[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] May 31 – June 4, 2006

Eyedrum events May 31 – June 4, 2006


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

Members admitted free to all events!


June 1 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

This month’s theme:  Hybrid

this is the time of hybridity, one thing becoming something else or at the very least, in a stalled state and just having clumps of something else stuck on. ...and was ever the case with 'monsters,' chimera, creatures part one thing and part something else, something mundane, terrifying or divine or just evil surf jazz : 'she's a real monster of improv on that thing,' 'he's an idiot genius that's for sure.'

'I dunno what it is, looks like a cross between a volvo and a beehive,' 'I don't know what it was officer, looked like something midway between a frisbee and my aunt's hairdo. ' It was a live/dead punk funk evil bastardized surf junk crump clown noisy crazy sorta sound: you hadda been there. It was a hybrid of your worst fears and your most feverish dreams, it has heaven and it was hell. It was a cymbal falling out of the mouth of an organ,a heart; a klaxon meeting up, merging with a rubba dubba tuba ... It's your life's soundtrack as you go in and go out of consciousness.
"Purity?! PAHH! what's that?"


June 2  Friday

King Bomba
The Subliminator
Music
9:00pm
$5

King Bomba
Ferdinando II of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1810-1859) got his nickname "King Bomba" after he ordered the bombardment of Messina (1848) and Palermo (1849) to quell disorders which had broken out in Sicily. Feeling that Ferdinando II is an appropriate icon for their music, life, and times, Atlanta-based musicians Mario Schambon, Zano, and Kareem Khalifa create electric, aggressive, high-energy improvisations and compositions.

Mario Schambon is a visual artist, composer, and percussionist hailing originally from Bogota, Colombia. He has been active in improvised music communities throughout the Southeast, including performances with Davey Williams, members of the Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra, and as one of the founding members of Numb Right Thumb.


Zano is an artist who strives to create conceptual cartoons in whatever medium in which he is working (emceeing, production, art, etc.). As an MC, he has performed with various Atlanta acts including Samadha, DJ LebLaze, dp3, Mr. Mips, Ben Lawless, and Chris Devoe. He plays keyboards and noise with King Bomba.


Kareem Khalifa is an improviser, composer, arranger, bassist, guitarist, and professor of philosophy. He has played with various jazz and rock musicians in the Atlanta and Chicago areas, including current bands
dp3, andThe Unexplained Explainers . In King Bomba, he plays an electric nylon string guitar through an assortment of effects and loops.


The Subliminator was found in a state of suspended animation in an abandoned crate by spacerock guitar ace John Pack in 2002. Col. Pack immediately installed him in his band Spaceseed, America's premiere spacerock band. The Subliminator toured nationally with Spaceseed in '03 and '04, occasionally opening shows and performing with such luminaries as Nik Turner (Hawkwind), Harvy Bainbridge (Hawkwind) and Cotton Casino (Acid Mothers Temple). The "Recalibrated 2005 Tour" is now underway, and recent Subliminator sightings and sonic attacks have been reported in the Atlanta area and all along the Eastern Seaboard. Word has it that a Subliminator CD is now available. It's called "Recalibrated" and features nine tracks of industrial charged sublimination. Combining spoken word, proccesed vocals and optical theremins, it promises to be an original and unique listen you won't soon forget.


June 3  Saturday

Rising Appalachia
The Love Cakes
Music
9:00pm
$TBA (probably $5)

Rising Appalachia,
"Rowdy roots music for boot stompin' and moonshining...fully equiped with fiddles, banjos, and drumming hootanany"

The Love Cakes,
"soul infused americana trio from north georgia with arching cello melodies and intricate textures"



June 4  Sunday

Bent Frequency: Timbre and Sound:  Boulez & Beyond
Music
8:00pm
$10

Bent Frequency concludes its 2005-2006 season with a performance of
contemporary masterworks by France's most important and innovative
composers today, including internationally renowned conductor and
composer, Pierre Boulez and pioneer of French Spectralism, Gerard
Grisey.

Program:
Pierre Boulez - Dérive 1 (1984)
Pascal Dusapin - Ohe (1996)
Gerard Grisey - Talea (1986)
Yan Maresz - Entrelacs (1998)
Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle noir (1952)

This event made possible by a grant from The French-American Fund for
Contemporary Music, a program of French American Cultural Exchange
(FACE) with major support from SACEM and BMG Music Publishing.

http://www.bentfrequency.com/


ALSO:

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 that features nuggets from Eyedrum's archive of live performances.

Remember that, after the show airs, you can always listen to this and any recent Sunday Special 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 that. You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size.



In the Main Galleries:

National Juried Show Exhibition


Artists:
Michael Allman
Artcor
Christopher Boehm
Jonathan Bouknight
Stasia Chung
Xavier Daniels
Grady Haugerud
Heidi Jensen
Jason James
Carol John
Dorothy Love
Jeffry Loy & Joe Martin
Christopher McCarra
Michael Murrell
Ann Otterness
Judy Parady
Lourdes Perdomo
Allen Peterson
Judith Simmons
Delona Wardlaw


Juror:
George Kinghorn is the Director of the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. He
has been with
the museum since 1999, previously serving as the Deputy Director and Chief
Curator. He has organized over thirty modern and contemporary art
exhibitions. Mr. Kinghorn has attended the Non-profit Executive Institute at
Georgetown University and is a graduate of Leadership Jacksonville. He
serves on the selection and art advisory panels for the City of
Jacksonville, Art in Public Places Commission and was involved in the
creation of the city owned photography collection and the selection of
several site-specific sculptural works placed at the newly constructed arena
and baseball stadium. Kinghorn received his Master of Fine Art degree in
visual arts from Michigan State University.

Through June 10th

In the Small Gallery:

Sun Hong

Sun Hong, ink drawings on paper.
Through June 17th.

For her second solo show, Sun Hong is displaying a series of ink drawings where she explores the relationship between line and shape. She limits her materials to black ink and white paper and keeps the format of the picture plane the same, with the intent to concentrate solely on the qualities of line. This is a departure from her earlier works which consists of both paintings and drawings in mixed media and bright color.
Sun is a graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of GA. Currently, she teaches art at LaBelle Elementary School in Smyrna, Georgia.




Miscellany

May’s Podcast is now available!

This month’s show features performances from the past year of "Language Harm". Language Harm is Eyedrum's bi-monthly poetry event conducted by the Atlanta Poets Group (the next one is Wed May 17th). Tune in to hear language turned inside out.

Poetry by the following writers are featured:
John Lowther
Tracy Gagne
Randy Prunty
Mark Presjnar
James Sanders
Zac Denton
Dana Petersen
Michelle Reeves
If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the April or May show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.



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404.522.0655 or www.eyedrum.org

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