"How different
Phill Niblock’s life would have been if he hadn’t moved into a third-floor loft on Centre Street, near New York’s Chinatown, in 1968. It was his home for the rest of his life, and it was there that the composer/filmmaker/photographer transformed the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, originally a performing-arts organization founded by choreographer Elaine Summers, into one of the premier artist-run experimental-music venues of downtown New York. Spontaneously inaugurating its concert series in 1973 with a gig of his own—relocated at the last minute from the Kitchen, which was deemed unusable after a blood-soaked performance by Hermann Nitsch the night before—he hosted hundreds of now-legendary artists. It was the most convivial and soulful avant-garde music spot imaginable: The performances took place in Phill’s spacious living room, complete with a formidable sound system with self-built speakers, while the socializing centered in the kitchen. ..."
Arthur Russell, Elodie Lauten, and others performing at Experimental Intermedia, New York, 1983–84.
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