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August 2008


58 N 3rd St
(btw Wythe & Kent) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Subway: L Train
(Bedford stop) 718.384.1369
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1/2
FRIDAY
Daft Punk's Electroma

DVD release screening of Daft Punk's mystic road trip
(8 & 10:30pm & 12:30am) $5
(DVD $15 w/ paid admission)

$10 Minimum
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SATURDAY

Nakedly
A screening featuring video works that bare their own devices, bodies and/or souls
(8 & 10:30pm)
$5, $10 Minimum
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LATE:
Soul Habit
DJ Jumpy + Girlsoul
Spinning only 60s soul 45s!

(12:30am - Late) Free

3
Advanced Vision + Sound from Parsons
Experimental works and bizarre jorneys
by Josh Goldberg's advanced students at Parsons Communications Design and
Technology
(7:30 and 10pm) $10, $5 Minimum


4
Sounds of Brakhage
Voice, Guitar, Baritone Sax and toys improvise soundscapes in conjunction with Stan Brakhage films; featuring Odeya Nini, Chris Kuklis, Andrew Carrico, Bryan Noll
(8:30pm)
$5
$10 Minimum
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5
EARLY:
The Absurd, The Dark, The Melodramatic
A night of engaging video work curated by
Erika Yeomans

(7:30pm)
Free
$10 Minimum
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LATE:
Usa Mutant Sheep Tour - Paral-lel & Nth Synthesis
Huge French Electronic Music conjures up nice cocktail of Electro / breakbeat / drum’n’bass, / electronica / techno / 8-bit music / hip hop…
(11pm)
$5
$10 Minimum
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6
Mysterium - An Electric Soundpainting Septet
Utilizes the history of American popular music and beyond to construct a myriad of stylistic improvisations you can shake your bottom to
(8:30pm) $10
$10 Minimum
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7
Controllar + she keeps bees
Amsterdam's duo serves a concoction of frontier
electronics and sweet & sour vocals

(8:30pm)
$7
$10 Minimum

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8/9
FRIDAY
EyeWash *Intelligentsia*
An evening of the VJ scene's intelligentsia with performances by Potter-Belmar Labs, Professor Raphael DiLuzio, and Peter Kirn, PhD with resident scholar, DJ ActivePhaze
(7:30 and 10pm) $10, $10 Minimum
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SATURDAY
EARLY:
Double Dirty Dancing
The Swayze Hollywood original with the recent Bollywood remake — shown simultaneously with remarkable synchronicities
(7:30pm) Free, $10 Minimum
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LATE:
Charles Waters Trio
Charles Waters presents a new trio with Harris Eisenstadt and Chris Dingman with special guest filmmaker and visualist Alex Engel
(10:30pm) $10, $10 Minimum
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10
Glossy Wheel + Prayer Town + Special Guests
Harmony, Melody, Noise, Drone, Beats, Bliss
(8pm)
$5
$10 Minimum
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11
Mike Wexler & Natalie Rose Lebrecht
Brooklyn pysch-folk death match
(8:30pm)
$5
$10 Minimum
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12
Au + Mofongo
Portland duo will play their
experimental pop diamonds
(8 & 10:30pm) $10
$10 Minimum
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13
Projection:Zero
Blaise Siwula (Brooklyn) reeds, Carsten Radtke (Munich) guitar and guests will be celebrating their new release Projection:Zero on Konnex records with a multi genre performance of improvised music
(8:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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14
EARLY:
Wood-gathering Women of Addis Ababa
Preview screening of Ethiopian documentary
(6pm) Free

LATE:

Guitars, He Can Jog & Friends
Brooklyn drone folk duo Guitars with laptop ensemble and live visuals
(8:30pm) Free
$10 Minimum
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15/16
FRIDAY
EARLY:
Colorlist
Ambient electronics meet improvised jazz from Chicago. Looped woodwinds, bent, sonics
(8:30pm)
$5, $10 Minimum
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LATE:
Crunk Night @ CLUB VORTEX
featuring DJs Kingdom, Helen, and Telfar -- Crunk / Hip Hop / R'n'B / Snap / Snap'n'B / Crunk'n'B / Dancehall / Remix
(11:30pm) $5 (21+)
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SATURDAY
EARLY:
Blevin Blectum + Consort
Blectum plays solo electronic
+ locals play duo electronics

(7:30pm)
$10, $10 Minimum
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LATE:
Tim & Puma Mimi (Skype Concert)
While swiss-Tim plays live, japanese-Mimi sings via skype from Tokyo! cheerful breakbeat j-pop
(10:30pm) $5, $10 Minimum
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17
EARLY:
Fritz Lang's Metropolis w/ live electronica by BomberGirl
BomberGirl and the Mechanic perform a live soundtrack to Lang's masterpiece
(8pm)
$9
$10 Minimum
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LATE:
BELL
Bell is about the future, and sometimes the 90's. "At once ethereal and firmly emotional..." — Pitchfork
(11pm) $5
$10 Minimum
18
EARLY:
The American Dollar + Praveen
Undulations of sonic relief and rich textures as light as snow.
CD Release Performance

(8pm)
$5
$10 Minimum
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LATE:
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project
Screening of a video collaboration featuring 26 artists from 13 countries
(10:30pm)
Free $10 Minimum
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19
EARLY:
Iron Dog + Karim Marquez Transcendental aggressive electric violin + bass improv with shifting digital painting
(8pm)
$7
$10 Minimum
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LATE:
Eddie Kim's Niobe
A machinima theater piece staged in real-time using
Halo3 and several Xbox 360 consoles

(11pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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20
Zevious, Bruce Lamont, Kevin Hufnagel
A night of dark, progressive jazz and acoustic music featuring various
members of Dysrhythmia, and Yakuza
(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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21
Four Acts
Jeremiah Bornfield (classical), Victoria Cheah (experimental, contemporary), Thomas Deneuville (oneiric pseudo folk, minimalist), and Noise Floor Music (post–electronica, ambient)

(8:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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22/23
FRIDAY
EARLY:
I Am Human And I Need To Be Loved
Norwegian group exhibition with Kristian Skylstad, Monica Winther, Ingvild Brekke Myklebust, Jon Løvøen and Tor Jørgen van Eijk. Curated by Ruth Hege Halstensen
(8pm)
Free
$10 Minimum
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LATE:
Poor Sellout presents Char Johnson from Simian Mobile Disco's Hustler + Iyaxia + Special guests
drenching you with a mix of Experimental / proCasio beats / turntableism
(11pm) $5 b4 midnight, $8 after
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SATURDAY
EARLY:
MAKE - Private Documentary Screening
Documentary chronicles four Self-taught Artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott, & Ike Morgan
(8pm)
Free
$10 Minimum
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LATE:
KRTS + KNOX
Brooklyn's finest LIVE Indie-Hiphop Instrumental and wild original style music/visual team do it again
(10:30pm) $7, $10 Minimum
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24
Slide Rulez Presents: money money money
$$$$$$$$$ an exchange of info between artist pals
(8pm) $4
$10 Minimum




25
Casperous Vine
New York's avant-gypsy quartet presents
an evening of ethno-folk alchemy
(8:30pm) $7, $10 Minimum
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26
Alex Itin: From An Intimate Distance
Selections and reflections from a year of online
videos made since Itin's last screening at MT

(8pm) Free
$10 Minimum


27
Comandante Zero + 0h10 M1ke
Electro-funk bass/drum/laptop duo Comandante Zero performs with their troupe of dancers. Artist 0h10 M1ke simultaneously creates and projects a drawing for each song
(8:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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28
EARLY:
Wool & TWI The Humble Feather! Tonight a bubbling brook of acoustic and electronic rhythms!
WHOOOOP
MUSIC!

(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum

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LATE:
Elbis Rever
NYC / Warsaw / Tehran -- electro/pop -- Persian Love Song
(11pm) Free

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29/30/31
FRIDAY
Joe (A Self-Portrait)
A schizophrenic, self-indulgent, hypnotic, appropriated self-portrait culled from 144 films telling the life, death and rebirth of “Joe.”
(8pm and 10:30pm) $7
$10 Minimum

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SATURDAY
CLOSED for a Wedding Party

SUNDAY
How Far? featuring Fire Butoh 3 Eseohe Arhebamen/EdoHeart with
Transilience Productions, Toshio Kajiwara and others knits synesthetic audiovisuals and butoh-infused Nigerian possession-dances

(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum

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