[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] March 8 – March 11, 2006

Eyedrum events March 8 – March 11, 2006

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


March 8 Wednesday

Skeletons and The Girl Faced Boys
Eliyas
Music
9:00pm
$5


As a co-founding member of Shinkoyo records, Matt Mehlan retains the label's core ideals of collaboration, experimentation, and unpredictability with his Skeletons project. Beginning in Oberlin, Ohio as a solo act with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy's choir), Skeletons has now settled comfortably into its adult body, having established the full-time band The Girl-Faced Boys (Seve, Johnny, Jason, and Carson) and forming an alliance with Ghostly Intl. In addition to appearances at the 2004 CMJ and 2005 SxSW festivals, the group has lent live support to TV On The Radio, The Unicorns, VHS Or Beta, Animal Collective, Holger Czukay (of Can), Jackie O' Motherfucker, and Twig Harper.

www.ghostly.com

www.shinkoyo.com

"Mehlan employs My Bloody Valentine-style distortion, noise, fusion- inspired Fender Rhodes doodlings, IDM-like textures and washes of ambient sound, all with such skill that it’s amazing that they were all done by the same person."
- review from 'Dusted'

March 9 Thursday

Info Demo
Multi-media Creative Lecture Series
9:00pm
$3


Presenting
(Under New Management!)
Info Demo

Version 2.1

“Takeover/Makeover:
A Collective Rumination on the Acquisition of Other People’s Stuff”

Terra Elan McVoy and Christopher Stevens, the new Info Demons, invite you to the illuminating entertainment that is Info Demo.

We all do it – We move into lived-in houses, buy used cars, receive inheritances, cruise thrift shops and yard sales, engage in rabid bidding on e-Bay, date and marry other peoples’ exes, and make famous artists’ songs “our own” in karaoke bars. How do we put our stamp on these acquisitions? How does the previous owner’s presence persist in what is now “ours?” Can a used Hyundai really regain that new car smell? If he left her for you, how do you know he’ll stay?

You will be simultaneously edified & entertained by:

Leigh Craigmyle holding forth tunefully on music sampling
Jennifer Kornder Power Pointing about body parts
Essayist Extraordinaire Johnny Pence on driving grandma’s car
And More!

In keeping with tradition, there will be a contest of some sort, and someone will walk off with a valuable prize (probably used).

For further Info Demo info, write us at: mailto:boyohboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

TEM :-x


March 10 Friday

Untied States
Moorish Idols
Elevado
Music
9:00pm
$5

Finally noise, rock, and electronica are reunited happily in Untied States new album Ineffable, By Design. The three-piece for Atlanta, not on a major, are a noise lovers delight. The throwback home production is perfect for the song structures. Sometimes coming off like a Transylvanian orchestra, sometimes all attack guitar.

This is one of the most challenging albums I've heard all year. This band forgot what a formula is and has decided to break every rule, and the outcome is a nervous masterpiece.

- Thomas Martin, Enigma online

www.untiedstates.com


March 11 Saturday

Juul Sadee:  A Song for Atlanta
Art Opening     
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Free

Opening reception.
In the back gallery:

A Song for Atlanta:
the first United States exhibition by
Dutch artist Juul Sadee.
Till April 15th.

A Song for Atlanta

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 sensors, a number of small audio speakers, a sound-generating, hanging and turning object, and contact microphones. All over the space you will hear sounds, sometimes creating an "audio wave," sometimes random because of the visitor-activated sensors.

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.

The installation also contains a video loop, domestic objects from some of the interviewed people, and precious "found objects" of Atlanta. 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.

Juul Sadée,
6 February, 2006


Miscellany

Febraury’s Podcast is now available (March Podcast available later this week)
This month's show features music from Chris Devoe, Ju Ju B. Solomon, and Ocha La Rocha, from the New Street CD compilation event on Feb 3rd Two dozen bite-sized selections from the frenetic February Open Improv that enforced a 60-second limit on all of the improvistional performances. At various times, the instrumentation included a didgeridoo, tuba and a chorus of cell phones.
If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed . If not, you can also just download the January or February show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.

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