Phill Niblock »The Movement of People Working«

presented by silent green + singuhr – projekte
24 hours film-video-sound for the 90th birthday of Phill Niblock


Nine simultaneous projections of films/videos from the series »The Movement of People Working«, permanent electronic drone compositions and every two hours live performances by 12 musicians playing compositions written for them by Phill Niblock.

»The Movement of People Working« by Phill Niblock is a massive cinematic-musical monument. More than 25 hours of film, shot since 1973, initially on 16 mm colour film, later with video and digital technology in Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, China and Japan, on Sumatra and in the Arctic. Films that show nothing more than manual labour. Documentary, extremely minimalist editing, Niblock presents people in their daily activities and tasks. Hammering, sawing, grinding, harvesting, dyeing, fishing, and much more - work in its most elementary form. Phill Niblock's minimalist and monumental compositions with their slowly unfolding microtonal drones belong to this film material. Multiple layers of sound material create a continuum of sonic movement and pulsations with an extremely dense texture.

»The Movement of People Working« at silent green combines both - film and composition - in a 24-hour film-video-sound installation: while the cinematic part of the work unfolds in parallel and permanently projected on nine surfaces, electronic drone compositions Niblocks sound in dense succession, which are also supplemented by live performances every two hours. Invited are musicians from the Berlin scene who have been performing Niblock's music for years. Most of the works were composed especially for them.


With:
Thomas Ankersmit (Serge Synthesizer) Surge 2 (UA)
Jens Brand (motors) ExplMotors
Lucio Capece & Katie Porter (bass clarinets) K&L for KL
Anna Clementi (voice) Zound Delta I & II
Nicola Hein (guitar) poom
Seth Josel (guitar) Sethwork
Natalia Pschenitschnikova (flute) Nataliawork
Lucy Railton (violoncello) Harm
Robyn Schulkowsky (drums) Timpani
Biliana Voutchkova (violin) Unipolar Dance
Deborah Walker (violoncello) Herbal Cooled 2


Phill Niblock
Born on 2.10.1933 in Indianapolis (USA), Phill Niblock has created a multidisciplinary oeuvre over more than fifty years. His Intermedia Art is a combination of minimalist music, conceptual art, structural cinema, systematic or even political art and has actively contributed to changing our perception and experience of time.



Artistic director: Carsten Seiffarth
Presented by silent green and singuhr - projekte.
Supported by Musikfonds Deutschland. The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.



Saturday, 21–Sunday, 22 October
Betonhalle
Opening hours: 9 pm – for 24 hours – 9 pm
Admission within the 24 hours: 14/10 €