Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Tuesday 27 May

Spirit of Gravity presents

MEAT DREAM / CHRIS COOK & CHRIS PARFITT / LES DINS / NWODTLEM

The Three & Ten, 10 Steine St, BN2 1TE

8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.

Meat Dream
When Meat Dream played at The Spirit of Gravity last year they wowed us with their home made noise devices, electronic suits and electronically debased guitars and drums.

Chris Cook and Chris Parfitt
Chris Cook (Same Actor/Hot Roddy) on stringed instruments teams up with Chris Parfitt (21 Grams / Noteherder & McCloud) on blown instruments for a celebration of the microtonal. Hope for Sitars and flutes, expect to be enthralled.

Les Dins
Dark Side Of The Forest. Creel Pone French ambient electro soundclash. A rural tribute to Nino Nardini from the deepest, darkest Picardy.

nwodtleM
This coffee fuelled Canuck will be doing an entirely new set of video music. Not VJing to tracks or anything like that, nwodtleM chops up video with sound intact to make some weird form of breakcore video concrete. Does that make sense? Come see for yourself when the video pirate comes back to town.

Hosted by our very own electro-comedian Lee Hume
live interactive visuals by _minimalVector

For details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.

We have video and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog from all our recent shows at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/

There are other videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity

There are also downloads available of some complete Spirit of Gravity sets at

www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity

There are now also some of _minimalVector’s films featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at the Vimeo HDTV page

www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity

· Greetings:

The Spirit of Gravity is currently listening to Radio Reverb 97.2 FM (esp. the Clive Craske shows 11pm Tuesday and Thursday).

And this week we are mostly reading Latest7.

Coming up we are very happy to be taking part in the Expo Brighton festival [http://expofestival.org].

We have 2 entries, Dan Powell with a performance of the Comet Project and also the Spirit of Gravity Quartet, both are at the Concorde2 on Sunday 6^th July and both will feature _minimalVector visuals. Here is the Sonic Art Network blurb about the event:

“Sonic Arts Network and RadioReverb 97.2FM present Expo Brighton, the UK's largest weekend of free sound art and experimental music, which will take place on 4-6 July 2008 in venues and spaces across Brighton.”

“Expo is three days and nights of people enjoying, playing, discovering and listening to sonic art. Experience a wiki-conference, a radiophonic intervention in the Royal Pavilion Gardens, installations and performances, shopping centre public art, club nights and film screenings across the streets, buildings and air waves of Brighton.”

· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Three and Ten, Brighton, Tuesday 22 April

The first thing to say is that Bartosz’ laptop broke and for the first time in a year we had no _minimalVector visuals, unfortunately, with one exception, this coincided with our least visual show of the year. Oh well.

The exception was The Disco Tears who had coincidentally brought along their own laptop with a specially made backing film for projecting at them while they played. Apart from the projector they had melodica, cornet and keyboards. Starting with a hummed dialogue between Ben the cornet player and Howard’s mobile phone. After a quick demonstration on how to overload a delay unit, the melodica and cornet exchanged phrases while a laptop and keyboard hummed away, subtly a beat crept in from right-field and we finished with a rolling rollicking finale which is up on the Blog.

Con brio with his laptop we hid behind part of the PA, which was probably not ideal, but his mixture of old style ambience, a great ear for a tune and crispy modern beats was excellent and started the dream music part of the evening where large sections of the audience seemed to bliss off into obscure reveries.

I think it says as much about the S.o.G. demographic as Con Brio’s effervescent charms that he sold out of vinyl in the blink of an eye. The final section of his set is on the SogBlog.

o.m.s-n.m.a

Carrying on from where Con Brio finished off, a slightly more organic set that fittingly took place on the floor in front of the stage, Andy Eeckhaut with an interesting array of pedals and sound sources took us on a filtered festival through Belgium’s industrial heartland. Field recordings of musical, natural and manmade sounds piped through the distorting equivalent of a pair of begrimed (but still rose tinted) glasses.

We have some video of Andy hiding in the dark on our MySpace page.

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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