3 singular takes on Sound Art from the spirit of Gravity this month: 
We are very pleased to welcome John Wall to SoG for the first time, Tom Mudd (Vlk) will be demonstrating Joypad Feedback and twocsinak (Wrong Music) has been away Far Too Long, and will be bringing his own particular blend of performance poetry and cover versionitis.

Tom Mudd is a London based musician who writes software to allow him to harness electronic sounds for live performance. He often performs using his Feedback Joypad instrument which is designed to bring the subtlety and flexibility of control found in an acoustic instrument to a feedback sound-world.
www.myspace.com/tommudd

Twocsinak makes strange cover versions of moderne music. He is very tall and sometimes pretends to be DJ Sarah Wilson, and under this dual personality has an excellent CD on the Wong Music label "Jesus is a brave little toaster". www.normanrecords.com/cd/87309-twocsinak--dj-sarah-wilson-present-jesus-is-a-brave-little-toaster

John Wall 
Demystification text No 1 (text extract) B-M(sf41) and DB(sf67) are two examples of semi composed sound files that would be subjected to digital manipulations, within a live/improvised situation, using software shown in these two screen grabs. Only small fragments of the sound file would be used. The third example, DB(sf67edit) is a short improvisation using just the DB(sf67) sound file. Direct playback is an option but very rarely employed. 
utterpsalm.blogspot.com/

We're squeezing in an extra special guest this week, Romanoid, so get down early. It’s
going to be action packed.
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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/.

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:

Coming up we have a co-promotion with Hype PR: Lawrence English and Simon Scott.
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124761744244663

Type PR & The Spirit Of Gravity Present
The Brighton debut performances by:
Ex-Slowdive and Seavault member SIMON SCOTT
& Room40 curator LAWRENCE ENGLISH
+ support from The Spirit Of Gravity Quartet

Date: Monday 1st November
Venue: The Prince Albert
48 Trafalgar St
Brighton, East Sussex
BN1 4ED
01273 730 499

Time: 8-11pm
Tickets: £6 Adv | MOTD from Resident 01273 606312 & Rounder Records 01273 325440
www.wegottickets.com/event/94730

·                     Reviewings

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 23rd September 2010

This month it was almost All Too Good.

We got off to a storming start with an early starting but lengthy set from Henry Collins' new project Slash’s Wormhole. Expanded up from the Hoover, Henry had a series of devices made from things from the shed, starting off with a ping pong ball on a sonic tennis racquet, that moved onto a kitchen chair harp hybrid of ticky tacky improv before climbing onto an exercise bike/bass guitar drone machine (accompanied by fuzz guitar) for a monstrous drone metal sludge and rounding off with a perfectly insane duet for Vuvuzela and toolbox. Henry has really refined his toolbox technique since White Nights last year and this was an insanely controlled piece of mayhem. Really, you need to see the videos on our MySpace page. Crazy stuff.

Closely following that, we had Gus Garside, Anne Kerr and Monty Oxymoron who I'm trying to convince them, are collectively known as HaHaHa. Gus played double bass, and Annie played violin, both eschewing the electronics they often employ, while Monty occupied himself in a percussive role on birdcage, toys and metal dog. It was a set that covered a lot of interesting places, some hillbilly references, some sawing noise and even getting dangerously swinging at one point, the trio has worked in various combinations before at Safehouse and you could really tell they had a strong empathy going.

And the climax was Doc Chad himself, we were seriously excited by Eugene Chadbourne playing at The Spirit of Gravity and he didn't let us down, with a long and impressively enjoyable set. Starting on banjo with
a couple of songs from the "Roll over Berlusconi" LP, he played a in a fairly restrained manner with the telltale runs and free flourishes flowing effortlessly off his fingers, before at about the half hour mark
moving onto the electric guitar and "City of Corruption", and storming off into mayhem, he finished with a 20 minute medley which he played with his eyes closed completely in the zone.

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

Editor.

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