[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 10 – April 15, 2006

Eyedrum events April 10 – April 15, 2006


Regular Gallery Hours are Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm

A full week of events and two shows (Juul Sadee and Submission Series – see descriptions below) are closing on Saturday….see ‘em now or never!

April's Eyedrum Archive Podcast is now available. See below for download links!


April 10 Monday

Jack Rose/ Fursaxa / A Thousand Holy Shards
Music
9:00pm
$8

Jack Rose was a member of the legendary drone/noise/folk group Pelt since 1995. Pelt along with Tower Recordings, UN, Charalambides was one of the early groups who forged a new sound that combined free improv, drone, traditional folk music in the early to mid nineties, later coined "weird new america" by the Wire's David Keenan in the early oughts.

Since 2001 Rose has pursued his own path in the solo acoustic guitar solo genre as invented by John Fahey. Like Fahey Rose draws his inspiration from early rural American musicians like Charley Patton, Skip James and Blind Blake. In addition to those influences he gleans inspiration from Robbie Basho, Ry Cooder, Zia M. Dagar, La Monte Young, Terry Riley. Jack incorporates all of these elements into his own idiosyncratic style and it is his sound and his alone.

Since 2002 he has released 3 critically acclaimed LP's for the Eclipse label, 2 cd's for VHF, a 14 min track alongside fellow travelers: Rick Bishop, Stiffen Basho-Junghans and Tetuzi Akiyama on the now influtial "Wooden Guitar" anthology released by Locust and one LP side on the massive triple LP set "You Shall Know the Roots, by it's Fruits" with Six Organs of Admittance, Ursa, Joshua, Dreaded Fooled, MV and EEC that was released and went out of print this year. This year his 4th LP/CD, "Kensigton Blues", will be out in aug/sept on the VHF, Beautiful Happiness and Tequila Sunrise labels.



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Fursaxa



April 11 Tuesday

Art & Activism Screening
Film
7:00pm
Free

Bill Moyers interviews Milton Glaser about art (particularly design) and activism.



April 13 Thursday

Eastern Seaboard/Keith Leslie & Ben Davis
Music
9:00pm
Price TBA, probably $5-ish dollars

The Dynamic Duo of Ben Davis, tenor sax, and Keith Lesley, drums, open for the always daring trio of Eastern Seaboard.

The Eastern Seaboard ride the balance between punk intensity and soundtrackesque expansiveness, pledging allegiance to free and improvisational music from all time, particularly to the jazz masters of the past (for the reasons behind their music as much as the music itself). The band continue to believe what they want to believe about music. They continue to want to bring it to the People. Everyone likes to see musicians try really hard, they tell themselves. No one knows. The best parts of the music are the parts that all three musicians cannot recall – the blackout(s).

from
The Wire, June 2005 -
The Eastern Seaboard are Brent Bagwell (tenor sax & clarinet), Jordon Schranz (bass) and Seth Nanaa (drums). They describe themselves as "raised on Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and wooed by John Coltrane's A Love Supreme", but seem most rooted in late 60s free jazz. Bagwell's thick, brawny tone is based on Albert Ayler's attack - rough and ready, without David Murray's harmonic sophistication, and that's not a criticism. Titles such as "Liquor Store", "Plainclothes Detective" and "Around the Town with Clinton Brown" suggest a film noir theme. In fact, they belong to a group of pieces inspired by crime writer Jim Thompson. The tracks are quite short, and mostly groove based, though there are a few abrupt departures from heavyweight free jazz - the first version of "Anadarko" for instance is quietly atmospheric. A very satisfying release. - Andrew Hamilton


April 14 Friday

Experimental Documentaries
Film
8:00pm
$5

Two films that combine traditional documentary with elements of experimental cinema.

Niklas Vollmer's Happy Crying Nursing Home (2005, 29 minutes) captures the enveloping void of fatherhood. Vollmer charts the feelings of loneliness, jealousy and tenderness, the bitter, complex cocktail of despair and love that define his relationships to his child, his partner - and his camera. Happy Crying Nursing Home also engages with experimental film history, and the ecstatic, romantic vision of parenting in films like Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving.

Laura Kissel's Cabin Field (2006, 39 minutes) is a poetic look at the history and present of a mile-long stretch of farmland in Crisp County, Georgia. Cabin Field combines the recollections of those who have lived for decades on this land with archival film images of rural Georgia, weaving a portrait of place as a palimpsest - multifaceted, complex, ever changing. Cabin Field received the Jury Citation award at the 2006 Black Maria film festival.


April 15 Saturday

The Rattler/Energetic Cows
Music
9:00pm
$5

A restaurant formed experimental rock band, Rattler had their first show Halloween 1999 at the criminally missed Moreland Avenue Tavern, before it got shot down by ASCAP. They self released one CD in 2001 called "Siento Que Mi Cabeza Va A Estallar" title ofwhich came from a Mexican comic book illustration. Rattler is a reincarnation of "Ladies Night" now with vocals.. with Justin Hughes, Jeff Patch and Marshall Dandar. Listen here. Some of the best local old school Atlanta's got to offer.

Energetic Cows... Atlanta's new old school rock n roll.



In the galleries:


Small Gallery:

Katherine Marbury presents
All my guilty pleasures...
have become habits
(a star-crossed romance of video, velvet, and oil paint).

Projecting video onto painted portraits, Marbury uses the unlikely setting of an Atlanta IKEA store as her subjects' backdrop. "Shooting video portraits in IKEA allows me to suggest shopping as a metaphor, because the experience of 'going shopping' reminds me of the way we sometimes select an identity for ourselves from among a glittering array of choices. With the abundance that surrounds us, we sometimes forget to do the really pleasurable work of creating a unique identity to express ourselves," she explains.

Marbury's previous paintings and drawings have been explorations into other ways of crafting personal identity. These investigations have led her to various late-night haunts where, camera in hand, she observes and records the interplay of constructed personas. In addition, Marbury created a site-specific memorial to unmarked graves in Oakland Cemetery, 17,000 Known Souls, in 2005. Currently she is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University; "All my guilty pleasures have become habits" is her exit show.

Through April 22nd


Front Gallery:

Eyedrum Submission Series – Paintings

Eyedrum presents the first installment of it's
"submission series" a bi-yearly effort to showcase
some of the talented artist's who've submitted thier
work to Eyedrum, but for whatever reason didn't fit
into our regular schedule of more specifically
"themed" shows. this first-of-it's-kind (@ Eyedrum
anyways) event specifically focuses on painters, these
artist's include; Samantha Barnum, Laurel Hausler,
Tindel Michi and Michael Thrush.
Through April 15th.


Back Gallery:


A Song for Atlanta:
the first United States exhibition by
Dutch artist Juul Sadee.

JUUL SADEE is an installation artist working with sculpture, sound, and video. She works in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Tongeres, Belgium. She has exhibited throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Europe, and recently in Tokyo. A Song for Atlanta is her first exhibition in the United States.
Crossing the ocean for my first visit to America, I am preoccupied with my ideas about Atlanta. I have heard about the city and visited it by internet and talked with some people about the social structures there.

My preparations for Eyedrum deal with the perhaps unrealistic idea I have about Atlanta. Let's say that I developed a sound for Atlanta in which I will give Atlanta a song which I dreamed in Holland. This "dream song for Atlanta” will be mixed with the audio-explorations I will do there.

At Eyedrum I will make a multi-media installation in situ, developing a "cross-fade" situation in which real sounds are mixed with virtual and ambient sounds. The whole audio piece is based on ideas about "cross-fade perception." It is my belief that we can perceive many different pieces of information at the same moment. But it asks effort of the perceiver to concentrate simultaneously on "wide" and "narrow" perception. It is a kind of "brain-gymnastics." It is also my belief that when we succeed in "cross-fade perception" we experience the world more openly and develop our humanity. It makes us experience our life intensively and as a whole.

In the Eyedrum space will be built a work which includes a large number of small audio speakers. All over the space you will hear sounds, creating an "audio wave."

The "dream song for Atlanta" will be mixed with interviews with Atlanta inhabitants and sounds recorded in the city. The interviews will deal with the dreams, wishes and expectations people have about their lives and the place they live, and more specifically the social context in which they live. The recorded sounds from the city are the context in which the several layers of life (the dream song and the interviews) are mixed at the Eyedrum space.

Another part of the audio is a text I have written which is inspired by the people I have met here and some of the music in Atlanta. The text is performed by MC Wyzsztyk of the Atlanta hip-hop group Psyche Origami.

The installation also contains some objects which I made here, inspired by my visits to people’s homes and to the city. Domestic and urban situations as parts of the whole, they can't exist without each other.

The new artists' book "Situations" will be presented at the opening. The book is a visual and textual entity which covers a region of research and experiences. Several authors took part in the project. Their texts are combined with photos of multi-media installations, objects, video-stills, paintings and drawings.

Through April 15th


Miscellany

April’s Podcast is now available!!

This month's show is now available and features music from Robert Rich, WS Burns, Grace Braun, Ship at Sea, selections from the 404 Noise Festival, and more Robert Rich. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the March or April show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.



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