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Jul 122013
 
Part of Josh Gumiela's 2012 Circuit Benders' Ball installation. Photo by Ryan Hogan.

Part of Josh Gumiela’s 2012 Circuit Benders’ Ball installation. Photo by Ryan Hogan.

Calling all new media artists! I’m partnering with Mike Kluge (Future Night at Boheme Collectif) to curate an electronic art show during the August 3rd Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl. The event is Wedgewood- Houston’s big push into the First Saturday art events. Participating galleries include Fort Houston, Zeitgeist Gallery, threesquared, Seed Space, the SNAP Building and Ovvio Arte.

Mike and I are curating a one-night show at the SNAP Building (South Nashville Action People), culminating with a performance by Watkins professor Morgan Higby-Flowers. Many thanks to Ryan Schemmel at Fort Houston for sponsoring our curation.

We’re now accepting exhibit submissions. We’re looking for interactive installations, circuit-bent gear, reactive video and sound sculptures, flashing lights and things that go buzz. Since the event is coming up so soon, we’re especially interested in work that’s ready to go. You can exhibit multiple works, and it’s ok if the works have been previously exhibited. This show is free and open to the public.

To submit, send an e-mail at tony@theatreintangible.com and tell me your name, exhibition ideas and any relevant links.

The gallery will be up from 6pm to 11pm on Saturday, August 3rd. Load in begins at 5pm and ends at 6pm. That’s not much set up time, so we encourage work that is easy to install.

Jul 122013
 
Praxis Practice,Frank Baugh, 2012

Praxis Practice,Frank Baugh, 2012

Theatre Intangible participant and Sparkling Wide Pressure / Horsehair Everywhere member Frank Baugh leads a double life as experimental musician and accomplished painter. Tonight at the Murfreesboro Center for the Arts, his two worlds collide as he opens his exhibit of new paintings with a live sound performance. Take a moment to view some of Frank’s recent paintings here — remarkable, beautiful, unique work.  As the press release states, in the exhibit titled “Stream Returner,” Frank Baugh aims to,

bridge the gap between his experiential world and the world of the unconscious mind through painting and sound manipulation. The exhibit’s opening will feature his most recent paintings as well as a live sound performance from the new album released by Japan’s Analog Path Records to accompany the event.

The opening happens tonight (Friday, July 12th) from 5-7 pm. More info on the Facebook event page.

Frank appeared on Theatre Intangible episode 73: Cuatro Ninos.

Stream Returner: New Paintings from Frank Baugh
July 12th, 2013, 5-7pm, free show
Murfreesboro Center for the Arts
110 W College St.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130

Jul 082013
 
Darcy Neal

Darcy Neal

There’s a great lineup at Springwater tonight featuring Texas-based cellist, instrument-builder and kinetic artist Darcy Neal; Theatre Intangible participant and Circuit Benders’ Ball alum Joey Molinaro; and up-and-coming Nashville psych rock band Linear Downfall.

Go have a look at Darcy Neal’s circuit-bent, kinetic, and animatronic art. It’s jaw-dropping. Here are just a few examples:

VictorianSynth

Victorian Synthesizer

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Darcy helped build this steel armature for a giant Mexican Red Knee Tarantula for her animatronic life-size dinosaur company.

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Tentacle Oscillator, a commission from Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.

Darcy also sells her own unique light theremin kits!

Nashville’s Linear Downfall carry Wayne Coyne’s seal of approval:

… Soon after, the band drove to Oklahoma and recorded with Wayne Coyne at The Flaming Lips frontman’s home studio. After this meeting, Linear Downfall was asked to join The Flaming Lips on a record-breaking one day tour, sponsored by MTV’s O Music Awards. The two bands met in Baton Rouge, LA, to play King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man” and the Flaming Lips/Lightning Bolt collaboration “I’m Working at NASA on Acid”.

Some of the Linear Downfall members are interested in participating in an upcoming Theatre Intangible improv. I’ll let you know more as soon as we put something together.

The bill also features local noise rock band Onri. More info on the Facebook event page.

Linear Downfall, Onri, Joey Molinaro, and Darcy Neal
Monday, July 8th, 2013, 10pm
Springwater Supper Club
115 27th Ave N, Nashville, Tennessee 37203-1410

Jul 082013
 
Tyler Blankenship's sound sculpture. Photo by Sarah McDonald. sarahmcdonald.net

Tyler Blankenship’s sound sculpture. Photo by Sarah McDonald.

Last Friday’s Future Night at Boheme Collectif may not have had as many interactive installations as originally planned (only four of the eight artists I listed here presented), but luckily, what they did have was amazing. I recorded some video of the installations with my Samsung Note phone and compiled it into a YouTube video. Check it out below.

Featuring the works of (in chronological order)

Part of Mike Kluge’s Future Night: Experimental Art & Music Showcase, July 5th, 2013 at Boheme Collectif in Nashville, TN.