Luke Fowler is a Glasgow born artist and musician who has exhibited at Becks Futures and the Tate Triennial. His films tend to delve into nooks and crannies of cultural history, using a subjective approach to documentary which highlights gaps and contradictions.
Pilgrimage From Scattered Points (UK 2006, 45 mins) is a portrait of composer and musical activist Cornelius Cardew, one-time Stockhausen disciple and founder of the Scratch Orchestra. Piecing together snatches of interview and rarely-seen archive footage, the film builds a complex account of a heady, pioneering time which quickly disintegrated into friction and infighting during the 70s.
Also showing is What you see is where you’re at (UK 2003, 30 mins), which uses a similar approach to explore the ‘anti-psychiatry’ techniques of RD Laing and the Philadelphia Institute.
Inverleith House and Cyrk are proud to present a very special UK performance of music and film by New York drone god Phill Niblock, who is currently gracing the cover of The Wire magazine.
Niblock’s music comprises layers of recorded instruments that gradually unfold through shifting overtones and timbres, ever fluctuating between harmony and discordance. This remarkable music, which appears to be minimal on a surface level, is revealed to be rich and complex.
Seemingly static clouds of sound drift imperceptibly, shimmering within a dense and rapturous stream of intensities.
This is best experienced at the extreme dynamic of a live performance. However, Niblock is no stranger to the recorded medium, with an impressive array of releases on labels including Touch, Blast First, Extreme, Mokai and his own XI.
For several decades Niblock has been regarded as a highly influential interdisciplinary figure in the worlds of experimental film and music, and has worked with such luminaries as Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Sun Ra and Arthur Russell amongst many.
Niblock will perform alongside multiple projections of his highly acclaimed “The Movement of People Working” film series. This is a rare opportunity to experience his work in the UK. This is Niblock’s second visit to Edinburgh, following an incredible performance at Edinburgh College of Art in February 2001. This was organised by Inverleith House,renowned for its award-winning exhibitions programme which commissions new work by leading minimalist artists.
The reviews speak for themselves:
“The performance attained such grandeur it was nothing less than magnificent”
Keith Bruce, The Herald, Wed 7th Feb, 2001
“The evening became a sort of Zen experience… it was something akin to an aural massage…”
Thom Dibdin, The Edinburgh Evening News, Wed 7th Feb, 2001
“For a minute it felt like we were all somewhere else, somewhere primal”
David Keenan, The Sunday Herald, Sat 11th Feb, 2001
Main support comes from Lied Music consisting of Luke Fowler (Rude Pravo, Beck’s Future’s nominee) on Harper Kenchington and Saw Cellos (homemade instruments) and John Fail on Israj and violin. What unites these distinct approaches is the duos incorporation of live and pre-recorded tape loops on three cheap reel to reels which they use to compress, distort and decimate any natural fidelity their instruments may have possessed. Lied Music create compelling improvisation and song and have forthcoming LP’s on Cenotaph (US) and Ultra Eczema (Belgium).
Sunday 27th March 2006
Reid Concert Hall
Bristo Square
Edinburgh
7pm-9.30pm
£6 / £4
Tickets available on site
Enquiries - 0132 248 2983
ihouse@rbge.org.uk
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