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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 101 / March 11
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 31st March 2011
ANIMAL
MAGIC TRICKS / WHETHAM/JONES/MORGAN / MINIMAL EFFORT
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Due
to an urgent request to bring noise aid to North Africa minimal impact
will not be able to play at the April Spirit of Gravity, so we've booked
a minimal impact tribute act "minimal effort" instead. (this
may not be true).
Animal
Magic Tricks
Solo
voice and guitar with murky cassette backing tracks, fragile, noisy and
disconcertingly inventive.
What we said last time she played at Spirit of Gravity:
“Time
slipping cassette backing tracks warped while Frances played guitar or
Casio and sang whispered and deliberately obfuscated vibratoed
melodies. Pop folk from Babylon 5's shadow stores. Like
the gifted grandchild of the Springfields
and Alan Vega.”
http://www.animalmagictricks.yolasite.com
Simon Whetham
(field recordings), Daniel Jones (turntable, contact mics)
and Paul Khimasia Morgan (objects,
abrasion).
Simon Whetham is a field recordist
operating out of Bristol, UK. He has a prolific release schedule with
recent releases on labels including Entr'acte, Con-V, Trente
Oiseaux, and Gruenrekorder.
Throughout May 2009 Simon was Artist In residence at the Art Container,
Tallinn, Estonia.
Simon also curates the Active Crossover sound art exhibition.
simonwhetham.co.uk/
Daniel Jones is an improviser who has a recent release on Cathnor,
and on Another Timbre as part of Loris. In 2010,both
he and Paul performed in Brighton with Ryu Hankil
and Seijiro Murayama.
www.cathnor.com/Cathnor_New_CV007.html
Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improviser whose
recent collaboration with Simon Whetham was
released on the Con-V label. Paul promotes irregular concerts of
improvised music in Brighton under the aural detritus concert series
banner.
www.auraldetritus.blogspot.com/
www.con-v.org/cnvr22.html
minimal
effort
minimal
impact tribute act: The Spirit of Gravity's resident noise artist, once
described by Shitmat as "The noisiest
f*ck I know" is liberating the downtrodden noises of Egypt, so
we've booked the best known tribute act of any artist to have played the
Spirit of Gravity. Expect a shockingly realistic recreation of the
minimal impact experience.
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/.
Video
and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/
Video
and audio on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity
Facebook
group with shows and information at www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=75568366205
Downloads
of complete Spirit of Gravity sets at www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity
_minimalVector
films featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity
·
Greetings:
News
for April from our friends in Bexhill-upon-Sea:
De
La Warr Pavilion - John Cage Season
16 April – 5 June
Every
Day is a Good Day
An
exhibition of prints and drawings by John Cage.
(Gallery 1)
a
nod to Cage
Seven
weeks of music, performance and installations in response to the work
and ideas of John Cage. Artists include, Charles Atlas, FOUND
Collective, Yoko Ono and Felix’s Machines. Featuring
performances by Mount Kimbie + Creep,
Margaret Leng Tan, Brainwaves: Mira Calix,
Anna Meredith, Aurora Quartet and Loop.pH,
eighth blackbird and a re-interpretation of Cage’s Indeterminacy
readings.
(Gallery
2 and around the building)
Visit
www.dlwp.com
to find out more.
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Thursday 24th February 2011
Laboratoro’s
Ed
and Xelis combine poetry, dancing, field
recordings and an obvious love of Radiophonics
into the kind of act you feel you need to take notes for so you can
revisit it and get the complete picture. I know there was plenty going
on, he nuances of which were going escaping every. There were distorted
bird recordings reminiscent of Alvin Lucier’s
birdsong/feedback piece. Some speech confused by Gallician
intonation which was wrapped further into ethereality buy warping
effects, some trumpet reverbed to far off
places. There was cohesion and obvious structure, texture and dynamics
but the content was evasive. Obscured. Evanescent.
Komuso
also used found recordings though thankfully not the scary Fallow Deer
which had terrified us previously. Starting with a
piano duet for i-phones before swathing us
in washes of bass, two kinds of guitar, korg
wavedrum booms and percussion and
dislocating stereo. The main section of the set seemed built
around a melancholy march, with various rhythms and textures floating
around it
Folkestone’s
finest Barking Toad
confounded us really, we'd booked them for the distorted swagger of
their demo and they started off strong, choppy and skronking
with the bass and drums in lockdown and some pretty fierce alto
saxophone whipping up a storm over the top. But they didn't just do
racket they slowed it done and got some dexterous and fluidly sensual
early-Ubu-esque bassline
with scattering drums and breathy top lines going on. Before picking
things up again and insouciantly shrugging off a broken bass string to
stomp home a suitably climactic finish. It’s not in a
often we have acts with no electronics but it was worth going out on a
limb for the second time in a year for. Something
special.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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