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Artist and curator Katherine Liberovskaya, Niblock’s partner of the last 22 years, puts together a Marathon 12 hour Memorial Celebration of the iconic minimalist composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock (1933-2024) a few days after what would have been his 91st birthday. The event brings together brief artistic interventions by a wide range of Phill’s close friends and colleagues, old and young, from near and from far, participating live in-person and remotely, via streaming and via video, in solos, duos, formations or several and orchestras, including among many others.

LIVE (sets start at 5pm)
Gerd Stern, Jim Staley + Shelley Hirsch + Susan Hefner, Yasunao Tone + Keiko Uenishi, Anthony Coleman Al Margolis + Leslie Ross, David Behrman + John King + Barbara Held + Yoshiko Chuma, Tom Buckner + Tom Hamilton, Sally Silvers + Bruce Andrews, Thomas Lehn + Tiziana Bertoncini, Byron Westbrooke, Katie Porter + Bob Bellerue, Dan Joseph +Yuko Otomo, Dave Soldier + David First + William Hooker, Matthew Ostrowski + Dafna Naphtali, Eric Letourneau, Elliott Sharp + Erica Hunt, Cecilia Lopez + Gill Arno, Miya Masaoka, Barry Weisblat + David Watson, Neil Leonard + Amnon Wolman, Alan Licht, Tara Bhattacharya + Matt Mottel, Laura Ortman, Earl Howard

Dark Circuits Orchestra (1pm)
Lucie Vitkova, Marcia Bassett, Teerapat Parmongkol, Alex Zhu, Emad Jamal, Monica Rocha, Shoko Nagai, Crystal Penalosa, Chuck Bettis, Luke Dubois, Kamran Sadeghi, Michael Schumacher, David Galbraith, Daniel Neumann, Abby Davis, David Rothenberg, Ben Manley, Miguel Frasconi, Andrew Neumann, Laura Feathers, Larry Seven & Hans Tammen. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya.

The Orcehstra of the S.E.M. Ensemble (6.30pm)
Roberta Michel, Pablo O’Connell, Katie Porter, Bohdan Hilash, Sara Schoenbeck, Dirk Wels, Ser Konvalin, Blair Hamrick, Tim McCarthy, Sigrun Kahl, Kate Amrine, Thomas Verchot, Christopher McIntyre, Ben Stapp, Ron Caswell, Conrad Harris, Tom Chiu, Lynn Bechtold, Theresa Salomon, Mioi Takeda

Streaming or Video
Loré Lixenberg, Charlie Morrow, Marek Choloniewski, Kasper Toeplitz, Luciano Chessa, Jens Brand, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sergei Komarov, Alexey Grachev, Frederic Acquaviva, Logos, Kristof Lauwers, Moniek Darge, Godfried-Willem Raes, Bryan Eubanks, Biliana Voutchkova, Gerard Lebik, Jozef Ceres, Nicola Hein, Claudia Schmitz, Davide Capobianco, Matt Rogalski, Joao Castro Pinto, Julien Ottavi, Jenny Pickett, Ulrich Krieger, Rebekkah Palov, Julian Knowles, Nao Nishihara, Anna Clementi, Anna Frants, Anne Wellmer, Ursula Scherrer, Astrid S. Klein, Stefano Bassanese, Benjamin, Thigpen, Hedya Klein, Bradley Eros, Heimo Wallner, Carl Stone, Chika, Hiromi Kiba, Micheal Delia, Allessandra Zucchi, Antonio Della Marina, Alexandra Dementieva, Emilio Fantin, Francisco Janes, Irina Danilova, Janene Higgins, Jon Burris, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Janos Sugar, Joseph Sledgianowski, Laurie Schwartz, Lieve D’Hondt, Maria Blondeel, Rie Nakajima, Marie Roux, Hans V Koch, Pierre Berthet, Monika Weiss, Kurt Gottschalk, Mia Zabelka, Miah Artola, Milos Vojtechovsky, Annea Lockwood, Liz Phillips, Richard Garet, Seth Cluett, Laura Stayton, Adam Hogan, Susan Stenger, Robert Poss, Sara Sun, Micheal Timpson, Tim Shaw, Julian Knowles, Lawrence English, Amanda Stewart, Jim Denley, Nao Nshihara, Christophe Charles, suzueri, Toshimaru Nakamura

…and more!

A livestream will be available free of charge at 12 noon (EST) on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.

Phill Niblock (1933-2024) was an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music. Often in his live performance he simultaneously presents films and videos which look at the movement of people working. He also uses slides, or computer driven black and white abstract images.
Niblock was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-1960’s he has been making music, films and intermedia performances which have been shown at a wide-range of venues around the world.

Since 1968 he has been an artist/member of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York and since 1985, he has been its director. He has produced Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 – presenting over 1000 performances!. He is also the curator of EI’s XI Records label. In 1993 he formed an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium – EI v.z.w. Gent – to support the artist-in-residence house and installations there.

Niblock’s creativity was inspired by musical and artistic activities in New York during the 1960s (from the art of Mark Rothko, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Robert Morris to the music of John Cage, Morton Feldman and Sun Ra). His 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. Many of his pieces are based on collaborations with specific musicians. Over the years he has thus worked with a large number of the most diverse players including: Susan Stenger, Robert Poss, Jim O’Rourke, Ulrich Krieger, Seth Josel, Peter Kotik, Tom Buckner, and many others.

He was the recipient of the prestigious 2014 Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage award. His music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode Records, and Touch labels. He has also had a number of retrospectives, DVD releases and publications devoted to his work. His most recent releases are “Nurturing Exhibitions by Mathieu Copeland” for the Belgium based label Matière Mémoire and “Muna Torso” for the Australian Room40 label.