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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 107 / September 11
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 29th September 2011
KAY
GRANT / THE ZERO MAP / HOOFUS / HOBO SONN
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Kay
Grant (with Paul May and Lepke
B):
Boat Ting Vocalescent processing
The Zero Map: Psychedelic
noise wedge duo (A Band)
Hoofus:
Norwich 8 bit sinusoidal electrodrone
returns
Hobo
Sonn:
Ian Murphy brings uplifting noise to The Spirit of Gravity.
Kay Grant (Voice) is
"one of London's finest, free-thinking virtuosos" (Time Out),
with genre-busting roots in rock, classical, and electropop.
She often uses live electronic processing to create a hybrid sound. Kay
developed her free approach whilst living in New York, working with a
range of downtown figures including John Zorn, Shelley Hirsch, Nicolas
Collins and Elliott Sharp. Her recent collaborators include Alex Ward,
John Russell, Hannah Marshall, John Edwards, Steve Noble, Veryan
Weston, Steve Beresford and Mark Sanders.
Kay will be performing with:
Lepke
B (CD Mixing) who describes himself as a "Primitif
moderne lo-fi
maverick vilm / sound producer of popular
detritus, an excellent renegade who remains disturbing and undisturbed,
Paul May (Drums) with 25
years experience in improvised and alternative music. Paul has played
with many musicians, some of which include Carolyn Hume, Duke Garwood,
Alan Wilkinson, Hugh Metcalfe, Dylan Bates, Alfredo Genovese, Tim
Harries, Petra Jean Philipson, Simon King
and Philip and Colin Somervell. Paul has
made or appeared on records for Leo, Emanem,
Loog, Fire, Butterfly, Gronland,
Bo Weevil, Forwind, Stuck, Feetfirst,
ATP and Thrill Jockey.
The Zero Map are an
electronic improvising duo, you could describe their music (as we have)
as being psychedelic drones interrupted with great Wedges of sound. You
could describe them as Mathematician Noise Freaks (The Zero Map is an
object in symmetry theory). You could describe them as a nice couple who
also happen to be in the A Band. The last thing is the only one not
relevant to what they'll be doing for us.
Hoofus
has featured on two split singles, both of were played on BBC Radio One,
and has also performed a live session on Resonance FM. His debut album
has just been released by Twitchy Eye Recordings, and has so far
received airplay on Resonance FM and BBC Radio's On The
Wire show.
We've
also sneaked the Legendary Hobo Sonn
onto the bill. Nice.
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 2011:
Splitting the Atom IV, an all-day co-promotion with Club Zygotic at the
Green Door Store and its going to be free! Lots of SoG
related acts including a big band collaboration with the Safehouse
collective. Get there for 3pm, stay till 11…
7th
October 2011:
Another co-promotion, this time with Bristol-based Bit-Phalanx that
brings Coppe', the godmother of Japanese electronica
to Brighton along with revered Life President Hot Roddy
and the legend that is Mr Hopkinson’s Computer, also in attendance
will be a Spirit of Gravity Quartet and Phone, Microwave & Sandwich.
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Thursday 25th
August
2011
Getting
ready for their tour supporting Aiden Baker,
Plurals
bought along a lot of guitars and three
guests,
adding saxophone,
Cale-ian
violin drones and old keyboard swirls, it was a very dense plurals with
quite some subtlety for an improvising group of this size. After a
squalling free form soundcheck they started
their actual set in a
very subdued
manner,
edging their way into a mind melting scrunge
where feedback met sax met voice met everything else, Duncan feeding his
guitar lead into his teeth for the finale. Yeah fun.
Nil
took it right down again, Dan Powell sat at a table in the middle of the
room with his small percussions and bowed things (singing bowls
thrum,
wine glass whines) while Chris Parfitt
stalked the room jangling and pinging various
acoustic things, before
heading for the stage and picking up his flute and getting something
going on the loopstation. After a while Dan
left the table to get stuck into the guitar and laptop sending some
great sounds out from the inimitable bowed guitar technique.
White
Tiger
had
some lovely home-made boxes that housed unusual controllers for whatever
devices they were actually using to make the sounds, nicely finished
too, not like the shoddy stuff I'd do. They used them to produce
peculiar songs, from
a whimsical self contained world that wasn't at all fey. They're like a
couple of lads who heard Jonathan Richman at 4 and got into the
Residents at 6 and now have peculiar ideas of what pop music is, though
its right in their hearts. They finished by getting someone called James
up from the audience who is going away, and did a brass fanfare, two
saxophones and trumpet. Very affecting, but I'm a sucker for brass bands
(where’s my deckchair gone?)|
A
three piece with more home-made instruments, this time Tiger
Walking Downhill exposed circuits to be thumbed and pressed for
effect, effects,
field recordings and laptop-trickery. I love this kind of gadget play
especially when it’s as active as this: people leaning across, moving
stuff, sounds with no discernible source, interplay between the elements
as things evolve, humming, crackling, swooping or chirruping. Louder
than Morgan
Whetham Jones who did an ostensibly similar
thing a few months ago, without being full-throttle
noise, this was nicely playful, contemplative and pleasingly abstract.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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