Phill Niblock 89th Birthday Reception

A reception at White Box Gallery, 9 Ave B, NY, to celebrate Phill Niblock’s 89th Birthday and the release of a new Touch project of Phill Niblock – Working Touch, a USB stick in a CD sized Digipack, with 4 hours of video with four hours of music made from 2013 to 2016, files of video with music and of CD quality music. An evening organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and WhiteBox.

Phill Niblock (b. 1933, USA) is an artist whose fifty-year career spans minimalist and experimental music, film, and photography. Since 1985, he has 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. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realized in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honored with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award./