[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] May 16 – May 20, 2007

Eyedrum events May 16 – May 20, 2007


Gallery Hours:  Friday 3 - 8:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 1 – 6:00pm
San Francisco based software company Cycling 74 is offering a four day Max/MSP workshop at Eyedrum on June 4 – June 7. The workshop is specifically for new users, and is intended to provide an introduction to Max, MSP, and Jitter together as a unit. It concentrates on the basics of working with Max for all users in a variety of situations including audio and image processing. Interested parties should click here or to reserve a space call Jill at 415-974-1818, ext. 4# or e-mail workshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx . 

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

Wednesday May 16  9:00pm  $TBA
Z’ev, Mr. Natural, Black Meat

Thursday May 17  8:00pm  $5
Language Harm:  Gender Allegiances

Friday May 18  9:00pm  $8
Convergence One:  Outer Space

Saturday May 19  12:00pm – 5:00pm  $5 - $20 or give what you can
Second Annual Eyedrum Garden Tour:  Intown

Saturday May 19  9:00pm  $8
Convergence Two:  Inner Space

Sunday May 20  12:00pm – 5:00pm  $5 - $20 or give what you can
Second Annual Eyedrum Garden Tour:  OTP

Sunday May 20  8:00pm  $5
Bent Frequency


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May 16  Wednesday

Z’ev
Mr. Natural
Black Meat
Music
9:00pm
$TBA
Since the 1970's, the currently Uk -based text/sound artist Z'EV has been at the forefront of the movement that became known as "industrial".
A precursor even to Neubauten, his brand of scrap-metal/found object percussion originates in intense musical training and background. Beginning with his days at the California Institute of the Arts, Z'EV has studied techniques such as Balinese Gamelan, EWE (Ghana), Tala (south India), and Vou Dun (Hati).
Incorporating these traditional methods into his distinctly personal musical vision of sound, Z'EV has consistently produced vital examples of his craft for a host of noted labels including Soleilmoon, C.I.P, Touch and Die Stadt and a commissioned piece for John Zorn's "Radical Jewish Music" series on Zaddik. His record "Bust This" was chosen in 1988 by The Wire as one of the greatest 50 percussion albums of all time. 

Also performing will be Mr. Natural and Black Meat


May 17   Thursday

Language Harm:  Gender Allegiances
Literature
8:00pm
$5


APG presents "gender allegiances."
gender allegiences: what side of the line are you on? or, are you somewhere in the middle? are you in the same place you were yesterday? find out how the Atlanta Poets Group views gender and its multiperplexities. we will be approaching this topic with a series of polyphons, monophons, and potentially a few surprises. join us! 


May 18  Friday

Convergence One:  Outer Space
Music
9:00pm
$8

Spaceseed
Founded in 1988 in Atlanta Georgia by guitarist John Pack. The group broke onto the international scene in 2003 when it joined forces with Charter Hawkwind member Nik Turner. With the release of it's debut disc Future Cities Of The Past in 2004 the group hit the road for it's second tour with Nik It also featured the out of this world synth's of Gal Axxxy. After two tours with Turner the group found itself paired with another former Hawkwind alumni, synth legend Harvey Bainbridge who came into the fold in 2005. Spaceseed has completed 2 U.S. Tours w/ Bainbridge. And recorded a series of discs. The first of which The Empire Of Night has been released by Zeta Reticuli Records. Spaceseed is currently in the studio preparing for the release of two new discs in 2007 once again on the Zeta Reticuli label. Pick up new cd @ http://cdbaby.com/cd/spaceseed2 

http://www.myspace.com/43134154

http://www.spaceseed.org/

Z-Axis
Post-progressive rock; new-edge ambience; psychedelia with a world- beat flavor; synths, guitars and percussion; funky, frenetic jams; eclectic instrumental soundtracks to surreal multi-media experiences. 

http://www.myspace.com/zaxismusic

http://www.z-axis.org

Lid Emba

Prologue:
Circa 1991, a 2:00 a.m. show at CBGB’s with porno-core provocateurs the impotent seasnakes. Mid-set, Hilly Krystal’s geriatric, Bosch- type hound squatted in front of the stage and took a pungent dump. Post-show, I was sucker punched with "you're such an asshole" by the grizzled soundtech for being older than 22 and still drumming my ass off in public. Ever since, I've often wondered: Was that sneering, blowjob hungry casualty actually an all knowing oracle of truth? If so, then I'm even more of an asshole now. 
Delusions of grandeur:
Early in my naivete, I taught myself to hit things with sticks. Since then, I've played in many bands that history has blissfully ignored, navigating from graceless garage rituals to mercenary disco to new romantic brain damage to tight-assed honkie funk to snooty college- radio fodder, ad nauseam. A few years after leaving the seasnakes, I formed post-prog unit 3d5spd, contributing sampling and synths in addition to boom crack boom. The noise that was rejected kick-started Lid Emba, my "fuck off, I’m an island" project. 3d5spd evaporated in 2004 after four CDs. Lid Emba became the new monkey on my back. 

http://www.myspace.com/lidemba

Strix Varia
Strix Varia is a fluid collective of musicians who, armed with a diverse array of musical experiences, life experiences, thought processes and such, recombine and transmute these experiences into a viscereal improvisational musical experience.
Starting with not much more than a key, a ryhthm or some skeletal idea, the ensemble fearlessly builds on the idea resulting in colorful and oft-times unpredictable improvisational flights that could include elements of psychedelic rock, jazz, funk, prog-rock or anything else that comes to mind. Without the constraint of vocals, Strix Varia finds itself quite free to explore in detail
The ensmble's name is the scientific name of the Barred Owl, a firece, nocturnal and mysterious bird, a lot like it's namesake's music. 

http://www.geocities.com/theowlwatches

http://www.myspace.com/theowlsmusic


May 19  Saturday

Second Annual Eyedrum Garden Tour:  Intown
Garden Tour
12:00pm – 5:00pm
$5 - $20 or whatever you can give
This year (the 2nd) we've expanded our annual garden tour to include a day of intown gardens, with six gardens on the tour in various ITP neighborhoods.
Click here for the printable brochure, containing garden descriptions, locations, hours and price info. 


May 19  Saturday

Convergence Two:  Inner Space
Music
9:00pm
$8

Shush
The celestial voice of Drolma floats over Mark Baker’s loopy guitar (both founding members of Bleu Velveta) and Crafty Guitarist David Smart’s ambient bass, forming Shush, a lush dreamscape of textured melody. Shush now. 

p. d. wilder
p. d. wilder, aka chaos is a texas drone/noise musician; using acoustic & electric guitars with interspersed samples and incoherent vocals in an attempt to recreate in an improv setting the time spent traveling across the uncomfortable calm and urgency of the vast rolling plains and desert valleys of Texas, through a philosophy of allowing for a pattern of sound to overtake if not replace any confinement, attempting to reestablish the listener, musician, and music itself as the pattern; interconnected.
"if a broom swept the tile floor of a ghost town's back porch, with infinity in its breadth, it might resemble the sound of this guitar..." – david caddell, the local.
"expansive soundscapy guitarist with a patient mastery of timbre & texture, light & shadow" – womblife.
"he creates dense atmospheres, restrained but brimming with feedback and pulsing guitar drones." – richard di santo, incursion.
"consists of swirling and scratching string manipulations and percussive patterns, along with a lazy valium laced vocal style that makes for an interesting marriage of psychedelic and experimental free-improv elements." – jerry kranitz, aural-innovations.
"stratospheric post-rock for sad, sensitive wanderers ... powerfully resonant guitar drones evoke densely textured tracts of space." – dave segal, alternative press. 

http://www.myspace.com/pdwilder
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. 

Tannhauser Gate
Spontaneous synthetic textures. Improvised electronic soundscapes. Soundtracks to films that don't yet exist. Loops, drones, sequences, samples, oscillations, modulations, syncopations, arpeggiations, C- beams glittering in the dark... 


May 20  Sunday

Second Annual Eyedrum Garden Tour:  OTP
Garden Tour
12:00pm – 5:00pm
$5 - $20 or whatever you can give
This year (the 2nd) we've expanded our annual garden tour to include a day of intown gardens, with six gardens on the tour in various ITP neighborhoods.
In Day 2 of the tour, venture outside the perimeter. Immerse yourself in the gardens (green installations) of Pam Rentz (performance by Allison Rentz) and 
Robert Cheatham (performance by Brian Parks).
Click here for the printable brochure, containing with garden descriptions, locations, hours and price info. 


May 20  Sunday

Bent Frequency
Music
8:00pm
$10

Bent Frequency Presents: 1six Landscapes
our final concert of the 2006-2007 season
This concert features virtuosic contemporary works showcasing (and selected by) six familiar BF musicians as soloists. The eclectic program will include:
* The haunting electro-acoustic landscapes of Atlanta composer Robert Scott Thompson's "Canto de Las Sombras." * A gripping musical caricature by Michael Colgrass inspired by Inuit legend: "Wild Riot of the Shaman's Dreams." 
* Roger Sessions' masterpiece "Six Pieces for Solo Cello."
* The outrageously theatrical " B.B. Wolf: an apologia" by Jon Deak based on text by Richard Hartshorne. 
* A premiere of a new work, "Icarus", by Atlanta composer Chris Arrell.
* Stephen Hartke's elegant "Caoine" for solo violin.




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
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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