[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] November 7– November 12, 2006

Eyedrum events November 7– November 12, 2006


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

This is a huge week full of art, music and film.  Come often!
Last week’s radio show was cancelled (sorry!) so there’s no Podcast this month… 

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

Tuesday November 7   7:00pm  $Free
Artist Talk with Martha Whittington

Wednesday November 8   9:00pm   $5
Assdroids, Eiylias, Mato

Thursday November 9    9:00pm  $5-$10 sliding scale
Who Is Bozo Texino?

Friday November 10   9:00pm  $5
Robotfishy Music Festival

Saturday November 11    6:00pm – 8:00pm  $Free
Small Gallery Art Opening:  The Sound of Musing

Saturday November 11   9:00pm  $8
Charalambides

Sunday November 12  9:00pm  $5
Videohippos, OCDL, Toy Party, Attack vs. TV  Party, Werewolf Unit

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November 7  Tuesday

Martha Whittington
Artist talk
7:00pm
$Free
Martha Whittington speaks about her solo exhibit, "three-fold," and the dark, dream-inspired mysteries of this tripartite installation currently on view in Eyedrum's Galleries 1 & 2 

www.eyedrum.org
November 8   Wednesday

Assdroids
Eiylias
Mato
Music
9:00pm
$5

Assdroids:
With the long awaited E.P. (Daddy’s Gone on Cock Rock Disco) finally in stores and a full length due out this year, The Assdroids embark on their first ever North American tour this fall. Pisces Motherfucker (guitar, vox, computer) and Big Daddy Mugglestone (drums, vox, guitar, noise), the engineers of the spastic noise-rock/ computer grind duo based out of Berlin and Denver, will perform their manic and often absurd music to a strangely devoted fan base from the Pacific to the Atlantic and all points in between.
Mugglestone’s frantic poly-rhythms and incessant cymbal grabbing collide with Pisces’ unintelligible shrieks and whines to create the basis of their live set. But add to the barrage computer samples (everything from vintage Sprite commercials to Mariah Carey to Anton Webern) and overdriven feedback noise out of Mugglestone’s karaoke machine, and you get closer to the sound of the enigmatic duo. As this dense and chaotic music surges between bouts of comically desperate bickering and undeserved praise playfully tossed back and forth by Mugglestone and Pisces, the irreverent ruckus of the Assdroids becomes undeniable. These mentalists create a frenzy on stage by yelling at the crowd and pulling the deserving or reluctant up on stage, while Mugglestone hurls drumsticks and cymbals into the throng. It is an event you cannot bear to watch: you must participate.
First formed in 2003 to create an e-grind tribute to Richard Pryor, the Assdroids have now gone on to terrorize Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring.’ Their version, downloaded now over 50,000 times through Cock Rock Disco’s web page, “cheerfully deconstructs the virtuosic piece using a combination of live drums/guitar and synth voices that drag the listener in and out of the gutter but still somehow maintain the structure” (Noise Politician). Due out on their upcoming full length (Mother’s Day on Cock Rock Disco) featuring videos and a wide array of instrumentation, this track and others prove that these guys won’t be disappearing any time soon. 

Eiylias:
One person said it sounds like you're having dinner with god and he's handing you the rolls -Saint Another said it sounds like theoretical physics professors on a combination of drugs ... -Some dude you know how gumby would walk into books and be in the world of that book? your music sounds like if you were gumby and you walked into a book of jean-michel basquiats paintings. 


November 9    Thursday

Who Is Bozo Texino?
A Film by Bill Daniel
9:00pm
$5 - $10 sliding scale
Filmmaker will be in attendance
Who is Bozo Texino? is a film on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. The project is the result of a 20-year study of "monikers " and is fabricated from hours of 16mm and super 8 film, most of it shot on freight trips across the western US. The film includes interviews with some of the railroad's greatest graffiti legends: Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. The film also catches some of the socioeconomic history of hobo subculture from its roots after the Civil War to the present day. Included are interviews with tramps that Daniel encountered in his travels. The range of the interviews, and the film's style deal with both the clich?s and the harsh realities of tramp life. In researching hobo culture Daniel found the written histories fraught with myth, and was initially frustrated by the apparent lack of verifiable truth to much of the lore.
"At some point in the research, and in the filming, I had to give up on the idea of being able to tell every story down to the detail. One of my initial impulses was to create a highly resolved document that would allow people in the future to see exactly what this culture was like. Impossible enough. But at the same time I was painfully aware that to broadcast these discoveries would alter or wreck the innocence and freedom that was there. Gradually, I realized that to report on freight train culture I should just acknowledge this mythologizing that permeates the culture and adopt that as an essential part of my approach. But the difficulty was, at the same time, to present this purely documentary material that I earnestly want to be appreciated and preserved. And no matter what the disappointment might be in finding the lonely reality behind a particular myth or graffiti, there is a mystery, or truth, that will always evade the documentarian and the audience." - Bill Daniel
THIS SPECTACULAR TRAVEL ADVENTURE FAITHFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED IN REALISTIC BLACK AND WHITE FILM AT CONSIDERABLE RISK FROM SPEEDING FREIGHT TRAINS AND IN SECRET HOBO JUNGLES IN THE DOGGED PURSUIT OF THE IMPOSSIBLY CONVOLUTED STORY OF THE HERETOFORE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE CENTURY-OLD FOLKLORIC PRACTICE OF HOBO AND RAILWORKER GRAFFITI AND THE ABSURD QUEST FOR THE TRUE IDENTITY OF RAILROADING'S GREATEST ARTIST WILL LIKELY AMUSE AND CONFOUND YOU IN ITS SINCERE ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND AND PRESERVE THIS ARTFORM. 

More info:
http://www.billdaniel.net


November 10  Friday

Robotfishy Music Festival
Music
9:00pm
$5
Locally run cd-r label Robotfishy Music presents a showcase of participating artists. 

magicicada
ambient lushscapes, dark passages and obscure melodies...beautiful.

black blacks
tribally bent noise tyrants make good.

pony bones
misery and dispair wrapped up in a dissonant country tinged package.

mars killed mary
violin, drones, loops and vocals create the framework for some hauntingly lovely epics. 

dan hole pond
found sound, manipulated field recordings, and keyboards untite in a tidy little bundle of drones, bleeps, melodies and scrapes...so nice! 

a couple more tba


November 11   Saturday

The Sound of Musing
Art opening
6:00pm - 8:00pm
$Free

Opening reception.
Small Gallery: The Sound of Musing, a multi-artist sound-art installation curated by Alyson Laura and Natacha Roussel. 

Through December 30th.


November 11  Saturday

CHARALAMBIDES
Music
9:00pm
$8

Christina Carter: electric guitar, voice, bells
Tom Carter: electric guitar, lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, chimes, wind wand 
Heather Leigh Murray: pedal steel guitar, psaltery, voice
Charalambides are among the most beautiful and mysterious groups to have emerged from the American desert. Formed in 1991 in Houston, Texas, they have created a glowing template of humanist/mystical improvisation that has kneaded brain muscles from here to Kokomo. The band comprise of Christina Carter and Tom Carter, both who release many collaborations and solo albums in their own right, and also run their own cdr label called Wholly Other too. Kranky are committed to releasing all their new material as well as jtems from their out of print past, a truly just endeavour for one of the most important and influential acts 'out there'. 

$8 DAY OF SHOW / DOORS OPEN AT 9PM

BROUGHT TO YOU BY TIGHT BROS NETWORK


November 12  Sunday

Videohippos
OCDJ
Toy Party
Attack vs. TV Party
Werewolf Unit
Music
9:00pm
$5
4 short sets from Videohippos, OCDJ, Toy Party Attack vs. TV Party, and Werewolf Unit.
Music and video-art show from Baltimore. Videohippos is a band which plays NewOrder/Ramones/Lightning Bolt influenced music along to projected video art. 

OCDJ (of WFMU fame) makes high energy dance music.

Both bands create an atmostphere of creative and fun energy.

videohippos

WFMU/OCDJ

Washington Post article
+ Bean presents the first Toy Party Attack VS TV party, featuring sound and video! Light and noise! 

+ and from Savannah, GA, Werewolf Unit: lounge noise southern style.




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.




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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