Spirit of Gravity presents

THIS SOUND BUREAUCRACY / T-TOE / FRACTAL

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

This Sound Bureaucracy: open public forum on improvised sound and spoken word
T-Toe: Trombone-tronica
Fractal: Psychedelic Noise-step and lo-fi visuals

Special guest appearance: Not By Radium: Electroactive Radionica

This Sound Bureaucracy

”This Sound Bureaucracy organise another open public forum on improvised sound and spoken word”
For the first time in goodness knows how long, the founders of The Spirit of Gravity return to expose the British public to their electropoetic musings on the meaning of whatever is concerning them this month. Close to extinction, this is a rare opportunity to observe the duo in their natural habitat.

T-Toe

T-toe's been exposed to a lot of sounds over the years; and a lot of people; and a lot of geographical instability; and a lot of ideas. Unable to commit himself to any one particular sound, culture, location or idea: he instead whacks all of his influences into one creative melting pot, irrespective of expectation, fashion or trend.
T-toe takes a snooty classical and performance art background and mixes with an electro-ragga-break-hop-junglist street leaning to create a not-quite-dance floor : not-quite-living room selection of songs and ditties, all of them intriguingly charming.
T-toe's music is an honest and pure reflection of the way T-toe sees the world in which he lives, and his reactions to it.

Fractal

Fractal is Brighton / Belfast-based producer Dennis O'Keefe's latest attempt to blend extreme, sometimes improvised psychedelic noise with speaker wobbling sub bass, and glitched 2-step rhythms, performed amid a backdrop of synaesthesia influenced analogue-feedback visuals.

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

There will be the 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.

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

We now have a Facebook group where you can be kept up to date with shows and information:

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

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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

Last month saw the debut of new toys from France for the elektrocreche. Join in and become one of the stars on the future elektrocreche compilation being recorded at every gig. You too could be on a compilation with Henry Shitmat, Shige Scotch Egg, Tony Rimbaud, DJ Cheesemaster, Monster Bobby, Dan Powell, Chris Cook, Tim Exile, Gillian Alder, Caleb ....coool.

This month’s treat is a special visit from the founders, including an extended early set (all filler no killer) from Not By Radium starting at 8:15 so get there early! Apart from that we have the return of T-Toe and a first visit by Midlander Fractal.

Also this month:

The evening of the 24^th of October sees the second of Brighton’s White Night events, and we are returning to the Phoenix gallery where we have a room again from 6pm until 3am, and will also be spending some time at the Ocean Rooms from 3 to 5am. If you didn’t make it out to last year’s event, try and get down to town for this one, there are events all over the town centre and all are free. Last year there were installations in the swimming pool and live music in the museum, and thousands of people were enjoying going out late on a Saturday night and not listening to club music.

The Phoenix is running a Factory (NY not Manchester) themed evening, which means with _minimalVector visuals and as many projectors as we can get our hands on we’re well placed again. It should be fun.

Also a quick mention of the ongoing free ‘Random Friday’ events at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill – Noteherder & McCloud played the last one along with recent SoG visitors Devil Man and it was great fun, the next is at the beginning of November. Also in early November our friends at the Audiophonic Cabaret in Hastings are hosting a weekend of events, so keep your eyes peeled for that if you live in that neck of the woods.

· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 17th September 2009

It was good to welcome back D-Face after his great show earlier in the year, this time not just as himself but also, after a couple of songs on his own, as part of super Mega Ultra Crew. This meant that he could hand control of the beats over to his partner while he got stuck into looping and playing the violin in earnest. The live violin works really well off the back of the chattering breaks, providing an excellent textural contrast to the clean sounds of the old micro-composer.

The rest of the evening was given over to generative music courtesy of first Joe Gilmore, recently featured in The Wire, from Up North, and EVOL from Barcelona who are doing some shows together.

Joe Gilmore kicked off the second half of the evening with a harsh bagpipe noise that obviously hit the tinnitus notes of a few sound engineers in the audience who hit the back staircase in double quick time, from there it was a laptop journey through the strange byways of sound most obviously about texture more than anything, shifting, beatless and remorseless in its own inner logic this was a soundscape alien, I think even to the most avid Spirit of Gravity goer.

Rounding the evening off with an equally rigorous, but altogether funnier set was EVOL, big squelchy whoops, blarps and whistles, it was the sound of a laptop in conversation with itself on the clangers home world. EVOL had some fantastic 10” singles of similar stuff on sale which are highly recommended, each ending in a locked groove, which works in this context even if it usually bugs the life out of me.

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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