Come è consolidata tradizione il Roulette newyorkese celebra l'arrivo del solstizio d'inverno con un lungo evento caratterizzato dalle speciali dilatazioni del tempo percettivo indotte dalle immagini e dalle musiche di Phill Niblock (1933-2024), stavolta per la prima volta senza la sua presenza. Ci saranno però Katherine Liberovskaya, partner e collaboratrice artistica del compianto compositore, e varie performance dal vivo a punteggiare i numerosi materiali audio e video prodotti. La durata sarà di sei ore, dalle 18.00 locali alla mezzanotte, con la possibilità di seguirne la diretta su YT.
As the longest night of the year unfolds, Roulette stages Phill Niblock’s annual Winter Solstice concert for the 14th consecutive year - for the first time following the composer/filmmaker’s passing, in collaboration with his partner, video artist Katherine Liberovskaya. With performers joining some pieces live: David First, Davide Capobianco, David Watson. A livestream will be available free of charge on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
Phill Niblock was an artist whose fifty-year career spanned minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. Since 1985, he served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space.