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DOUBLE BUMMER THURSDAY 08.20 @ HUSH / DARK BABYLAND

August 16, 2009 – 9:09 pm



DOUBLE BUMMER is Djing this Thursday 08.20 @ HUSH ( above VICE on 6th )

DOWNLOAD NEW MIX : DARK BABYLAND

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Tracklist :
Jimmy Hotz – Night Passage
Ovuca – Ocean of Hedgehogs
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Zed – Plastic Love
The Bubonic Plague – Polyhedron
Nash the Slash – Swing Shift (Soixant – Neuf)
Under For – Free-Force Structure
Twisted Wires – Oh Hell
Oppenheimer Analysis – Cold War
Medio Mutante – Frozen Cities
IMS – Nonline
Syclops – Wheres Jason’s K
Patrizia Pellegrino – Automatic Amore
Gatekeeper – Mirrors
Jacula – In Cauda Semper
The Cure – Cold
Chris and Cosey – Walking Through Heaven

NOTICE :

Be on the lookout for a September show with :

Twisted Wires ( MEGASICK Houston band recently signed to Italians Do It Better )

Cry Blood Apache ( DUHH )

Psychic Violence ( ex Knife Party / Navajo Radio )

S U R V I V E ( 4 Peice Synth Dictatorship ;-P )

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EXTRA! EXTRAORDINARY!

April 28, 2009 – 9:25 pm

William Meadows’ Fusebox performance:

Sound In Hand: A Performance with WiiMote and Wacom

ping pong balls, twirling tubes, writing tablets that talk

So… Jaap Blonk, Laurie Anderson and Robert Ashely go on a meditative hike together in the forest. Except it’s not the forest; it’s technology.

“Knowledge of the technical makes creativity possible.”
—Josef Svoboda (1968)

I just got back from a surround sound journey through real and imaginary ping pong, adolescence crushes described in a Gertrude Stein mentality, protons and photons, poetry, techno and video exploration. A soundscape landscape into William Meadows’ brain as he contextualizes, synthesizes and expands upon past performances at Church Of The Friendly Ghost and New Music Coop.

Meadows, a sound engineer, manipulated the space into a super sonic masterpiece of a room. ART AUTHORITY HAS NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD. They will have to take it all apart and put it “back to normal” after that performance.

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First Lady Friends Series May 10 @ CotFG!

April 21, 2009 – 4:18 pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SUNDAY MAY 10, 2009
The first in an all new series with Church of the Friendly Ghost:

Lady Friends #1
Number One of Four in the series

Who:
Amanda Mora
Amy Annelle
Aditi Tahiti
Lisa Cameron / LA

Where:
Salvage Vanguard Theater: 2803 Manor Rd.

When:
Sunday, May 10th 2009 / Doors open at 8pm / $5

Why:

From May to August, Church of the Friendly Ghost presents a series featuring female artists who push the boundaries of art and music. Too rarely are experimental art and new music events in Austin female-centric. In order to at least temporarily reject this truth, (and at best, spark a renaissance) the series stems from the desire to experience several evenings of performance from female artists.

The primary goal is to provide these artists with a space to expand their art form while providing the audience an panoptic impression of the work that women are producing in Austin and points beyond. Lady Friends will focus on media art, performance art, and music that is thought provoking and original. This series will include experimental bands, filmmakers, solo performers, and improvisers.

Additionally, CotFG aims to contrive a new point of ingression for the female arts community that coincides with a focused forum for discourse and networking. The series will culminate in August with our final show as an evening of improvisational works by an all female cast. Alissa DeRubeis and Amanda Lewis are the principal curators.

Picture 9

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Chrome Genie, Venison Whirled, and More at Salvage Vanguard

January 13, 2009 – 10:17 am
Chrome Genie

Chrome Genie

A rare treat tonight at ye olde church, Chrome Genie is coming in from San Franthizzco to play his mayhem at the Salvage Vanguard Theater with Venison Whirled and others. Thank the Church of the Friendly Ghost for putting this together.

From Chrome Genie:
“Chrome Genie (b. 2011) is calling himself Internet Posture™ for this performance. He has founded record labels (Bats Inc, Freewater Trust Group, Gemini Soft Overalls, etc.), and currently is listed in thirty-six different musical projects(Chrome Genie, Dorsal Moisture,Gum on the Cob, Phish, etc.). His music is never composed and there is no thought involved in the recording process. He refers to this technique as “dumbprov”. He utilizes handkerchiefs, vibrating toothbrushes, moldy percussion, hot-glued 45′s, home-built electronics, Cheetos®, magnetic tape, contact mics, cardboard, and pizza sauce to craft a boring dose of Virtual Wisdom. He is a newmedia guru and performance artiste who works with mostly all mediums, and explores video-technology through his media corporation(Royal Panini Worship Networks). He is currently based in San Francisco, where he hosts Brutal Sound Effects’s Godwaffle Noise Pancakes and other tri-monthly experimental showcases in audio and video at his home, The Golden TrapperKeeper Lodge. ”

venison whirled
how i quit crack
chrome genie (San Francisco)
baby robots

Tuesday January 13th
music to begin at 8PM
$5 at the door
Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Rd.

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Happenings/Multimedia section updates

December 8, 2008 – 7:03 pm

We’ve created an Awthum Empire Google Calendar! Feel free to subscribe or check out the calendar on the Happenings section.

And as always, if you have any events or happenings to submit, send the details and relevant images/videos to omg@awthum.com.

Also, check out the Multimedia section — we’ve added a slide show of photos from the Totally Awthum flickr group pool. If you’d like to see your photos on that page, join the flickr group and add your pix to the pool!

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