See What Love the Father Has Given Us

ALL SHOWS HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT.
Email machine[at]machineproject.com to be placed on the waiting list.

Dates:

Thursday 3/29 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Friday 3/30 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 3/31 @ 6:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 3/31 @ 9pm (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 4/1 @ 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Thursday 4/5 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Friday 4/6 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 4/7 @ 6:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 4/7 @ 9pm (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 4/8 @ 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday 4/10 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday 4/17 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday 4/24 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)

See What Love The Father Has Given Us by Asher Hartman is a religio-dramedy about three big box store employees who travel through tiers of reality taking on aspects of the Holy Trinity. Each performance will be limited to an intimate audience of twelve who’ll be immersed in scenarios which may include: Professional Amateurism, Alien Ass Cannons, Non-Threatening Muzak, and/or Interplanetary Love. This play will take place in a specially constructed Transdimensional Hallway which bisects the Machine Project gallery and comes equipped with 19th century special effects.

If you’re regretful that you didn’t have a chance to contribute to the kickstarter campaign you can still do so here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway

posted: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 | tags: , , , ,

Transdimensional Hallway

Help us transform the Machine Project gallery into a transdimensional hallway.

We’re building an installation in the form of an office hallway which will divide the storefront into separate rooms equipped with 19th century special effects. This new installation will serve as the theater set for the play See What Love The Father Has Given Us by Asher Hartman as well as several events responding to its unique parameters, including an immersive and interactive sound piece by Emily Lacy, a musical performance by Claire Cronin and a lecture about the Winchester Mystery House by Colin Dickey.

You can help make this all happen by contributing to our kickstarter campaign.

Pledges of $40 or more will reserve you a spot in Asher Hartman’s play, which due to extremely limited seating is guaranteed to sell out very quickly.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway

posted: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 |

Aquacoustica

Ambient music by and for a swimming pool. A project by Clay Chaplin and Ulrich Krieger, hosted by BELLYFLOP Gallery.

posted: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 | tags: , ,

How to play a building

Paul Fraser explains how to beat the hell out of the Getty Museum without getting into trouble.

posted: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 | tags: , ,

Rebuilding!

posted: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 |

Machine This Weekend: March 2nd – 3rd

EVENT : BALL O O O O O NS.
Friday, March 2nd at 8pm.
We turned balloons into speakers, and we want you to come listen to them. Chris Kallmyer and Jason Torchinsky collaborate to create a 5-channel sound installation that floats in Machine Project’s storefront plaza. Performers are hermetically sealed behind glass, keeping them a safe distance from listeners. Their sounds are projected through our balloons-turned speakers which glow, float, resound, raise and lower in the plaza space.
EVENT : SPUN-OFF MUSIC.
Saturday, March 3rd at 8:15 and 9pm.
Corey Fogel has written a site-specific piece of music, dealing uniquely with the resulting acoustical and spatial properties of the Machine Project gallery and the imposed structure of the Storefront Plaza installation. This music experiments with instrument pairs, co-dependent musical relationships, sound potentiality, location, silence, and conduction. An ensembles of fourteen musicians will be divided in half by the Machine storefront window, unable to hear the opposing group.

posted: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 |

Machine This Week: February 22nd – 26th

EVENT : Massagem Sonora.
Wednesday, February 22nd ongoing from 11am to 4pm.
An experiment on intimacy, personal space and bodily resonance by Carmina Escobar. Massagem Sonora establishes a relationship of discovery between individuals, usually strangers, that allow themselves to be improvised on via voice and facial resonators applied to their bodies to discover their own unique resonant geographies.
EVENT : Boundary Pageant #2.
Saturday, February 23rd at 8pm.
Please join us for a night of critical demography. Topics will include: the politics of (statistical) sampling, why filling out the census form might be more important than voting, how thousands of German citizens boycotted the 1983 census, and the radical forms of demography that sprang up around the German anti-census movement.
EVENT : Battle of Los Angeles 70th Anniversary Commemoration.
Friday, February 24th at 8pm.
Shortish lecture (15-30 min) on the Battle of Los Angeles by Jason Brown, with backing sound.
Followed by a 20-30 min sound performance by Ambient Force 3000 (working title: “Threnody ’42: The Silence of the Cows”).
EVENT : Affect-adjusted graphological readings.
Saturday, February 25th ongoing from 12 to 4pm.
Ben Benjamin will be performing free handwriting analysis from 11 to 4pm. Pens and pencils and stationery will be provided free of charge. Please note! We cannot provide non-affect-adjusted graphological readings.

posted: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 |

Machine Project Hammer Museum Public Engagement Artist in Residence Report released

in 2010/2011 Machine Project produced a year of programming which proposed new, alternative, and experimental ways of presenting work at the Hammer Museum. Projects included a vacation for houseplants, a two minute performance series underneath the stairs, an overnight dream-in and a ton of other stuff documented and discussed in this here report

Machine Project Public Engagement Artist in Residence Report (9.6 Mb PDF)

A year later, what seems most interesting about this project is not just what the public experienced, but everything that took place behind the scenes – the conversations with artists, the challenges inside and outside of the museum, the logistic and philosophical issues involved in attempting to suggest other uses for a major cultural institution. The report includes introductory essays by Machine Director Mark Allen and Hammer Director of Public Engagement Allison Agsten, a roadmap for how the projects were produced (in case you want to try this at your own museum) and extensive interviews with both the artists and museum staff.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to see how the public engagement sausage gets made.

Houseplant Vacation from machine project on Vimeo.

The Giant Hand from machine project on Vimeo.

Enormous Microscope Evening from machine project on Vimeo.

Fungi Fest at the Hammer Museum from machine project on Vimeo.

Soundings: Bells at the Hammer from machine project on Vimeo.

posted: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 | tags: , , ,

Camp Cleveland Videos

Last year the awesome crew at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland invited us to come visit for a couple months. We were able to shoot video for part of the time, which Emily Lacy just finished editing and now are online for your entertainment below.

Camp Cleveland Video #1 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland Video #1 features a nice view of Nate Page’s couch bleachers, which (in this video) provide a protective ecosystem for Ezra Buchla to play violin in.

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Camp Cleveland Video #2 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland video #2 features the Flat Band Opening Night Performance by Corey Fogel and Ezra Buchla. A lavender surface plane is assembled then performed under.

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Camp Cleveland Video #3 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland video #3. Interview and performance by Corey Fogel. The theme of men wearing tights (hinted at in video #2) comes into full focus in this video.

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Camp Cleveland Video #4 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland video #4. Laure Steenberge presents a workshop on group ensemble yarn performance, including a brief appearance of a diagram of an orb weavers spider web.

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Camp Cleveland Video #5 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland video #5. Cookie music by Emily Lacy featuring improvisations for piano and tape recorder. Emily also shot and edited all these videos. Go Emily!

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Camp Cleveland Video #6 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland video #6. Instrumental music by Ezra Buchla accompanied by footage of wooded locations near Buttermilk Falls.

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Camp Cleveland Video #7 from machine project on Vimeo.

Camp Cleveland video #7. A kitten-breath meditation with Guru Rugu, produced by Guru Rugu and The experimental meditation center of los angeles
2011. Video shot near Buttermilk Falls

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posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Machine This Weekend: February 18th – 19th

EVENT : Infantcore.
Saturday, February 18th from 11am – 4pm.
Experimental music by babies. Motion tracking software converts the performers’ movements into sound.
WORKSHOP : Collabamation Workshop.
Saturday, February 18th from 11am – 3pm.
This workshop will cover the basics of making stop-motion animations, from constructing a shooting rig to compiling your footage and sharing it with the world. We will watch short animated works to see various animation techniques illustrated before we collectively produce a cut out, collage animation.
WORKSHOP : Musical Soldering Workshop.
Sunday, February 19th from 7 – 10pm.
Learn to solder in this three-hour workshop. Participants will learn to solder by building a primitive, but totally rad hand-held synthesizer. All materials and tools included and you take home a charming noise making device once it’s done.

posted: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 |