TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS Festival No.4
DAY 2: Carnivals of Ecstasy - Tony Conrad and the New York Underground
An Evening in the 1960s Underground
Hosted by Tony Conrad (New York)
plus a musical performance by Hubcap City (Atlanta)
SEE Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures" in 16mm and Ira Cohen's "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" in a new version! SEE the premiere of a new work by Cohen!
HEAR soundtracks by the legendary Tony Conrad and Angus MacLise!
SEE and HEAR Tony introduce the films!
Angus MacLise in Ira Cohen's "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda"
Tony Conrad has been a key figure of the New York avant-garde since the early 1960s. He is well-known as a musician for his role (along with John Cale, LaMonte Young and others) in the Dream Syndicate, and as a filmmaker he created 1965’s classic “The Flicker.”
Lesser known is the fact that Conrad played an important role in the creation of works by other filmmakers, some of which are among the most popular and enduring avant-garde films of the 1960s. Frequent Small Meals and Table of the Elements are proud to host Tony Conrad for a unique event at Eyedrum. Conrad will introduce films by Jack Smith, Ron Rice, Piero Heliczer, and Ira Cohen – films in which Conrad appears or for which he did soundtrack work.
** Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures” is one of the most controversial films ever made. Groundbreaking for its polysexual imagery, it is widely admired today as a prime example of the artistry, humor, and visual brilliance of this visionary director and performer. “Flaming Creatures” will be screened in its original format of 16mm, along with Ron Rice’s “Chumlum,” a sumptuous pre-psychedelic work from the early 1960s with a typically charismatic Jack Smith performance.
** Like "Chumlum," Ira Cohen’s “Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda” features a musical score by the legendary percussionist (and Conrad collaborator) Angus MacLise, best known as the original drummer for the Velvet Underground. J. Hoberman of the Village Voice called MacLise’s score a “masterpiece of Tibetan-Moroccan-Druidic trance music [which] truly blossoms in conjunction with the exotic smorgasbord served at Cohen's psychedelicatessen.” The evening also features a world-premiere of a new Cohen work, “Brain Damage.”
** Piero Heliczer’s 1967 “Joan of Arc” features a mesmerizing soundtrack by Conrad. This extremely rare film has not been screened outside of New York in many years and represents one of Conrad’s finest musical performances.
program:
PART 1
Joan of Arc (Piero Heliczer, 1967), 15 minutes, 16mm (screened on DVD)
Chumlum (Ron Rice, 1964), 22 minutes, 16mm
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963), 42 minutes, 16mm
PART 2 – Ira Cohen premieres
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, expanded edition (Ira Cohen, 1967/2006)
Brain Damage (Ira Cohen, 1960s/2006)
Ira Cohen films screened on DVD
Carnivals of Ecstasy is a Film Love event and is part of the Table of the Elements Festival #4. To purchase tickets, please visit http://www.tableoftheelements.com/
For more information on this program please contact Andy Ditzler at
andy@frequentsmallmeals.com
Presented by Table of the Elements with Frequent Small Meals
A limited quantity of advance, five-day passes are on sale via the TOTE site.
Mario Montez in Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures"
regular gallery hours
September 2, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Table of the Elements Festival, Day 3
September 2, 2006 8:00PM - - - Price: $16
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS Festival No.4
DAY 3: Propellers In Love
Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army (Paris, France)
Deerhunter (Atlanta)
One Umbrella (Austin)
Charlemagne Palestine: Filmworks
As part of Day 3, Frequent Small Meals presents a program of film and video featuring soundtracks and performances by composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine. Moira Tierney's "American Dreams #3," an evocation of New York on September 11, 2001, was cited in the 5th annual Village Voice Film Critic's Poll. Pip Chodorov's "Charlemagne 2: Piltzer" is a tour de force of hand-processed film which documents a Palestine piano concert. Chodorov uses flicker, negative/positive imagery, different printing techniques and colored filters to produce a film that is a true merging of sound and vision.
program:
American Dreams #3 (Moira Tierney, 2002), 5 minutes, 16mm
Charlemagne 2: Piltzer (Pip Chodorov, 2002), 22 minutes, 16mm
other works TBA
A limited quantity of advance, five-day passes are on sale via the TOTE site.
images from "Charlemagne 2: Piltzer" by Pip Chodorov (2002)
monthly show on WREK 91.1 FM
September 3, 2006 7:00PM - 9:00PM
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.
This month ... 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!
Table of the Elements Festival, Day 4
September 3, 2006 7:00PM - - - Price: $16
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS Festival No.4
DAY 4: Slow Dazzles
World Premiere, Rhys Chatham's Essentialist (Paris)
Tony Conrad (New York)
Leif Inge (Oslo) 24-hour concert "9 Beet Stretch"
Robbie Land (Atlanta) 16mm Film/Sound Performance
A limited quantity of advance, five-day passes are on sale via the TOTE site.
Robbie Land in performance
Robbie Land’s performance consists of 16mm film projections, three 16mm magnetic audio tracks, contact microphones, reel-to-reel audio player, guitar amplifiers, video projection and other elements to create a visual and sonic environment. Time-lapse 16mm images of rural locations are accompanied by multiple audio tracks from the rural setting.
Table of the Elements Festival, Day 5
September 4, 2006 8:00PM - - - Price: $16
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS Festival No.4
DAY 5: The Thundergods
Japanese New Music Festival, Ver. 4
Acid Mothers Temple SWR (Tokyo)
Ruins Alone (Tokyo) with
Akaten, Zoffy, Zubi Zuva X, Seikazoku, Shrink Wrap (Tokyo)
Fourth Annual Esplanade Memorial Goat Roast/Low Country Boil
A limited quantity of advance, five-day passes are on sale via the TOTE site.
regular gallery hours
September 6, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
open improv; Rants, Raves, and the Funk of the Gos
September 7, 2006 9:00PM - - -
Rants, Raves, and the Funk of the true Gospel
regular gallery hours
September 8, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
regular gallery hours
September 9, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Atlanta Film Colloquium
September 9, 2006 8:00PM - - - Price: $3
Atlanta Film Colloquium 2: Last Days of Summer
Wittness the second installment of Atlanta's most festive original film series with six new films made from six vastly different visions. Learn how the Nybo protocol, the Dripps Dutch Dolly and the Sanchez Reversal all have to do with exploring the human condition.
After, discover the music of DJ Duvateen Dream plus Summer in Split and rewind with a rare late screening of AFC1's shorts.
Doors open at 8p, AFC2 films 9:30p with music after.
Small Gallery show ends
September 9, 2006
ending date.
reserved
September 11, 2006 9:00PM - - -
KONX rehearsal
reserved
September 12, 2006 7:00PM - 9:00PM
meeting
regular gallery hours
September 13, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Pink Eye Queer Film Series presents: GIRL GANGS!
September 13, 2006 7:30PM - 11:30PM Price: $6 or sliding scale
Pink Eye presents:
GIRL GANGS!
An evening of fab movies about tough girls, plus Good‘N’Plenty burlesque, DJ Hawg-Tied, food by Ria’s Bluebird, beer and wine. Featuring hot girl gang movies: YoYo Gang by queercore pioneer G.B. Jones (Toronto), punk celeb-studded Gang Girls 2000 by Katrina del Mar (NYC), and burlesque-sploitation SuperStarlet A.D. by John Michael McCarthy (Memphis).
Info Demo 2.4
September 14, 2006 9:00PM - - - Price: $3
THE INFO DEMONS PRESENT
INFO DEMO VERSION 2.4
“little things mean a lot”
Good things come in small packages, but the Devil is in the details. Are you mired in minutiae? Have you been suckered by the small print? How did the Cooper Mini get so big? What about that little lie that turned into a huge argument? Or Jack’s little bean that brought giants down on his head? They all laughed at “Fantastic Voyage,” but with the advent of nano-technology, who’s to say that Raquel Welch won’t soon be driving her submarine into an artery near you? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and how can you get a camel through the eye of a needle?
(Only the God of Small Things knows.)
Christopher “Size Matters” Stevens and Terra Elan “Micro-Mini” McVoy, a.k.a.
The Info Demons, invite you to join them to explore the little things...
Presenters Include:
Birdy from Good n' Plenty doing a wee bit o' burlesque
Al Kaufman on being not-so-well-endowed
Amanda Burk giving us a walking tour through tinyisms
Deidra Currie on the importance of small things
Terra Elan McVoy on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Musical performances!
Readings and poems!
Prizes!
INFO DEMO: A LITTLE OF THIS, A LITTLE OF THAT, A LOT OF FUN!
regular gallery hours
September 15, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Arthur Doyle/ Ed Wilcox/ Jamie Harrar, Konx
September 15, 2006 9:00PM - - - Price: $6
photo ctsy carbon records
One of our favorite saints of free jazz Arthur Doyle returns for his first show in Atlanta in....well, a long time.
In late 60s NYC Doyle skronked out the jams with sci-fi free no wave legends The Blue Humans. Perfect Sound Forever calls his sound "a mixture of African folk song delicacy and pure Albert Ayler overload." We would have to agree. For this performance Mr. Doyle will be collaborating with Ed Wilcox, head percussionist with Temple of Bon Matin, and multi media artist Jamie Harrar.
+ Robert Cheatam's jazznoise bastard Konx reunites, fuses, and explodes all over our stage just when we finally cleaned them up from 3 years ago.
regular gallery hours
September 16, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Opening reception: Alison Weldon
September 16, 2006 6:00PM - 8:00PM Price: free
Small Gallery opening reception.
Alison Weldon
She's A Beaut!
The images are derived from 1950s-era pin-up illustrations. The pieces exhibited are drawings created with pin and thread, traditional materials used in and for domestic tasks. By using these materials in conjunction with the images, I create a dichotomy between the traditional comfort of the models' beauty and the aggression inherent in the weapons they wield. This juxtaposition not only magnifies the power of the models' beauty, but also illustrates how their beauty, like the weapons they hold, can be used as a tool.
Till October 7th.
Crumbling Arches/Sulfuric Acid Test
September 16, 2006 9:00PM - 11:00PM Price: $5
Four knights set off in quest for the holy grail three years ago. They left on this forespoken quest from the deep dark holes of the Atlantian caverns, armed with only a few butter knives and spoons. Now, they continue their quest armed with new weaponry, and you can find them slaying dragons and wooing damsels with their newfound and powerful swords of theatrical rock in a venue near you.
Oh yea, and these knights have been recording a full length concept album for over a year, sign up for their mailing list and they'll give you updates on when and how the new tunes shall be released and where new shows will sprout up.
SULFURIC ACID TEST: by Paul Stanley Kubrick & CyberCrunk
Asks the Question: “WHAT IS REAL”?…
By blurring the lines even further between entertainment, journalism, media, domestic and foreign policy-politics…the movement of the youth in music art and film remind the powers that be; that there always has to be a new and better way to live…yet today, much of the pop culture only promotes a blind pursuit of profits and an acceptance that violence is a necessity, with few other options.
WHY?, who profits from this?…
WHAT subjects are of lessor importance? economic and moral bankruptcy in our countries leadership?..
How does Sulfuric Acid Test approach this illustration of our media age environment? by pushing the definitions of what makes up a song?, and what is a songs purpose ?..what makes up a genre of music? And what are it values really saying?. Exploring the boundaries of “reprocessed-media”, who owns it? and when. If they sell it to us, and we pay for it, can we alter its original form into collage and sell it back?..Artists have wrestled with this question for as long as art has existed…
so, take the test yourself, take the SULFURIC ACID TEST. And ask yourself…
this performance is produced by damusictheater
(crispin & mary mae)
regular gallery hours
September 20, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
LANGUAGE HARM
September 20, 2006 8:00PM - - - Price: $4
SPECIAL GUESTS: Deidra Lynn Currie and Kristin Gorell
really bad feelings
shame, guilt, terror
really bad feelings
melancholia, ennui
really bad feelings
hatred, denial, stress
really bad feelings
ethical exhuastion
really bad feelings
greed, envy, jealousy
really bad feelings
quarterly performance evaluations
really bad feelings
like there is something else alive inside me
really bad feelings
. . . will be explored, accepted, refuted and most of all struggled with, poetically, during this edition of Language Harm.
A.C.M.E. / Hubcap City
September 21, 2006 9:00PM - - - Price: 5
regular gallery hours
September 22, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
1906 event
September 22, 2006 8:00PM - - -
On the evening of September 22 ,the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot join the Atlanta arts and culture community for an evening of performance, poetry and more to commemorate the events of 1906 in a spirit of honest reflection, conciliation and healing. Alice Lovelace will be your host for the evening.
regular gallery hours
September 23, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Human Rights' dance party / benefit
September 23, 2006 10:00PM - - - Price: $5
Human Rights Dance Party
Join us in remembrance of the "1906 Atlanta Race Riot Centennial" and in celebration for moving the "Human Rights" agenda forward from yesterday, to today, and beyond tomorrow affecting policy and inspiring hope. Dee-Jays Jeff Myers and Chris Nicholson of JazzSpace+Bass along with special guests will make this night one of the best parties in Atlanta this fall. This event is not to be missed. $5.00 cover, free for coalition members. Proceeds to benefit the continued operation of Eyedrum!
Doors 8:00pm, Music 10:00pm.
reserved
September 25, 2006 8:00PM - - -
rehearsal for INDIEmove
artist development panel: Community Collaborations
Panelists: Jeff Mather, Helen Helwig and Lillian Blades
Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Time: 6:30 - 8 pm
regular gallery hours
September 27, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Justin Peake / GFE
September 27, 2006 9:00PM - - - Price: $7
Justin Peake is a multi-talented producer from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Peake mixes acoustic and electronic free jazz precisely with cutting edge machinery as well as working and performing as a drummer. His versatility is noteworthy. As a drummer, he works in traditional and free jazz groups, electronic ensembles, and filling in occasionally with local rock outfits, while maintaining an active production schedule for his solo work and other recording projects. Laicos Lamina is the newest of his projects, taking the sounds of Peake's beatmaking and improvised sample performances and unifying them into a display of his personal musical undercurrents.
Peake also received a college degree in philosophy. His experimental interests mostly involve cognitive circuitry, aesthetics, perception, improvisation, and environmental modeling. He engineers custom software modules in order to acheive his visions.
http://www.justinpeake.com
Also:
GFE:
Jeff Bradley: double bass
Scott Burland: pedal steel guitar/electronics
Robert Cheatham: sax, keybs, vocals
Kevin Haller: guitar/electronics
Bob Hulihan: electronics
Milton Jones: percussion
John Lowther: turntables
Feminist Women's Health Center Benefit
September 28, 2006 8:00PM - - - Price: 12
The FWHC Presents…
The 10th Annual CHOICE Celebration Thursday Sep. 28th 2006, 8pm-12am
Eyedrum Gallery
All ages admitted
Tickets $10 in advance/ $12 at the door
This fall, get ready for the hottest party of the season—the 10th annual CHOICE Celebration! It is certain to be HOT because never before has a party been so necessary!! In spite of the enormous amount of progress that has been made over the past three decades towards ensuring reproductive justice for the next generation, 2006 has seen a steady decline in that progress, as various policies and laws have been reversed or adjusted in ways that disadvantage women. As the year comes to a close and upcoming elections draw near, we celebrate the progress we have already made as well as the many opportunities for further progress that lie in our future!
There will be food and drink, door prizes and a silent auction, live music and performances, belly dancing and ordinary dancing ’til the AM!
Get ready to celebrate 10 years of young women's leadership! Join us for food, drink, door prizes, silent auction, live music, performances and dancing until the midnight hour. With performances by Theresa Davis, Michelle Friedman, dr. madelyn hatter, Jamarah Armani and The Eyes!
Everyone is welcome! So if you would like to enjoy a spectacular evening, invite your friends to stop by, eat, drink and be merry -- while fighting for justice -- with the Feminist Women's Health Center ...
Established in 1977, the Feminist Women's Health Center is a not-for-profit organization designed to empower women through service, education and advocacy. As Atlanta’s leading non-profit feminist women’s health resource, it has earned an outstanding reputation for providing quality care and community education while working to improve women's health.
regular gallery hours
September 29, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
dance: INDIEmove
September 29, 2006 8:00PM - - - Price: 8
1. indieMOVE ... In our creations, we attempt to remove the predetermined. Our movement is your lense though which we reveal ourselves and how we interact with the world. We are not absurd; we are bordering on silly; we are far from classic; we are authentic.
2. In the fall of 2005, Molly Schneider Perez and Sarah Ash Evens launched indieMOVE...an independent movement project. They premiered Car Rides II; Durable Merge at "Mosaic," a showcase of Atlanta choreographers, produced by Duende Dance. They also performed in "Café Medusa," a celebration of woman in the arts, and at "The Field," under the direction of Lori Teague.
3. Premiering New Work : "They are our friends, our roommates, and our confidants. Who cares if they lick their own crotches, if pooping in front of someone poses no cause for discourse, and if they possess more hair than the guy with the man sweater at the pool?? They are our pets dammit! And we love them. Please join us for our premiere piece where indieMOVE is exploring all things that encompass pets."
1906 Race Riots Show ends
September 30, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
last chance to see the art show!
regular gallery hours
September 30, 2006 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Tunnels w/Outpost 9
September 30, 2006 9:00PM - - - Price: $12
A quartet of inventive musicians who produced sounds on the edge of jazz, Tunnels was the brainchild of Swiss vibraphonist and percussionist Marc Wagnon and bassist Percy Jones (Brand X), who was an essential element of the first recording put out by the band, titled With Percy Jones and released in 1994. Drummer Frank Katz, and multi-instrumentalist and composer Van Manakas were also brought on board and helped develop the spastic fusion style that would be evident on Tunnels' second album, Painted Rock, which was released by Wagnon's label, Buckyball Music, in 1999. The group resurfaced in 2002 with the release of Progressivity, which featured notable appearances from guitarist John Goodsall and violinist Mark Feldman.
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Combining Progressive Rock, Ambient Minimalism and World Beat sensibilities, Outpost 9 orchestrates unusual sonic inventions employing a combination of traditional rock instruments and digital technology to forge new tonal pulses along the time/space continuum.
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