[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] March 8 – March 12, 2007

Eyedrum events March 8 – March 12, 2007


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


Members are admitted free to all events!
There are a couple of calls posted on our ‘Calls for Artists’ page that some of you might be interested in: a Portrait Show, ‘Furious’: The Angry Show’, and a Found Footage event . Click here for details!
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.
Becoming a member of Eyedrum is a huge value in addition to helping keep the doors open! 
Click here for more info!
http://eyedrum.org/membership.asp

____________________________________________________________

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

Thursday March 8  9:00pm  $5
Info Demo 2.7  “Things Fall Apart”

Friday March 9  9:00pm  $5 suggested donation
ARTperforms

Saturday March 10  9:00pm  $TBA
Hematovore, Jaggery, My Siamese Self

Sunday March 11  1:00pm – 6:00pm  Free
LOST! Photographs

Sunday March 11  8:30pm  $5
Frank Gratkowski

Monday March 12  9:00pm  $7
Neil Michael Hagerty and the Howling Hex


_______________________________________________


March 8  Thursday

Info Demo 2.7 “Things Fall Apart”
Multimedia
9:00pm
$5
The center cannot hold. The sun burns itself up. Communication breaks down (it's always the same). We're dying from the day we're born. The "Big Dig" drops multi-ton chunks of concrete on people's heads. A liberated Iraq dissolves into chaos. Romance (lord knows) goes down the tubes, while gay partnerships corrode the pristine institution of marriage. Please walk softly until the souffle comes out of the oven. And what the hell is that grinding noise in the motor on this, the day after my warranty expired?
The Info Demons (Terra Elan "TNT" McVoy, and Christopher "Crowbar" Stevens) welcome you to experience entertaining, informative presentations on the consuming question of collapse, featuring: 

Barely There Barefoot Bill!
Erin Prentiss and her amazing collection of lost photographs!
Jamie Allen, frayed-at-the-edges Captain of the Duck & Herring Co.!
Singing!
Guess what's in the box contest!
And more!


March 9  Friday

ARTperforms
Performance
9:00pm
$5 suggested donation
The second show in this new quarterly performance art series. Featuring Cecelia Kane, Allison Rentz, Jennie Castillo, Karen Tauches and more. 


March 10  Saturday

Hematovore, Jaggery, My Siamese Self
Music
9:00pm
$TBA

Hematovore
Tha Dirty Souf's instru-metal guitarmy! Hailing from the deepest, darkest jungles of the Bama Bible Belt, this 3-guitar slinging quintet breathes a vibrant breath of fresh air through the realm of instrumental metal, bridging the gaps between numerous subgenres while rocking the collective panty to the collective ankle. Leaving no musical stone unturned, their imaginative arrangements are densely packed with ideas...an encyclopedia of riffs ranging from the intricately complex to the irresistibly anthemic. Startlingly catchy but never coming off soft, Hematovore turns even the most jaded music fans' heads--Metalheads, hardcore purists, gutter punks, and indie rockers alike--Hematovore invites them all to the table, pats them on the back...and destroys them. 

My Siamese Self
My Siamese Self is a three-piece punk band from Atlanta. My Siamese Self sounds like My Siamese Self, but has been complimented with comparisons to Joy Division, Television, and The Clash. Lead singer and guitarist Deb Davis has been in a ton of bands (The Gamma Clones, Jane West and the Lone Star Impalas) but is currently also in another great Georgia band called Hope for AGoldensummer. Drummer Kat Riederich was also in Jane West and the Lone Star Impalas, as well as other bands with cool names like Wig Barn and Pisghetti. Stacey Singer plays bass and sings backup and used to be the lead singer of the Atlanta trashgrass band Shitty Red Drum Kit. 

Jaggery
jaggery is a brooklyn-based musical collective whose songs and sounds left jack rabid of big takeover magazine searching for words: "not really jazz, not pop, not ethereal rock. . . this is not like anything else youve heard. . ." was his reaction to the groups self- released "in lethe" ep (2004), a collection of five genre-defying compositions that alluded to the bands potential as a force in the new york city underground and alternative music scenes. boston-via- london transplant and songstress mali sastri fronts ~ it is her dexterous vocals (one of the most beautiful voices in modern music, says oedipus, formerly of wbcn and infinity broadcasting) instinctive piano playing, and innovative, absorbing songwriting that lie at the heart of the jaggery sound. as likely to bring to mind elizabeth fraser of the cocteau twins as diamanda galas, mali's ability to bridge the delicate with the fierce is both a signature of her voice and of jaggery's repertoire ~ from haunting lullabies to furious, mixed-meter rants; tightly-woven, classicaly-tinged compositions in odd-time signatures to catharsis-inducing, barn-burning mini-epics (often-times within the same song). she is flanked by a rotating lineup of musicians and instrumentation that create an exotic musical mobile and a kind of avant-garde acoustic electronica around what are often highly personal song tales. the sound is rich, organic, engrossing, emotional ~ both delicate and fierce, enchanting and disturbing, dark and triumphant ~ definitely not easy listening ~ 


March 11  Sunday

LOST! photographs
Art
1:00pm – 6:00pm
$FREE
An art show of found photographs curated by Shana Wood and Karen Tauches. A performative Librarian will allow the touching of found photographs. Tea will be served. 

Then….


March 11  Sunday

Frank Gratkowski
Music
8:30pm
$5
Anyone who missed amazing saxophone/clarinetist Frank Gratkowski's last solo performance at Eyedrum should be relieved to know that he's coming back to Atlanta this spring. Trust us: it'll be the best $5 you'll ever spend!
Frank has played with Peter Kowald, Ken Vandermark, Muhal Richard Abrams, Peter Brötzmann, and many others. He can swing like Sidney Bechet and astound like Evan Parker. If you're a fan of free jazz or just jazz period, don't miss this. 

Check out some of his music on his site!
Frank Gratkowski


March 12  Monday

Neil Michael Hagerty and the Howling Hex
Hubcap City
Music
9:00pm
$7
Howling Hex is the most recent project of Neil Michael Hagerty (of Royal Trux , Weird War, Pussy Galore). Since disbanding Royal Trux, Mr. Hagerty has continued to push his experi-mental brand of good ol' rock n' roll even further beyond traditional conventions. Nightclub Version of the Eternal - the fourth Howling Hex release in two years – defy boundaries even further, with a truly unique rock ensemble with baritone guitar, percussion and electric guitar. 

Also appearing:  Hubcap City!



In the Galleries:




Small Gallery:

Nicholas Kuwik
“Eyes R Older Thank Rocks”
"It begins with the paper. Racks of paper dripping and drying with multicolored layers of washes upon washes of watercolor and gouache. Both sides of the paper are treated with my abstract experiments in color and shape. Watching the watercolor change, evaporate, dehydrate into something beautifully random. Creating a visual library, in the stacks of hundreds of sheets of double-sided paper, stained with my love of color." 

The exhibit runs through March 24th.

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
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! 




EYEDRUM is located at 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Suite 8 in Atlanta.
404.522.0655 or www.eyedrum.org
Eyedrum’s programming is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. 

Become an Eyedrum member!  ( http://eyedrum.org/membership.asp )

Donate to Eyedrum.  (http://eyedrum.org/donate.asp )
To unsubscribe to this email newsletter, please reply to this message with unsubscribe in the subject line. Please be patient as this process may take a week or so. Thanks!

Other related posts: