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Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 15 episodes and was first played on 13 August 2015.

Phill Niblock (born 2 October 1933, in Anderson, Indiana) was a minimalist composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York.

Niblock's music usually consists of simultaneous drones created from tape (later computer) manipulations of recorded pitches performed by instrumentalists such as Rafael Toral, David First, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore, on Guitar Too, for Four (G2,44+1x2); and Ulrich Krieger, on Touch Food. Phill Niblock creates thick, loud, atonal drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other overtones by pulsing against each other in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films/videos that look at the movement of people working, or computer-driven, black-and-white abstract images floating through time. Since the mid-1960s, he has been making music and intermedia performances that have been shown at numerous venues around the world. His musical works are notated as actual frequencies (cycles per second) and often transform slowly from consonance to dissonance or the reverse. 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. Unlike Charlemagne Palestine, whose approach to works of sustained sound is similar, Niblock works with absolute pitches, while Palestine generally works with tonal clusters. During performance instrumentalists often accompany the playback of recorded tracks adding subtle colorations to the music. Since 2003, Niblock frequently tours and collaborates with electroacoustic improviser Thomas Ankersmit.

Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode, and Touch Records labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label, and his film The Magic Sun, an abstract, avant-garde film featuring the music of Sun Ra and members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, is available on DVD from Atavistic Records.

He has released three albums on Touch Records, a UK label: Touch Works, Touch Food, and Touch Three.

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Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 15 episodes and was first played on 13 August 2015.

Phill Niblock (born 2 October 1933, in Anderson, Indiana) was a minimalist composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York.

Niblock's music usually consists of simultaneous drones created from tape (later computer) manipulations of recorded pitches performed by instrumentalists such as Rafael Toral, David First, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore, on Guitar Too, for Four (G2,44+1x2); and Ulrich Krieger, on Touch Food. Phill Niblock creates thick, loud, atonal drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other overtones by pulsing against each other in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films/videos that look at the movement of people working, or computer-driven, black-and-white abstract images floating through time. Since the mid-1960s, he has been making music and intermedia performances that have been shown at numerous venues around the world. His musical works are notated as actual frequencies (cycles per second) and often transform slowly from consonance to dissonance or the reverse. 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. Unlike Charlemagne Palestine, whose approach to works of sustained sound is similar, Niblock works with absolute pitches, while Palestine generally works with tonal clusters. During performance instrumentalists often accompany the playback of recorded tracks adding subtle colorations to the music. Since 2003, Niblock frequently tours and collaborates with electroacoustic improviser Thomas Ankersmit.

Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode, and Touch Records labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label, and his film The Magic Sun, an abstract, avant-garde film featuring the music of Sun Ra and members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, is available on DVD from Atavistic Records.

He has released three albums on Touch Records, a UK label: Touch Works, Touch Food, and Touch Three.

Original source: Last.fm

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Hurdy Hurry
Phill Niblock
Touch2000
Guitar Too, For Four - Toral Version
Phill Niblock
Moikai2002
Zound Delta 2
Phill Niblock, Anna Clementi, Thomas Stern
Karlrecords2024
FeedCorn Ear
Phill Niblock
Touch2013
Index (1969)
Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Martin Bouch, Gregory Reeve
Alga Marghen2023
Expl Arditti SQ
Phill Niblock, Arditti Quartet, David Watson
Matière Mémoire2021
Didjeridoos And Don'Ts
Phill Niblock
XI Records2002
A Third Trombone
Phill Niblock
India Navigation1982
Harm
Phill Niblock
Touch2006
Winterbloom Too
Phill Niblock
Experimental Intermedia Foundation1990