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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 98 / November 10
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 25th November 2010
BELA
EMERSON / GEOFF LEIGH / MAGNUS ALEXANDERSON / SPIRIT OF GRAVITY GUITAR
ORCHESTRA
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
This
month’s Show will be slightly different, the Spirit
of Gravity Guitar Orchestra will start proceedings early, so get
down sharp, then from around 9 we'll be handing over to Bela
Emerson, Geoff Leigh and Magnus Alexanderson who will be playing
together and separately for the rest of the evening. This will be
something special. Bela and Magnus played as
part of Bemass for us when we were back at
the 3&10, Geoff and Magnus have been playing together in Sweden, and
we think this is Bela’s first Brighton
show since the start of the year so we're expecting great things.
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:
www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=75568366205
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 on the 5th of December we have an all day free festival of
experimental music in collaboration with Club Zygotic. It’s at Hectors
House and there will be lots of Good Stuff and its free! We'll send you
details soon, and after that we'll be back in the New Year with lots of
treats.
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Thursday 28th October 2010
Back
into darkness for the oncoming autumn, and it was a warming feast that
we had in October.
An extra starter arrived early in the form of one half of Strangers from
birth, Romanoid.
Mass has obviously put his Kraftwerk
LP's aside for a few months and been digging into the Solar records back
catalogue for some early 80s electronic disco influence. A
different sort of experiment, and it provided some nice textures to his
far too brief pieces.
Entrées were provided by Tom Mudd
with a Joypad noisefest.
Which was an excellently constructed improvised set run from a Mac,
exquisite joypad controlled feedback. From
rumbling jet roar to delicate whistles, with percussive whumps
and sonic burbles and fake analogue delay for good measure.
Describing himself as the cheese in a rather serious sandwich was Twocsinak.
Mocking our description he only performed two covers the rest being the
twisted originals, a couple of songs for family, a song constructed from
words from elsewhere. Some strange hats. Long
on charm, dazzlingly erudite and endlessly discursive Joe rambled
between songs and during them. The music was muffled, constructed from
found sounds, bedroom sounds, odd noises and (mis)treated
instruments munged (its
the only word that will do) into a distinctive salad familiar in an
instant to anyone who's heard "Jesus was a brave little
toaster".
Mains was possibly the best set I've seen by John
Wall. Laptop driven with some great visuals by Vache
using video feedback and an 80s video mixer, the soundtrack was cricket
whispers, breakthrough broken metal slides, muffled voices, space
whirrs, data bursts and deep sonic whooms.
In isolation unnervingly like eavesdropping on a malevolent conversation
of sentient machines in the deep desert but in combination with the
visuals it had an 8bit dream quality.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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