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Dispatches from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 80 / May 09
·
Happenings:
TIM
EXILE / ITAL TEK / CEEPHAX ACID CREW (DJ set) / SHITMAT VS MINIMAL IMPACT
/ STRANGERS FROM BIRTH
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 12:00 Cost £7/£5
The
perfect match-up of experimental and beat based electronic music. The
Spirit of Gravity are very happy to have
special guests from Planet Mu and Warp records
for a one off audio visual feast.
We have Tim Exile with his new custom built equipment showing just
exactly how well beat based music can be improvised. Henry 'Shitmat'
Collins in a live mash-up with the SoG's King
of noise minimal impact, Strangers From Birth with wandering
analogue improvisations were formed many years ago by a robot sent from
the future and Ital Tek’s
highly detailed dubstep electronica.
Rounded off with a set from Ceephax
Acid Crew.
There
will be an 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.
Hosted
by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector
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
We
now have a Facebook group where you can be
kept up to date with shows and information:
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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:
Some
news from friend of SoG Clive Craske
of Radio Reverb:
RadioReverb
started a new schedule on Sunday 3rd May. There are new times for
"The Sound Laboratory" experimental and improv
music show, which has previously featured acts from the Spirit of Gravity
and is always worth a listen. It is now going out Sundays at 8pm with a
repeat on Mondays at 4pm.
·
Reviewings:
The
first show where I walk down in daylight is always a bit special and this
one was no exception.
The evening started off with an improvised collaboration between Dan
Powell (tuned percussion and processing) and Chris Cook (Sitar
and processing). This was the first time they had played together and it
was interesting to see the interaction between them: listening and talking
as the set progressed. Not the sort of thing you see that often.
Given
the amount of processing it was generally hard to see who was producing
which sound. washed swoops of singing bowl reverbed
melded with a thrumming sitar and they both turned round as the machines
ran away with their sounds. Another time saw Dan loading a music box chime
into his processor which came out at a pitched down, slowed down rate,
almost arpeggiating and giving Chris space to
build some shapes.
Returning for her third set at the Spirit of Gravity was Gillian Alder aka
The Vainglories with a set of excellently melancholy electronica,
with an evocative slide show from _minimalVector
all yellows and psychically sepia'd old
photographs.
This
time out the set was built from vocal sounds rather than keyboards,
backing tacks crafted on the laptop and live processed over the top. The
whole set was very good and then Gill said something like "This is a
new one: sorry if it doesn't go as well as all the others. . ." Then
she started playing "Crystalloid" and everything went quiet,
every single person in the room was rapt. This was epic: a piano cascade
with a twist, vocal swoops, a shimmer. About 8 minutes in a beat came and
shifted the mood several degrees. This was a really special moment. Fantastic.
MSG present a masterclass
in misdirection. Four bass players in furry suits (even if they weren't
all playing bass guitars, we KNOW they were all bass players). MSG come on
like a giddy fool and then completely outflank
you with a set of subtle complexity.
Two bass players - Tom dropping heavier basslines
while Richard textures the space with fan played bass. Dave (fellow bass
player with Richard in Tomas Hiltz last year)
played melodica and some keyboards while a
fourth member processed everything.
With no drum tracks it started with a powerful rhythmic pulse before
dissolving into environmental sounds and washes and then cranking it back
up again.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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