Event Archive for 2011
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L’ile Heureuse
Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, December 25th 2011 7 – 10pm With Juliana Snapper and Andrew Infanti Returning from their exploration of post-humanity in the stage work “You who will emerge from the Flood” produced in the apocalypse-ready capitals of Europe, Juliana Snapper and Andrew Infanti have washed up, clinging to a grand piano, on the gleaming shores of [...]
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Ambient Force 3000 – Storefront Eigenmodes
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 18th 2011 8pm FREE Ambient Force 3000. Storefront. Eigenmodes.
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Boundary Pageant #1
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, December 18th 2011 2 – 4pm FREE Designer, developer, and professor Liz Falletta performs: “How I Spent Two-and-a-half Years Drawing Three Lines,” a legal talk, workshop, and personal anecdote about drawing property lines in Los Angeles. This is the first event in Boundary Pageant, a series of talks and workshops exploring jurisdiction and geography. [...]
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Drive-Thru-Fry-BQ
Saturday, December 17th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
MEMBERS ONLY! Saturday, December 17th 2011 8 – 10pm Our annual Fry-BQ holiday party has always been one of our most chaotic events. This year, due to our storefront having been transformed into a plaza, we’ve embraced the chaos by transforming Machine Project into a Drive-Thru. Machine Project members will be able to drive up [...]
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ING
Friday, December 16th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Friday, December 16th 2011 8pm FREE Weird music, maybe. Plus an investigation into things that go inside-out, maybe.
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Drop-in Phrenology
Thursday, December 15th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Thursday, December 15th 2011 2 – 5pm FREE Colin Dickey will be doing drop-in phrenology, the highly problematic and suspect science of reading personality traits via the bumps on your skull. Curious about what that bump on your forehead indicates about your character? Or just want to have your head felt by a stranger? Come [...]
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Fol Chen
Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 11th 2011 8pm FREE An informal performance by FOL CHEN and a demo of the Tetrafol. Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain of Monome fame will also be making a special LA appearance.
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Outdoor Afternoon Nap Music in the Hills
Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, December 11th 2011 2pm Join us for a hike, a snack and a nap with music performed by Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree, creators of the Monome. At 2pm. RSVP at machine@machineproject.com. LOCATION: People will be meeting in the parking lot at the following address: Wilacre Park 3431 Fryman Rd, Studio City, CA 91604 [...]
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storefront + scope, circuits [intervention, investigation]
Thursday, December 8th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, December 8th 2011 8pm FREE Casey Anderson will be transforming the Storefront Plaza into an interactive sound piece. Various prompts will invite the audience to listen to a wide range of chaotic circuits (inside) through Machine’s recessed storefront window/plaza (outside) via contact microphones and portable amplifiers. The audience will be encouraged to interact with [...]
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Alvarado Remix
Sunday, December 4th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Sunday, December 4th 2011 1-5pm FREE Composer and sound artist Paul Fraser curates an afternoon of performances by 8 artists who will remix and manipulate the ambient urban street noises of Alvarado Street and pipe them back into the Storefront Plaza. Performance schedule: 1:00 pm – Scott Cazan 1:30 pm – Heather Lockie 2:00 pm [...]
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Experimental Sound Practices in the Plaza
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Saturday, September 3rd 2011 3 – 7pm FREE Professor of Experimental Sound Practices Sara Roberts will be bringing her CalArts class to Machine Project for an afternoon of experimenting in the Storefront Plaza. The class will be carrying on a variety of activities, satisfying to join or watch, mostly sonic in nature. There will be [...]
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Untitled, 2010
Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, December 1st 2011 Screenings at 8pm & 9pm FREE A film by Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz, and Encke King DVD, 60-minutes, color, stereo Beginning with a reflection on the early AIDS epidemic, Untitled eschews a linear narrative to introduce a fractious timeline, moving from the sublime to the tragic and back again. [...]
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TnT Explosive Advice: The 10-minute takeover!
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Sunday, November 27th 2011 11am – 3pm FREE Krystal Krunch (aka Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka) do a Siskel & Ebert on your latest drama as we tap into your energy and paint a picture of your most highest, most wonderful possible self. Don’t be scurrrrred, Tn’T are open, compassionate and laaaaiiiid back. (Translation: Come [...]
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Emily Lacy Performs in the Plaza
Sunday, November 20th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, November 20th 2011 2pm Folk and electronic sound artist Emily Lacy will be performing in our new Storefront Plaza installation. Emily will experiment with resonant qualities of the Plaza installation/sidewalk chasm with an improvised performance considering sound as movement.
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Storefront Plaza
Sunday, November 13th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
By Nate Page Opening Nov 19th and running through January of 2012 Storefront Plaza by Nate Page relocates the windows of Machine Project and reinstalls them twenty feet back into the main gallery space. To achieve this the exterior walls of the building stretch deep into Machine’s storefront along a constructed support structure which re-assigns [...]
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Machine Project Benefit 2011
Saturday, November 5th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 5th, 2011 8 – 11pm Proceeds from this event will fund a year’s worth of free programming at our storefront in Echo Park. Space is limited so pick up your tickets today! We’d like to invite you to one of our most exciting and potentially disastrous events of the year. On Saturday, November [...]
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Joshua Beckman Reading Poems In The Desert
Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Sunday, October 30th 2011 3pm Location: N 34 4′ 24″ W 116 23′ 12″ Click here for a map. Joshua will be reading poems, mostly short poems. He’ll be sitting on a rock, there’ll be lots of rocks around and sand and desert shrubs and probably not that many animals. Above you can see an [...]
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Getty Center Family Festival
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 am
Saturday, October 22nd 2011 10am – 6pm We’ve curated a number of sound pieces as part of the Getty Center Family Festival happening Saturday, October 22nd from 10am to 6pm. Performances include: A tuba duet with Doug Tornquist and Luke Storm performing miniature music for monumental instruments. Chris Kallmyer and Loren Marsteller will be performing [...]
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Dorkbot
Sunday, October 16th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Sunday, October 16th 2011 1 – 3pm FREE Dorkbot SoCal presents: Jim Jenkins on his kinetic sculptures. Carlyn Maw on Store Front Music: a hackerspace creates an interactive instrument. Sean Bonner on Safecast: empowering people with radiation monitoring
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Protest Songs
Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 13th 2011 8pm FREE In the spirit of protests going on all around the world, and in specific support of American protests calling for a critique of economics, Machine Project welcomes Emily Lacy and Daniel Brummel for an evening of Protest Songs, old and new.