Artists Statement

Thomas Ankersmit – A solo set with computer, modular synthesizer and acoustic alto saxophone; Phill Niblock – Music and Images (from the Movement of People Working films).

• Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin (D) and Amsterdam (NL). His main instruments are a Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer, and alto saxophone. Ankersmit regularly performs together with composer Phill Niblock and with electroacoustic artists Valerio Tricoli and Kevin Drumm. Ankersmit’s music and installation work have been presented at festivals all over the world.
• Phill Niblock 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. 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 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.

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