We are very proud to have Phill Niblock amongst us in Barcelona for an audiovisual session of his music and visuals. Thanks to Fundació Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporari, Festival Mixtur and Barbara Held to make this possible.

Programme by Phill Niblock

• Vlada BC (20:00, 2013) Elisabeth Smalt, viola d'amore, recorded samples
• Ronet (2014, 21:08) Neil Leonard, tenor saxophone, recorded samples
• Bag (21:00, 2014) David Watson, bagpipes, recorded samples
• V&LSG (21:30, 2013) Lore Lixenberg, voice: Guy De Bievre, lap steel guitar: recorded samples

Images by Phill Niblock from The Environments Series: 100 Mile Radius and Ten Hundred Inch Radii

Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock 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 and videos which look at the movement of people working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating through time. 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 among which: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; ZKM; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard; World Music Institute at Merkin Hall NYC. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York () 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 he was part of the formation of an Experimental Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - which supports an artist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. DVDs of films and music are available on the Extreme label, on the Mode Records label, and on the VonArchives label.