Experimental Intermedia: The Thirty-fourth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Thirty-ninth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Thirty-ninth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Eighteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator March 2008.
March 2008 schedule:
Miya Masaoka (New York) Tuesday 11
Pierre Marietan (Paris and Switzerland) Wednesday 12
Christian Kesten (Berlin) Friday 14
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (Mexico City) Sunday 16
Esther Venrooy (Gent, Belgium) Monday 17
Screen Compositions 4, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Tuesday 18 (NO WEB STREAM)
Folke Rabe (Sweden) Wednesday 19
Jean Piche (Montreal) Thursday 20
Plus:
Bonus concerts
S.E.M. ENSEMBLE (New York) Friday 7
OptoSonic Tea (New York) Monday 10
Complete schedule:
S.E.M. ENSEMBLE (New York) Friday 7
Not Just String Quartets
Program: 1. Petr Kotik, Solos and Incidental Harmonies (1982/83); 2. Petr Kotik, String Quartet (2007/08); 3. Mary Bellamy, String Quartet (2007). For full details - www.semensemble.org.

OptoSonic Tea Monday 10
Live sets by: Kjell Bjorgeengen & Okkyung Lee; Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo. Invited respondent/moderator - Kathleen Forde. Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer. For full details - www.diapasongallery.org. This show starts at 8:30 p.m.
Miya Masaoka (New York) Tuesday 11
will perform interactive koto and video pieces, also using Super 8 loop and projector; this work will be inspired by a quasi-documentary of the quest for the 'Minetta Creek,' the impassioned search for the last living natural stream of water in Lower Manhattan; she has recently created pieces where ordinary plant activity derails a model train, and insect movement and plane flight schedules create the structure and the formal design of audio compositions www.miyamasaoka.com
www.myspace/miyamasaoka

Pierre Marietan (Paris and Switzerland) Wednesday 12
BLACK OR WHITE': existing sounds - collected sounds - small instruments - voices Usually, the listener follows the musical path previously taken by the composer; the latter may also give a shape to an existing acoustic material in such a way that this process preserves the listener's freedom of interpretation; the four sequences proposed for the evening can be perceived through either listening mode; in 'WITHOUT ANYTHING', the existing acoustic structure that is revealed creates the music of the place; 'CAPTIVE VOICES' qualifies the space as a place of music; in 'RUMEUR / EMERGENCES', the sounds from elsewhere transferred into the place, take us off to other worlds; 'RYTHMUS 21-23' is a movie by Hans Richter associated with 'EMPREINTES', a musical piece for strings, piccolo, side-drum and saxophones www.pierremarietan.com
www.music-environment.com

Christian Kesten (Berlin) Friday 14
performs works for breathing sounds (in-/exhaling) in monochrome textures, for tongue (acoustically and visually), for jokes in five languages with leaving out the punch lines while building up an installation on a table made out of mundane things, and works for video and voice www.christiankesten.de

Manuel Rocha Iturbide (Mexico City) Sunday 16
Some of his compositions have been involved with daily sounds and their transformation through electroacoustic means, as well as with their spacialization; he will present various pieces composed in the last 4 years, most of them created in a multichannel format; with Margot Leverett, clarinet www.artesonoro.net

Esther Venrooy (Gent, Belgium) Monday 17
The Spiral Staircase is a suite of short electronic vignettes that constitute two vertical movements; the piece was partly composed with the EMS Synthi 100 analogue modular synthesizer at the IPEM (Institute for Psycho-acoustics and Electronic Music) in Ghent www.esthervenrooy.com
www.myspace.com/esthervenrooy

Screen Compositions 4, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Tuesday 18 NO WEB STREAM
The fourth edition of Screen Compositions, the yearly evening dedicated to intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Liora Belford / Ido Govrin; Kjell Bjorgeengen / Marc Ribot; Yan Breuleux / Alain Thibault; Alexandra Dementieva / Aernoudt Jacobs; Richard Garet / Wolfgang R. von Stuermer; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock; Francesca Llopis / Barbara Held; Marlena Novak / Jay Alan Yim; Billy Roisz / Toshimaru Nakamura; Billy Roisz / dieb13

Folke Rabe (Sweden) Wednesday 19
Composer of vocal and instrumental music with some emphasis on brass; but this will be a retrospective with tape pieces - ARGH!, Cyclone, What?? - and Ship of Fools, a video with the New Culture Quartet; works composed in the 1960s thru 80s www.folkerabe.se

Jean Piche (Montreal) Thursday 20
Three triple-channel videomusic works are presented, forming a suite that has helped define a particular genre of pluridisciplinary work: the composer as visual artist; fabricating color and sound, stream and movement, shape and timbre, the artist articulates a highly kinetic discourse at the juncture of abstraction and documentary www.jeanpiche.com

Experimental Intermedia programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund For Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation. Shows start at 9 p.m., admission $4.99 212 431 5127, 431 6430, www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org.