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Dispatches from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 73 / October 08
·
Happenings:
Long running avant garde music night the Spirit of Gravity moves to it's new home this October. Over the years the 'Gravity has showcased eclectic experimental sounds promoting local artists alongside others from across the UK, Germany, Belgium, Australia and the US, including The Dead Texan, Halal Kebab Hut, Vole, Bela Emerson, Metronomy and Panda Bear to name a tiny handful. Performances are enhanced by custom live visuals created by our resident artist _minimalvector and you will be met at the door by a man in a ginger wig (but don't tell him I told you). On any given night you might hear searing noise, restrained improv or gabba beats, so come with your ears open
SHITMAT / DJ SCOTCH EGG / MEAT SWEATS
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5/£3
Shitmat
Brighton
legend and experimental sound artiste Henry Collins brings his own
inimitable sound to the SoG once more. Mr Collins first ever gig as
Shitmat was at the 'Gravity so it is fitting that he should appear at
this, our Komedia launch party. Watch out for the secret second set of
jazz standards...
DJ
Scotch Egg
Shige
Ishihara found fame making music on a GameBoy, but there's more to this
boy than games. With a background in improvised noise and a current
signing to Lightning Bolt's Load Records he will thrill you with his on
the edge performance, megaphone and winning smile.
The
Meat Sweats
SCREAMING |
BRAIN CONTROLLED SUB-BASS | DRUMS | HARDWARE HACKED TOYS "IT LOOKS
AND SOUNDS LIKE A SKINNY, BEARDED MAN SCREAMING THE BLUES WHILST TWO
PEOPLE, ONE USING HIS BRAIN, THE OTHER SOME MESSED UP TOYS, TRY THEIR
UTMOST TO PUT HIM OFF"
Hosted
by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
live interactive visuals by _minimalVector
BUT
BEFORE THAT….
Saturday
25th October
Phoenix
Gallery, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB
7pm to 7am, free / donations
We'll
also be appearing at the WhiteNights festival, part of the “Night time
fixations” event at the Phoenix Gallery where we'll be looking after a
room all night, featuring live sets from collective members and visuals
from _minimalVector.
Artists appearing: minimal impact / Noteherder & McCloud / I'm Dr
Buoyant / Same Actor / Slash's Wormhole (Henry Collins' new bass hoover) /
ElMaes / H.R.T.
plus performance artists and possibly more members of the Wrong Music
crew.
Also in the building the Beatabet Collective, Cici Blumstein and The
Institute of Unnecessary Research.
web.mac.com/annadumitriu/WhiteNight/Home.html
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
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:
Our
first show in the Komedia is a chance to spotlight some old friends of The
Spirit of Gravity that constraints on noise has meant we haven’t been
able to put on.
Henry
Collins, better known as Shitmat and Shige Ishihara better known as DJ
Scotch Egg will both be performing, and rumour has it also combining for a
special exclusive experimental set. Its not often you get to see these
guys playing outside a night club environment, so enjoy!
And
from the Sonic Art Network we take great delight in welcoming the Meat
Sweats.
·
Reviewings:
It’s
surprising what can be done within what seems a limited field, the
subtleties that can be teased out from the most apparently inhospitable
landscapes (or soundscapes indeed).
Which
also means my lexicon of abstract noises is somewhat redundant. We’ll
take for granted terms like ”buzz”; “drone” ;“wash”;
“hiss” and I’ll try and work in the areas of differentiation the
contact and context. If I can.
Slow
Listener
Emodrone?
Melancholic noise? I can feel new genres sprouting from my very
fingertips. Slow Listener perches in front of the stage leaning over his
kit set up on the front part of it. He has his back to us while he works:
the large circles of _minimalVector pulsing away on the screen above him. It’s
a brief set – but quite beautiful, the noises perched with a hanging
melancholy that’s hard to place. Or explain in such an abstract form.
BBBlood
Slinking
even further below stage level – right on the floor at the front BBBLood
worked in harsher climes. BBBlood figures large in the internal mythology
of The Spirit of Gravity and our procession around the venues of Brighton,
even though he has never played for us before. So it was great to finally
get to put him on. Paul’s
set was a feast of coarse grained chunks of bassy noise with itchy details
of screech and claw threading through, multi-layered but not dense.
Thrillingly intense.
minimal
impact
Actually
setting up on a table on the stage minimal impact took his space noise
further than his previous experiments.
Shorn of 50’s bleep and woop, this was just the raw hiss and drag
from the cold distances of the void. A harsh bleak noise: thin and
unrelenting; emotionless and impersonal. I’m put in mind of the H.P.
Lovecrafts’ Elder Ones, this sound cared not for audience, enjoyment or
participation it just existed. And still exists – out there, where it
will carry on after our ball of dust is gone, and our daily prayers long
unanswered.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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