Half length portrait of Phil Niblock with Seth Josel standing in the background, San Francisco, CA (2005)
Phil Niblock seated onstage with film projections behind him, San Francisco, CA (2005)
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Other Minds Festivals ➔ Other Minds Festival: OM 11, Concert 1: 01 “Sethwork” by Phill Niblock

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Event Type
Music
Origin
Other Minds
Identifier
OMF.2005.02.24.02
Program Series
Other Minds Festival
Program Length
23 min
Dates
| broadcast
| 2005-02-24 | created
Description
Composer Phill Niblock presents the West Coast premiere of “Sethwork”, featuring guitarist Seth Josel and two simultaneously projected films by Niblock, whose music is always accompanied by motion pictures of his own making. Using an e-bow, Josel, an American living in Germany, creates a series of overlaid sustained guitar pitches, filling the hall with a rich texture of sound projected through an array of sophisticated speakers, immersing the audience in an overpowering audio illusion. A long-time New Yorker, Niblock travels frequently to present his work abroad and has composed drone works for clarinet, tympani, tuba, and sousaphone, as well as combinations of two or more instruments.
Genres
Avant-garde
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Musical Selections
Sethwork (2003) (22:29) / Phill Niblock
Performers
Seth Josel, guitars with e-bow
Subjects
Mixed media (Music)
Guitar music
Avant-garde (Music)
Electro-acoustic
Related Event
Other Minds Festival 11
Related place
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Related Entities
Other Minds Festival
Niblock, Phill, 1933-
Josel, Seth