Brunel Seminar 011: Phill Niblock: In Seminar and Concert

Performance Research Seminars winter-spring 2011

Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
School of Arts, Brunel University

In collaboration with dance-techTVlive
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Wednesday February 25th Phill Niblock
In Seminar and Concert
4pm and 8pm Artaud Performance Centre

Composer/filmmaker Phill Niblock will speak about his work and his methods in dialogues with Bob Gilmore (Music) and Johannes Birringer (theatre), and he will be joined by an orchestra of twelve musicians to perform his com position “2 Lips.”
The concert will also feature the projection of Niblock’s film “The Movement of People Working.”

Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and 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. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. Niblock's music is the emancipation of the drone, the splitting into atomic parts of dozens of flailing, beating frequencies singing out loudly in close acoustical proximity to each other. His works are broad oceans of sound, where very little really "happens" but where there is a great deal to be heard, felt, and pondered.His music involves electronic manipulation of acoustical sound sources recorded over the years by several generations of musicians, playing every instrument under the sun from flute, bass clarinet, saxophone, trombone, digeridoo, to electric guitar, bowed piano, cello, organ, hurdy-gurdy, and much else. Recordings of single held tones are layered into textures rich in micro-nuance, building into imposing, complex soundscapes. Website: http://www.phillniblock.com/

The Centre broadcasts selected Performance Research Seminars live from the Brunel Drama Studio - making them available to anyone in the world interested in the subject. Johannes Birringer and Marlon Barrios Solano are co-producing the talks and discussions as live webcasts webcast live on dance tech net TV . The partnership between the Centre and dance-techTV, is an experiment in collaborative video broadcasting (the channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of movement. The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand).