[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 14 – April 22, 2007

Eyedrum events April 14 – April 22, 2007


Gallery Hours:  Friday 3 - 8:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 1 – 6:00pm

Members are admitted free to all events!
Now or never! LOST! Photographs and Carol John’s exhibits end Saturday, April 14th!!! Also: ‘Marionettes’, new paintings by Sarah Dixon in the small gallery closes Saturday April 21st!!
April’s Podcast is now available! We had quite the genre-defying show this month. We started with a couple pieces by Steve Reich, due to the upcoming April 8th event. Then we shifted gears into the folk punk of This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Anna Kramer and Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship, all playing at the Bike Spectacle fundraiser on April 21st. Then we went into a noise set, playing Black Meat and Tree Creature, both recorded live at Eyedrum. Peter Brotzmann was up next; he'll be appearing at Eyedrum on April 16th. Lid Emba screwed around with an Asa-Chang and Junray recording, Isia Cooper performed a song, Duet For Theremin and Lap Steel got their drone on, and we finished a quick bit of Guru Guru. Studio guests included Nisa Asokan, Robbie Kee, Mary Richardson, Nathan Brown, Travis Thatcher and Ben Coleman. Hosted by Chris Campbell, who apologizes for the poor segues -- it was a bit chaotic but a good show! Check out our Podcast page, for those of you who have discovered podcasting. You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size.
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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Saturday April 14  3:00pm  $Free
Carol John artist talk/gallery walk

Monday April 16  8:45pm  $10
Peter Brotzmann Trio with Marino Pliakas/ Michael Wertmueller

Tuesday April 17  7:00pm  $Free
Grady High School AP Art Exhibit

Thursday April 19  9:00pm  $TBA
Bloody Minded, Withered

Friday April 20  9:00pm  $TBA
Dreamettes

Saturday April 21  9:00pm  $12
Bike Spectacle II: “The Petroleum Funeral”

Sunday April 22  6:00pm  $TBA
Leslie and the Ly’s


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April 14  Saturday

Carol John Artist Talk/Gallery Walk
Art
3:00pm
$Free
Please join Carol John for a gallery walk-through/artist talk about her paintings in the Smoking Stick exhibit.! 


April 16   Monday

Peter Brotzmann Trio
Brotzmann/Pilakas/Wertmuller
Music
8:45pm
$10

SOUTHEAST DEBUT OF GERMAN LEGEND
PETER BROTZMANN'S NEW TRIO!
For 40 years German saxophone legend Peter Brotzmann has exemplified European improvised music. His work includes collaborations and recordings with Last Exit (with Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson), Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, and the Die Like a Dog project (with William Parker, Hamid Drake and Toshinori Kondo), his homage to Albert Ayler. On this occasion his associates will be bassist Marino Pliakas (Switzerland) and drummer Michael Wertmueller (Switzerland/Germany) who have previously played together in KK Null's band as well as with bassist William Parker.
"Brotzmann lays down sloping mountains of the post-Ayler blowisms you'd never mistake for anything else, while Wertmuller adds the kind of frantic/restrained combo drumming one might expect to hear in a band like Ruins. Pliakas is the blue blood coursing through the veins of the unit, steering the band in every direction from speed-reading through and on to molasses lullabyes (but usually only for a brief instant). Brotzmann's upper-register gasps sound like a chihuahua with severed vocal chords and double up at rapid pace as the first track comes to a close, only to segue perfectly into a tense bass rumble from Pliakas to open untitled number two. Pliakas' dizzying rhythms remind me of Meshuggah's Fredrik Thordendal which is especially bizarre considering Thordendal plays guitar. But I find this whole disc to have a very "metal"-like atmosphere throughout...then again Brotzmann's always been more metal than half the jokers in the genre anyway." 
--outerspacegamelan

Yes, that’s right!


April 17  Tuesday

Grady High School AP Art Exhibit
Art
7:00pm
$Free
Grady High School Presents the 6th annual AP Art / Lit Mag / Design Art Exhibition.
This year join us on a trip to "Image-I-Nation" (it's not a country, but a state of mind).
The event will present culminating work from the Advanced Placement Studio Art Class under the direction of John Brandhorst, the Design Emphasis in the Communications Magnet under Patricia Kendall, and the unveiling of the Unmasking literary magazine under Scott Stephens. This event promises to be our largest ever as we take over the entire space at the EYEDRUM Gallery of Art and Music.
The exhibition will feature works in all media from print to paint, photography to welded steel, and all work is available for purchase. The literary magazine will also have its newest edition available for sale.
This event begins the high cultural season of Grady High School. All should plan to attend as this will be an unforgettable evening. 


April 19  Thursday

Bloodyminded and guests
Withered
Music
9:00pm
$TBA
BLOODYMINDED is a heavy electronics band that was formed in New York, in 1995, after the disbanding of the group Intrinsic Action (founded in 1984, in Chicago). Their live shows are extremely energetic, and layers of screeching analog synthesizer, aggressively delivered vocals, and a copious amount of feedback,characterize their sound. While BLOODYMINDED operate within a small, established subgenre of the noise scene, their sound is broadly informed by bands such as their industrial forbearers (SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten,Whitehouse, Mauthausen Orchestra, Sutcliffe Jugend, M.B., etc.); New York Pre + Post-Punk and Noise Rock (Suicide, Swans, Missing Foundation, etc.); and British hardcore and grindcore(Discharge, Rudimentary Peni, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Head of David, etc.). 

Charlie Draheim
In the forest of Michigan Sound Haterz/Builderz/Destroyerz/ there is only ONE from the true UP Norff…it’s the rising death beam star of Charlie Draheim. In a isolated state where seemly everyone have a Value Village Suitcase full of gadgetry/ progression is a tuff scene... but axe anyone GROUP UNIT/ YOUTH CREW fan in a basement stealing brews from crews, and they'll tell/ CD has GOT IT…the short dude just gets better and better and worse and worser in the Michigan Style Death Noise Idiom. 

Climax Denial
Desperate feedback. Walls of crumbling security. Kneeling at the foot of the fawn. Harsh industrial dread, Milwaukee style. 

Silvum
Silvum has been lurking around the edges of the international avant garde for about 8 years with very few available releases, and performances so obscure they border on private. Silvum is a focusing of the personal to a microscopic level in an attempt to obliterate it into a static environment where personal meaning loses all worth. Silvum inhabits the audio spectrum of what you'd experience noticing how much more ominous your air conditioner sounds after an M.B. LP ends. This will be the first time Silvum goes on tour and it will promise to be an experience in manipulation and atmospheric violation. 

SPECIAL GUEST

WITHERED - Blackened Grind Killers From Atlanta GA


April 21 Saturday

Bike Spectacle II:  “The Petroleum Funeral”
Spectacle
9:00pm
$12 (cyclists $10)

BANDS:
THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB
ANNA KRAEMER
WHY ARE WE BUILDING SUCH A BIG SHIP?
THE SPOOKS

SIDESHOWS:
PUPPETRY
TRAPEZE
BURLESQUE
DIY FACEPAINT
ANTI-PETRO & ACTIVIST INFO

+ BIKE SPECTACLE PARADE: PETROLEUM FUNERAL PROCESSION

[a CAPITAL 8 SOCIETY production]


April 22 Sunday

Leslie and the Ly’s
Music
6:00pm
$TBA
Leslie Hall initally caught the hearts & eyes of America’s children when she began posting images of her world famous gem sweater collection on the interweb. Word of mouth quickly grew and within a month Leslie recieved over 2 million unique hits to her website, which left her with a $800 bill for exceeding her bandwidth.
In order to raise money to pay back her mother, Leslie did what any 200 lb. plus girl from Iowa would do. She became a rapper. Leslie’s star has risen quickly with such viral video music hits as GOLD PANTS, BEATDAZZLER, & ZOMBIE KILLER.
Her stage show is like nothing you have seen before. Complete with video projection & 3-6 costume changes (all lovingly hand sewn by her mother), you can expect to be “beat”dazzled. Leslie’s laserbeam dance moves have been known to cause near blindness in the fans who gather at her shows. You can be sure that gay men will squeal with delight when she tumbles and triumphs never before seen dance moves. If you are lucky, it is possible that a bead of perspiration may ripple down her brow and upon your flesh.
-recent shows include 2 sold out nights supporting the Scissor Sisters at New York City’s Bowrey Ballroom. 

-owns over 300 gemmed sweaters, over 30,000 Myspace friends
-Find out why every venue she plays, asks her back....

Influences : Tracy Turnblad, Elvira - Mistress of the Dark, Ginger Spice
Likes: Dill Pickle Potato Chips, Sierra Mist, Zombie Movies, Lifetime
Television for Women, Hobby Lobby Craft Department

$2 off admission price if you show up in a Gem Sweater
All kids under the age of 12 allowed free entry!

More info on our website!


In the Galleries:


Small Gallery:

“Marionettes’
New Paintings by Sarah Dixon
Sarah Dixon's new body of work explores female identity through the images of fashion models in the media depicted as puppet-dolls being manipulated by actual strings, as if they are, in fact, marionettes. 

Through April 21st.


Gallery One:

Lost! photographs

Found Photographs exhibit curated by Karen Tauches and Shana Wood


Gallery Two:

Carol John
“Smoking Sticks”
Gallery Two presents a solo show by Carol John, winner of the 2006 Eyedrum National Juried Show. 

Showing through April 14.


Miscellany
March’s Podcast is now available and features music by Social Junk, Shaking Ray Levis, Frank Gratkowski, Black Meat, Magicicada, Jarboe, Bosco Stravinsky, MV+EE and the Bummer Road, and interviews and music about Rising Appalachia’s upcoming CD release party, and much more! 
Check out the feed or the direct download link.
February’ Podcast is now available and includes recordings of performances by Subtitle, Blueprint, Islands, Chris Swartz, Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel, dp3, and Rising Appalachia. Check out the feed or use the direct download link!
January’s Podcast features recordings of live performances by: Islands, Prince Myshkins, The Fuzzy Cousins, Faun Fables, The Friendly Bears, PowerLunch, Human Motion, Au Revoir Simone, Charalambides, Kristen Strezo and the Czech Republic, Acid Mothers Temple, and The African Greys. We played a studio recording by open improv regular Ryan Stich who passed away recently, and filled out the show with some Velvet Underground in tribute to the Andy Warhol film screenings happening later this month. Here’s the direct download link or Podcast feed. 

December’s Podcast
Please check it out, it features music from Sailor Winters, Lid Emba and Islands…and info about our last art exhibits/installations. 
Direct download link or Podcast feed

October’s Podcast
We devoted lots of time to a revisiting of the Atlanta underground/ indie scene of the early/mid 1980s, with previously unreleased recordings by 86, Pillowtexans, Vietnam and Amalgamated Cliff Divers; there's a show at Eyedrum on Oct. 7th that has lots of people from these bands performing for the first time in many years. After the retro fix, we played a few songs by Tunnels, Acid Mothers Temple and Hubcap City, all recorded live at Eyedrum in the past month. We closed with Tuna Helpers (performing Oct. 11th) and a short piece by avant garde luminary Jack Smith. If you don’t know what all the podcast fuss is about, a podcast is simply an audio file that you can listen to on your computer or portable mp3 player. For those of you who are familiar with podcasting, please click on podcast. (http://www.eyedrum.org/radioshow.xml ) You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size. If you’re having trouble, respond to this email… we can help! 

September’s Podcast
Click here for the feed or download the show here!
It features lots of Table of the Elements stuff! Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, Ruins, all in anticipation / remembrance of the festival happening this weekend at Eyedrum. Also featured were Hubcap City, A.C.M.E., Arthur Doyle, Go! and Tunnels, all recorded at previous Eyedrum engagements and returning to town in September. Check it out! 




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