Pencil This In: Experimental Film + Sounds Around Town
Yes, it's cold and rainy, but if you venture out tonight you'll be rewarded with these great sights and sounds:
ART
The Ups & Downs, a two-day installation series curated by Mathew Timmons, continues tonight at the workspace gallery in Lincoln Heights. Tonight’s exhibit features the exhibit “You and Them” by Janne Larsen. “This installation is about elbows, the least friendly part of the body; elbows on the freeway, the least social social-interaction. Let’s face it: In the freeway it is You or Them. Body parts are at high risks, morphing into the space of the car, you maneuver and try to out-strategize Them. The last figure in the installation is the hopelessly ideal. The one that is the Other. The unused body part, the dreamer, the drifter, the asleep at the wheel, the one no one talks about.” The exhibit’s opening reception is tonight at 7 pm, and the closing reception is tomorrow at 7 pm.
FILM*
There’s a night of experimental film and drums happening at the Velaslavasay Panorama tonight at 8 pm. LA filmmaker Kate Dollenmayer will present her projected and hand-cranked film loop installation inspired by Oskar Fischinger's Walking From Munich to Berlin with a live acoustic score by local percussionist and multimedia composer Ross Karre. In addition to Dollenmayer’s work, Chicago animator Jodie Mack screens tiny and medium experimental animations, including "Yard Work is Hard Work," a musical made with cut-outs. Drummer Corey Fogel will then improvise a live score when Mack conducts a series of live film experiments. Tickets are $10. x
HAWAIIAN MUSIC
It’s GRAMMY weekend and tonight at the GRAMMY Museum celebrates music from the Hawaiian islands in “Hawaii Goes GRAMMY: A Tribute to Hawaiian Music” featuring performances by current GRAMMY nominees in the Best Hawaiian Music Album category -- including Amy Hanaialii, Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Led Kaapana and Mike Kaawa and Milton Lau. The musicians will talk about their music and perform as well. This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7:30 pm with the event at 8 pm. To reserve tickets, please contact 213.765.6830 or e-mail programs@grammymuseum.org.
SOUND ART
CalArts' Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) presents sound art pioneer Yasunao Tone and composer Marina Rosenfeld in a two-day program of innovative and unconventional electroacoustic and cross-media work from REDCAT and CalArts. Tonight at 8:30 pm at REDCAT Marina Rosenfeld performs while Yasunao Tone performs tomorrow evening at the same time. Rosenfeld will bring a "'phonographic speaker,' a rotating horn device whose arcs of electroacoustic sound, emitted at 33-1/3 rpm, emulate the graceful, leisurely tempo of an LP." Opening for Rosenfeld are Tom Recchion, "a pioneer in low-tech sonic exploration; and K. Atchley's Turtles, a multi-channel, laptop concert work in which manipulation of the amplitude and spatial placement of sine wave tones effects harmonic and timbral changes.”
INDIE BOOKS
There’s an Independent Book Fair opening reception tonight at 6 pm at the MOCA Pacific Design Center. Hosted bt ART CATALOGUES, the reception kicks off this three-day book fair event. Mingle with publishers, artists, and book dealers, and enjoy music by T. Kelly Mason. The reception is free, but an RSVP is requested.
FIRST FRIDAY
It’s the first Friday of the month, meaning that the First Fridays series continues at the Natural History Museum tonight. It’s a little gathering where you learn a little and party a whole lot more. First up at 5:30 pm is a tour of the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection with NHM Curator Dr. Lawrence Barnes. At 6:30 pm, there’s a discussion and book signing on “Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters” with Dr. Don Prothero, tackling evolution, creationism and “intelligent design.” Now after all that learning, grab yourself a drink and listen to the live music from 7-10 pm featuring the music of Jukebox the Ghost and The Bird and the Bee with DJs The Phatal DJ and DJ Michael Stock (dublab.com) in the African Mammal Hall. If you see our News Editor Andy Sternberg in the crowd, wish him a happy birthday and buy him a beer!
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