Jenny Pickett

EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Thirty-eighth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The
Forty-third Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the
Forty-third Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least,
The Twenty-second Annual Festival with no fancy name Part Two (or B)
*Phill Niblock, curator*

March 2012

* Carl Stone Tuesday 20
New pieces for laptop electronics from 2011 and 2012
http://www.sukothai.com
http://rlsto.net
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carl-Stone/50688882909

* Mia Zabelka Wednesday 21
Project M – Mia Zabelka, e-violin, voice, electronics, contact microphones;
Mia Makela, visuals; with special guest Martin Janicek, sonic objects -
Zabelka’s new solo focuses on the development of experimental
improvisational techniques with the voice and violin, a process she calls
“automatic playing”; she explores the relationships between the body,
gesture, sound, machines and space using also live electronics to expand the
sonic spectrum; the visualization of Mia Makela creates a synaesthetic
experience; Martin Janicek – sculptor, sound artist and musician from
Prague, CZ, works with acoustic qualities of various materials; he will use
the sonic objects realized during the ongoing residency at Triangle Art
Association studios NY (supported by Visegrad Fund)
www.miazabelka.com
www.miamakela.net
http://efemera-ephemera.org/events/Echofluxx11/MJanicek/index.html

* Christian Kobi (Bern) Thursday 22
“untitled #2″ for saxophone was developed in Budapest between summer and
winter 2011; it explores the non-understanding of a language, on the inner
search for articulation, and the microscopic examination of voice, air, and
the instrument; it is the second part of a solo saxophone trilogy, following
the 2010 piece “Canto”
www.christiankobi.ch
trailer: http://vimeo.com/32783672

* Alwynne Pritchard (UK/Norway) Friday 23
The composer and vocalist (voice, harmonica, electronics) will perform a set
based on sentimental 19th century parlor songs
www.alwynnepritchard.co.uk
www.myspace.com/alwynnepritchard

* Gert-Jan Prins (Amsterdam , NL) Sunday 25
Will present a solo electronics set: Cavity: the NYC version; combining the
use of self-built analogue equipment with an awareness of aural surfaces and
dimensions, creating dense textures colored by rumbles, inner bass waves, a
rattle, a flowŠ; how to empty a space after saturating it, how to play with
expectations by reversing themŠ; spatial sense: both the sense of sculpting
space with frequencies, and the sense of space inside electronic circuitsŠ;
open form /closed systemŠenergetic, urgent, temporal, visceral, and
delicate
www.gjp.info

* Screen Compositions 8 Monday 26
curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
The eighth edition of Screen Compositions is, as always, a collection of
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: Carlos
Andrade / Rafael Attias; Elle Burchill / Andrea Monti; Macha Godovannaya /
Phil Corner; Ali Hossaini / Paola Prestini; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill
Niblock; Jenny Pickett / Julien Ottavi; Nana Schulz / Josef Novotny; Peter
Shapiro / Chuck Bettis; Steina / Joan La Barbara

* Screen Compositions – Solo Practices Tuesday 27
curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
Screen Compositions – Solo Practices presents, for the first time in the
context of this series, visual-sonic single-channel screen works where the
same artist is responsible for both the image and the music/sound; with
pieces by: Betsey Biggs; Richard Garet; Miya Masaoka; Ikue Mori; Phill
Niblock; Michael Northam; Andrea Parkins; Matt Rogalsky; Byron Westbrook;
followed by several audio-video pieces by Richard Lainhart – who sadly
suddenly passed on December 30th – as a small homage to his life and work

* Koosil-ja and Geoff Matters (Korea, New York) Wednesday 28
Ecology of Image of Body (March 2012 edition) – choreographer Koosil-ja,
assisted by media artist Geoff Matters, shares a glimpse into her current
experiments and explorations; using the body in motion, brainwaves, sound,
image, and words, Koosil-ja questions the boundaries of the body, the nature
of presence, and the definition of Dance
www.dancekk.com

* Emanuel Pimenta (Portugal) Thursday 29
Beethoven’s Cage, M and Ocean 2: three concerts and two movies, all
simultaneous;
50 minutes www.emanuelpimenta.net
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with
the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the
Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013
9pm, 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org
and www.XIrecords.org

by JULIEN OTTAVI and JENNY PICKETT

2 – 22 December, 2011

Tenderpixel is pleased to present Dislocated Flesh, an exhibition featuring the work of Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett. This new body of work stems from their long term collaboration exploring perception, memory, and architecture. Considering physical and virtual space they are intrigued how these phenomenons influence the body, particularly in a post-human construction of society. Ottavi & Pickett’s dialogue interrogates the cross-section between sound, space and image. Dislocated Flesh explores the ability of these junctures to affect our interpretation and create a tension in our readings of language, the results of which are poetic and bemusing.

Possession, the main work on the ground-floor, is a suspended human scale cocoon-like sound sculpture, constructed with ivory fabric and crinoline cages. The sound of Possession fluctuates between high frequencies of varying intensity before dropping out altogether. The sonic affect coincides with a burst of light flashing from the objects interior, leaving behind a salivating oral impression. In the basement Radotage which translates as Drivel consists of six scalps, hung from the ceiling, turning slowly upon cymbals. Each endlessly scraping and scratching away at their amplified metallic surfaces, Radotage repeats upon the space through combined and individual visual and audio loops.

http://www.tenderpixel.com

the engine room: exhibition
New Sound and Visual Art Works
24 November – 16 December 2011
Morley College – Morley Gallery, London.

The engine room exhibition is a selection of sonic and visual artworks by established and emerging artists from across the globe. The works share a common ground in that they have all been inspired in some way by Cornelius Cardew’s music and/or ideologies.

The works programmed in this exhibition were selected from an international call for works which attracted over 50 submissions from over 15 countries.

the engine room exhibition showcases the far-reaching influence that Cardew continues to have on artists working across a diverse range of disciplines and media today.

The exhibition includes sound installations, graphic scores, video works, acousmatic works, and interactive works.

Curated by Camilo Salazar, the engine room exhibition includes works by:

Craig Allan, Dominick Allen, Ian Baxter, Nance Davies, Diane Dwyer, Rita Evans, Mathevet Frédéric, Dave Gedosh, Seth Guy, Tim Howle & Nick Cope, Steve Jones & Sally Rodgers, Gary Kempston, Panayiotis Kokoras & Dimitris Vourdoglou, Angelo Petronella, Martyna Poznanska, Julien Ottavi & Jenny Pickett, Ailis Ni Riain, Mike Richison, The Gluts, Amber Vistein.

Posters/Flyers/Program/Catalog/Website Artwork and graphic design produce with APO33 by Jenny Pickett and Julien Poidevin for Piksel 2010 Festival using FLOSS tools; APODIO operating system with the software: Gimp/Inkscape/Scribus.

Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.

The 9th edition of the Piksel Festival takes place on November 17th-20th 2011. The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context.

The PIKSEL LOGO 2011 was constructed as a working physical streaming installation. The concept of this logo is to take the DIY ‘open’ hacking graphics used for the previous two editions of piksel one step further by creating a fully operational portable Piksel broadcasting graphic.

http://www.piksel.no

A sound installation. The piece relates to an order given to silence non-military radio broadcasts. Radio silence can also be maintained for other purposes, such as for highly sensitive radio astronomy, or in nautical and aeronautical communications to allow faint distress calls to be heard. The order: Seelonce seelonce seelonce is given when it is necessary for the radio stations in a the vicinity to stop transmitting. The written word ‘ seelonce’ is the English phonetic spelling of the French pronunciation of ‘silence’. Using found mayday alerts from the US coast guard and radio interference and silences at its base – “Seelonce seelonce seelonce!” models the movement of the sea – periods of calm, moderate, rough and choppy compositions flow in and out of the space with the tides. The mayday messages emerge from the radio waves and sonic currents of these transmissions – Seelonce FINI.

“Seelonce, seelonce, seelonce!” was composed for Grande exposition d’art sonore – première édition
-du 28 October to 06 November – 11 artists, 1 piece per day.

Sound art is an artistic genre atypical at the intersection of noise music, visual arts, contemporary music and experimental. It is a visual arts field that uses the space as writing itself. The Grande exposition d’art sonore is a series of exhibitions that offer artists/composers sound projection space within a time constraint: Invest in the exhibition space for a day.

Brandon Labelle, Jason Kahn, Achim Wollscheid, Kasper T Toeplitz, Francisco Lopez and Apo33′s – Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi, Julien Poidevin, Christian Galarreta, Dominique Leroy.