[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] May 3 – May 6, 2007

Eyedrum events May 3 – May 6, 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)

Thursday May 3  9:00pm  $Free
First Thursday Open Improv

Friday May 4  8:00pm  $7 suggested donation
Film Love:  Andy Warhol 3

Saturday May 5  8:00pm  $7 suggested donation
Film Love:  Andy Warhol 4

Sunday May 6  7:00pm – 9:00pm
Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special on 91.1 FM WREK

Sunday May 6  8:00pm  $3
Peripheral Visions:  GSU Community Based Media Production


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May 3  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 

Things That Go Bump In the Night: non-instrument sound production
Motors, dry beans, 60 cycle hums, tao hums,clicky clackys, cards in spokes of bikes, home-made instruments, toys, circuit benders, whoopee cushions, UNUSUAL intruments, pages turning a book, captured birds made to testify, stones called to witness their muteness... 

Read'em and weep, process'em or not.


May 4   Friday

Film Love:  Andy Warhol 3 – Portrait Films
Film
8:00pm
$7 suggested donation
In conjunction with Eyedrum’s large gallery show of contemporary portraiture, “Andy Warhol 3 and 4” presents works from Warhol’s two most celebrated forays into cinematic portraiture: the sprawling Screen Test series and his extended fascination with the mercurial superstar Edie Sedgwick.
The Screen Test films – numbering over 400 – were made from 1964 through 1966. Visitors to Warhol’s Factory studio would be asked to sit for their portrait. The camera was pointed at their face in closeup and turned on, and three minutes later the film was done. During this small eternity, subjects would register everything from boredom to charisma, discomfort to indifference, heroic resolve to face down the camera, or an inability to suppress emotion (and giggles). The psychological complexity of the Screen Tests is matched by the care which Warhol took to highlight his subjects’ individual features, and the immense range of the subjects themselves. We will screen two representative reels of Screen Tests as preserved by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Featured will be subjects from the famous - Lou Reed, Susan Sontag, Marcel Duchamp - to unidentified people known to us now only by their three minutes of fame in front of Warhol’s camera.
Rounding out the program are two portrait films of one of Warhol’s greatest stars (and subject of the recent film Factory Girl), Edie Sedgwick. Radiating charisma, style, and sly wit, Sedgwick was Warhol’s muse at the height of his filmmaking activity. “Outer and Inner Space” is a double-screen portrait film in which Sedgwick responds to her own image on a TV screen. In “Beauty #2,” acclaimed as one of Warhol’s greatest films, Edie lies on a bed with her current boyfriend, while her off-camera former boyfriend tries to distract her with dialogue and increasingly personal comments. Sedgwick stands up to this demanding and complex scenario, displaying both vulnerability and a fierce independence. 

Friday's program:
Screen Tests reel 24: Freddy Herko; Lucinda Childs; John Cale; Niki de Saint Phalle; Lou Reed (eye and mouth); Marcel Duchamp; Steve Stone; Grace Glueck; Lou Reed (Hershey bar). 1964-1966, 16mm, black and white, silent, 40 minutes Outer and Inner Space (1965), 16mm, black and white, sound, 33 minutes featuring Edie Sedgwick
Andy Warhol 3 and 4 is a Film Love event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love exists to provide access to great but rarely seen films, and to explore the history of experimental filmmaking. More information on Frequent Small Meals music, film, and art events can be found at www.frequentsmallmeals.com 


May 5  Saturday

Film Love:  Andy Warhol 4 – Portrait Films II
Film
8:00pm
$7 suggested donation


For more info, please see above.

Saturday's program:
Screen Tests reel 17: Ingrid Superstar; Guy: Susan Sontag; Isabel Eberstadt; Peter Goldthwait; Robert Pincus-Witten; Louis Martinez; Ed Sanders; Henry Romney; Irving Blum. 1964-1966, 16mm, silent, 40 minutes 
Beauty #2 (1965), 16mm, sound, 66 minutes featuring Edie Sedgwick


May 6   Sunday

Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special
Radio Program
7:00pm – 9:00pm
WREK 91.1 FM Atlanta
On the first Sunday of every month, at 7 p.m., Eyedrum does a show on WREK (91.1 FM / 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. 

May’s podcast will be available for download  next week.


May 6  Sunday

Peripheral Visions
Film
8:00pm
$3
Collaborative videotapes that are outcomes of GSU's Community-Based Media Production class.
"Color of Clowns" introduces Bobo, and the intersection of race, family, and the will to educate that goes into the makeup of this Atlantan businessman. Documentarians: Brandon Jolley, Ravi Kumar, Lisanne Magnus, and John Dabney (Bobo the Clown)
“No More War”, produced with the International Rescue Committee After- School program, this video gives voice to refugee teens that have been displaced by war. Produced by Mwoddah Habib, Yonatan Araya and Phoebe Brown as part of a video workshop with the International Rescue Committee After-School Program
“Sopo: Community Bike Shop”: Sopo brings bikes and the community together in East Atlanta by making bike repair accessible and affordable. Produced by Yonatan Araya and Phoebe Brown. Yonatan was a summer intern at Sopo last summer through the IRC intern program. He was so impressed with the work Sopo is doing in the Atlanta biking community that he wanted to make a video to help raise more awareness about Sopo and bicycle advocacy in Atlanta.
“African DV Visa Immigrants”: The participants in this documentary wished to communicate their often-overlooked challenges of resettlement and cultural transition in the United States. 

Facilitated by Ben Spangler and Gnimbin Albert Ouattara




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
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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