Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit

Event information

Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit play St.Leonard's Shoreditch

Programme:

Thomas Ankersmit - A solo set with Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer, alto saxophone (circa 40 minutes)

Phill Niblock - various compositions/recordings TBA - Phill Niblock plays computer parts on some pieces, Thomas Ankersmit plays saxophone on some pieces (45-60 minutes)

Images by Phill Niblock - Video from the "Movement of People Working" series

LIMITED HEATING, please dress accordingly and feel free to bring a blanket along

Licensed bar available

Concession offered to students, under 18 and over 65, people on state benefits and those in genuine need.

Thomas Ankersmit (1979, Leiden, Netherlands) is a saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam, who combines abstract, intensely focused saxophone playing with hyper-kinetic analogue synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and Sicilian electroacoustic artist Valerio Tricoli. Other collaborators, mostly for live performances, have included Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus.

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.