Cross-and-along Paiva
The video-audio piece is based on underwater audio and underwater video recordings of the river’s current. Niblock used a hydrophone and a contact microphone affixed to a metal plate, both submerged in the fast movement of the water. Liberovskaya used an underwater video camera made to locate fish from fishing boats. The piece creates a flowing dialogue between audio and visual patterns. The work was recorded in and around the village of Nodar. We could see the bend in the river where we worked from the veranda of the residency house where we stayed.
Niblock’ s sound piece is both a stand alone work and is used as a track for the video. He was interested in how the hydraphone and contact microphone abstract the sounds of the water and bring out its percussive qualities.
Liberovskaya, after much shooting of various perspectives of the underwater environment of the Paiva, became especially fascinated by the different visual patterns, of air bubbles, light, and waves, formed by its perpetual thrust.
Presentation: this piece should be presented as an installation with the work continually looping (without titles)… it should simultaneously be shown from 2 projectors, one on top of the other, both focusing more or lesson the same area, one straight forward projection, the other through a glass of (Paiva) water. This creates a shimmering around the projection on the walls of the space very similar to the refraction of sunlight in and around the Paiva. The sound should ideally be in the 4 corners of the room with a good sub-woofer system. It should be shown in a dark space.
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. As well, over the years, he has created a number of sound collage and installation pieces based on field recordings. Since 2003 he has collaborated with Katherine Liberovskaya on several audio-video projects both single-channel and installation. From the mid-60’s his work has ben shown at numerous venues around the world such as: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard… 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 since1973 (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 and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label.
Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist based in Montreal, Canada, and New York City. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. As of recent years her work-insingle-channel and installation video as well as performance-mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If, Bwana, HitoshiKojo, Zanana, David Watson, David First, Anne Wellmer and Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat). Since 2003 she is active in live video mixing exploring improvisation with numerous live new music/sound artists including: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko Nagai), Mary Halvorson, Toshio Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, Anthony Coleman, Tiziana Bertoncini,Thomas Lehn, Urkuma, Angelica Castellò, Micheal Delia, Antonio Della Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Richard Geret, Ben Owen, André Gonçalves, Matt Pass, Monique Buzzarté, Alessandro Bosetti, Audrey Chen, murmer, Max Shentelevs, John Grzinich, the Notekillers, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Bell, Jason Kahn, Tom Hamilton, among others. 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 in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001-2003), Espace Vidéographe, Montreal, as well as Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason in NYC.
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