A dynamic portrait composed from fragments of seventy (+ 1) extremely close-up interventions on video about intermedia composer Phill Niblock by seventy (+ 1) people connected to him in some way. These interventions, or monologues, were collected in honor of his seventieth year (2003-2004) and the piece has been completed in time for his 71st birthday, October 2nd 2004.

With: Chris Anderson, Thomas Ankersmit, Jeff Bauer, David Behrman, Tara Bhattacharya, Maria Blondeel, Krystyna Borkowska, Jens Brand, Tom Buckner, Yu-Fei Chen, Steve Dalachinsky, Irina Danilova, Guy De Bi�vre, Micheal Delia, John Duncan, Jean Dupuy, Angie Eng, Dan Evans Farkas, Esther Ferrer, David First, Bernhard Gal, Dave Geary, Madeleine Gekiere, Malcolm Goldstein, Annie Gosfield, Matt Griffin, Shelley Hirsch, Andrea Hull, Tom Johnson, Seth Josel, Tomi Keranen, Roger Kleier, Hans W. Koch, Yumi Kori, Mary Jane Leach, Okkyung Lee, Katherine Liberovskaya, Alan Licht, Chris Mann, Frankie Mann, Al Margolis, Eric Mattson, Charlie Morrow, Boris Nieslony, Morgan O'Hara, Yuko Otomo, Paul Panhuysen, Vitaly Patsyukov, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Matt Rogalsky, Jurgita RemeikytŽ, Don Ritter, Ursula Scherrer, Claudia Schmacke, Michael Schumacher, Shelly Silver, Jim Staley, Gerd Stern, Volker Straebel, Elaine Summers, Micheal Timpson, Yasunao Tone, Jo Truman, Keiko Uenishi, Ruben Verdadeiro, David Watson, Monika Weiss, Anne Wellmer, Amnon Wolman, Dion Workman, Nina Zaretskaya.

It is worth noting that the choice of participants was a much more incidental than pre-determined process, except for the goal of reaching a total of seventy. Each was invited to briefly say anything they wanted to, or to express themselves in any way they like, about Niblock - within the constraints of a very tight shot of their face. The result is an intimate collage of meditations, reminiscences, anecdotes, stories, impressions, feelings... from seventy one different angles: seventy (one) sides of Phill Niblock.

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Phill Niblock

Parker's Altered Mood, aka, Owed to Bird, 2004
16:25
Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone

Zrost, 2004
23:30
Matin Zrost, soprano saxophone

Alto Tune, 2004
24:30,
Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone

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Katherine Liberovskaya is a Montreal-born multidisciplinary artist who has been working predominantly in experimental video and digital media since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced numerous single-channel videos and several installation works, some of which have earned awards and mentions in Europe and North America. Her works have been presented at a wide variety of artistic events and venues around the world and she has held numerous grants and arts awards in Canada and in France where she studied media arts. Her articles have been published in ESSE-Arts + Opinions, la Revue Électronique du CIAC, the Banff Center's HorizonZero and the Canadian Journal of Communication. Moreover, in addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX, a Montreal cyberfeminist resource and presentation center dedicated to women's media/on-line art founded in 1995 (www.studioxx.org), of which she was president from 1999 to 2003. She is currently on the board of directors of the Independent Film and Video Alliance of Canada (which has as of this year changed its name to the Independent Media Arts Alliance of Canada). Her most recent artistic projects include: "Babel-On" (2003), a 5-channel video-audio installation/performance work-in-progress, produced with the collaboration of Phill Niblock, the preliminary version of which showed at Diapason before touring a series of other venues in Canada, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Finland, etc., "Topolo: de Passato a Avvenire" (2004), a site-specific multi-channel video-audio installation created during the "Stazione di Topolo - Postaja Topolove" festival in the village of Topolo, in Italy on the Slovenian border (www.stazioneditopolo.it) in July 2004, as well as explorations in the field of interactive video and live video mixing.

Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60's he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York (www.experimentalintermedia.org) where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the curator of EI's XI Records label. In 1993 was formed an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - to support the artist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label.
pniblock@compuserve.org

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