GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 104 / June 11
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 30th June 2011
FALLOW,
GAGARIN, AN INFINITY ROOM, THE GROSS CONSUMER
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Fallow:
Field recordings of Fallow Deer with the Hoodlum Priest and guests
Gagarin:
An electro-percussive celebration of 50 years since the first man in
Space
An
Infinity Room:
Australian Keyboards Installation
The Gross Consumer: A short
set from the man in the mac
Fallow
For the past 20 years Dr David Reby
has been working in the wild with Fallow Deer, and for nearly as long
the Fallow Project has been using his field recordings of these
remarkable animals.
Unearthly cries, bellows, growls and grunts undermine the benign
reputation of the Fallow Deer, its verbalisations more like a predator
than a ruminant. Former SPK member and Hoodlum Priest Derek Thompson melds
these sonic inputs to more orthodox sound sources and manipulates the
results into a unique sonic landscape.
Gagarin
The
always excellent Graham 'Dids' Dowdall
(Ludus, Nico,
John Cale, Pere Ubu)
celebrates the release of his new album and single plus the first 50
years of Humanity arriving in Space. It'll be out of this world.
AN INFINITY ROOM (A.I.R)
IS AN ENSEMBLE AND INSTALLATION PROJECT COMPRISING MULTIPLE
SYNTHESIZERS, KEYBOARDS AND ELECTRONIC ORGANS.
LED BY COMPOSER/SOUND ARTIST JULIAN DAY, A.I.R AFFECTS A ZEN-LIKE SENSE
OF RESONANCE AND POISE. A.I.R USES GRAPHIC SCORES, SIMPLE PERFORMANCE
TECHNIQUES AND SEMI-IMPROVISED STRUCTURES TO CREATE A HAUNTING AURA OF
DRONES AND RICH HARMONIC FIELDS. AN EVER-EVOLVING LINEUP ALLOWS A.I.R TO
PERFORM IN A WIDE VARIETY OF VENUES INCLUDING GALLERIES, LIVING ROOMS,
FOYERS AND CONCERT HALL SPACES.
A.I.R HAS PRESENTED WORK AT GRANTPIRRIE GALLERY, SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM
OF MUSIC, CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE (CCAS), KK GALLERY (PERTH),
THE STREET THEATRE (CANBERRA) AND FIRSTDRAFT GALLERY AMONG MANY OTHER
SPACES.
The Gross Consumer
has returned to Brighton with his grubby mac
chock full of good ideas and bad intentions, the driving force behind
the Wrong Music complaints department will play a short but invigorating
set on half destroyed equipment left behind by previous tenants,
unsatisfied diners and unlikely ne'er-do-wells.
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:
Coming
up:
Splitting
the Atom III at The Cowley
Club London Rd July 30th 6pm - 2:00am FREE
A
mini 2 stage Atom with WARRIOR SQUARES+ WHITE TIGER+ DEEPKISS 720+ THE
ZERO MAP+ ALLEN STRACHNID+ HAKARL+ DOGEESESEEGOD+ DAN SPICER+ IAN
MURPHY&DUNCAN HARRISON+ DANIEL ALEXANDER HIGNELL
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118445361570602
Also,
this month’s Wire Magazine (#329) has a Nice Picture and a live review
of Daniel Jones who appeared at SoG’s March
event – something about “tiny surprises”.
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Tuesday 24th May 2011
During
the festival we always like to try something a little more formal, a
little more chaotic, so for this year’s May event we gathered together
two teams of keyboardistas into an orchestra
of opposites to perform Richard Miles' “Mebo”.
One group were set up near the elektrocreche
area in front of the stage another near the back where the elektrocreche
used to be, just by the table near the door. Starting and sonic drum
(and acoustic) pulse they played a series of interlocking parts based
around short notes that shifted times and incremented slowly before
disintegrating and restarting more assuredly, speeding up again slowly
before once more falling apart and then more swaggeringly through the
cycle at a higher rate and finally starting off with a fuller rhythm
that gave reign to more or less constant chaos. It was kind of fun to
see a bunch of disparate figures tongues in the corners of mouths
playing i-phones, toy keyboards, proper synths,
bodhran and syndrum
trying to keep everything together.
From
that we went about as far to the other extreme as could be done
with Hereharehere,
two voices improvising alone, without effects or tricks to hide behind.
Mel and Robin have been vocalising as a pair for a couple of years and
really have built a hydra ability as a dual voiced single organism,
breathing as one, poised trills against rumbled breaths or soaring
together in uncanny, un-worded unity. It was a real pleasure to see.
El
Maestro Con Queso
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