Eyedrum
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Eyedrum is a non-profit art space and venue
in Atlanta, Georgia focused on contemporary art
and experimental music
ranging from contemporary chamber music
, sound sculpture
to drone noise music
, and art rock
. Up until Jan. 1, 2011, they were located in the Old Fourth Ward
district, and had three art galleries and one space for music and performance. They hosted approximately 180 events yearly . Established in 1998, Eyedrum is one of the longest running is art and performance spaces in Atlanta run by volunteers.
Eyedrum often organizes events in collaboration with various community partners. Examples include the annual Listening Machines events with Georgia Institute of Technology
, Henry W. Grady High School
art department, The Film Love series of art films, Besides visual art exhibitions and performances it also hosts film, lecture events and other related activities. Monthly they have an improvisation night focused on the exploration of experimentation of music and sound. In the past it hosted the Table of the Elements
Festival and the Rogue Independent Music Festival
. Live performances from various acts such as Ken Lockie
, Hubcap City
, Bill Taft
& Tunnels were recorded at Eyedrum and later on released as live albums.
Eyedrum's structure is unique, in that it is an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff. The board of directors is a working board, with members meeting monthly and handling virtually every aspect of running the space, from programming and promotions, to accounting and fundraising, to mopping the floors and taking out the trash.
Eyedrum is currently looking for a new space, and in the interim, has been hosting "Satellite" events (aka "Eyedrum Elsewhere" events) and various venues around Atlanta, including 364 Nelson Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30313 in Castleberry Hill, The Goat Farm, Beep Beep Gallery and The Music Room at Pizzeria Vesuvius.
Music venue
A music venue is any location used for a concert or musical performance. Music venues range in size and location, from an outdoor bandshell or bandstand or a concert hall to an indoor sports stadium. Typically, different types of venues host different genres of music...
in Atlanta, Georgia focused on contemporary art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
and experimental music
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
ranging from contemporary chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
, sound sculpture
Sound sculpture
Sound sculpture is an intermedia and time based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse...
to drone noise music
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...
, and art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
. Up until Jan. 1, 2011, they were located in the Old Fourth Ward
Old Fourth Ward
The Old Fourth Ward, often abbreviated The Fourth Ward or O4W, is a neighborhood stretching east from Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The Old Fourth Ward is one of the city's most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, but is also one of the city's most eclectic, containing a burgeoning nightlife district...
district, and had three art galleries and one space for music and performance. They hosted approximately 180 events yearly . Established in 1998, Eyedrum is one of the longest running is art and performance spaces in Atlanta run by volunteers.
Eyedrum often organizes events in collaboration with various community partners. Examples include the annual Listening Machines events with Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
, Henry W. Grady High School
Henry W. Grady High School
Henry W. Grady High School is located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in Midtown. It serves as the Communication Magnet school for the Atlanta Public Schools...
art department, The Film Love series of art films, Besides visual art exhibitions and performances it also hosts film, lecture events and other related activities. Monthly they have an improvisation night focused on the exploration of experimentation of music and sound. In the past it hosted the Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements is an American record label. It concentrates on re-released and specially recorded experimental music, including many of the great avant garde musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries — John Cale, Tony Conrad and La Monte Young, for instance — as well as...
Festival and the Rogue Independent Music Festival
The Rogue Independent Music Festival
The Rogue Independent Music Festival, also known as Rogue Fest, was a two-day festival of progressive rock and art rock held annually in Atlanta, GA from 2002 to 2006....
. Live performances from various acts such as Ken Lockie
Ken Lockie
Ken Lockie born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England is a singer/songwriter and keyboard player, singer of New Wave band Cowboys International.-Cowboys International:...
, Hubcap City
Hubcap City
Hubcap City is a band from Atlanta, Georgia that formed in 2000 after the end of Bill Taft and Will Fratesi's previous band, Smoke.- History :...
, Bill Taft
Bill Taft
Bill Taft is an American rock musician living in Atlanta, Georgia.-Biography:In 1982, Taft moved from Ohio to Atlanta to attend Emory University. His first band of note was The Chowder Shouters, whose instruments included garbage cans...
& Tunnels were recorded at Eyedrum and later on released as live albums.
Eyedrum's structure is unique, in that it is an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff. The board of directors is a working board, with members meeting monthly and handling virtually every aspect of running the space, from programming and promotions, to accounting and fundraising, to mopping the floors and taking out the trash.
Eyedrum is currently looking for a new space, and in the interim, has been hosting "Satellite" events (aka "Eyedrum Elsewhere" events) and various venues around Atlanta, including 364 Nelson Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30313 in Castleberry Hill, The Goat Farm, Beep Beep Gallery and The Music Room at Pizzeria Vesuvius.