The Alkem Foundation invites you to join us at the Warehouse Next Door for live music and art
Saturday November 20, 2004 -- 1021 7th St. NW, Washington, DC - $8
Alkem.org Alkem is hosting its first event to showcase the many talented artists that make up the local Alkem community.
Please join us to enjoy the diverse artistic talents of local musicians, artists and more that all work together to build this grass roots DIY endeavor.
Meet and learn more about our community supported foundation by visiting our website
www.alkem.org. Proceeds from the event go directly to help maintain and expand Alkem's services.
6:00pm - Artists
Matt Sesow "Matt Sesow's nightmarish portraits possess a voracious brutality that hits the eyes like sand, but embed in the heart with unexpected wonder" -- (Timothy Cahill, Albany New York Times Union, 2004)
"Sesow's explosively colored and powerfully composed expressionist paintings in this exhibition are broad brushed self-portraits with a compellingly dramatic tension that draws in the viewer. Both 'Setting Sail' and 'Out of Water' capture on canvas and board doubling figures, expressions, and markings -- on the first -- and a powerful head complete with a characteristic Sesow trauma scar marker on the second..." -- (Tony Harvey... regarding Sesow paintings at 'Holy H2O' AVAM show, Intowner magazine, Washington DC, Oct. 2004)
Jess Feury Jess Feury is a DC-based artist and practicing art therapist. She founded the B Side art collective -- a grassroots effort created to further exposure of the arts in the DC area. Jess collaborates with local DC venues to present one-night mixed-media art shows and DJ nights as an alternative to gallery exhibitions. Jess currently integrates her love for fine art with clothing design to create multi-fibered artwork and artistic clothing.
Dana Ellyn Dana Ellyn documents world events (both good and bad) and her reactions (both positive and negative) through her paintings.
Carolina Mayorga Social issues related to my culture have always been the theme of my art: My culture related to Catholic rituals, the political situation of my native Colombia, issues of migration as a response to my bi-cultural experience of living in Colombia and the United States, and most recently, my perspective on the current global war that has shaped the beginning of the 21st Century.
Derek Morton (of Mikroknytes and Techclub_DC)
8:00pm ?? Bands
Shortstack Shortstack play Doom Country -- a lonesome demented version of old school hillbilly country & western blues dragged through the rockabilly swampland of Washington DC. Their songs are best likened to a runaway train, speeding mercilessly around the bend to meet the devil or death, whatever comes first. Although the music is firmly rooted in the present, the band strives to uphold an important element in traditional country music: to meditate the more despairing aspects of life. (Planaria Recordings)
Revival 3/5 of Canyon (Berodt/Bryson/DeBorja)
DCIC Mysticism abounds when the DC Improvisers Collective (DCIC) holds a musical séance. The performers delve into remote realms, conjuring up inventive music with sorcerous cunning. This searching association of experimental artists affords its members the opportunity for open-ended exploration in various-sized group scenarios.
On this recording, the DCIC features four free spirits. Mike Sebastian awakens the ghosts of music present and future through his fierce woodwind flights; Jon Ozment offers weighty acoustic and electric piano brews; Mark Merella executes jarring percussive resonance; and Jonathan Matis adds bracing stimuli through his guitar. Electronics play an important role as well, with Ozment, Merella, and Matis each negotiating the amplified terrain for special effects.
The program, as could be expected from the band??s name, is fully improvised. These instant composers thrive on the spontaneity of the moment, allowing their innate sense of adventure to dictate the direction the music takes. It goes off in multiple streams of consciousness that slide into hallucinatory states, often through alternating pairings that fold into full quartet activity. (All About Jazz)
Sarah Azzara EBSK EBSK, a duo consisting of Eric Bruns (Clarinet, Bass Guitar) and John Rickman (Casio SK-1s, Casio SK-5s), are based in Washington D.C. and have been bridging the indie-rock underground and the electronic listening crowd with their live shows up and down the east coast. Combining structured melody with a touch of sonic improvisation, the EBSK sound merges the aesthetics of ambient music with the potency of psychedelic free-rock.
Kohoutek Improvised psychedelia via guitar/bass/percussion, inspired by the likes of Can/Amon Duul 2/Krautrock, Bardo Pond, Dead C, Sun Ra/Art Ensemble/free jazz, Sonic Youth, MBV/shoegaze, drone, etc. Textures and mood over technical proficiency. 611 Florida??s house band.
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The Alkem Foundation is a privately funded non-profit organization providing free internet resources and support for artists, musicians, and creative visionaries who share the ideals of Alkem, but lack direct resources, technical ability, or other significant input to the international network, known as the World Wide Web.
Alkem strives to engender communication and discussion of ideas and values of importance and substance in the fields of arts, philosophy and religion, in a forum, free of economic, political or social agendas. The potential altruistic nature of the internet has largely been replaced with hype, commercialism, pornography, and mainstream banality. The soul is not bound by wealth and neither should the creative expressions of those souls who have collected their thoughts on Alkem's servers.
Many artists, musicians and creative visionaries lack the access, financially or otherwise, to fully utilize the inherent advantage of communication over the internet. Alkem will help with the utilization of the most powerful communications tool of the modern age by embodying the forum to facilitate the exchange of understanding and communication in real and virtual space.
The Alkem Foundation can be reached by contacting :
info@alkem.org Or Visit our website at
www.alkem.org
