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More April Events! Nashville Film Festival, Jason Lescalleet, Shearwater, Daniel Bachman, Robert Bond & more!

 Concerts, Noa Noa, Visual Arts  No Responses »
Apr 182013
 

ElectroDance

I don’t have a great deal of time, so here’s a quick list of events coming up in the next two weeks.

To summarize, the Electro Dance party is happening at my place, Noa Noa house; thrash violinist Joey Molinaro was just added to the bill; and Nashville Film Festival badge-holders get in free. | Daniel Bachman is a wonderful guitar instrumentalist. | Phantom Farmer is a new project by Joel McAnulty of By Lightning and De Novo Dahl. Lylas, one of Nashville’s best bands, is opening. | Fond Object is a record store and arts collective founded by The Ettes’ Coco Hames and Poni Silver, visual artist Rachel Briggs, and others. There will be bands. Including Promised Land. | Space is the Place is James Cathcart’s far-out dance night at The Stone Fox. | Chris Corsano is a drummer. One of the best you will ever see. By all means go to this! | Jason Lescalleet blew the lid off of Cummins Station with his VERY LOUD experimental/tape loops/noise/drone set last year. What will he do at The Owl Farm? Don’t miss him! | Shearwater is one of the best bands in the U.S. of A., and they’re headlining the hard-to-find-info-on Sewaneeroo at University of the South. Frontman Jonathan Meiburg (Sewanee class of ’97) will give a talk on 4/25 called “The Moth and the Milky Way: In Search of the Obvious in Nature and Art.”  | Zeitgeist Gallery’s Indeterminacies series welcomes producer/composer/musician Robert Bond. He’ll perform with a group of school children in China via Skype.

Stay tuned for an in-depth post about the Nashville Film Festival.

April 18th – 25th:

Nashville Film Festival!

Friday, April 19th:

Electro-Dance Party feat. Scale Model, Nudity, Joey Molinaro, The Prime Ordeal
@ Noa Noa (house), 620 Hamilton Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203

Daniel Bachman/The Promised Land/The Cherry Blossoms
@ Brooke and Casey’s, 3409 Keystone Ave.

Phantom Farmer, Lylas, Cale Tyson, Mark Sloan
@ The Stone Fox 712 51st Ave N., Nashville, Tennessee 37209

Saturday, April 20th:

Fond Object Records Grand Opening
@ Fond Object 1313 McGavock Pike, Nashville, Tennessee 37216

Make-a-thon: A festival of Creativity
@ Williamson County Public Library System, 1314 Columbia Avenue, Franklin, Tennessee 37064

SPACE IS THE PLACE (DJ James Cathcart)
@ The Stone Fox 712 51st Ave N., Nashville, Tennessee 37209

Tuesday, April 23rd:

Chris Corsano/Leslie Keffer/The Cherry Blossoms
@ DJ’s Pub and Grub 3736 Annex Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37209

Wednesday, April 24th:

Jason Lescalleet/Terrorish/Paul McCullars
@ The Owl Farm 811 Dickerson unit i, Nashville, Tennessee 37207

Saturday, April 27th:

Shearwater @ Sewaneeroo
@ Sewanee: The University of the South, TN

Sunday, April 28th:

Robert Bond Indeterminacies feat. Denny Jiosa and Ma’anshan Middle School No. 2, Anhui Prov. China
@ Zeitgeist Gallery 516 Hagan Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

VORTEX Percussion Performs George Antheil’s “Ballet mécanique” feat. 8 Robotic Pianos! April 7th at Blair School of Music

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Mar 232013
 

Blair Vortex VORTEX and the Bad Boy! George Antheil's restored Ballet mécanique

I’m going to call it. The April 7th Blair School of Music event VORTEX and the Bad Boy! will be the most ambitious, satisfying, and important Nashville event of 2013. People will talk about it for years. Those who miss it will regret it for years.

How can I be so sure about that?

Well, for starters:

  • Blair Percussion VORTEX director Michael Holland organized last year’s John Cage Centennial, the most important event of 2012.  This lobby musicircus featured over 75 performers, and that was just the pre-show!
  • The April 7th event centers around the groundbreaking 1924 experimental film and musical composition Ballet Mécanique, directed by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy and scored by George Antheil.
  • The film will be projected with LIVE orchestration, featuring 8 PLAYER PIANOS, 13 live musicians, xylophones, bass drums, electric bells, airplane propellers, and more!
  • This is the original restored orchestration and film in its southeaster US premiere, only the 6th US production featuring the original orchestration with the film.
  • The daylong symposium features a myriad of events, including a Q&A with Paul Lehrman who used robotics and MIDI processing to make the original Ballet mécanique playable again; an Antheil documentary; a presentation by MuTant project director Arshia Cont on how computers have learned to play along with human musicians; and a lecture by Rice University Art History professor Gordon Hughes, author of “The Painter’s Revenge: Fernand Léger For and Against Cinema.”
  • A invading army of robots will take over the Blair campus, presented by the Middle Tennessee Robotic Art Society.
  • The lobby features an interactive movie installation by Greg Pond and Benton C. Bainbridge, featuring custom-designed 3D printed parts.
  • The lobby also features interactive audio compositions by Liz Clayton Scofield.
  • The concert program features 6 additional compositions including works by Brian Blume, Henry Cowell, Nigel Westlake, John Cage and Lou Harrison, and Felix Mendelssohn.
  • Mendelssohn’s Saltarello-Presto will be played by 8 robotically controlled pianos, arranged by Paul Lehrman.
  • Brian Blume’s Strands of Time [video] and Nigel Westlake’s Moving Air [video] combine live percussionists with prerecorded soundscapes.
  • The entire event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

I STRONGLY suggest you come early to secure your seat. With the success of last year’s John Cage Centennial and the enormous buzz around VORTEX and the Bad Boy, Ingram Hall may reach capacity well before showtime.

You can find out more on the Vanderbilt Blair School of Music website.

Blair Percussion VORTEX presents the Southeastern U.S. premiere of George Antheil’s restored Ballet mécanique
Sunday, April 7
Blair School of Music (across from the intersection of 25th and Blakemore/Wedgewood, Nashville, TN)
1:30-5 p.m., Ballet mécanique mini-symposium, Choral Hall
6:45 p.m., Robotics, Music, New Media Art, Ingram Lobby
8 p.m., VORTEX concert, Ingram Hall

Scott Smallwood’s Solar Powered Sound Installation “hideout” opens Friday at Seed Space

 Circuit-Bending, Visual Arts  1 Response »
Mar 142013
 

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Nestled in the heart of Nashville’s burgeoning arts community NoHo* (NOrth of HOuston Street), Chestnut Studios gallery Seed Space continues to book exciting sound and video art. If Seed Space curates it, it’s definitely going to be interesting.

But when I read about the Scott Smallwood installation opening this Friday, my jaw dropped. Scott’s a sound artist, composer, inventor, and performer, and he’s worked with some serious badasses: Pauline Oliveros, John Butcher, Joe McPhee, Cor Fuhler, Phil Gelb, Todd Reynolds, and Mark Dresser.

Scott builds his own electronic instruments, sound installations, and even musical video games. hideout, the piece he’s unveiling Friday night at the opening reception is

a quiet, immersive soundscape based on environmentally-empowered sound circuits. Evoking the structural acoustics of hidden, safe zones in nature and architecture, these sounds can evoke feelings of safety and security, as well as a heightened sense of intrusions from outside sources.  As one adapts to the quiet sounds that are often masked or silenced by the presence of crowded social spaces, the piece is also subtly interactive, as the sounds are directly responsive to the presence of light in the space and changes of light distribution through the presence of shadows, reflections, and absorption caused by movement through the space.

If Scott’s previous creations are any judge, hideout will be an art opening you won’t want to miss. Salivate over the video clips of Scott’s work below and then go over to the Seedspace page for more info.

Scott Smallwood’s hideout
Opening Reception Friday, March 15th, 6-8 pm.
hideout will show March 15 – April 29.

Seed Space Gallery
427 Chestnut Street, Nashville, 37203

* Yes, I made that up. Yes, I am shamelessly trying to make it stick.

Tonight at 1st Saturday Art Crawl: Jerkwater Burg “Temporary Hyper-Reality” 2012-11-03

 Brick Factory, Visual Arts  No Responses »
Nov 032012
 

If you give most 1st Saturday Art Crawls a skip, consider making tonight an exception! For one, tonight is the last aftercrawl party to take place at Brick Factory’s Cummins Station location. They’re already in the process of moving to the neighborhood which houses Chestnut Studios, Infinity Cat Records, United Records Pressing, and house venue Noa Noa. I scoped out the new digs yesterday afternoon, and the space is MUCH larger than the Cummins Station pad. There are multiple rooms, making way for a dedicated wood shop, art gallery, photography studio, stage, and much more. I can’t wait until Brick Factory opens to the public again!

For two, tonight’s Art Crawl features the intriguing “temporary hyper-reality” environ Jerkwater Burg. An experiment by local artists including members of Blacktooth Records, Square People, and Fly Golden Eagle, the Burg will take over Open Gallery in the downtown Arcade tonight from 6pm to 9pm. I’ve been incorrectly pronouncing and spelling it “Jerkwater BUG” until this very moment. In fact, I had to correct the spelling in all the spots I wrote it above. Is the Burg already screwing with my mind?!?!

I can’t do any better than the description on the Facebook event page:

The evening of November 3, Open Gallery will play host to an environment built up of corporeal experience. ‘Jerkwater Burg’ is the collaboration of Nashville artists, under the guise of Blacktooth Records (in the archival sense), who work in varying mediums, combining their abilities in order to manipulate multiple senses with the hope of wholly influencing and enhancing the physiological, psychological, and emotional state of its audience. It is not a gallery showcase, but a temporary hyper-reality, designed to encourage its inhabitants to feel something new, something strange.

In ‘Jerkwater Burg’ an attempt is made to house an environment not unlike what Alan Watts described as, “the experiencer and the experience becoming a single, ever-changing, self-forming process,” one where the situation is familiar – semiotically, artistically, etc. – but unlike the unification of the place and person, we desire a slight discomfort with what we call the Arpeggio of Meaning while still holding belief in the singular experience. Magical. Curious. Off-putting. Inviting. A kind of forcing of an unconscious suspension of disbelief.Our idle frustration with our own inability to project a concrete meaning on experiences is fascinating to us, and in our current age we think that many others feel the same. Perhaps it is that these affects exist entirely outside of logistics. We invite you to explore ‘Jerkwater Burg’.You may accidentally find yourself in the middle of Jihad or adorning yourself with Mimosa in the springtime. Perhaps you’ll discover your lover to be too coquettish in this space, or that all your friends are a pale mutiny of dispossessed voidoids hatched in a misty somewhere between fictive and mundane. And we know you’ll want to help – we do too, that’s the idea – but we can’t help, and we view all these attempts at meaning as banging your head against a wall: it’s nice when it stops.The more unsure we are of the exact spacial province we’re inhabiting, the further into the ‘liminal hinterland we go. You have to know it feelingly in these ugly, mystifying times and the last thing we want to do is rest on our laurels when it comes to this slug we’re trying to salt.

Yes, I know. This could go either way. But I’m a sucker for experiential art ala St. Louis City Museum, and I’m placing my bet that this exhibit will be the most talked about Art Crawl show in a long time. The folks behind Black Tooth Records haven’t steered us wrong yet.

Jerkwater Burg
6pm-9pm, free

Open Gallery
The Arcade
244 5th Ave. N.
Nashville, TN 37219

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