[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] June 5 – June 9, 2007

Eyedrum events June 5 – June 9, 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)

Tuesday June 5  9:00pm  $TBA

Ensemble Sirius

Thursday June 7  9:00pm  $Free

First Thursday Open Improv

Saturday June 9  8:00pm  $5

Our Folks: Poetic Documentaries about Family

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June 5  Tuesday

Ensemble Sirius
Music
9:00pm
$TBA


Ensemble Sirius (Michael Fowler and Stuart Gerber).
Ensemble Sirius (ES) will be presenting "Es" (It) and other works from acclaimed German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen from his collection of intuitive text-based pieces Aus den Sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days),. The duo will be improvising this realization on a large number of metal percussion instruments, electronics, and toy piano.
ES is a duo based both in Atlanta and Melbourne, Australia that has worked very closely with the composer since 1999. They have performed across the US, Europe, Australia, and Mexico. 

June 7  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:  'The Music of Mysterious Beings'


June 9  Saturday

Film Love -
Our Folks: Poetic Documentaries about Family
Film
8:00pm
$5

Frequent Small Meals presents
Our Folks: Poetic Documentaries about Family
a Film Love event
The Atlanta premieres of three poetic short films and videos - emotional documentaries about the filmmakers’ quests to connect with their families across the generations.
** Reading the Water is a brand new work by Atlanta artist Niklas Vollmer. Part nature film, part home movie, Reading the Water takes Vollmer and his three-year-old son to the coast of Maine, for a visit to Vollmer’s marine biologist father. Gorgeous high-definition video footage highlights the ecosystem of the waterways, with engaging explanations of the wildlife by Vollmer’s father. However, Vollmer turns the tables by including playful outtakes, false starts and wry cinematic disruptions that reveal the familial bonds (and occasional irritations) between the three generations of men.
** Ariana Gerstein’s film Images of Flying and Falling is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker’s mourning of her own grandmother. The only film imagery which she has of her grandmother is manipulated digitally, and juxtaposed against the witty, moving narration of an artist who compulsively collects postcards and family photographs which have been discarded by others.
** LeAnn Erickson’s poignant short video Folk Songs explores “the old world” through the memories and stories of the filmmaker’s grandparents, who left the Ukraine for the United States as teenagers in 1913. Song, passports, photographs, and other artifacts from the past hint at the richness of what was lost when they left for a new home in another country, and the intensity of the immigrant experience. 

program:
Folk Songs (LeAnn Erickson, 2007), 16mm and video, 12 minutes, screened on digital video Images of Flying and Falling (Ariana Gerstein, 2000), 16mm, 25 minutes, screened on digital video Reading the Water: Lectures on Home Video Ecology from the Gulf of ME (Niklas Vollmer, 2007), digital video, 40 minutes
The Film Love series provides access to great but rarely-screened films, and promotes awareness of the rich history of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta 2006 by the critics of Creative Loafing. More information about the series is at the Frequent Small Meals website. 


In the Galleries:

Gallery One & Small Gallery:

Fingers + Codes:  The Contemporary Portrait

An exhibit curated by Alyson Laura
Works ranging from painting & photography to light boxes & computer code. This exhibit explores how we represent ourselves in an everchanging world. 

Continues through June 9th.


Gallery Two:

Danny Paulete

A Sculpture Exhibition based on the sport of rock climbing.

Through June 9th.


Miscellany
The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences invites you to find out more about its Residency Program. Join us at eyedrum, June 25th at 8:00pm, for wine and hors d’oeuvres, a presentation of work by Hambidge Fellows, and an overview of how and why a residency could be important to you and your work. Atlanta musician and composer, Dick Robinson, will be on hand to present his music and sound compositions created at Hambidge. RSVP to Bob Thomas at residents@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
May’s Podcast started with some live recordings of The Subliminator, Team Gina, GFE (playing again May 8th with GKduo), Bent Frequency (May 20th), Atlanta Poets Group (dedicated radio show next month, June 3rd), Wilbert de Joode, Peter Brotzmann Trio and even Amy Ray. We played a field recording of the Eyedrum crew blowing minds in the annual Inman Park Parade on April 28th. We then continued with some recordings of Lid Emba, Spaceseed, The Strix Varia and Z-Axis -- all playing at the May 18th "Outer Space"-themed show. Todd Nickelson and Nashville Nuns (members of Stovall) were up next, appearing at the Peter Loose art event on May 12th, and finally we closed with some industrial noise / percussion by Z'ev (playing at Eyedrum on May 16th). Another show that was stylistically all over the musical map. Something for everyone! Studio guests included Allen Welty-Green, Bryan Dodd and John Gillett; hosted by Chris Campbell. Download link or Podcast feed.
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! Direct download link or Podcast feed
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! 




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