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Friday at Centennial Black Box Theater: Mark Volker, Carolyn Treybig, Hyrkamonsta, Dig Deep Light Show 11-08-2013

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Metro Parks Music and Theater Program Coordinator Mike Teaney has organized another great Free Form Friday, taking place on November 8th at 8 p.m. in the Centennial Black Box Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

Friday’s event features Mark Volker & Carolyn Treybig at 8 p.m. and Hyrkamonsta at 9 p.m. Friends of Theatre Intangible Dig Deep Light Show will provide the liquid light visuals.

Mark Volker is the Coordinator of Composition and Assistant Professor of Music at the Belmont University School of Music, where he teaches applied composition and music theory. Mark’s music has been performed and recorded by numerous performers around the world, including the Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, eighth blackbird, the Pacifica String Quartet, Musica moderna Poland, the New York New Music Ensemble and the Nashville Ballet. Mark’s music can be heard on his Centaur Records CD, Elemental Forces, as well as on volume 3 of ERMmedia’s Masterworks of the New Era series. Mark’s acclaimed ballet based on The Diary of Anne Frank is currently being performed by members of the Nashville Ballet in schools around Middle Tennessee. — Belmont Faculty Page

Dr. Carolyn Treybig is an Adjunct Instructor (Flute) in the Belmont University School of Music. She is an Altus Flutes Performing Artist, performing regularly with the Belmont Chamber Winds, and has performed with the Nashville Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, Duo Brilliante and Belmont Organ Trio. Dr. Treybig has presented clinics and masterclasses at high schools, universities, and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, and has served as an adjudicator for concerto competitions and MTNA performance competitions. — Belmont Faculty Page

Hyrkamonsta: Absolute aural improvisation fueled by the imagination of six Nashville based musicians, an exclusive experience each and every performance. The music is often a progressive fusion of psychedelic Rock greatly subjected to Jazz, R&B, World and Electronica influences. A mixture of twisted digital and analog circuitry, paired with profound insight and decades of collective experience, give rise to the musical beast known as Hyrkamonsta. — Via band website.

Hyrkamonsta features Peter Hyrka, RePete (aka Black Cat Sylvester), Chris Tench, George Bradfute, Dave Colella, and Dustin Michael.

The first Free Form Friday was September 13th, 2013. That event featured Concurrence and Dig Deep Light Show.

More info on the Facebook event page.

Freeform Friday feat.
Mark Volker & Carolyn Treybig, HyrkaMonsta, Dig Deep Light Show
Friday, November 8th, 2013, 8pm, Free show

@ Centennial Black Box Theater
Centennial Park inside Centennial Arts Activity Center
On 27th Ave, right after Springwater Supper Club

First Saturday “Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston” 11/02/2013

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Shelby Shadwell “Auniversal Picture 7” @ threesquared

My neighborhood will be bustling Saturday, November 2nd for the fourth Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston. Participating galleries include Infinity Cat Records, Zeitgeist, Cleft Studios, Fort Houston, Ground Floor Gallery, threesquared and an after party at Track One. Look for a map at any participating gallery for the full list.

The crawl is from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Track One will stay open until 11:00 p.m.

Here are a few highlights:

Infinity Cat Records
467 Humphreys St., Nashville, TN 37203

This Saturday night at the Infinity Cat Visitors Center there will be a show of photographic prints by Julia Bee. Fans of JEFF the Brotherhood, Apache Relay, Mumford and Sons, The Vaccines, and Old Crow Medicine Show will be able to view (and purchase) photos from last Saturday’s epic night of rock. Julia Bee is a local photographer who’s been shooting Nashville’s dirtiest, grittiest, gnarliest shows for years. At age seventeen she began shooting for Nashville’s Dead and continued to expand reach into the photographic community. Shooting only traditional 35mm film, she develops and prints all of her work in her own darkroom, and will be opening Nashville’s first community-based darkroom in the coming months at Fort Houston (with the help of friend and fellow photographer Bekah Cope). This weekend, armed only with a camera and ten rolls of film, she followed supergroup Salvador Dali Parton through their entire three day craze of writing, rehearsing, and performing. Salvador Dali Parton is Jake Orrall, Mike Harris, Winston Marshall, Justin Hayward-Young, and Gill Landry. — Infinity Cat Press Release

Track One
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
1209 4th Ave S, Nashville, Tn 37203

Light Adapted – Projection Art by Black and Jones (Kell Black and Barry Jones), Jonathan Rattner, Kelli Hix, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Michael Hampton, Mika Agari, Zack Rafuls and Josh Gumiela. — Press release from Track One.

If you liked our Bring Your Own Beamer show at Track One a few months ago or our ON/OFF electronic art show at S.N.A.P. Center for the first Wedgewood/Houston art crawl, you’ll love this showcase of projection art. Curators Josh Gumiela and Morgan Higby-Flowers participated in those previous shows, and they have some amazing things cooked up for Saturday night. Trust me. Don’t miss this.

Ground Floor Gallery
Chestnut Square Building

Conditionally Human — A juried exhibition featuring Richard Brouillet, Chris Burks, Aletha Carr, Julie Cowan, Liz Heller, Kelly Hider, Ryan Hoevenaar, Laney Humphrey, Nathan Madrid, Elysia Mann, Miriam Norris Omura, Mary Robinson, Liz Clayton Scofield, Bridgit Stoffer, Denise Tarantino, Ross Turner, Jake Weigel, Cathleen Windham and Fotios Zemenides.

This exhibition juried by University of Texas at San Antonio professor Libby Rowe is sure to be one of the highlights of the crawl. Bring Your Own Beamer and ON/OFF participant Liz Clayton Scofield will unveil a new work.

threesquared
Chestnut Square Building

Auniversal Picture – new large-scale drawings by Shelby Shadwell, Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wyoming. Shadwell actively exhibits across the nation and was recently featured in the International Drawing Annual 5 and 6 publications through the Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had a solo exhibition in February 2013. — threesquared press release.

Zeitgeist Gallery
516 Hagan Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

Shade Models by Patrick DeGuira is made up of paintings, collage and sculpture and investigates the concepts of memory, time and language. It deals with the creation of impermanence in one’s historical makeup.

Reckonings by Gieves Anderson is a series of images made by photographing wet paint. The photograph freezes the fleeting moment when the paint is at the height of it’s vitality and allows the artist to share an intimate, ephemeral moment in the life of a painting causing one to think about paint as something other than an end product. — Zeitgeist press release.

Fort Houston
500 Houston Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

Fort Houston is pleased to present Unit 2 (part 2): From the High Chair to the Electric Chair, an exhibition of a model society designed by David Duncan, Ron Cauthern, and other prisoners on Tennessee’s death row.

Constructed from materials permitted by prison authorities, including painted cardboard, plastic, and pasted paper, the miniature city offers a view of the society from the standpoint of individuals it has condemned to death. In a series of episodic vignettes, it traces a dispiriting, but familiar path from the housing projects through the playgrounds and schools and ultimately to the prisons and execution chambers. In this piece, the artists describe a social landscape where a persistent lack of opportunity becomes an engine of criminality and incarceration, where the downtrodden are continuously subjected to surveillance and control, and where social and political failures destroy lives. Overall, the ensemble suggests that our courtrooms, prisons, and execution chambers will never be empty until our institutions take responsibility for society’s most vulnerable citizens. It argues that social and political failures inaugurate a cycle of poverty and incarceration that frequently repeats itself from one generation to the next.

The diorama advances this critique while aspiring to introduce its audience to some of the dismal realities of contemporary poverty and imprisonment. As David Duncan had remarked, “I don’t want children today to learn about this cycle after they’re in prison.” — Fort Houston press release.

Fort Houston will also feature multimedia artist Bill Vincent‘s amazing projection-mapped Nashville skyline.

Cleft Studios
444 Humphreys St, Nashville, TN 37203

New Work by Rbt. Sps. and Christine Rogers

This is shaping up to be one of the best art crawls of the year! Here’s an area map to help you plan your route:

Tonight in Nashville: Experimental Filmmaker Leighton Pierce and Documentary Filmmaker Les Blank

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Tonight you face a tough choice.

7 p.m. at Vanderbilt’s Wilson Hall, you have experimental filmmaker Leighton Pierce in-person screening his latest film. Laura Hutson has the details at Country Life.

7 p.m. at Fort Houston, you have the final installment of Les Blank Film Month: Rare 16mm screenings of Blank’s short roots music docs. Laura Hutson, once again, has the details at Country Life.

You know what I’ve noticed? Nashville Scene arts editor Laura Hutson always seems to be on-point with news on the best local art happenings. So much of her hard work goes unsung, and I just want to take a moment to say we’re incredibly fortunate to have this NYC transplant in our city.

As if the decision for tonight weren’t difficult enough, you also have the final screening of Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason tonight at 6:25 p.m. at the Belcourt.

I want to split myself into three pieces and attend everything. As it happens, I’ll be at the Les Blank screening filling in for Kelli Hix on projector-operating duties. Let me know how the other two events go!

Help Radio Free Nashville Broadcast Citywide!

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WRFN’s 2005 barnraising. Photo by futurequake.com

DJ, programmer and board president Scott Sanders has grown to love his idyllic countryside commute to Radio Free Nashville, the Pasquo, Tennessee low-power FM station 30 minutes southwest of Nashville. He uses the time to finalize the set list for his next Hold the Funk radio show. Every October, Scott trades the regularly-scheduled golden age funk for a monthlong celebration of gospel music. Last week, he used his commute to preview songs on dozens of gospel CDs strewn over the passenger seat — CDs such as the box set Goodbye, Babylon and selections from the archival record label The Numero Group. It’s all about finding connections between the songs, the same topic, a lyric, similar fuzz guitar sounds, Scott told me as we talked over a beer last Saturday at Craft Brewed Nashville.

If you want to hear Scott’s show in Nashville, you’re probably out of luck. 107.1 WRFN’s 100 watt signal isn’t powerful enough to reach the entire Nashville area. On top of that, the frequency is plagued with interference from a higher-wattage station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

In 2005 Scott, a number of other future DJs, and volunteers from the media advocacy group Prometheus Radio Project — one all the way from Japan — erected the small studio building in rural Pasquo. In April of 2005 after eight years of planning and licensing, they turned on the transmitter and signed onto the airwaves. (Learn more about WRFN’s history in this barnraising video.)

The subsequent eight years have been enormously successful. As a Pacifica Network affiliate, WRFN broadcasts popular syndicated shows like Democracy Now, Project Censored and Counterspin. They produce quality local programming like Angie Dorin’s Cat Beast Party, which was recently dubbed the Best Radio Show Hardly Anyone Can Hear in the 2013 Nashville Scene Best of Nashville issue. There are specialty music shows, talk shows, local music spotlights, a fitness show, a dog-training show and an upcoming film review show that only covers movies streamable on Netflix.

But that success is choked by a tiny coverage area. For the last eight years, this has been a simple fact of life, nigh-impossible to change under strict FCC regulations.

Until now.

A few years ago, the FCC opened up a window to apply for a few available translators in the Nashville area. Translators augment a signal’s coverage by rebroadcasting on another frequency. A friend of WRFN said what the hell and applied, thinking he had no chance to be granted a license.

By some stroke of good fortune, he was granted a license, and he generously agreed to use the translator to expand WRFN’s signal to all of Nashville. The only remaining obstacle is the significant cost of equipment involved in the expansion.

WRFN recently launched an IndieGoGo campaign to raise the $20,000 needed to make the expansion a reality. I’d like to encourage you to donate as much as you can afford. Nashville lost its only citywide community station when Vanderbilt University’s WRVU sold its FM license in 2011. A citywide WRFN would fill the dire need of a community-driven, non-profit, socially-conscious radio station in Nashville.

Before Theatre Intangible was a podcast, it was a show on 91.1 WRVU Nashville. I spent many late-night hours in WRVU’s on-air studio, and I know how big of a loss that’s station’s FM signal was to Nashville. Many DJs felt disenfranchised with Vanderbilt Student Communications’ duplicitous handling of the FM sale. I have heard Vanderbilt alumni say time and time again that they refuse to donate money to their alma mater because of WRVU’s gutting. While that sends a strong message to the university, reallocating your donation to WRFN’s expansion would send an even stronger message. Many disenfranchised WRVU DJs have already found success on WRFN, including Angie Dorin with Cat Beast Party and, for a time, Pete Wilson with Nashville Jumps and myself with Theatre Intangible. By donating to WRFN, you are supporting a station focused on community outreach. Anyone can be a DJ. Scott Sanders told me he believes WRFN is a tool for the people to express themselves. It’s not about siphoning money to some big corporation. It’s about education, advocacy and exploration. WRFN DJs can be as creative as their imaginations allow. There’s no red tape. No ad dollars influencing content.

Radio Free Nashville’s IndieGoGo currently has 40 days left , and they need your help to reach the $20,000 goal. If we let this opportunity pass, there’s no telling when Nashville will have another chance at a citywide community FM station. Show your support by donating today.

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