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2.18.02 -- Game-On!
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photo by Stan Woodard
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 ]
3.18.02 -- Christopher Devoe and CandyPants
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CandyPants (Joe Fish and Tim Pedersen) - photo by Stan Woodard
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.
4.15.02 -- KIOSK!
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poster art by Matthew Jeanes
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.
5.20.02 -- Meet the Artist 1.0: Richard Zvonar and Dan Walsh
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poster art by Matthew Jeanes
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.
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Slide of piece by Richard Zvonar circa mid-1980s - photo by Stan Woodard
Atlanta media 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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Performance by Dan Walsh and his band - photo by Stan Woodard
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