12 Facts About Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock was born on October 2,1933 in Anderson, Indiana and is an American composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium.

Phill Niblock was climbing a grade behind a slow-moving diesel truck when the revolutions of both vehicles' engines nearly synchronized.

Phill Niblock cites the musical activities of New York in the 1960s as a stimulus.

Phill Niblock has made a number of films and videos, including several in a series titled The Movement of People Working.

Phill Niblock's music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings performed in long durations.

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Phill Niblock's work continues to influence a generation of musicians, especially younger players from a variety of musical genres.

Simultaneously, Phill Niblock generally accompanies performances by presenting his films and videos.

Since 1985, Phill Niblock has been the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York where he has been an artist-member since 1968.

Phill Niblock received a 1994 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award and a 2014 Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage award.

Phill Niblock is the producer of music and Intermedia presentations at EI since 1973 and the curator of EI's XI Records label.

Phill Niblock taught at the College of Staten Island, a CUNY school, from 1971 to 1998.

Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode Records, and Touch labels.