Barbara’s career as a composer/performer/sound artist has been devoted to exploring the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, going far beyond traditional boundaries, creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology. As an acknowledged pioneer in the field of contemporary classical music and Sound Art, she developed a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques, including multiphonics (the simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches), circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her "signature" sounds.
Using technology to research time and the atemporal, Kurt Ralske's video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt programmed and co-designed the 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. Kurt is the recipient of a 2007 Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship. He is Visiting Professor of Digital Art at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts, NYC, in the MFA Computer Art Department.
Phill Niblock Festival Thurs/Fri/Sat 10.18-10.20 @ Roulette
Dates:
Fri Oct 19, 2007 00:00 - Tue Oct 16, 2007
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.org http://www.roulette.org/
Thursday, 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 can’t 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.
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.org http://www.roulette.org/
Thursday, 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 can’t 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.
Experimental Music at Roulette: Phill Niblock
Dates:
Sat Oct 20, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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.
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 can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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.
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 can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.
Experimental Music & Video @ Roulette: Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya
Dates:
Wed Sep 19, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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)e, 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).
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 can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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)e, 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).
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 can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.
Experimental Music & Video @ Roulette: Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya
Dates:
Wed Sep 26, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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)e, 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).
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 can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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)e, 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).
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 can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.