Drive-Thru-Fry-BQ
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 to our storefront, place an order (a selection of carnivorous & vegetarian options will be provided) and cruise away with steaming hot deep-fried food in their possession. But if you’d like to come back and hang out with us in the plaza, feel free to park, dine and return to Machine Project for drinks and merriment.
Note: In order to acquire deep-fried awesomeness you must:
A) Be on wheels of some kind (rollerskates, covered wagons, tanks, office chairs and bi-, tri- or unicycles are all welcome). There will a loaner bicycle and skateboard available for desperate bipeds.
B) Be a Machine Project member (be sure to bring your membership card!). You can renew your membership or become a shiny-new member HERE.
posted: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 |
Music at the Getty
Machine Project curated a number of sound pieces as part of the Getty Center Family Festival on Saturday, October 22nd 2011, which you can watch from the Safety of Your Own Home here.
posted: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 |
tags: Chris Kallmyer, Doug Tornquist, Emi Tamura, getty, Ingrid Lee, Loren Marsteller, Luke Storm, Paul Fraser, Richard Valitutto, Singing by Numbers, toy piano, tuba, video
ING
Friday, December 16th 2011
8pm
FREE
Weird music, maybe. Plus an investigation into things that go inside-out, maybe.
posted: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 |
Drop-in Phrenology
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 for a short reading, in which Colin will feel your bumps and make predictions about your caution, amativeness, and possibly even your approbativeness, as well as numerous other localized regions of the brain. NOTE: this is not the racist, sexist kind of phrenology you may have heard about. No guarantees, no refunds. Free. Hand sanitizer will be in use.
posted: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 |
Machine this week, Dec. 15th – 18th
EVENT : Drop-in Phrenology.
Thursday, December 15th 2011 from 2 – 5pm.
Cranial expert Colin Dickey will be doing drop-in phrenology, the highly problematic and suspect science of reading personality traits via the bumps on your skull. Come for a short reading, in which Colin will feel your bumps and make predictions about your caution, amativeness, and possibly even your approbativeness, as well as numerous other localized regions of the brain.
EVENT : ING.
Friday, December 16th 2011 at 8pm.
Weird music, maybe. Plus an investigation into things that go inside-out, maybe.
EVENT : Drive-Thru-Fry-BQ.
Saturday, December 17th 2011 from 8 – 10pm.
Our annual Fry-BQ holiday party, in which Machine Project members will be able to drive up to our storefront, place an order (a selection of carnivorous & vegetarian options will be provided) and cruise away with steaming hot deep-fried food in their possession.
EVENT : Boundary Pageant #1.
Sunday, December 18th 2011 at 2pm.
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.
EVENT : Ambient Force 3000 – Storefront Eigenmodes.
Sunday, December 18th 2011 at 8pm.
Ambient Force 3000. Storefront. Eigenmodes.
posted: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 |
DMV After Dark
mystery video of our benefit this year
posted: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 |
tags: benefit, dmv after dark, video
Andre you forgot about the fire by Michael O’ Malley
Art with pizza by Michael O’Malley. From our residency at the Walker Art Center
posted: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 |
tags: carl andre, michael o'malley, open field, pizza, walker museum
People listening to something in a red box
posted: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 |
tags: music, nate page, storefront plaza, video
Book Bloc Workshop & People’s Microphone Caroling
Friday, December 9th 2011
1 – 4pm
with Ken Ehrlich and Juliana Snapper
Need to construct a literary way to defend yourself from the cops while peacefully protesting? Ever wanted to express yourself via a chorus of carolers? On Friday, December 9th from 1 -4pm we’ll provide you will the opportunity to do both during our simultaneous Book Bloc Workshop and People’s Microphone Caroling. Ken Ehrlich will teach a workshop on constructing protest shields based on your favorite book covers while Juliana Snapper will join voices with the People’s Microphone Carolers to offer citizens in Echo park a chance to share their own thoughts and have them amplified and gloriously echoed by a chorus.
posted: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 |
Machine This Week, December 8th – 11th
EVENT : storefront + scope, circuits [intervention, investigation].
Thursday, December 8th 2011 at 8pm.
Casey Anderson will be transforming the Storefront Plaza into an interactive sound piece. The audience will be encouraged to interact with the already present ambient sounds of the environment, as well as thoroughly investigate the resonance(s) of the window and the possible interferences caused by moving throughout the plaza.
SIMULTANEOUS WORKSHOPS : Book Bloc Workshop & People’s Microphone Caroling.
Friday, December 9th 2011 from 1 – 4pm.
Ken Ehrlich will teach a workshop on constructing protest shields based on your favorite book covers while Juliana Snapper will join voices with the People’s Microphone Carolers to offer citizens in Echo park a chance to share their own thoughts and have them amplified and gloriously echoed by a chorus.
WORKSHOP : Surface Mount Soldering Workshop and Collaborative Composition.
Saturday, December 10th 2011 from 1 – 5pm.
Assemble a tiny playable synthesizer which will be used to explore generative group sound performances using various rule sets. Together we’ll flock, listen, circle, count, mimic, and scatter.
EVENT : Outdoor Sunset Nap Music in the Hills.
Sunday, December 11th 2011 at 2pm.
Join us for a hike, a snack and a nap with music performed by Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree. At dusk. Most likely in Griffith Park. Exact location to be announced.
EVENT : Fol Chen.
Sunday, December 11th 2011 at 8pm.
An informal performance by FOL CHEN and a demo of the Tetrafol.
posted: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 |