Aerial Instruction - Lyra classes in the back gallery
Private
February 2, 2010 6:00PM - 10:30PM
Aerial Instruction - Lyra classes in the back gallery
Armed With Art for Haiti: 100 People at a Time
February 3, 2010 8:00PM - - - Price: Donations accepted
Fundraiser for people affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake. Performers include Alice Lovelace, Malik Salam, AP, Nukola, and Theresa Davis.
Ayed Hallim: Instrumentalities
February 4, 2010 7:00PM - 9:00PM Price: free
Opening reception for a Small Gallery show of new assemblage works by Atlanta bricoleur Ayed Hallim. Hallim, the pseudonymous alter ego of a former local arts journalist, creates works in found metal, spent packaging, and other repurposed materials. After the reception, Hallim performs during Open Improv on some of the "perjunction" instruments included in the exhibition. Exhibition on view through February 21.
The Burning, coiled... (First Thursday Improv)
February 4, 2010 9:00PM - - -
...snakestyle, channeling but not too pragmatic,
more like fragmatic,
notes held up captive,
base of spine exploding in
not-final daze, drifts off straight line:
"Nothing will produce Bad History[sounds!] more
directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line,
in particular a Right Line,
the very Shape of Contempt..."
Eyedrum's long-running Open Improv night occurs on the first Thursday of every month -- our monthly gathering for instrumentalists and improvisers of all stripes. Bring your instrument! Hosted by the indefatigable Robert Cheatham.
Once an insular, poor, but proud mill village of Appalachian transplants, the neighborhood offered sanctuary to bohemians in the 1970s. The ’90s wave of intown gentrification was not able to stamp out Cabbagetown's offbeat nature. The community is filled with eccentric artisans, musicians and other artist types. The community — authentic and complex — is filled with the creative, intelligent, and curious. People in Cabbagetown are known as the Jester, the King, Doc, the Reverend and the Bike Doctor.
A strong proud sense of community is exhibited. People still sit on their porches together, talk, feud, and help one another. They party and they share food. The town is a world that imitates fantasy inside and outside of the homes.
The film opens among the Krog Street Tunnel with philosophical graffiti. Filmed with an old-fashioned Super 8, the camera captures the nubby, grainy, rich layered textures of the community. Textures and colors are intensified. The film takes on its own form, having a sensual as well as a spiritual feeling to it. The film offers viewers an experience; it invites the viewer to float through such as the camera does. There is a magical and surreal feeling to crossing through the tunnel into this town.
Scenes of a dog in a window, or sheets blowing in the wind become an introduction to a place, its people — and the magical worlds they have built in their homes.
Autographed copies of the book will be available for purchase!
Regular Gallery Hours
February 6, 2010 1:00PM - 6:00PM Price: FREE
Darren Nelsen Band/Schwarzkommando/Burgess Penguin
February 6, 2010 9:00PM - - - Price: $7
Improv with an Edge
The Darren Nelsen Band is an instrumental rock/fusion trio comprised of guitar, bass, and drums. Influenced by contemporary composers and guitarists, the band blends and twists genres with attitude. Expect the unexpected, with sounds of jazz, rock, metal, funk, hip-hop, reggae, surf, and rockabilly combined, sometimes all in the same tune! Adventurous and fun, this band keeps the audience on their toes.
Darren Nelsen (guitar), Marc Miller (bass), Micah Boswell (drums).
Schwarzkommando is an Atlanta-based improvisational art-rock trio organized in tribute to the fiction of Thomas Pynchon. Lyrics from novels such as Gravity’s Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49 are sung over an “Obliquely Strategized” yet largely improvised array of sounds – from Cream-like psychedelic "blooz" to full-bore face-melting punk rock, from sci-fi space jazz to pure acoustic settings that would make Fairport Convention blush. Featuring Mike Goldman (Stovall, Henry Porter) on guitar and vocal, Kelly Shane (Enemy From Space, Kenny Howes and the Yeah!) on drums, and Andy Tegethoff (The Eyes, Solution Science Systems) on bass and vocal. No two sets are ever the same.
Burgess Penguin, a 3-piece improvising ensemble that strives to create vivid soundscapes that sound composed but actually are not. Under the collective influence of jazz, rock, psychedelic, TV and Film soundtrack music and even some prog rock, the 3 musicians interact, second-guess and beat each other creatively silly and strive to never play anything the same way once.
February 7, 2010 7:00PM - 11:00PM Price: $10 advance, $12 at the door
Come celebrate the life and music of Robert Nesta Marley. This event, sponsored by Jahworld Trading Company in East Point, Georgia, will benefit Atlanta's Mental Health Initiative.
Advance tickets available at:
Jahworld Trading Company
1611 1/2 Whiteway, East Point, GA 30344
404-577-3177
in historic downtown East Point
private
February 8, 2010 8:00AM - 11:00PM
Ninja Puppet Sexy Death - Install/Rehearsal
Ninja Puppet Sexy Death Puppet Show
February 9, 2010 8:00PM - - - Price: $5
Just in time for Valentines Day, Ninja Puppet Productions and T&A Productions present a wholly unique theatrical experience ...
The Sexy Death Puppet Extravaganza!
Join Mistress Sexy Death and her evil sexy minions as they present live puppet shows, films, burlesque, live music and comedy shenanigans, all related to what’s really important in life ... Sex and Death.
The evening will also feature art curated by MINT Gallery.
Showtimes: Tue Feb 9th 8pm
Wed Feb 10th 8pm
Thu Feb 11th 8pm
CinErotic celebrates beautiful, smart, sexy, surprising, titillating and artful independent films with erotic themes. The festival will showcase film and video by independent artists, especially cinema oriented towards women, queers, kinky folk, people of color, people with disabilities and non-mainstream sexualities. Submissions welcome, especially from Atlanta and Southern filmmakers.
Showtimes: Fri Feb 12th 8:30pm -- Queer as F**k
Sat Feb 13th 8:00pm -- Passion & Pleasures
Sun Feb 14th 6:00pm -- Kink-o-matic
***WORKSHOP FOR ARTISTS WISHING TO MAKE A PROPOSAL***
Atlanta Beltline, Inc., has posted a Call for Proposals seeking temporary works of public art in all media for exhibition this summer. Selected artists will be awarded stipends/materials costs.
This workshop will introduce the call and answer questions about the program.
Film Love: Mauricio Kagel Part 2
February 18, 2010 8:00PM - - - Price: $5
Film Love presents
MAURICIO KAGEL FILM MUSIC, MUSIC PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE FILM
Part 2: TWO-MAN ORCHESTRA
Musician as actor, composer as filmmaker, film as concert – the works of Mauricio Kagel constantly upend conventions and expectations. Often, his compositions are actually theater pieces, except played by virtuoso musicians in a concert hall rather than actors in a theater. He instructed musicians to play guitars with fan blades and coffee mills, and constructed giant instruments in which musicians were encased.
In addition to creating a vast compositional output, Kagel doubled as a film director, with typically mindblowing results. For the second night of a two-evening tribute to Kagel's music and film, Film Love presents an exceedingly rare screening of Kagel’s film Two-Man Orchestra.
In this film, two musicians are inserted into Kagel’s specially built one-man-band setups (of over 250 instruments!) which they control with their fingers, feet, legs, heads and any other possible way. Trapped in these enormous, overgrown constructions and dealing with their unpredictable malfunctions, the performers evoke everything from Charlie Chaplin to circus music to complete atonality in a virtuoso physical and musical feat.
PROGRAM
Zwei-Mann-Orchester (Two-Man Orchestra) (directed by Mauricio Kagel, 1973, 71 minutes) screened on DVD
Part 1 of Mauricio Kagel: Film Music, Music Performance, Performance Film takes place on Friday, February 12, 2010 at Georgia State University.
MAURICIO KAGEL: FILM MUSIC, MUSIC PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE FILM is a Film Love event. The Film Love series provides access to rare but important films, and seeks to increase awareness of the rich history of experimental and avant-garde film. The series is curated and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta by the critics of Creative Loafing in 2006, and is featured in Atlanta Magazine’s Best of Atlanta 2009. Archives of the series may be found at www.filmlove.org.
Regular Gallery Hours
February 19, 2010 3:00PM - 8:00PM Price: FREE
BANG! Launch Party - Come Fly Away
February 19, 2010 8:00PM - - - Price: $5 or pay what you will!
On February 19th, 2010, Bang! Arts Management and Promotions will be launching their company while raising funds for Eyedrum Gallery & Music.
There is an amazing group of people performing at various times in the night.
They include:
Mario Schambon (The Selmanaires), Sadie Hawkins (Blast off Burlesque) and Deisha Oliver (cellist) will collaborate in an improvisational aerialist musical act.
Jacosa and Kasumi Kato will perform on their trapeze and silk respectively.
Duncan Idaho (Atlanta), Aaron Whitehosue (Atlanta), Megan Jean & The KFB (Charleston), and The Mighty Bison (Canton) will perform their Avant- Indie Americana musical stylings.
DJ Rafiki Nasty
Linda Costa, Oliver, Heather Elder, Aaron Whitehouse, Angelyn Pass will display their lovely visual offerings.
There is a coat check (leave your coats in a safe place for $2!)
Several amazing groups from around town will have some materials for you to take home - like Gather Atlanta. You should check out this dang arts community - it's the bees knees.
The cost is cheap to get in, $5 - but you are free to give more if you want to... all proceeds go to benefit Eyedrum and it's programming.
Come - party with us, have a great time! Celebrate Bang! Arts Management and Promotions while we raise funds for Eyedrum!
Be well,
Deisha Oliver, Creative Director
Josh Coleman, Communications Director
PS Special Thanks to PBR for sponsoring this shindig! Ya'll are the greatest.
Art Sign the BeltLine 2.0
February 20, 2010 12:00PM - 7:00PM Price: Free
Join WonderRoot and friends for Art Sign the BeltLine 2.0. Artists and friends are invited to create pieces of artwork to raise awareness about the BeltLine. We will create 216 pieces of original public art to be installed at all BeltLine street crossings. Materials and supplies will be provided. Come one come all.
Regular Gallery Hours
February 20, 2010 1:00PM - 6:00PM Price: FREE
art closings
February 21, 2010 1:00PM - 6:00PM Price: FREE
last chance to see Chung Fanky Chak show in our main gallery and Ayed Hallim show in our small gallery
Regular Gallery Hours
February 21, 2010 1:00PM - 6:00PM
Marshmallow Avenue (afternoon kid's show)
February 21, 2010 3:00PM - 5:00PM Price: $5
Marshmallow Avenue invites children into a world of singing, fun, learning, and silliness. Comprised of elementary/early childhood music teacher Rebecca Puckett, and local rock guitarist Matt McWilliams, the band plays a mix of original songs and traditional favorites. Marshmallow Avenue songs gather inspiration from Rebecca's experiences in an environment where the age limit was 4, but the imagination was limitless. The band also brings to life familiar tunes like "I've Been Workin on the Railroad" and "Down by the Bay," reinterpreted with trombone antics, happy harmonies, and new rhymes. Ms. Rebecca and Mr. Matt hope to keep on making new songs, carrying on the inspiration of children's folk artists like Sharon, Lois, and Bram; Pete Seeger; Ella Jenkins; and other influences. The show incorporates kid participation in the songs as well as a number of fun interactive games. Marshmallow Avenue invites children and adults of all ages to enjoy this special show at Eyedrum.
There are still openings in this workshop. Sign up NOW before it's full! The fee is $140, due upon registration. DEADLINE Feb. 12th! This fee includes all the material necessary to build your own instrument, which will be your to keep.
The workshop duration: 4 hours (up to 16 instruments are 100% ready after this time space)
GENERAL INFO
The Home Swinger is project is a multi disciplined art event, where-in a group of people assemble their own 12 string electric instrument in a 4 hour workshop, under Landmans guidance, optional combined with a live performance with 10 of the participants playing an fast learned blasting noise drone composition referring to the sound of the early 80s instrumental Sonic Youth/Glenn Branca pieces. YouTube link of the group performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=akGeXtQxbNs
BIOGRAPHY
Yuri Landman (1973) started working for bands in 2006 and constructed unique instruments for Sonic Youth, Half Japanese, Lou Barlow, dEUS (Belgium), The Dodos, Health, Liars, Liam Finn (Crowded House), The Veils, Blood Red Shoes (UK), Enon, Micachu (UK), David Holmes.
Underground movie maker Vincent Moon (ATP) shot a documentary in August 2009, to be published in 2010. The MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) to be opened in 2010 in Phoenix AZ, will feature worlds largest instrument collection and has included the above mentioned instrument as a part of their collection.
This is the performance culmination of Wednesday's workshop. Yuri will perform on his custom instruments, along with workshop a participants. More details to come.
BIOGRAPHY
Yuri Landman (1973) started working for bands in 2006 and constructed unique instruments for Sonic Youth, Half Japanese, Lou Barlow, dEUS (Belgium), The Dodos, Health, Liars, Liam Finn (Crowded House), The Veils, Blood Red Shoes (UK), Enon, Micachu (UK), David Holmes.
Underground movie maker Vincent Moon (ATP) shot a documentary in August 2009, to be published in 2010. The MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) to be opened in 2010 in Phoenix AZ, will feature worlds largest instrument collection and has included the above mentioned instrument as a part of their collection.
NO regular gallery hours
February 26, 2010 3:00PM - - -
please come to the next art opening on Saturday evening
Film Love: Martin Scorsese
February 26, 2010 8:00PM - - -
Two portrait films by Martin Scorsese
Italianamerican and American Boy details soon!
The Film Love series provides access to rare but important films, and seeks to increase awareness of the rich history of experimental and avant-garde film. The series is curated and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta by the critics of Creative Loafing in 2006.
please join us at the next art opening on Saturday evening
Tierra Brutal, NO
February 27, 2010 9:00PM - - - Price: $5
Tierra Brutal is an instrumental rock band made up of three very different gentlemen with a mutual interest for sonic inquiry. Disparate backgrounds and musical tastes crystallize into a unique amalgamation of punk, psychedelic, ambient, improv, post-whatever... and becomes frozen into a noisy fudgesicle of sound.
- Neal Williams (drumsicle) played in numerous bands before Tierra Brutal, opening up for the likes of Don Caballero, Mono, Secret Machines and more. Tierra Brutal is his most rocking endeavor to date.
- Marshall Marrotte (bassicle) has played in lots of bands you have never heard of (Never?, Monument Valley, Desk Pussy, Zepubicle...) and that's just fine with him. As the elder statesman of the band he can confidently pronounce that "Tierra Brutal makes a damn fine racket."
- Peter Burghardt (guitarsicle) has been making music all over America. When just a teenager his highschool band embedded itself in the Minneapolis music scene, opening for bands such as The Hidden Chord and Sickbay. Later he moved to Chicago where he became an active participant in the Windy City’s experimental rock scene. Currently he lives in Atlanta where keeps it real by shredding with his band mates in Tierra Brutal.
No is made up of Glenn, Jeff & Vonda--three people who have played and toured together for quite some time in different noise rock incarnations in the Southeastern music scene. Miminal post-noise, post-whatever. Just listen.
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