Spirit of Gravity presents

HRT / MATA-UNIT / VLK

The Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time 8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4

HRT - Unthinkable error chaos.
Mata-Unit - getting the tools out.
VLK - right up our street.

HRT
"THE UNTHINKABLE IS OUR FUTURE"

HRT Corp. is the result of more than a couple of years combined research in the field of psychoacoustics, audio art and sound theory. HRT Corp and associates are ready to believe you.

"BEAUTY CONTAINS BOTH CHAOS AND ERROR"
www.myspace.com/hrtcorp

Mata-Unit
Spacked out synths and tortured drum machines drive the sound of Mata-Unit. A pure hardware enthusiast influenced by Detroit electro, British techno and a nice dollop of skank he squeezes the filth out of a few choice boxes of techno goodness.

VLK
VLK create noise, silences and sounds. using custom designed software and various sound objects and noise making devices and acoustic instruments. Treading a line between analogue and digital, they distort, reconfigure and process during live performance and recording to produce and manipulate layers of various sounds.
www.myspace.com/vlknoises

There will be an elektrocreche available for any unaccompanied toys who will be looked after during the intervals by our professionally trained team of volunteers. And anybody else that wants to bring along a sound toy to play with.

Hosted by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector

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· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 16^th July 2009

Squeezed in first at the last minute we had a brief but beautiful set from The Tim Sagar Drone Syndicate (or the Tim SaGarr drone Sindy Cartay as our MC for the evening Stuart put it) a ten minute drone version of “Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough” heavily effected raga drone acoustic guitar and the Casio MT40 from the elektrocreche didgeridoo sounding through massive phaser and a gently burbling delay.

Taking a spell off from his MC'ing Stuart donned his Dear Britch persona seated at the bar swigging white wine, to serenade us with his particular brand of songstry: equal parts 80s lip sync queens night out, pure suicide noise and vicious Noel Coward wit. He started at the bar before sweeping around the floor standing on chairs and swinging off the lights. A really good mix of abstract noiselry and pure cabaret. I'm afraid we once again didn't get a good enough recording of his set, but we do at least have an audience recording for the SogBlog – along with a snatch of video.

Tom Hall’s set was less liquid noise than his sound-check, but no less singular for that, starting out over a space whistle, crackling a loop of fractured lead and a neck hair raising high pitched sound that offered real relief whenever it stopped he fashioned a carillon bong melody of slow dream intensity. Building up and washing down. Tom was out of sight, to one side of his own projections, luscious green waves in damp sunshine. The bells morphed into pure electricity and the space noises war bled back and drifted us off in other directions finishing on a spaghetti western figure on single struck acoustic guitar with chimes and portents ominous underneath.

Shige Ishihara turned up with another new project, a two piece with Gou from Dokkei q called Devil Man, Shige playing bass and Gou a big stack of equipment like an old fashioned drawing room bureau, laying down a high density metal dub: thick, almost tangible, Slabs of bass and echo reverb skank. Their first rehearsal was the sound-check but they played 5 or 6 really tight highly structured tunes and were called back for a beatless heavy rippling wash of sound for an encore.

Apart from Tom Hall the visuals were provided by Bartosz' new analogue "slide project", 4 projectors. Nice, have a look at the SogBlog (updated just before the show).

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

Editor

Spirit of Gravity presents

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 16th July 2009

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 16^th July 2009