Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery
Saturday, January 8th
9pm, $5, All Ages
RICHARD DEVINE
FIVE12 and KEEP ADDING
SUIT & TIE GUY
PHONEPUNK
MR. MIPS
RICHARD DEVINE-
Once a daring skater kid from Atlanta, now a computer
science student/pioneer-to-be, Devine found electronic
music and has reinvented it in his own way. In the
latter part of his 28 years, he learned to build,
manipulate, and master the machines of modern music.
In the process, he has refined himself with the
affiliation of some of today's more respected musical
establishments. This year he worked with director Kyle
Cooper on a Disney film project, remixed Aphex Twin,
Matthew Herbert, Slicker, and Phoenecia to only name a
few. He masterfully orchestrates a titanic array of
rapidly moving information, cleverly channeling it
into an organized stream of sound. There are seemingly
endless layers of rhythms, spanning every notch of
frequency, spiraling around one another like complex
DNA strands hinged together in a grid-like lattice.
Never competing, never repeating the same phrase. The
result is amazement, awe. The human mind can only
process so much information at one time. Devine knows
this well, it is one of his sonic weapons. It is a lot
like optic art, when the eyes are fed too much data
and the overload produces a prismatic, entrancing
effect. "Entrancing" is not the word you would think
to apply towards music whose elements rarely repeat
themselves, but the groove is there, like a strange,
mechanical funk music, and everything else revolves
around it. Like a million minuscule sounds, obediently
marching to the cadence of a heavy step. The music is
in the beat itself. It is "funk for robots", a broken
and restructured music. Mathematically reconstructed
with futuristic tools conceived by a highly evolved
mind. For this, Richard Devine has become something of
a hero to the overqualified working underclass,
because he shows us a glimpse of a world where those
with technological skills rule.
?Richard Devine is generating the same kind of
excitement that Slayer did in the early 1980's"
http://www.richarddevine.com
FIVE12 & KEEPADDING-
Five12 is a small company located in Albuquerque, NM.
It was founded on February 15 of 2001 and focuses on
software development and consulting. Keepadding are an
artist collective based in New Mexico. Their work
includes digital prints, analog prints, graffiti art,
collage, and site-specific works. They often
incorporate themes of surgery, architecture, wreckage,
and the organic into their works. Come and watch these
guys nerd out!
http://www.keepadding.com
http://www.five12.com
PHONEPUNK-
Phonepunk's music is made up entirely of noises from
(wait for it) phones, creating noises that run the
gamut from ambient sound space to pop boogey-rock.
Automated operators, quarters careening down slots,
switchboards, receivers being slammed and flicked,
touch-pads sequenced melodically and the awe-inducing
hum of the dial-tone are fair game for a surprisingly
polyphonic embrace of low-tech communications
technology.
http://www.supermadrigalbros.com/
SUIT & TIE GUY-
Suit & Tie Guy hails from Peoria, IL, the toughest
town on the vaudeville circuit. Conceived to either a
Barry White or a Donna Summer album, he feels the tug
of both traditional soul music and the robotic rhythms
of Berlin in the 1970s. He started playing electronic
music at punk rock shows in Peoria during the thriving
mid-nineties post-grunge scene when using electronic
devices was frowned upon by his peers. In an effort to
solve the problem of not being able to find show
promoters who were friendly to him, he became a punk
rock promoter himself and is still listed in Maximum
Rock & Roll's Book Your Own Life. His experience as a
supper club organist (with the Suit & Tie Guy Band, an
organ/guitar/drums trio still in active duty on the
pub front) has a positive impact on his electro music
by giving the rhythmic elements more of an acid-jazz
flavour than you may expect of an electronic musician.
http://www.suitandtieguy.com
MR. MIPS-
Taking on dual roles as both promoter and performer,
James Parker, aka Mr. Mips, brings the 000110010011
flavor to Atlanta like no other. Forcing his laptop to
belch-forth a swirl of squishy, squirmy and otherwise
bodily sounds, Mips' contrast of organic clatter
filtered through a vast array of digital dynamite is
absolutely impeccable. He's a big dick-head too.
Visit
http://www.tightbros.net for additional
information
view flyer here:
http://www.tonearmrecording.com/sittingduck/events/2005/images/Five12-Summit.jpg
Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery
291 MLK Jr. Ave., SE
Atlanta, GA 30312
(404) 522-0655
http://www.eyedrum.org
Eyedrum?s programming is supported in part by the City
of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
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