[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 27 – April 30, 2006

Eyedrum events April 27 – April 30, 2006


There are NO regular Gallery Hours are this week!


April 27 Thursday

Faun Fables
The Supersonic Scientist
Music
8:00pm
$8

From LA WEEKLY :
Oakland's Faun Fables aren't really a folk group, but there's no adequate name for the music Dawn and Nils make together, music that is so total, otherworldy, and heretical a vision of traditional music that it can only be compared to THE RESIDENTS' version of rock 'n roll. Frykdahl's instrumental virtuosity is strictly in the service of making every sound you've ever heard unfamiliar. This band has the uncanny ability to blow through original songs, ancient ballads and European avant garde numbers in a set without a single note seeming out of place. Even if you don't like traditional music, avant garde music, or music at all, you still need to hear McCarthy's voice, which will kill you dead.
(Oliver Hall) Jan. 05

The Supersonic Scientist's musical journey has taken him from from 70's classic rock & Fusion to native-American Ambient improvizations to experimental & World music to classical composing to New-Age, finger-style guitar. His performances consist of looped keyboards & guitar creating lush, ever changing ambient soundscapes.


April 28 Friday

Brooks & Company dance
Dance
8:00pm
$10

Brooks & Company Dance, in collaboration with eyedrum art & music gallery, presents Shorts, an evening of short choreography and performance art by Joanna Brooks. Each of the six pieces in Shorts communicates something different to the audience, from silly to sad, cheerful to melancholy, from political to purely aesthetic. This diverse program shows the wide range of style and ability of Brooks & Company Dance, as well as the unique versatility of eyedrum itself. Shorts is a roller-coaster of emotion and thought-provoking work.

Joanna Brooks began her dance training at the age of ten in St. Marys, GA. She studied with Lynnette Cox, Eric Keglar and Caree Dresser of the late Florida Ballet before dancing with Anne-Marie Bougyes. Joanna received her BFA in dance form Florida State University in 2001. While there she studied with several renowned choreographers including David Dorfman, Terese Capucilli, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Doug Varone, Ann Carlson, Sean Curran and the infamous muse of George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell. After moving to New York Joanna apprenticed with Randy James Dance Works during the summer of 2002 before returning to Georgia. Here in Atlanta Joanna has danced with Gotta Dance, served as assistant director to Spitzer Dance Company and currently performs with Bacchus Productions. Brooks & Company Dance is the realization of Joanna’s lifelong dream and the beginning of her career as a frontier choreographer.

More information about this evening’s performance can be found on eyedrum’s calendar.




April 29 Saturday

Eyedrum at the Inman Park Parade!
Parade
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Priceless

We're marching in the Inman Park Festival parade, starting at 2pm. Join us!
This will prove to be our finest hour. Be amazed at the spectacle of Eyedrum’s Marching Improv Orchestra!

But wait!  There’s more!


Patrick Heagney
Art Opening
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free

'Story Time'
color photos.
Opening reception.
Small Gallery.
Through May 20th.

Story Time rests on an overriding sense of ambiguity. Blurred images deliberately steer the viewer away from any knowable identity or narrative. Without a clearly focused center, the photographs encourage the audience to search out the story by filling in the gaps, like illustrations to fairy tales whose words have been forgotten or an old photo album found in a stranger's attic.

And even more!!


National Juried Exhibit
Art Opening
7:00pm  - 11:00pm
Free

Gallery 1 : Opening reception of the National Juried Exhibit. Juror: George Kinghorn of Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art.
Through June 10th.

A massive day for Eyedrum!  Check it out!


April 30 Sunday

Go!
GFE
Music
9:00pm
$5

euphonic productions present:

Formed in 2004, Go! is an improvising duo from North Carolina consisting of Mahlon Howard on saxophones
and Pat Lawrence on bass.

Mahlon was raised in South Carolina and started down the path of music at an early age. Like many of his time, he was strongly influenced by the music of the Beatles and many pop/R&B artists. He began his musical studies on the trumpet at age eleven, His older brother Bobby, who was a drummer of note in the area, encouraged him to sit in with his bands. At age fifteen, Mahlon switched to saxaphone and later went on to study jazz at the University of North Texas. From there, he moved to Los Angeles where he met Bob Shepard and Charlie Shoemake. It was at Charlie’s house that Mahlon met Adam Holzman, Miles Davis’ sideman and eventual music director. Mahlon and Adam formed fusion group The Bugs that played and recorded regularly in the area.
Mahlon was eventually drawn to New York City where he played with many noted musicians including James Genus, Zach Danzinger, Rodney Holmes, Tim LeFevbre, and his old bandmate Adam Holzman. After playing in New York for several years, Mahlon caught the attention of Matt “Guitar” Murphy and went on tour with him. In 1999 he relocated to North Carolina and is very much in demand as a studio musician and live performer. His most recent projects have delved deeper into the free improvisation world, which led to him co-founding the improvising duo Go!

Pat was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana and at the age of fourteen began playing the acoustic bass. In due course, he found his way to Chicago where he lived for nine years immersed in its musical world. His primary teachers were Larry Gray (Ramsey Lewis Trio) and Steven Lester (Chicago Symphony Orchestra). During this time, Pat was very active in Jazz and maintained interests in classical music. He won an audition and came to play with the Chicago Civic Orchestra under such conductors as Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta. It was in the orchestra’s performance of New Music, under the influence of Pierre Boulez, that Pat’s ears were opened to the vast possibilities of improvisation. Fortunately, Chicago has a diverse and varied musical landscape which allowed him to explore improvisation with many of the area’s best musicians, including Jim O’Rourke, Guillermo Gregorio, Tim Mulvenna, Fred Lonber-Holm, Kevin Drumm, and Gene Coleman.
After relocating to North Carolina, Pat has played a variety of styles including classical, bluegrass, rock, and jazz. He has been able to integrate these styles in his improvisational work with Eugene Chadbourne, Dave Fox, and the improvising duo Go!


GFE:

Tonight’s lineup:
Scott Burland:  pedal steel guitar, theremin
Robert Cheatham:  saxaphone, synthesizer, vocal
Robert Hulihan:  guitar and electronics
Milton Jones: percussion
Omar Khalid:  saxaphone

"Boom! Boom! Wow!"
- Iva Keranova

"They sound like an orchestra tuning up."
- Martha McCall

"Here comes a charging, wild rhino. If you want to listen, fine. Either way. This rhino stops for no one."
- R. Walter Riley




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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