threshold of predictability. a triology - total running time 138 minutes   ______________________________  
     
a series of 3 contemplative video-audio works that each very slowly unfold a single predictable   online project: ce.onl_0033
event over the duration of a long niblock drone music piece (each 30 to 60 minutes). a zen   artist: katherine liberovskaya
experience for lovers of contemplation and drone music.   title: threshold of predictibility
    year: 2020
by katherine liberovskaya   format: online screening
     
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rice & flowers--
online screening
-- play: video
   
     
a 46 minute extreme close-up long take of a knife point counting grains of white rice, one by one, on a white surface, to the orchestra piece "one large rose" (2008, played by the nelly boyd ensemble from hamburg (available on "touch strings" to:79, touch records).    
     
     
rice & flowers    
katherine liberovskaya (moving image)    
phill niblock (music) "one large rose" 2008    
46' approximately    
digital video    
2014    
     
     
     
   
   
timepiece/maize--
online screening
-- play: video
   
         
  a 30 minute extreme close-up long take of the flow of sand trickling from the upper to the lower glass chamber of and hourglass to niblock's composition "feedcorn ear" (2011), featuring belgian cellist arne deforce (available on "touch five" to:91, touch records).      
         
         
  timepiece/maize      
  katherine liberovskaya (moving image)      
  phill niblock (music) "feedcorn ear" 2011      
  30' approximately      
  digital video      
  2015      
         
         
         
     
     
 
ice-out--
online screening
-- play: video
     
         
  a 59 minute extreme close-up long take of ice cubes slowly melting until they become just water in a stainless steel sink to niblock's composition "stosspeng" (2007) featuring susan stenger and robert poss on guitars and bass guitars (available on "touch strings" to:79, touch records).      
         
         
  ice-out      
  katherine liberovskaya (moving image)      
  phill niblock (music) "stosspeng" 2007      
  59' approximately      
  digital video      
  2017