[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] April 5 – April 9, 2006

Eyedrum events April 5 – April 9, 2006


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


April 6 Thursday

First Thursday Open Improv
Music
9:00pm
Free

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:
America, the random…

The general theme will be, yes, ‘America'. The structural theme will be: everybody who comes gets a number. The number of performers will be chosen by a throw of the dice, numbers will be chosen at random. The great heavy lidded cow-god of chance will determine our destinies and ineluctable fate, o ye myrmidons of sonic collusion and palpitations.



April 7 Friday

Found Footage Film Festival
Film
8:00pm
$8

The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring odd and hilarious clips from videotapes found at thrift stores and garage sales and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Geoff Haas, Joe Pickett and/or Nick Prueher host each screening and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously- produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in an entertaining 90-minute celebration of all things found.

The FFF is a non-profit arts group and the presentation of the FFF is for the purposes of entertainment only!

Get more information at the Found Footage Film Festival website.




April 9 Sunday

Robert Rich/Diana Obscura
Music
8:00pm
$9



Robert Rich Biography

With over two dozen albums, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance, yet his music remains hard to categorize. Part of his unique sound comes from using home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal tunings, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems and feedback networks. Rich began building his own analog synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Rich released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Most of his subsequent recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Rich began a string of critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including Rainforest (1989), Gaudí (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils (1998). His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard. Other respected collaborations include Stalker (1995 with B. Lustmord), Fissures (1997 with Alio Die) and Outpost (2002 with Ian Boddy.) Rich's contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero (1998). He also records with his group, Amoeba, exploring atmospheric songcraft on their CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000). Live albums such as Calling Down the Sky (2004) and 3-CD Humidity (2000) document the unique improvised flow of his recent performances.

Rich has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-night concert format, playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. during a three month tour. In 2001 Rich released the 7 hour DVD Somnium, a studio distillation of the Sleep Concert experience, possibly the longest continuous piece of music ever released.

Rich has designed sounds for television and film scores, including the films Pitch Black, Crazy Beautiful, Behind Enemy Lines and others. His musical score graces Yahia Mehamdi's documentary on worker's compensation, Thank You for your Patience. Rich has worked closely with electronic instrument manufacturers, and his sound design fills the preset libraries of Emu's Proteus 3 and Morpheus, Seer Systems' Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night, ACID Loop Library Liquid Planet, and the TimewARP2600 soft- synth by WayOutWare. Rich has written software for composers who work in just intonation, and he helped develop the MIDI microtuning specification, which was accepted as an industry standard. As mastering engineer, he has applied his ear to dozens of albums, and his studio was featured twice in Keyboard Magazine.

For more information about Robert Rich, visit www.robertrich.com.



Diana Obscura Biography

Diana Obscura creates spare, powerful, and evocative songs for cello and voice, which are influenced by early and avant classical music. Damon Young (of The Changelings) has teamed up with her on the new project, adding electronic sounds and manipulation, field recordings, guitar, and percussion.

Diana has played and recorded with The Living Jarboe (swans) and neo- classic/medieval trio Aphelion. The most recent CD release was recorded as a live soundtrack for the art of EK Huckaby. She is currently featured on the soundtrack of the independent film Ashtide, playing with the Hungry Flower Gamelan, and working on a full length ambient CD with Damon Young.

"Watching ethereal vocalist and cellist Diana Obscura, the listener gets the feeling that she has stepped out of a fractured fairy tale book. With her wild mane of hair and her cello poised low, she attacks the instrument with the fury of Johnny Ramone and the reckless grace of a possessed Cinderella." -Lee Smith, Creative Loafing

presented by euphonic productions





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

March’s Podcast is now available! April’s show will be available by mid-week!
This month's show features music from King Bomba, Paul Mercer duo, recompas, Music From The Belly of the Cosmos, Garbage Island, Public Buildings, Trevor Dunn, Erik Hinds and Immigrant Sons. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the February or March show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.



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