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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 88 / January 10
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: 14th January 2010
NATHANIEL
VIRGO / AK/DK / TOMAS HILTZ
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Nathaniel
Virgo
"2
joysticks; a velvet trenchcoat: chaotic
fun"
AK/DK
"2
humans, 2 drumkits, 2 synths,
messynoiseynoise"
Tomas
Hiltz
"It
is not clear why they do this."
Nathaniel
Virgo
Nathaniel
Virgo played at the 2009 Whitenight event
with the Spirit of Gravity and we are very pleased to welcome him back
with his own blend of twin Joystick flavoured noise. He's written his
own software for sound and visuals, and will be concentrating on the
enhanced audio aspects this evening.
Escape
From The Headcube
White
Nights Videos
AK/DK
AK/DK
like to have fun: play completely improvised sets: come from Brighton:
make noise with two drum kits, an old Casiotone
and a Korg synth:
usually have a couple of friends join them for gigs: don't pretend to be
cool : want to be your friend come to our
party: www.facebook.com/l/73dde;www.myspace.com/akdkgroup
Tomas
Hiltz
Richard
Miles and David Tribe have worked together for many, many years. They
show no sign of stopping. Currently they are known as Tomas Hiltz.
It is not clear why they do this.
Both work primarily with electric stringed instruments and then explore
and corrupt the sounds at their disposal. The aim is for gigantic
washes, trickles, sparks. Seeking utopia in
sound. Tools, fingers, electronic devices, effects, loops and
anything else to hand are used. Nothing in the room is safe.
In addition to working together as Tomas Hiltz
both have had many varied adventures in the worlds of music over the
years and continue to play with astonishing people whenever the chance
arises. Richard has played with many people, a lot of which can be found
at www.armchair-astronaut.com. He also produces site specific sound art
pieces, video, and paints.
http://www.myspace.com/tomashiltz
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:
Look
out in February for a special one off: The Spirit of Gravity Quartet
plus Dan Powell and Gus Garside supporting Amazon Recordings newest
signing 4thirtythree at the Open House pub in Springfield Road on the
17th part of a month long residency they are having up there.
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Wednesday 18th November
2009
Gus
Garside and Dan Powell
One of a few creative links we have with the Safehouse
free improve collective Spirit of Gravity member Dan Powell on
percussion fx and laptop teams up on a
regular basis with respected bass player Gus Garside. They've been
collaborating for a couple of years and this lengthy set was a real
highpoint, they both have an interest in Modern Composition as well as
improvising and seemed to combine both tonight, recalling the rigorous
acoustic soundscapes of the avant-garde and
a number of sideways leaps into unknown territories. My favourite
section is on the SogBlog where an
invocation of an 1950s NY street scene, all
slowed down bells, noise and sonorous bowed bass tones gives way to a
lurching percussion loop from Gus' bass.
Ryan Jordan
The Noise=Noise maestro performed a noise set of some subtlety. As
you would expect. Kneeling at the front of the stage with a black
hood, black clad with his arms outstretched and a strobe shining up at
his face Ryan controls the sound and strobe using sensors attached to
his fingers. He teased for a while, 10 minutes maybe of ebbing and
flowing washes and daubs of unstructured sound before really letting us
have it with a final 15 minute blast of full throttle thrilling roar.
The red curtains
at the back of the stage have a tendency to make everything evocative of
Twin Peaks, but this was a Hellish and Frightening nightmare of Bob. Marvellous.
Sunday Mourning
Sunday Mourning are an improvising duo,
drums/vocals and guitar/vocals/effects. Coming on like Earth for the
first part of their set, slow rock riffs setting an uneasy mood before
the vocals got into a slowed down loop and the drums got lost behind
screaming and everything went a bit Goblin at 16rpm. If the first half
of the set had reference points easy to apply the second half gave us
the sonic hellhole we were promised. Discordant, growling and ill
shaped: informed as much by HP Lovecraft as
Sonic Youth and Goblin.
If you haven't seen it yet the footage on the sogblog
http://spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/
is excellent.
Yours as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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