Tag: Phill Niblock
'EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Gottschalk's Chamber Dispatches from Ostrava Days 2015
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'EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Gottschalk's Orchestral Dispatches from Ostrava Days 2015
While the biannual Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic features, primarily, a wide array of post-1950 solo and small ensemble pieces, it is, at its heart, a symphonic endeavor--founded and curated by Czech composer/conductor Petr Kotik. Over the course of nine expansive nights in August, running this year from the 21st to the 29th, the festival hosted three different orchestras, and all three together on the first night. The Ostrava-based Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra and resident ensemble Ostravská Banda did plenty of heavy lifting over the course of the fest, with the Miners Band from Stonava (a brass group from that nearby town in coal-mining Moravia) joining them on opening night. -
'EXCLUSIVE: Ben Vida Rattles Seats in "Damaged Particulates" at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia for UNSOUND NYC 2014
Second only to, maybe, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House on 275 Church Street, Phill Niblock (recent winner of all that John Cage award money) might just have the better loft in Chinatown. I mean, you don't have to take your shoes off at Phill's place on Centre Street. And while he's off to Europe for the summer, Classicalite fave Ben Vida ably filled the scant few seats for, perhaps, the best concert of this year's UNSOUND FESTIVAL--New York City edition.