1825 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201info@hexagonspace.comFacebook | Twitter | MySpace | Flickr | Vimeo | Last.fmTumblr (3.0; @thehexagon)http://hexagonspace.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5v567I4vT1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>August 7<br/>1PM to 2AM<br/>$8 </p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/836760940http://hexagonspace.com/post/836760940Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:46:55 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l57a5l2jlV1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>WED JULY 7</p> <p>POLYGONS record release party with<br/>ECSTATIC SUNSHINE<br/>BEASTMASTER<br/>BEAR & PIECES </p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/781871273http://hexagonspace.com/post/781871273Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:32:09 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l44huqWlpU1qzq3g1o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saturday, June 26</p> <p><strong>DEADMIX DANCEBEAT</strong> with<br/>Empty Vessel (John Berndt + Samuel Burt)<br/>Action Empress<br/>Full on Void (Rjyan Kidwell / Shaun Flynn) <br/>Polygons</p> <p>$6<br/>Party starts at 10pm<br/>Video shoot at 6pm (free entry for participants!) </p> <p><span>Baltimore Relabi style twists your hips into a Gordian Knot and your knickers in parallel lines back to infinity in this, the third Deadmix Dancebeat party at the Hexagon. Relabi, the “pulse-that-is-not-a pulse” enters its second year as Baltimore dance music… <br/><br/>Things will be starting early with an OPEN CASTING CALL video shoot for the soon-to-be-viral youtube video “Everyone Dances To Relabi.” Come 6-10PM and spend a few minutes dancing to Relabi grooves so you can be part of history. We need your most charismatic, hottest self to carry day here… people who seriously participate in filming will get into the dance party afterwards FREE. <br/><br/>The main event (10PM-whenever) will be a dance party with music by CEX/Karl Ekdahl, Empty Vessel (video./sound Relabi by John Berndt and Samuel Burt) and Polygons (Miguel Sabogal, Joshua Atkins)… <br/><br/>All of this is in advance of the record THE SWARM by John Berndt, due out in 2011 and executive produced by Matmos and CEX… </span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/705416855http://hexagonspace.com/post/705416855Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:52:00 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l42oiruWGA1qzq3g1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>FRIDAY JULY 9th MIKE BELL BENEFIT SHOW:</span></p> <p><span> <br/>CAVEMEN!<br/>Creepy Murdle<br/>The Krestarians<br/>The Cosmic Warlords<br/>NARC<br/>Forest Dwellers<br/>Jumbled<br/>Mary Knott<br/>Temp Sound Solutions<br/>The Tritons<br/>Solar Temple Suicides<br/>Mike Bell</span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/701972179http://hexagonspace.com/post/701972179Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:20:51 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3vaomV1s81qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Baltimore Electronic Music 2010 SummerFest<br/></strong>Saturday, June 26<br/>2pm - 1am<br/>$6 </p> <p><span>Organized by the Baltimore SynthDIY group, this festival features 15 local performers that cover the gamut of electronic music from experimental modular synth duos to live dance music.  Many of these musicians play only a handful of times a year, so it should be a treat.  The full schedule is listed below.</span></p> <p><span> <p>1. Robert Neubauer & Ross Apperson “Bear And Lampshade” from Parkton MD - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bearandlampshade">http://www.myspace.com/bearandlampshade</a> 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm  </p> <p>2. Chris Feltner “Kingdom of Sharks” from Strasburg VA - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kingdomofsharks">www.myspace.com/kingdomofsharks</a>  2:45 pm - 3:15 pm</p> <p>3. “The Thereminbilly Explosion” featuring Art Harrison on Theremin, <a href="http://www.harrisoninstruments.com">http://www.harrisoninstruments.com</a>, from Washington DC & Mike Winters on Guitar, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hotcluboftakomapark,">http://www.myspace.com/hotcluboftakomapark,</a> from Washington DC  3:30 pm - 4:00 pm</p> <p>4. Dave Vosh “SAFE2” from Upper Marlboro MD - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/safe00">http://www.myspace.com/safe00</a> 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm </p> <p>    Logan Mitchell Sr “Synth Tech Project” from Baltimore MD - <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/synthtechproject">http://sites.google.com/site/synthtechproject</a></p> <p>    Jeff Bagato “Tone Ghosting” from Washington DC - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/toneghosting">www.myspace.com/toneghosting</a></p> <p>    perform as the trio “FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY”</p> <p>5. Greg Kist from Columbia MD & Hal Schmulowitz from Catonsville MD performing as the group “Project One”  5:00 pm - 5:30 pm</p> <p>6. Howard Moscovitz “Xeroid Entity” from Allentown PA - <a href="http://xeroid-entity.com">http://xeroid-entity.com</a>, <a href="http://myspace.com/xeroidentity">http://myspace.com/xeroidentity</a> 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm</p> <p>7. Joe Wall from Laurel MD - <a href="http://www.joewall.com/">http://www.joewall.com/</a> 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm</p> <p>8. Keith Sinzinger “Fast Forty” from Washington DC - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fastforty">http://www.myspace.com/fastforty</a> 7:15 pm - 7:45 pm</p> <p>9. Joseph Meyer “Jerohme Spye” from Baltimore MD - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jerohme">http://www.myspace.com/jerohme</a>  8:00 pm - 8:30 pm</p> <p>10. The “Duc D’Angelos” quartet from Baltimore MD - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ducdangelos">http://www.myspace.com/ducdangelos</a>  8:45 pm - 9:15 pm</p> <p>11. Mike Cobaria “micFreak” d{-_-}b from White Marsh MD - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/micfreak">http://www.myspace.com/micfreak</a>  9:30 pm - 10:00 pm  </p> <p>12. Logan Terkelsen & BoothManiac “The Furverts” from Baltimore MD including special guest TBA - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/imafurvert">http://www.myspace.com/imafurvert</a> 10:15 pm - 10:45 pm</p> <p>13. Josh Atkins & Miguel Sabogal “Polygons” from Baltimore MD - <a href="http://www.myspace.com/polygonsband">http://www.myspace.com/polygonsband</a>  11:00 - 11:30 pm</p> <p>14. Richard Desimone performs his “Spoken Word Poetry” with live background elctronic music provided by Logan Mitchell Sr & Stuart Rosenzweig  11:45 pm - 12:15 am</p> <p>15. Ken Donnelly & Stuart Rosenzweig “Tangent” from Middle River MD & Pikesville MD  12:30 am - 1:00 am</p> </span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/688066617http://hexagonspace.com/post/688066617Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:38:46 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3oap57MVc1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Gay Bomb, Decapitated Head, Newagehillbilly, Furverts, The Human Excuse</p> <p><span>Thursday June 10th</span> <span>| 9pm | $6 | BYOB</span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/674998145http://hexagonspace.com/post/674998145Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:55:53 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l22436Jgps1qzq3g1o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Zero Film Festival<br/>Friday, May 7 | 7:30PM | $6<br/>Performances by Polygons and True Womanhood</p> <p><span><br/>PROGRAM OUTLINE:<br/>Baju<br/>DIR. Muhammad Azhar| Singapore/Baltimore | 10 MIN | Short Narrative<br/>Baju is a commentary on the rivalry that exists between street gangs in the Malay community of Singapore. The film narrates the story of two rival gang members enlisting into the army to serve their National Service.<br/><br/>Latte America<br/>Dir . Jesse Clark | Canada 10 MIN | Short Narrative<br/>Latte America explores coffee addiction in an action comedy format that makes you think. Acted backwards and dialog delivered backwards to create a new reality.<br/><br/>Liminal<br/>DIR. Stephen Keep Mills | Los Angeles | 14 min | Short Narrative .<br/>INA and JOY are naked and locked in a battle of elimination. INA must reverse the power to survive. Are they lovers or is JOY the killer within?<br/><br/>Twilight of the Idols<br/>DIR. John Gross | Philadelphia | 30 MIN | Short Narrative<br/></span><span>“Rick, a low-income South-Philadelphian, is </span><span>the greatest football fan hat North America </span><span>has ever produced. And on account of this </span><span>accomplishment a ‘visitor’ has been sent to </span><span>meet Rick with a proposition that will put Rick’s </span><span>allegiance, family and sanity to the test.”</span></p> <p><span>Brethren Arise<br/></span><span>dIR. brent chesanek. 20min. Experimental.<br/></span><span></span></p> <p><span>Nature Break<br/></span><span>DIR. Mike Hollingsworth | Los Angeles | 2 MIN |</span></p> <p><span>Windshield Baby Game Boy Movie<br/>dIR. clint enns | New york | 2 min | experimental<br/><br/>Putting Yourself Out There<br/>dIR. clint enns | New york | 2 min | experimental<br/><br/>The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot<br/>dIR. Leslie Sipnet | New york | 2 min | Animation</span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/579014604http://hexagonspace.com/post/579014604Fri, 07 May 2010 11:52:00 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1ye71FMbg1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Friday May 28th <span>Height With Friends </span>Bed of Seeds Release Show:<br/><br/><span>Height With Friends</span> special mega-set featuring Mickey Free, Emily Slaughter, Gavin Riley, Travis Allen, Brendan Richmond, Liz Aeby, Pam Kurowski and Rob Dowler of Nuclear Power Pants.<br/><a href="http://www.myspace.com/height"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/height">http://www.myspace.com/height</a></a><br/><br/>Weekends<br/><a href="http://www.myspace.com/weekendstheband"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/weekendstheband">http://www.myspace.com/weekendstheband</a></a><br/><br/>Lord Grunge (of Grand Buffet)<br/><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thegrungeman"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thegrungeman">http://www.myspace.com/thegrungeman</a></a></p> <p>PT Burnem</p> <p><a title="http://www.ptburnem.com" target="_blank" href="http://www.ptburnem.com"><a href="http://www.ptburnem.com">http://www.ptburnem.com</a></a></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/573732716http://hexagonspace.com/post/573732716Wed, 05 May 2010 11:40:00 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1ndrkXanZ1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>MICROKINGDOM, Furverts, & Great Architect</p> <p>Saturday May 1st // Experimental & Jazz</p> <p><span>MICROKINGDOM<br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.myspace.com/microkingdom"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/microkingdom">http://www.myspace.com/microkingdom</a></a><br/>FURVERTS <br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mycspace.com/imafurvert"><a href="http://www.mycspace.com/imafurvert">http://www.mycspace.com/imafurvert</a></a><br/>GREAT ARCHITECT <br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.myspace.com/hellogreatarchitect"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/hellogreatarchitect">http://www.myspace.com/hellogreatarchitect</a></a></span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/558756535http://hexagonspace.com/post/558756535Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:57:20 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1ar9iYxjz1qzq3g1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The Hexagon is proud to be a host to the Megapolis festival on May 14-16.</p> <p><span><strong>Megapolis</strong> is a weekend-long festival dedicated to the craft of DIY audio creation. Artists, documentarians, musicians, and fans come together to share secrets on producing and presenting challenging audio works online, on-air, and on the stage.</span></p> <p><span><a href="http://megapolisfestival.org/"><a href="http://megapolisfestival.org/">http://megapolisfestival.org/</a></a></span></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/541410948http://hexagonspace.com/post/541410948Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:20:00 -0400<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvlzqSqtq1qzq3g1o1_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p><b>TONIGHT (Mar 6) @ 6pm<br/>FREE FILMS</b></p> <p>The Films of John and James Whitney<br/>Yantra, 1963<br/>Lapis, 1967<br/>Permutations, 1968<br/>Experiments in Motion Graphics, 1968</p> <p>Larry Cuba - Two Space 1979</p> <h2>James and John Whitney</h2> <p>Between 1950 and 1955, James laboured to construct a truly astounding masterpiece, Yantra. The film was produced entirely by hand. By punching grid patterns in 5” by 7” cards with a pin, James was able to paint through these pinholes onto other 5” x 7” cards, to create images of rich complexity and give the finished work a very dynamic and flowing motion, but the film was not completed yet. It was first released as a silent film.</p> <p>A short excerpt from an early version of Yantra was shown at one of the historic Vortex Concerts in San Francisco’s Morrison planetarium in 1959. Soon after, the film acquired its soundtrack, an excerpt from Henk Badings’ “Cain and Abel”.</p> <p>Analogue computer equipment developed by brother John, allowed James to complete Lapis (1966) in two years, when it might have taken seven years otherwise. James drew dot patterns again for this film, but the camera was positioned using computer control, allowing each image to be overlaid from multiple angles. In this piece, smaller circles oscillate in and out in an array of colors resembling a kaleidoscope while being accompanied by Indian sitar music. The patterns become hypnotic and trance inducing.</p> <p><span> </span></p> <h2>Two Space</h2> <h4>(1979)<br/>8 minutes<br/>16mm, B/W</h4> <h3>Description</h3> <p>Two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile.</p> <p>Two Space consists of twelve such patterns produced using each of nine different animating figures (12 x 9 = 108 total). Rendered in stark black and white, the patterns produce optical illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of color. Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java adds to the mesmerizing effect.</p> <h3>Reviews</h3> <p>“An exquisite, lyrical computer-animated film. Truly, Larry Cuba has developed fine art from this highly technical medium. The hypnotic movement of white dot patterns on inky black creates a sense of spiritual beauty as it leaves some fascinating optical afterimages.”</p> <p>—-Lize Bechtold, Filmex World Animation Survey Program</p> <h3>Festival Awards</h3> <p>Marin County National Film Competition, San Rafael,CA (1980)<br/>Baltimore International Film Festival, Baltimore,Md (1980), 1st Place, Experimental Category<br/>Atlanta Film Festival, High Museum of Art, Atlanta,GA (1980)<br/>Sinking Creek Film Festival, Nashville,TN (1980)<br/>Athens International Film Festival, Athens,OH (1980), Golden Athena, Best Animation<br/>Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor,MI (1980)</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/430755858http://hexagonspace.com/post/430755858Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:55:00 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyomi6BGhd1qzq3g1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Friday, 3/5/10<br/>Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm sharp, $6<br/><br/>Los Solos Series presents…..<br/>SAMITA SINHA (NYC) Voice/sound<br/>AYAKO KATAOKA (Balto) Movement/Sound<br/>JENNY GRAF (Balto) Sound<br/><br/><a><a href="http://baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos">http://baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos</a></a> <br/><br/><br/>SAMITA SINHA (NYC)<br/><br/>Trained in classical Hindustani vocal music, composer/ performer Samita Sinha uses the range of her voice together with electronics and multilingual text in solo performance and multichannel vocal pieces. Besides her solo work, Sinha has a duo project with Marc Cary called ANATOMY (electronic/ Hindustani/ jazz), uses her voice as an improvising instrument in jazz ensembles (in Marc Cary’s FOCUS Trio, Sunny Jain Collective, and Eternal Now), and has toured internationally as a vocalist with the late performance poet Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream) state. In addition to her international performance career, Sinha has been awarded grants from the Urban Artist Initiative and Queens Council on the Arts, a Fulbright Scholarship to study music in India, and has been a composer-in-residence and two-time juror at Millay Colony on the Arts. She has created music for film (Prashant Bhargava’s “Backwaters”) and video installation (Jaishri Abichandani’s “3 Muses”). Her debut CD with her group Kaash (Sunny Jain, Jesse Neuman, Dan Fabricatore), entitled Seep, was named a Top Pick of 2006 in All About Jazz and appeared in Billboard’s “Top 5 Hear and Now.” <a href="http://www.samitasinha.com">www.samitasinha.com</a> <br/><br/>AYAKO KATAOKA (BALTIMORE)<br/><br/>Ayako Kataoka is a transdisciplinary artist originally from Tokyo. Born into a family of priests and artists, she grew up immersed in an atmosphere of shaka drawings, chant depicted in Japanese calligraphy, and the milieu of traditional temples. Realized in sound, video, installation, and dance performances, her works are often embodied with her heritage dealing with the concept of bringing invisible to visible. Her selected works have been performed and exhibited at spaces including; Tokyo Dance Video Festival, San Francisco International Arts Festival, and High Zero Festival. Kataoka holds MFA from Mills College, Oakland, CA, where she also worked as a technical assistant at the Center for Contemporary Music Center (former San Francisco Tape Music Center). She currently resides in Baltimore, MD. <a><a href="http://saisui.wordpress.com">http://saisui.wordpress.com</a></a> <br/><br/>JENNY GRÄF (BALTIMORE)<br/><br/>J. Gräf, a dynamic improvisor and stalwart of the Baltimore freek music scene, creates vivid, compelling soundworlds using intuitive/primitive homebrewed electronics, guitar and voice. J. Gräf is one-half of the noise duos Harrius (with Chiara Giovando, two LP’s on Ehse Records) and Metalux (with MV Carbon, recordings on Hanson, Load and 5RC/Kill Rock Stars, etc). She is also known for her interactive social interventions such as The Guitars Project, in which she worked with a group older women with Alzheimer’s to produce music using electric guitars, Threshold, a piece performed at last year’s High Zero event in which the audience triggered sounds by ordering food, and her Rock Carving Oraclestra, which uses psychic channeling through stone to generate readings for selected audience members. Her recent releases include Proud Flesh, a movie soundtrack to her Western film collaboration with Chiara Giovando (ehserecords.com), a split 7? with Zaimph as well as a split Metalux/K.K. Rampage.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/423084885http://hexagonspace.com/post/423084885Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:22:54 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9zacO9UE1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saturday, Feb 27</p> <p>BALTIMORE ELECTRONIC MUSIC WINTERFEST<br/>Joseph Meyer “Jerohme Spye”<br/>Jeff Bagato with Mercury Fools the Alchemist<br/>Hal Schmulowitz & Logan Mitchell Sr<br/>Dave Vosh & Frank Vanaman<br/>The Duc D’Angelos Quartet</p> <p>Hello to all. This Electronic Music/Experimental Music/Electro-Acoustic Music mini festival event, herein known as the Baltimore Electronic Music 2010 Winterfest, is being sponsored by members of The Baltimore SDIY Group & will be a really nice musical endeavor, so we are really looking forward to this evening. Please come out & join us for a really fantastic evening of knob twisting, pitch bending, wiring mazes, sound shaping & visual explosions that will coincide with an absolutely awesome musical voyage into another galaxy of sound alterations. Happy Bleeps & Bloops and we hope to see you there.</p> <p>INFO ON THE PERFORMERS:</p> <p>The Duc D’Angelos Quartet is decor music, graffiti art, musical libertarianism, free jazz, disco, or an electro-acoustic improvisation ensemble from Baltimore/DC.</p> <p>Frank Vanaman can usually be found playing popular tunes of the 1920s and 1930s —his presence here is something of a mystery, even to him.  Dave Vosh ( “safe 2” ) has been a regular performer of electro-noise music in d.c. / balto. since 2005 doing both solo work and various collaborations.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/406218871http://hexagonspace.com/post/406218871Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:35:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9yh6nwcf1qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thurs, Feb 25</p> <p>ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI<br/>Mike Haleta (ex. wzt hearts)<br/>Ian Nagoski<br/>Shaun Flynn + Cex Duo<br/>Violet (Jeff Surak)</p> <p>Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. Zbigniew Karkowski has studied with composers Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, and Georges Aperghis and has produced numerous works in the fields of both acoustic and electronic music including chamber works, pieces for large orchestra and opera. He is also a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio Sensorband and has worked with notable underground icons, Merzbow, Pita (Peter Rehberg), Kasper Toeplitz, Francisco Lopez, Daniel Menche and Hafler Trio.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/406183198http://hexagonspace.com/post/406183198Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:17:30 -0500<p>The Hexagon Music Library is the catalog of songs we play between bands at shows and during gallery openings.  We are committed to highlighting the music of local and underexposed artists and we would love to have your band’s songs in our catalog.  Feel free to send us music through the SoundCloud DropBox link below.</p> <p><a href="http://soundcloud.com/hexagonspace/dropbox">Send us your track</a></p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/354841143http://hexagonspace.com/post/354841143Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:04:38 -0500<p>The Hexagon Space is entering a new era with two major changes taking place.</p> <p>In its first step to becoming a tax-exempt non-profit, The Hexagon Space incorporated as a non-profit corporation in Maryland. It is continuing its efforts to become a 501(c)(3) organization under federal law, thus enabling it to accept tax-deductible donations and to apply for a wider range of foundation grants.</p> <!-- more --> <p>Second, the community of volunteers responsible for operating The Hexagon Space voted to refrain from paying blanket fees to the music licensing corporations American Society of Composers and Performers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), and Society of European Stage Artists and Composers (SESAC). The mission of The Hexagon Space is to provide an all-inclusive outlet for the arts with an emphasis on supporting local and under-exposed artists and performers. The collective believes paying these organizations is contrary to this mission and an improper use of its limited financial resources.</p> <p>Starting in 2010, all material performed at The Hexagon Space must be original, in the public domain, or covered under Fair Use. Artists who have registered with a performance rights organization may still perform their original work because they retain the performance rights under the copyright.</p> <p>“I’ve been continually impressed by our volunteers over the past year. These decisions are exciting steps for our space and will have a significant positive impact on the local music community,” says Board President, Josh Atkins.</p> <p>Submissions are being graciously accepted for the house music playlist which gets played between bands and at gallery functions. Musicians who wish to submit copies of their original songs to our catalog can do so through the website, <a href="http://www.hexagonspace.com">www.hexagonspace.com</a>, or during venue and gallery hours.</p> <p>The Hexagon Space is happy to address any questions that performers may have regarding this issue, and encourages them to investigate alternatives to the conventional copyright scheme such as Creative Commons licensing. The Hexagon Space supports the free flow of art and creativity in the marketplace of ideas.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/352817865http://hexagonspace.com/post/352817865Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:28:19 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvh2n2PdX11qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>January 9th to February 6th, 2010.</p> <p>The Hexagon, in conjunction with My House Gallery (Philadelphia), presents: Baltidelphia, an experimental collaboration curated by Phuong Pham (the Hexagon) and Alex Gartelmann (My House).</p> <p>The Baltidelphia exhibition features 22 Baltimore artists paired with 22 Philadelphia artists who were asked to collaborate/correspond through whatever means they chose—facebook, text message, twitter, carrier pigeon, postal mail, sky-writing, etc. Rather than get lost in the flood of tweeting that flickrs to your tumbl that feeds to your blog (LOL smileyface), Baltidelphia embraces communication, distance, and geography as points of departure to create a project. Baltidelphia will be exhibited in both Baltimore and Philadelphia, with selections of the projects being displayed in each spaces. The Hexagon will have a soft opening on Saturday, January 9th, as some participating Baltimore artists will be traveling to My House Gallery for a joint opening reception.</p> <p>Philadelphia artists will travel to Baltimore, <b>Saturday, February 6th</b> for the closing. Participating artists (Bmore & Philly): Kathy Beachler & Martha Savery, Emily Claire Dierkes & Jim Grilli, Miguel Sabogal & Bryan Patrick Rice, Jon Bevers & Damian Weinkrantz, Kathleen Mazurek & Daniel Potterton, Sarah Magida & Kristen Neville, Mike Riley & Tim Pannell, Jared Fischer & Tyler Kline, Freda Mohr & Andrew Brehm, Heather Von Marko & Hannah Heffner, Julie Pahr & Fernando Ramos, Andrew Geddes & Daniel Petraitis, Na Kim & Mike Ryan, Jennifer Mullins & Leah Mackin, Ric Royer & Beth Heinly, Robert Brulinski & Piper Brett, Magnolia Laurie & Nike Desis, Megan Lavelle & Jen Gin, Sean Scheidt & Masha Badinter, Monique Crab & Hope Rovelto, Phuong Pham & Alex Gartelman</p> <p>The Hexagon Space is a peer-operated venue in Baltimore, Maryland that provides an all-inclusive outlet for the arts with an emphasis on supporting local and under-exposed artists and performers. My House Gallery is an artist-run alternative space in South Philadelphia that focuses on creating exhibition opportunities, community building, and progressive and socially relevant curatorial projects. Visit hexagonspace.com and myhousegallery.wordpress.com/ for more information.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/308064101http://hexagonspace.com/post/308064101Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:27:46 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw61uutq7n1qzq3g1o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><h3>CALL FOR LOGOS! <a title="LOGO CONTEST" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249504040909&ref=mf">Click Here For Details </a> </h3> <h3>HexagOn Yer Jock Logo Contest!</h3> <p>The Hexagon, Baltimore’s darlin’ multi-use art and performance space, is hosting a logo design competition and we want you to enter!<br/><br/>What we’re looking for:<br/>A dynamic graphic that captures the fun spirit of our growing DIY space and community. Color logos should also translate well in black and white. Logo should be versatile enough to use with widgets, emails, buttons, business cards, letterhead, and fliers.<br/><br/>What’s in it for you:<br/>First, a sweet-ass prize as determined by the Hexagon’s collective of volunteers. This could be high fives, free pizza, awkward hugs, baked goods, bowling trophies, mix cd’s; really—the possibilities are endless, but endlessly AWESOME. And second, your logo will be all up on our jock! As we continue to expand our community and creative identity, we will be using this logo on everything from strengthening our web presence (twitter, facebook, blog) to distributing our promotional materials (fliers, business cards, gallery postcards, press releases, etc).<br/><br/>How to enter:<br/>Send your 300 dpi submissions to Promotions Coordinator at promotions@hexagonspace.com with “Hexagon Logo Contest” in the subject line, and you’re in! Acceptable file formats include PDF, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Gif, JPEG, PNG, Tiff, EPS, Freehand, SVG or as a static SWF.<br/><br/>Deadline: Saturday, February 20th, 2010. Entries will be blind-juried by the Hexagon collective. The winner will be notified by the first week of March.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/331675953http://hexagonspace.com/post/331675953Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:44:57 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwauyrsRT81qzq3g1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sat Feb 13 :: Ambient/Doom Metal<br/>NADJA, Liturgy, Oak, Major Powers</p> <p><b>NADJA</b> <br/><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv">http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv</a></a><br/> Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Berlin, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Nadja originally began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient guitar-based music. In 2005 Buckareff joined to make the project more than just a studio endeavour and allow Nadja to perform live. Together, they create music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, combining the atmospheric and textural elements of electronic and experimental music with metal and post-rock structures.<br/>Nadja has toured extensively in North America and Europe and has released numerous albums with such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important Records, Beta-lactam Ring Records, Conspiracy Records, Hydrahead Records, and Crucial Blast.</p> <p><br/><b>LITURGY</b><br/><a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/liturgynybm">http://www.myspace.com/liturgynybm</a></a><br/>“Liturgy are the first black metal band that truly embodies the ghosts of New York. They play metal like it’s a minimalist downtown art/life/religion project in the tradition of dronemasters Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and La Monte Young’s Dream Syndicate. Through their own brand of growling, gnarling, lightning-fast black grind, Liturgy try to find euphoria through dissonance, repetition and volume—turning metal nightmares into something ready for the Dream House. ” -Village Voice<br/><br/><b>OAK</b><br/><a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/oakdoom">http://www.myspace.com/oakdoom</a></a><br/>“…doom riffs still ridiculously slow and glacial with huge pregnant pauses between riffs, a single riff taking minutes to fully cycle through, but there’s just as much dark rumbling ambience here too, with massive guitar drones stretched out for minutes on end, buzzing powerchords floating in clouds of crackling amplifier meltdown, and majestic guitar harmonies rising up out of the murk too, giving Oak’s tectonic deathdoom this epic, triumphant aura.” -Crucial Blast<br/><br/><b>MAJOR POWERS</b><br/><a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/majorpowers">http://www.myspace.com/majorpowers</a></a><br/>Two drummers, Greg Druck and D’Metrius Rice (Teenage Souls), with two guitar players, Josh Atkins (Polygons) and John Jones (Each Others, King Cloud) playing a blend of drone, metal, and minimalism in a rarely seen band.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/336049040http://hexagonspace.com/post/336049040Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:43:00 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShZabGU4IH4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShZabGU4IH4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Food For Animals last Saturday at the Hexagon.</p>http://hexagonspace.com/post/343605177http://hexagonspace.com/post/343605177Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:37:01 -0500