Wednesday 26th April

Dai 大 Hall (The Piazza, Unit 29/30, Victoria Lane, Huddersfield HD1 2QF)

Full price £10 / £8 concession / £6 Ko-Fi members / £3 University of Huddersfield students

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Doors 18.30, concert starts at 19.00.

New York based composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock visits Huddersfield on the year of his 90th birthday. Expect loud, microtonal drones and hypnotic, mesmeric films. He is supported by artist Tim Shaw who will play a set using self made, high voltage instruments for sound and light making purposes.

Phill Niblock

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. Since the mid-60’s he has been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world. Since 1985, he has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York – www.experimentalintermedia.org – where he has been an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 and the curator of EI’s XI Records label. Phill Niblock’s music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme label. 

Tim Shaw

Tim Shaw is an artist working with sound, light and communication media. Presenting work through performances, installations and sound walks, Tim is interested in how affective environments can be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques and technologies. Working with field recordings, electronics, video, synthesis, sound objects, self-made hardware and DIY software his practice creatively appropriates communication technologies to explore how these devices change the way we experience the world. He presents work in galleries, forests, warehouses, caves, public spaces, festivals, museums, through residencies and cultural events both nationally and internationally.

Thanks to the Huddersfield Immersive Sound System (HISS) at the University of Huddersfield for supporting this project.