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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 86 / November 09
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Wednesday 18th November 2009
RYAN
JOURDAN / SUNDAY MOURNING / GUS GARSIDE AND DAN POWELL
The Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner
Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Ryan
Jordan: hacked hardware, screaming circuits, and hypnotic flickers
Sunday Mourning: analog-psychedelic-one-man-jam-band-sandwich
Gus Garside and Dan Powell: he formed In Sand
Ryan
Jordan
Response
Systems is an exploration into audiovisual performance using an array of
sensors and DIY electronics responsive to physical movements in order to
control programs such as Pure Data (Pd). It also looks at reshaping and
replicating the body through the use of noise, DIY technology and
stroboscopic light. This work uses DIY hardware to build a new interface
for live computer music performance, aiming to turn the performers
body into an instrument allowing them to embody new technologies and
electronic devices.
The performance alters the perspective of the performer and performance
space through noise, strobe lighting and electronic devices. Flickering
shadows of the performers jerking movements, cables, and wires attached
to the body are cast onto the walls of the performance space as the
performers movements control screaming and shrieking hacked electronics
and computer programes, spewing out their
internal circuitry.
Sunday
Mourning
Sunday Mourning is Mark Wagner (**k) and drummer Sanna
Charles. Together they create a sonic hell-hole of acoustic doom,
experimental folk and dense psychedelic atmospheres. Referencing
anything from Death metal, Avant Garde,
Country and Americana and taking it down to new claustrophobic depths,
Sunday Mourning have just played a headline set at NYC's
Coco66 to great success.
Gus
Garside and Dan Powell
Dan
Powell & Gus Garside have been working together on an improv
project for the last two years. Dan Powell began making sound for
installation works in the mid 90's. Since moving to Brighton in 2000 he
has concentrated on experimental and improvised music. He is a member of
Brighton based collective The Spirit of Gravity and has performed at
spaces across the UK. Dan has released work on net labels Hippocamp
& Wrong Lab and his work has been played on WFMU, Radio Reverb &
BBC Radio 3. He is currently using small instruments - Tibetan bowls, mbira,
recorder, toys & junk - and processing the sound live via a laptop
using Audiomulch & Pure Data.
Gus
Garside has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz,
contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly,
improvised music where he has performed with many leading players. Gus
formed arc in 1988 and their third album "the pursuit of
happiness" was released on Emanem
Records in 2009. He formed In Sand in 2004 and their first album
“Whatever” came out mid 2008. Gus is part of the Brighton Safehouse
collective. He has collaborated with a wide range of improvising and
contemporary music players and dancers and frequently works with laptop
musicians and also performs solo. “…where he differs from the
average jazz bassist is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his
instrument” Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
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:
www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=75568366205
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:
There
will not be a Spirit of Gravity in December, but we’ll return in the
New Year with a schedule of varied and interesting artists.
Noteherder
& McCloud will be playing at The Infernal Salon on November the 27th,
and I’ll be DJing at the Globe for Wrong
Music on the 16th of December.
I’ve
added updates to the Sogblog for the
September and October shows, plus White Nights. Honest.
·
Reviewings:
Not
by Radium
Tony
Rimbaud looking like he’s on gardening leave from TSB, or maybe on a
fishing trip, stands woolly jumper and beanie hatted
splurging out dice driven bass bounces and swooshes,
with 20th century skittling drum
tracks. It rolls, it grooves, and finds a
place in my heart for long journeys and ever changing landscapes.
After
half an hour Tony is joined by fellow Founder and long standing partner
in rhyme Nick Rilke for This Sound
Bureaucracy. The ambience changes: the rhythms lose their far
reaching vision, becoming blunter; the foreground sounds become shorter
– lost in sweeps and shimmers, strangely at once more defined but less
focussed. Nick also provides sounds to the mix and gives us a potted
biography on Tony before ceding to popular demand with a reprise of the
legendary “I remember when this was all
fields”. Excellent.
Fractal
Dennis
provided the visuals for the evening, an interestingly Saul Bass
inclined abstraction of Black and white video feedback, which did
something to fill the void left by _minimalVector
these last months. And for the music he crouched out of vision over some
ill seen kit, with sharp blasts of hot noise and bass with room inside
some dubstep drawn rhythms to shiver and
confuse.
T-Toe
Terry
returned to the seaside to play some trombone infused breaks and sing to
wonderfully avuncular effect. Uplifting, melancholy, joyful and playful,
I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house when he finished. It
was like have a much cherished friend come round after a 10 year
absence, ply everyone with drink; tell implausibly funny stories of
disaster, sing and carouse before disappearing off into the night with a
kiss goodbye and the unlikely promise to return soon.
Thanks
to everyone who called by the Phoenix Gallery during the Brighton White
Nights festival. We had a great time and you may have seen: Nathaniel
Virgo; The Tim Sagar Drone Syndicate;
minimal impact & the big E orchestra; The Vainglories; Noteherder
& McCloud; Dan Powell; HRT; Viv
(previously Vole); This Sound Bureaucracy (yes twice! In
a month!) and Henry Collins. The
Spirit of Gravity Quartet also played at the Ocean Rooms at about 4am.
All
the visuals at The Phoenix Gallery White Room were by _minimalVector,
who we are hoping will return this month.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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