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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 99 / January 11
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Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 27th January 2011
GLYPHS
/ COSMONAUTTRANSFER / THE ORGAN GRINDER’S MONKEY / BROKEN STAR VS.
I’M DR BUOYANT
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Glyphs
Steve Goodall and Dan Palmer met at a
workshop/performance of Phil Minton's Feral Choir and bonded over a
discussion of corpse robbing in bomb-hit ballrooms during the Blitz.
Exploring a repertoire of pre-verbal sounds - clicks, pops, moans,
shrieks, cackles, rasps, etc. - free vocal improvisation remains at the
centre of what Steve and Dan do, though they have also used cassette
loops, amplified objects and low-grade electronics in their
performances.
Cosmonaut Transfer
Cosmonauttransfer play Music by the Krell.
An electronic space symphony.
Cosmonauttransfer will be improvising with
vintage audio generators and effects with one foot placed firmly in '60s
sci-fi and Radiophonic Workshop soundtracks
whilst nodding at Berlin school groups such as Cluster/Harmonia.
Cosmonauttransfer is the current
'space-music' project of David Dilliway from
The Reasonable Men. It encompasses collaborations with Theremin and
oscillator expert Richard Armstrong-Cripps and Nick Langley of The
Vitamin B12 and Hz.
The Organ Grinders Monkey
www.facebook.com/theorgangrindersmonkey
The Organ Grinder's Monkey is a musical collaboration between man and
machine, an unholy alliance whose aim is to combine indie-rocking
guitars with glitchy lo-fi
electro beats and a dash of retro 8-bit synth.
The duo consists of Benjamin Sane: a human who sings and plays guitar,
and Bill Murray: the laptop computer who provides the rhythmical
backdrop for his organic counterpart. "Man Against
Machine III" is the title of their latest EP, and is the final part
in an initial trilogy of releases.
Broken Star vs. I'm Dr Buoyant
Anagram Free memory lessons from The Spirit of Gravity Collective. Psychedelic
improvtronica.
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/
Video
and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/
Videos
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:
As
the keen eyed reader of the Spirit of Gravity website (www.spiritofgravity.com)
will have noticed, this month is the tenth anniversary of the first show
back in January 2001 when Clarence Palmer played with Malevich and Dan
Powell. We're obviously still arguing about how we’re going to
celebrate the Tenth anniversary officially, so that will happen later in
the year. Meanwhile Dan Palmer returns for his first visit since that
momentous occasion with The Glyphs. Alongside them we have former member
of Malevich I'm Dr Buoyant looking back with Broken Star and
investigating how memories and music work, we also have the new and very
exciting Organ Grinders Monkey and the former Reasonable Men and Hz
return as CosmonautTransfer. Well, I'm
looking forward to it.
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Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Thursday 25th November 2010
Unfortunately,
the advertised Magnus Alexanderson was stranded in Stockholm by bad
health, but fortunately Richard Miles (MSG etc) was able to step up at
the last minute. That also meant that we had to juggle the sets and we
squeezed two more acts in. So kicking off the very busy evening was...
The Spirit of Gravity Guitar
Orchestra playing a piece developed by Andrew Greaves and Tony
Rimbaud. Starting off with noise generated by a stageful
of guitarists with scary looking utensils - big knives, small axes etc,
supported by Andy Pyne on drums that slowly
drifted into some Pink Floyd-ey single
string riffs and pitching up into whiteout two chord riffereama.
Everyone seemed quite surprised at the outcome.
Next up, continuing the dangerous tools theme, Henry Collins in Slash’s
Wormhole mode took a ripsaw to a contact mic'd
piece of wood. That was fed through the usual melange of nasty effects
and noise for a particularly Henry racket. Great
fun.
Taking the stage without any tools and only badly wired mains supplies
for danger were Noteherder
and McCloud. Starting off with the murky noise and Soprano sax
floated over the top, they shifted into an old style SH101 sequencer bassline
at a dubstep tempo with some serious skronking
over the top.
This all hacked along at an alarming rate leaving us a full hour for Geoff
Leigh, Bela Emerson and Richard Miles,
who were very impressive. Geoff and Richard had missed each other at the
soundcheck so met just before taking the
stage. Nonetheless the trio combined for a really cohesive set with Bela’s
cello providing percussive clicks as well as swoops and drones,
Richard’s guitar droning and chirruping and Geoff setting up flute
loops and vocalising. They moved from free improv
scatting to densely layered almost YesSongs
prog to skittering post punk. When they'd
finished, we were asked if the trio had recorded any CD's, as they must
surely have played together before.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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