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The Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta (EAAA)
Feb 2002 - June 2003

 

 

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From January 2002 through June 2003, I helped to organize the EAAA, which started with an email list and a monthly event at the Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Matthew Jeanes, Rob Clemens, Grant Aaron and others were instrumental in getting the momentum going, especially Jeanes who did most of the web and poster design and also helped to organize many events. Tim Pedersen and Nat Slaughter also helped greatly with poster design.

 

The group [sort of] lives on in Atlanta on this mailing list...

 

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Group Statement:

The EAAA is a forum dedicated to the transmission of ideas, music and visual art that utilize electronic means and methods to create and manipulate sound and light. The EAAA presents an opportunity for artists to present their current work in the domain of audio and visual experimentation, while also serving as a place for artists of all disciplines to meet and exchange ideas, with the hope that such contact will stimulate further creation, collaboration, and exploration. The EAAA meets every third Monday of the month at Atlanta's Eyedrum art and music gallery and is open to proposals for performance, presentation, and discussion that highlight individual and collaborative involvement in the electric arts of Atlanta.

 

Website ------ http://www.theEAAA.org (not active anymore)
List-Serv ---- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electric_Arts_Alliance/

 

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The Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta: Event Abstracts

 

2.18.02 — Game-On!

Press Release

 

photos by Christopher White

 

 

The first portion of the evening consisted of the video and sound of Figure 1.1, masterminded by the husband-and-wife duo of Rob Clemens and Waleuska Pallais. This was followed by the group performance described below...

 

For our first EAAA event at Eyedrum we decided to initiate a "game-piece" where groups were formed by dividing the 12 participants into 3 teams with 4 members. The performance, entitled Community, was divided up into 2 rounds: 'Round 1: Individual' and 'Round 2: Group'. During each round, the three teams were assigned one 'Term', a basic word or concept, from which they were to either loosely or rigidly base an 8-to-10-minute improvisation. A list of possible Terms was formulated and distributed about two weeks prior to the event:

 

Individual: Solitude, Masturbation, Addition, Silence, Free Will, Clone

 

Group: Sex, Mob, Conformity, Conversation, Structure, Personal Space

 

The teams were formed 3 weeks before the EAAA event so that team members could become aquainted and could, if desired, devise a game plan or strategy for each of the possible scenarios ('Terms') that might be encountered. The resulting 6 improvisations, lasting a little under 2 hours, with a 15-minute intermission between Rounds, was an incredible success and served as an invaluable way to introduce all of the electric artists involved and to expose all of their very diverse talents to one another. Portions of the event were later aired on public access PeopleTV in Atlanta on the program 'Electronic Music Television', produced by Jack Robertson.

 

Participants in the performances (broken up into teams: [ Wonder Arillo, Oshine, Adam Overton, Waleuska Pallais ], [ Rob Clemens, Ian Epps, Kevin Wills, Bryan _?_ ], [ Grant Aaron, Matthew Jeanes, Chris Shivers, Christopher White ]

 

 

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3.18.02 — Christopher Devoe and CandyPants

 

This show was the first of our individual artist performance series. Christopher Devoe is a solo artist who performs his songs using sequencers, drum machines, keyboards and samplers with sampled and homemade sounds. The music he produces (all from the recent self-released album, Inception.Date) is at times nostalgic and always extremely groovy.

 

The laptop duet CandyPants (a.k.a. Tim Pederson and Joe Fish) performed a blend of noise and laptop generated and manipulated Drum'N'Bass.

 

 

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4.15.02 — KIOSK!

Press Release | A.O. Code Examples

 

 

 

Kiosk! served as an Electric Arts trade show with five presenters (out of the 7 or so that signed up) setting up their wares around the perimeter of Eyedrum's gallery space while audience members walked around and listened over headphones at the individual "booths". Audience members were invited to ask questions about what they were hearing and the means used to produce the sonic results. For example, at one kiosk audience members were invited to manipulate and create their own remixes of the artist's work using the computer keyboard and some effects processors. At another, the artist explained the GUI for his homemade DSP patch. Meanwhile, each kiosk presenter was also required to send a single signal out to the mixer of Eyedrum's P.A. system so that it could be mixed in real-time by a rotating cast of DJs. This led to an unexpected and often chaotic sonic mix of the various activities that were going on around the room.

 

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For KIOSK! I presented two demonstrations using different SuperCollider patches. The first one, The Samuel Barber Remix, used the patch WarpFreezeBufN (also used in the Drawing Marathon) to sample, granulate and manipulate a live input playing from a Samuel Barber CD with Adagio for Strings on it. WarpFreezeBufN is a program that I worked on between February 2002 to June 2002 and presents two channels of manipulation, one for granular processing, and the other for variable loop-point manipulation. It comes with various aux-sends to filters, delays, etc.

 

 

I also intended to present the patch, NyQuilCarnival00245, but the music it generated was generally pretty soft, and after a few minutes of battling with the P.A. system that was pounding out a realtime mix of everyone's contributions on the other side of the room, I resolved to move back to The Samuel Barber Remix. NyQuilCarnival00245 was my first attempt (after about one Sunday afternoon's worth of experimentation) to do delve into the algorithmic opportunities presented by the 'Patterns' in SuperCollider.

 

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5.20.02 — Meet the Artist 1.0: Richard Zvonar and Dan Walsh

Bios / Handout | Press Release

 

 

This was the first of our Meet the Artist series. Los Angeles composer Richard Zvonar presented a PowerPoint slide show that outlined his past work as a Ph.D. student at UCSD in the 1980s in the areas of intermedia performance and electroacoustic improvisation, as well as his more recent work with multichannel spatialization and within the programming environment, Max/MSP.

 

 

Atlantamedia artist Dan Walsh discussed and demonstrated his current work in real-time audio/video performance using the programming environments, Max/MSP and Nato. After some discussion of his approach, he made several short performances with a ensemble consisting of 2 guitars and drums. Max/MSP processed the guitars while Nato generated and modified the visual projection by using the drumset's fluctuating dynamic levels to affect various parameters.

 

 

 

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6.17.02 — All Small

Press Release | All Small Press

 

 

 

photos by Stan Woodard

 

photos by j. smiley

 

The EAAA's All Small was held in conjunction with an art exhibition of the same name at Eyedrum, curated by Richard Gess and Lisa Alembik, whose main criteria for submission was that art and sound works had to have dimensions no larger than 6 inches or durations no longer than 60 seconds. The EAAA responded with our own version of the All Small theme by presenting performances by four groups of electric artists that delved into the realms of simple sounds, "microsound," amplified inaudibles and circuit-bent children's toys.

 

Featuring:

• MODIFY - Jack and Michael Robertson - Simple sounds and drones
• Jonathan Smiley - Circuit bending and chip hacked learning machines
• Andy Ditzler and Adam Overton - Without A Trace: An amplified sound improvisation in three movements
• Granulated Sugar a.k.a James B. Parker and Kevin W. Wills - Close Encounters of the Micro Kind

 

 

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7.15.02 — SciFi Remix

Press Release

 

 

 

Science fiction served as the theme and inspiration for the EAAA in July 2002. Some participants chose to perform original soundtracks to abbreviated versions of classic sci-fi films, while others chose to create their own science fiction videos with original music. The result was an interesting array of approaches to the SciFi Remix theme.

 

 

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8.18.02 — Nat Slaughter, Jonathan Smiley, and Franklin Lopez

Handout | Press Release

 

 

 

Nat Slaughter presented his piece, Straight Lines, a work realized using field recordings he collected while traveling in Thailand, China, and Italy which he then processed in Csound.

 

Jonathan Smiley presented his music using an interesting array of home-made, circuit-bent children's toys. Franklin Lopez joined Smiley on stage to provide live, frenetic video counterpoint to Smiley's sonic performanc.

 

 

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9.16.02 — Electric Performance Art Night

Press Release | Handbill | Overton: Hair.Ritual.No.38

 

 

 

The EAAA's Electric Performance Art Night presented several performance art pieces, all of which somehow utilized electronic media. Performers included Seaberg Acrobatic Poetry, Cecelia Kane, White Crane Style, Robert Cheatham, Andy Ditzler, and Adam Overton.

 

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10.21.02 — Meet the Artist v.1.1: Oliver Smith and Robert Cheatham

Press Release | Handbill

 

 

 

Oliver Smith: Selected film and video work: 1999-2002 & Robert Cheatham: A survey of his installation and sculpture work, and the performance of 'Harpazo' for saxophones and electronics

 

 

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11.02 — The Atlanta Electric Arts Festival 2002

Press Release for entire festival | Article/Interview on EAFest

 

 

To celebrate SEAMUS' ElectroAcousticMusic Month the EAAA decided to host Atlanta's first ever Electric Arts Festival, featuring six EAAA-sponsored events in November and the beginning of December at various venues around the city.

 

 

 

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12.16.02 — Vinyl Sighting: Experiments in Turntablism with Marshall Avett and Faust & Shortee

Press Release

 

 

 Marshall Avett presented a performance using 6 vintage turntables, a couple times including volunteers from the audience to perform conducted turntable pieces. Faust and Shortee (a.k.a. Bobby and Shannon) are a reknown husband-and-wife turntablist duo that travel the world spinning and scratching. They performed and discussed some of the basic techniques of vinyl manipulation.

 

 

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1.20.03 — L'Objet Sonore Artist Talk

Artist Talk Press Release | In-Depth Info on L'Objet Sonore | Press / Reviews

 

 

L'Objet Sonore (Sound Object) was a sound sculpture exhibtion at Eyedrum (January 18 - February 21, 2003) curated by Adam Overton in coordination with the Georgia State University School of Art and Design, whose sound art exhibition Pulse Field ran simultaneously in the university's two galleries. The artist talk on January 20, 2003 included presentations by Marshall Avett (Atl), Will Eccleston (Atl), Chantelle Minarcine (Atl), Douglas Repetto (NYC) and Charlie Smith (Atl). Other artists who were in the exhibition but absent from the artist talk included Catherine Bechard & Sabin Hudon (Quebec), Xavier Charles (France), Xan Deeb (Atl), Kevin Jacques (England) and John Mallia (Boston). For in-depth information regarding the exhibition and the artists involved, please click here...

 

 

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2.17.03 — 'Greetings and Best Wishes' from Ouie Dire and Andy Ditzler, Adodi Muse and the Clayton State College Theater

Press Release

 

This event marked one full year of monthly Third Monday Electric Arts events that had begun in February 2002 - it also marked the end of that streak, as it was followed by a 3-month break from EAAA programming. It included a performance by the French sound art collective, Ouie Dire [Jean Pallandre (phonography), Xavier Charles (clarinet), and Marc Pichelin (analog synthesizers)] and served as the CD-release party of an Atlanta Sound Postcard created by the group (they were just finishing a residency at Georgia State University as part of the Pulse Field sound art exhibition; Charles had also contributed a piece to the sound sculpture exhibit, ); the event also featured a multimedia performance and commentary on greeting cards by Andy Ditzler, the ADODI Muse Gay Negro Ensemble and the Clayton State College Theater Department.

 

 

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6.03 — The EAAA Legacy Series (5 Mondays in June)

Press Release for entire series | Creative Loafing Article

 

 

This series marked my final organizational effort with the EAAA before I moved to Los Angeles for school. I decided to cram in as many performances and lectures by people who I had wanted to have as a part of the series for quite some time, but had been unable to work into the schedule so far. In the end they all met the criteria of having been active, influential and pioneering Electric Artists in Atlanta for quite some time, so the series was titled the EAAA Legacy Series. The participants included (in order of appearance) Dick Robinson, Howard Wershil, Robert Cheatham & Richard Gess, Marshall Avett & Tony Gordon, Don Hassler, Neil Fried and Steven Everett, and included lectures on and concerts of past and present work. The point was to remind Atlantans of the vitality that has always existed here, whether acknowledged or not, and to shed some light on where we have come from and where, perhaps, we might be going...

 

 

 

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June 2003 was my final month programming for the EAAA - to find out more on events following these or to keep up with upcoming EAAA activities, check out the EAAA website and/or join the EAAA list-serv...

 

tags: EAAA, curate, project

 

 

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