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GRAVITATIONAL
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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 106 / August 11
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 25th August 2011
WHITE
TIGER / FINN, SMITH & ZIEMIANIN / NIL
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
White
Tiger:
Guerrilla noise pranksters
Nil :
Chris Parfitt and Dan Powell: flute,
saxophone, percussive guitar, Pure Data
Finn, Smith & Ziemianin:
Self-build textural dynamics
White
Tiger
Guerrilla
soundists James 'Your Laughter' Barton, Ed
'Tiger Trapper' Briggs, Thom 'The Astronomer' Punton
and Maxwell 'Betamax' Hallett,
when we can steal him back from London's sooty grasp, formed White Tiger
as a side project of experimental musical hedge-fund, A Scandal in
Bohemia, ("best band in Brighton" - The Wire), White Tiger use
laptops as their weapons of choice, but their groping hands often land
upon things like ukuleles, drums and various brass instruments.
www.myspace.com/whitewhitetigertiger
Kacper
Ziemianin, Peter Smith and James Stephen
Finn
London
based musicians, Kacper Zieminian,
Peter Smith and James Stephen Finn, each coming from different
backgrounds, met in 2007 at Middlesex University where making noise
together was a natural consequence. The three form an improvisational
musical act where there is no focus on musical melody, but rather on
texture and constantly changing dynamics.
They combine a variety of instruments and sound-sources such as
electronic toys, circuit bending, mixers, turntables, bass guitar, found
objects, self-built instruments, guitar, laptop, feedback, and a whole
array of effects units to create interesting and dynamic improvisations.
This focus on improvisation allows for a creation of sounds through a
process of reaction and attention to changing mood, producing sounds
ranging from ambient to noise. Every performance is different and
unpredictable.
A free to download EP featuring live performances on "the best
radio station in the world" (The Village Voice) Resonance 104.4FM
is now available from Oso Records.
www.osorec.wordpress.com
/ www.ziemianin.net
Nil
Chris
Parfitt, member of the Brighton based SafeHouse
improvising and experimental music collective, performed across the
south east. Plays as part of Noteherder
and McCloud and 4thirtythree, both improvising bands.
Collaborations with Chris Cook, Dave Lawrence, Gus Garside and Dan
Powell, and has been an occasional member of the Spirit of Gravity
Quartet. Plays soprano, flutes and piano and
will explore samples, loops and vocal expression. Likes cycling and does
not have time for DIY.
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. He has been
working in a duo with Double Bassist Gus Garside for the last
four years and their collaboration has been well received at
venues in Brighton, London and further afield. He has also collaborated
with a range of musicians and improvisors
including Henry Collins, Chris Parfitt and
the Spirit of Gravity Quartet. 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 guitar & small instruments -
Tibetan bowls, mbira, recorder, toys &
junk - and processing the sound live via a laptop using Audiomulch
& Pure Data.
The possibility of visuals exists.
Hosted by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
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:
24th
September at The Green Door Store:
Another Splitting the Atom Collaboration with Club Zygotic: BBBlood,
Barking Toad, Aqua Dentata, Cheap Machines
and a host of SoG favourites and members.
7th
October at The Komedia:
A Co-promotion with Bristol’s Bit-Phalanx label for the Japanese
earthquake appeal, we are presenting Japanese Electronica
star Coppe. More details to follow but this
will be very good.
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Thursday 28th July 2011
Dirty
Eyes
Robin from
Slow Listener has teamed up with a maskless Kev
Kilter (HRT etc) to get this murky cassette fest sorted. Distorted
voices, field recordings, pitch bent voices storytelling – some
mortuary radio fiction. Its unclear, repetitive,stereo.
The collision of hiss and noise from multiple sources creating
undercurrents of swell and boom with rattling lives of their own. Insectoid
kettles of their own too. Robin huddles down over the desk
working at controls while Kev looms,
sweeping cassette players into and out of a microphone's orbit - a
different form of control. It mutates into noise until a final “four
quid” and it ends.
I'm
Dr Buoyant featuring Ron Gaines
Founder
Tony Rimbaud eschewed the dice and teamed up with East of Eden
sax man Ron Gaines for the second new collaboration of the evening.
Ron’s in rather a sombre mood, mournful extended notes weave through Tony’s
shimmers and gurgles, heavy and thoughtful. There’s nothing frivolous
about this collaboration, it takes a rather lovely Ben Webster line from
the scarier end of Tuxedomoon to outer
space, Ron pauses to ponder from time to time, occasionally playing solo
while Tony prepares his next moves. Its quiet and thoughtful,
deceptively slow until the final piece based around echoing blips of
Ron’s sax stabbing quite fiercely while he fires off trills and runs
bursting through and piercing the murky electronic self with pure clear
tones.
Kayaka
The
rather
solid figures of Tony and Ron are replaced by the rather slighter figure
of Kaya Kamijo,
but the music does rather the inverse as the spacious looping electronica
gives way to muscular and dense spacetronics,
a full thick bass, slowed space bells, an overall feeling of falling
slowly backwards through strong drugs. A powerful unrhythmic
start gives way to an irregular drum machine thunder with repetition of
unrelated noises noising around it. As if Hal hadn't wanly dreamt tandem
but in an act of Crowleyan Will fought back
and recovered his own plastic mind parts his own good self. It’s
strong stuff.
Transept
Harmonium,
synthesiser, guitar-scrape, Wyatt-esque
falsetto and a laptop controlling more or less abstract visuals, their
sound ranged from sparse Eden Ahbez
sea-shanty to thick electro-acoustic drone, songlike sometimes but
mechanical grind elsetimes.
The final piece starts out as a drone, a thin martial rhythm (with a
nice touch of spring reverb) makes its presence felt as the song evolves
into a portentous “Wish you were here” mass of significance, then
drops to a self important organ note and finishes up with just that
lonely beat.
Their
LP on Dronehenge (http://dronehenge.com/trspt001/
) has some great space music, really, recommended.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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