[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] March 27 – April 1, 2007

Eyedrum events March 27 – April 1, 2007


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

Members are admitted free to all events!
Eyedrum is now seeking submissions that expand the definition of a portrait to be exhibited at Eyedrum April 28 – June 9, 2007. See our ‘Calls for Artists’ page for more details.
You can help Eyedrum in a big way by donating paint! Our gallery walls need to be repainted and you can help! We use Glidden Evermore EM 9024. Please reply to this email if you’re interested!
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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Tuesday March 27  9:00pm  $TBA
Ryfylke, Isia Cooper, Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel

Wednesday March 28  6:00pm – 8:00pm  $FREE
LOST! Photographs

Thursday March 29  9:00pm  $Donation
Steel Drum Ensemble

Friday March 30  8:00pm  $7
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Saturday March 31  6:00pm - 8:00pm  $FREE
Small Gallery Opening Reception

Saturday March 31  8:00pm  $7
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Sunday April 1  7:00pm – 9:00pm
Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special on WREK 91.1 FM

Sunday April 1  8:00pm   $8
Saxaphone + Film + Electronics


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March 27  Tuesday

Ryfylke
Isia Cooper
Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel
Music
9:00pm
$TBA
RYFYLKE [Oslo, Norway] consisting of STIAN SKAGEN and STEN OVE TOFT stands out as one of the most interesting and sophisticated sound artists in Norway up to date. Ryfylke’s intriuging sonic world is a result of two highly different approaches to music composing. On the one hand side you’ll find TOFT working with field-recordings of environments and objects together with other analog ‘found-sounds’. These sounds he then carefully deconstructs and constructs through electronic manipulations. The result of these behaviors ends up in an ocean of drones, building it up to maelstrom’s of brutal swirls and layers of noise walls. On the other side SKAGEN’s way of habit is of electronic nature. He works with digital feedback, raw data files and numeric codes. This base material is then shattered into cascades of pulses and a sparkling multiplicity of atonal glitches. A Ryfylke performance is a physical interaction where the listener is challanged to experience a room in constant movement.
Isia Cooper( enchants with haunting and minimal compositions for voice and guitar. Her performances are quiet and lovely while defying the oft-stigmatized genre of singer/songwriter through the use of space and looseness within her craft. Beautiful!
Duet For Theremin and Lap Steel, whose name describes its instrumentation in exactly the way it does not give you the full spectrum of what sonic sundries they impart, open with rich textures, swooning collages, and hypnotic pulses, like a warm bath in the aural abyss. 


March 28  Wednesday

LOST! Photographs
Art
6:00pm - 8:00pm
$FREE
A performative Librarian will allow the touching of found photographs. Tea will be served. Click here for more info about exhibition. 


March 29  Thursday

Steel Drum Ensemble
Music
9:00pm
$Donation



March 30  Friday

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Theater/Dance
8:00pm
$7
Holly Mann theater/dance presents a performance event set to the score of the Flaming Lips' album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" is the story of a person traveling though life as a robot. Yoshimi is his, and all robots, only hope. She alone has the ability to beat the robots allowing them to become more than machines. The album is a statement on the desensitization of society. The robot like nature is overcome when people begin to connect. "Yoshimi" is filled with beautiful yet comedic soundscapes that depict the development of human emotion. 


March 31  Saturday

Sarah Dixon:  Marionettes
Small Gallery Opening Reception
6:00pm - 8:00pm
$FREE

Marionettes: New Paintings by Sarah Dixon.

Through April 21st.


March 31  Saturday

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Theater/Dance
8:00pm
$7
Holly Mann theater/dance presents a performance event set to the score of the Flaming Lips' album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" is the story of a person traveling though life as a robot. Yoshimi is his, and all robots, only hope. She alone has the ability to beat the robots allowing them to become more than machines. The album is a statement on the desensitization of society. The robot like nature is overcome when people begin to connect. "Yoshimi" is filled with beautiful yet comedic soundscapes that depict the development of human emotion. 


April 1  Sunday

Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special
Radio Program
7:00pm - 9:00pm
WREK 91.1 FM
On the first Sunday of every month, at 7 p.m., Eyedrum does a show on WREK (91.1 FM / http://www.wrek.org/) that features nuggets from Eyedrum's archive of live performances.
After the show airs "live", you can listen to it via WREK's 7-day archive if you forget to tune in (direct links to Sunday Special streams: lo-fi or hi-fi). But wait, there's more! We now have a podcast available, 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. 


April 1  Sunday

Saxaphone + Film + Electronics
Music
8:00pm
$8
Saxophonist Michael Straus’ abilities and dedication to the performance of new music have led to solo and chamber music performances across the country and abroad. His varied performance career includes appearances at meetings of the North American Saxophone Alliance, High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, Prospect Dance Group Studio Show, LSU Festival of Contemporary Music, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center and the Festival Internazionale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy. His close work with composers across the country and abroad have resulted in over twenty new compositions for saxophone ranging from interdisciplinary and new media compositions to acoustic chamber music. Straus is co-founder of quux and director of the multimedia performance project What are you looking at? Upcoming events this spring include solo performances at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, New England Conservatory of Music as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Batimore’s Red Room, Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown Concert House, and Cambridge’s Lilypad. Straus is currently pursuing graduate degrees in saxophone performance and computer music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His teachers, whom he would like to thank, include Ed Fraedrich, Gary Louie, Griffin Campbell, McGregor Boyle and Brian McWhorter. Please visit www.mstraus.net or www.myspace.com/mastraus for more information on upcoming events. 





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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