Phill Niblock was notoriously resistant to analyses of his art. The composer and filmmaker, who passed away this week at 90, made the purest form of minimalism.
His musical compositions consist of ultra-extended notes with no rhythmic components other than dynamic swells and recessions, existing outside of tonality and time; and his films mainly focus on non-narrative depictions of manual labor as a study in movement, nothing more or less.
Therefore, whatever socio-emotional response his work elicits in listeners and viewers are theirs to bear alone — or, as he once put it in an interview (found at the end of the video below), “What you perceive is, in some sense, your problem, and what I intend has little to do with that.”.
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