[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 5 – April 8, 2007

Eyedrum events April 5 – April 8, 2007


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

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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Thursday April 5  9:00pm  $Free/donation
First Thursday Open Improv

Friday April 6  8:00pm  $10
Music + Art:  Listening Machines 2007

Saturday April 7  8:00pm  $Donation
Project Apollo Atlanta presents “Manned Space Exploration No. 1”

Sunday April 8  8:00pm  $7
Steve Reich: Music and Film



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April 5  Thursday

First Thursday Open Improv
Music
9:00pm
$Free/donation
Anything goes at Eyedrum's monthly open improv night as a gaggle of Atlanta jazz aficionados & freaked out freebirds come together in a celebration of skrinks, skronks and experimental whispering and wailing. Reined in by Eyedrum Executive Director Robert Cheatham, the Thursday night event is a marathon of cool, spaced out and bizarro sounds laid down by everything horns and drums to howling dogs. Chad Radford
This month’s theme is ‘Film Score’. Bring your video stuff and musicans will whack up a score! 


April 6   Friday

Music + Art:  Listening Machines 2007
Music
8:00pm
$10
In its third year, the Listening Machines series expands its scope to present music as well as art projects by Georgia Tech’s students and faculty. A collaboration between the Music Technology and the Digital Media programs at Tech, the concert and exhibition will explore creativity and expression of humans and machines who listen to and interact with each other. 


April 7  Saturday

Project Apollo Atlanta presents:
’Manned Space Exploration No. 1’
Music
8:00pm
$Donation


An evening of improvised performances, in which ANYONE can take part.

Featuring:
-Live Spontaneous Space Music: All are Welcome and Encouraged to Take the Stage!
-Mission Control Djs playing all things Kosmische, from Space-Rock to Futurist Electro-Funk. 

-All night Film from the NASA Archives.

WE WANT YOU TO PLAY!
Go to www.myspace.com/spaceprogramme

or email projectatlanta@xxxxxxxxx
to get involved and get your questions answered!
...Project Apollo's ongoing objective is to reconnect the people of Earth with space. We hope to realise this through musical (and other media) events that look to the stars for inspiration, and celebrate space-music of all 
forms.



April 8  Sunday

Steve Reich:  Music and Film
Film
8:00pm
$7
From his early compositions featuring audio tape loops and electronics to his merging of African rhythms with downtown New York, Steve Reich is one of the most influential living composers, admired from concert halls to the pop world. As part of a series of Atlanta concerts celebrating Reich’s 70th birthday, Film Love is proud to collaborate with musicians from Atlanta’s Bent Frequency ensemble for a special concert and screening of rare and early Reich works.
Featured on the program are three 1960s films with soundtracks composed or directly inspired by Reich. Robert Nelson’s "Plastic Haircut" (1963) is a dada-inspired San Francisco romp which features Reich’s earliest existing tape collage piece. Nelson’s bitingly satirical "Oh Dem Watermelons" (1965) features a memorable tape collage score by Reich. Out of circulation for decades, these films were recently rediscovered and preserved by the Academy Film Archive and will be shown in new prints. Gunvor Nelson’s "My Name Is Oona" (1969), a portrait of the filmmaker’s young daughter, uses sound material recorded by Reich and inspired by his tape loop compositions.
Also on the show will be a special live performance of Reich’s 1968 "Pendulum Music" – recently made famous in a recording by Sonic Youth.
The Steve Reich Festival continues through April 11, with two concerts at Atlanta’s Rialto Center for the Performing Arts.
"Steve Reich: Music and Film" is a Film Love event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love exists to provide access to great but rarely seen films, and to explore the history of experimental filmmaking. More information on Frequent Small Meals music, film, and art events can be found at www.frequentsmallmeals.com 

For more information on this program please contact Andy Ditzler at
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





In the Galleries:



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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