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Bob Bruhin

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July has definitely turned out to be a banner month for Eraserhood related events!

  • It all started on July 2, downtown at Cafe 12, where eraserhood.com photographer Bob Bruhin opened his Greetings from the Eraserhood photo exhibition in conjunction with the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. This show, featuring Bruhin’s “twisted views of a demented square mile,” will be hanging through August. More information at http://phillyphotosociety.tumblr.com/post/53279013346/
  • Unless you have been living inside a radiator, you were very likely one of the Eraserhood denizens who attended Friday’s big event: the grand opening of PhilaMOCA’s Eraserhood Forever (and Ever) art and performance event. If you were there, well… you know. If you missed it, there’s really no point in explaining it.
  • Next up, on Tuesday July 23 — one week from today — we will be rebooting ourselves here at eraserhood.com. This reboot will include the addition of talented new staff, exciting new content, and a totally revamped website. More details on will be released over the next few days.
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Pulled from the vault this week: Girl in Trouble (1954)

Our Reel Good Time: Movie Night showcases Girl in Trouble, a squeaky clean girl who visits New Orleans on a lark and winds up becoming a stripper in a seedy bar.

Enjoy a $12 Session pitcher and $1 bag of popcorn. Show starts at 8PM!

(via The Trestle Inn)

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Public Speaking, Superlith, A. P. Vague
Public · By AUX Performance Space
    Friday
    8:30pm

Public Speaking, Superlith, A. P. Vague
AUX Performance Space, 7/19/13, 8:30pm
$5-10 Sliding Scale Donation

On his knees in a semicircle of electronic processors and percussive clutter, the singer quakes and moans, possessed with a passionate, paranoid vision. Public Speaking is the solo moniker of Brooklyn experimental musician Jason Anthony Harris. Utilizing found objects, radio, tape recorder, synthesizer and effect pedals, he constructs percussive, textural music for his deep, soulful vocals to croon over. Somewhere between Brian Eno and Talk Talk, or Steve Reich and Suicide, Harris explores pop music as organized sound. The Deli Magazine writes: “This is soul music functioning as 21st century meditation… [This] is what happens when an artist personally realizes the sound of his environment, and puts it to use.” His first full-length, “Blanton Ravine” is a lush collection of songs and sounds drawing on avant rock, IDM, ambient, pop, noise, and R&B. The LP was released by Fabrica Records in June ’13.

http://publicspeaking.bandcamp.com/

Trombonist Dan Blacksberg (who has performed with Anthony Braxton Quartet and Archer Spade with Nick Millevoi) and Casio keyboard modifier Julius Masri (Electric Simcha, Avant-rock band Lionshead, and Chakra Khan/Air Pirates also with Millevoi) formed Superlith, an experimental musical duo based out of Philadelphia. Blacksberg works to push the trombone to its limits as an unlikely pair to the circuit bent sounds of Masri’s Casio’s. They recently released their first album Plasma Clusters, comprised of five songs blending harsh noise, drones, rhythmic counterpoints and occasional melodies. Their improvisational efforts have been honred from years of playing together (preiously in the Hasidic punk band, Electric Simcha). Live, they provide an uncanny experience where the unlikely pairing of trombone and electric noise begin to blend and meld together. As reviewed by Something Else: “Just when you think you’ve heard it all – literally – some really crafty cats come along and create sounds that hadn’t quite been previously contemplated.”

http://publiceyesore.com/ehcat.php?eh=67

Kansas native A. P. Vague uses handmade electronics and custom software to form a musical language free from traditional instrumentation. Often paired with contemporary dance and nonobjective videos, Vague uses gallery spaces as points of departure into an alien aural landscape, addressing loss and placelessness with digital sound.

http://apvague.bandcamp.com/

(via Public Speaking, Superlith, A. P. Vague)

Bob Bruhin

This Tuesday! Thanks for hosting us Hive76!!!

Philadelphia Center for the Book
MEMBERS & FRIENDS MEETINGS
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 from 6pm – 8pm
Hive76, 915 Spring Garden St., #519

Join the Philadelphia Center for the Book and Hive76 for an evening with Colette Fu.

Colette Fu’s pop-ups structurally push the boundaries of the book. Her photographed based imagery is rich, detailed, and riveting; with each reading, the viewer’s experience grows and deepens. Fu is an extraordinarily accomplished artist.

In this lecture she will share with us some of her innovative work and discuss some of the technology she uses.

Following the lecture the members Hive76, Philadelphia’s premier Maker Space, will have demonstrations of some of the technology used in these stunning pop-ups books.

Presentation will begin at 6:30. Light refreshments will be served.RSVP to events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org.

(via Hive76)