[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] November 1– November 5, 2006

Eyedrum events November 1– November 5, 2006


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


Jessica Marshall show, ‘In The Middle Of Nowhere’, ends Saturday, November 4th! Now or Never!


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

Wednesday November 1   8:00pm  $6
Pink Eye Queer Film Series

Thursday November 2   9:00pm   $Free
First Thursday Open Improv

Friday November 3    9:00pm  $5
Health, Airoes, Suitcases, African Grays

Saturday November 4   11:00pm – 4:00am  $Free
Show & Tell #4

Saturday November 4    8:00pm  $8
Scar/ed

Sunday November 5  7:00pm – 9:00pm
Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special on WREK 91.1FM
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November 1  Wednesday

Pink Eye Queer Film Series
Film
8:00pm
$3 - $8 (sliding scale)

Just when you thought Halloween was over, PinkEye Indie Queer Movie Salon presents CreepShow, a cornucopia of tricks & treats, short films that are sick, creepy and, queer?

Featuring "Trophy" by Teri Rice, twisting the horror so that victimizer becomes the victim, "Housewife's Revenge" by Philipe Lonestar, in which a bored housewife teaches her husband the ABC's of household pain, and other titles so sick we can't print them!

Plus a full evening of salon entertainment: gory performances, a live DJ, delicious popcorn, and drinks. Upcoming programs include "Fagsploitation" Dec. 6th, and a "Dirty South" program of local queer indie erotica in February.

To sign up for email announcements, to submit a film for consideration, or to get more information, please go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PinkEye
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PinkEye
or email PinkEyeFlix @ yahoo.com


www.eyedrum.org
November 2   Thursday

First Thursday Open Improv
Music
9:00pm
$Free

This month’s theme:  Madness and Music

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

Maybe when people hear the phrase above they think of the ska group Madness and their emblematic album One Step Beyond (where madness always awaits); or Sonny Rollins' album Tenor Madness; maybe Mambo Madness by Tito Rodriquez; or more classically, Eight Songs For a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies; or just, This Is Madness by the Last Poets?

Or maybe none of the above. Is madness contained truly madness? If it is not contained is it even bearable? Can one go mad by pointing at madness, akin to Nietzsche's fear of those who look too long into the mouth of madness? Can art, perhaps unknown even to its practitioners (we can't say 'art/music itself' -- that would be madness incarnate!) pass over almost imperceptibly into some form of madness, derangement of the senses, loss of sense ratios, loss of groundedness, loss of form? Can we ever truly lose form?? If so, would we simply cease to exist? Or do you simply become useless, unefficient, don't work well with others, your own Bartleby?

Or do you just play random stuff, or play the pigeon shit droppings in front of your house? (oh wait a minute Cage valorized that--was he crazy? Only if you don't have a score, a theory, an explanation for your random madness..but -- arrrrrghhh!! -- then you're only playing AT madness! And anyway who would WANT to mad?! So, as they often say, you're only mad is you don't recognize it? But none of are mad are we--except for the poseurs, the manques --which o mi god--maybe we all are--and are thusly all mad digging deeper into the Mountains of Madness with every sound we utter, moving more deeply one step beyond AND NOT EVEN KNOWING IT!! And to make matters worse maybe there is no step beyond or maybe every step is a step beyond

So anyway how can you possibly make a music of madness anyway it's always arrayed laid out in front of you like life right? Minimal decisions you follow the rules the scores you know the score the manual stay away from the edge no fire no fire music allowed no giving way to other eyes madness to turn into a horde of others like monster vampires decomposing to piles of rats then scattering before they are caught killed sold into slavery burrowing (or: is it borrowing?) into your/my/our brain madness to not differentiate to be confused TO GET WORK DONE MUST GET WORK DONE you need that map that log-in that floating raft contained amongst all the bright and dark sounds noises afterall MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU!! ARBEIT MACHT FREI!! Our slavery is our freedomŠ.crazy right? But our pure freedom is insane right?

Are you crazy or something or what?

Let's blow


November 3    Friday

Health
Airoes
Suitcases
African Grays
Music
9:00pm
$5

LA's Health bring their all out mix of punk/noise/no wavey assault to Atlanta. Often described as a mix of Ex-Models spazz and Sonic Youth style dissonance. This is their first tour to the southeast, and not to be missed.

Airoes, from Atlanta, are two man dance party waiting to happen. With the amazing "My Zipper Got Stuck" coming out on Stickfigure Recordings last year, Airoes have solidified their place as local music darlings.

Suitcases are a local noisy post punk duo who combine keyboards and treated drums for an atmospheric and synthetic approach to rock music.

African Greys are a local no wave trio who have just recently released their newest self released CDr, "Tied to the Hives."

November 4   Saturday

Show & Tell #4
Art
11:00am – 3:00pm
Free

Visual artists are invited to "Show & Tell" us about their artwork during this casual viewing/critique session.
Bring your artwork to the gallery between 11AM and 4PM. And don't forget to bring some documentation to leave with us. Who knows, we may give you a show!


November 4   Saturday

Scar/ed
Performance/Dance
8:00pm
$8

Scar/ed, a performance event created and performed by Blake Beckham, will premiere at Eyedrum on November 4. The piece deals with the process of injury, scarring and repair. At the center of this trialogue is the scar - the body's evolving document of infliction and illness, and also our most tangible evidence of our ability to repair.

For the performance, Beckham will dance with drawings on her skin. Anatomically-correct organs, muscles, and nerves transform her body into a canvas that poignantly questions the boundary between interior and exterior. The event will feature new choreography by Beckham, and video footage of people telling their favorite scar stories.


November 5  Sunday

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 (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. November’s podcast will be available soon!




In The Galleries:


Large Galleries:

Martha Whittington
“three fold”

three-fold: an installation by Martha Whittington.
Through November 25th.
Artist talk on November 7 at 7PM.



Small Gallery:

Jessica Marshall
“In the Middle of Nowhere”

A personal experiment with matter and meaning.
Atlanta artist Jessica Marshall creates an installation for the Small Gallery combining paper, paint, original sculptures, and found objects.

Through  November 4th.



Miscellany

October’s Podcast is now available and this month 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!

August’s podcast: August’s show is now available and features performances by Jonathan Kane, Rising Appalachia, Bent Frequency, Daniel Clay, Tiptons Saxophone Quartet and others. The upcoming 5-day Table Of The Elements festival (Labor Day weekend) gave us a chance to play some Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad and Sun Agustin. Finally, the Eyedrum visual arts crew came in to talk about art shows past, present and future, the Warhol grant, and the state of Eyedrum as a gallery in general. A special edition of this podcast that should not be missed!




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