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and in reverse order

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Sometimes you just go with it.

I described Sunday Mourning as sounding like the middle of a triangle with Sonic Youth, Earth and Goblin at the corners.
Or at times maybe like Goblin played like 16rpm, this is one of those times.

Ryan Jordans set is almost beyond description: but not quite. Tightly controlled noise and strobe effects. Its your personal doorway to the Black Lodge.

Guas Garside and Dan Powell have played at The Spirit of Gravity a couple of time spreviously, nither was as good as this.
Almost rigorously formal in its construction this is spontaneous composition as it should be done.

Ahhh, and the Video -= sorry its a bit dark - but its All Good.

dan powell and gus garside sog nov 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos

Ryan Jordan sog November 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos

Sunday Mourning sog November 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos

radiant saul

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:07:00 +0000

First up a big thanks to Fractal for supplying this months (October 2009) visuals.

not by radium fishing trip
transmogrifying into This Sound Bureaucracy.

Fractal mad some noise.

And T-Toe made some beautiful Popping sounds.

Then we have some video for you, too.

Not By Radium Live at the Spirit of Gravity October 2009 II

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

Not By Radium live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

This Sound Bureaucracy at The Spirit of Gravity Oct 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

This Sound Bureaucracy at The Spirit of Gravity Oct 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

Fractal live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

Fractal live at the spirit of gravity October 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

T-Toe live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

White Room / White Night - Phoenix Gallery 2009

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Catalan Soup Kitchen

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:13:00 +0000

I've been lazy so am well out of date with this, so there may be a run of posts (if things go well).
Links to mp3's corrected!

D-Face and Super Mega Ultra Crew got us off to a fine start with some breaks and some violin. Hear some mp3 here.

Then Joe Gilmore freaked out the soundmen with some of THIS!

Then EVOL had his computer in a fully fledged ping pong dialogue with itself.

Super Mega Ultra Crew @ SoG September 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

Joe Gilmore Live at SoG September 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

Joe Gilmore Live at SoG September 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

EVOL Live at The Spirit of Gravity Sept 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Video

neils greek diamond

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:32:00 +0000

Gatecrashers and interlopers Noteherder & McCloud with "It's just the wind in the wires"

VLK, frsh from a great set at noise=noise with a brief excerpt of their set. Hear the whole thing at this place.

Mata Unit can be heard beeping and booping, as well as seen (its not so easy in the video below).

HRT scared the living shit out of everyone.

VLK live at the spirit of gravity august 2009

The whole Noteherder & McCloud set

Noteherder & McCloud Live at the spirit of gravity august 2009

Jooooooooolay, its pop crazy

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:40:00 +0000

The Tim Sagar Drone Syndicate played a rather lovely drone raga version of "Don't stop til you get enough" to celebrate the demise of a recent celebrity.

Dear Britch sat nicely at the bar in a cloud of smoke, vamping it up as usual. Alex (below did the sound for him).

Tom Hall twittered and gonged and scraped but didn't itch.

Devil Man (Shige and Gou) dubrocked in a superdense bass heavy way.

Mostly its audience recordings rather than off the desk, this was for a variety of reasons - but hey! you can soak up the atmosphere.

Apart from Tom Hall visuals were by The _minimalVector slide project.

These posts are brief cos my laptop keyboard is mental. and not in a good way.

Tim Sagar Drone Syndicate SoG July 2009

Dear Britch - Live at SoG July 2009

Tom Hall live at the Spirit of Gravity July 2009

Devil Man Live @ SoG July

singing backwards from the east

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:10:00 +0000

This is Andre's Elbow. Andre is Hoofus, he sounds like this - it's very good, we enjoyed it. he has some CD@s for sale at his website, I had one briefly, but don't any more.

After Andre we had Frances, Frances sings and plays the guitar and the Casio as Animal Magic Tricks. Animal Magic Tricks are not like Hoofus. They sound like this. We like them too.

Finally for June we had Monster Bobby, he is in the Pipettes backing band, but doesn't sound like The Pipettes or Frances or Andre. He sounds like this. One of these songs was on our first compilation CD. And was also a Pipettes b-side.

Dunno about you, I thought the June show was bloody marvellous.

Heres some video

Hoofus Live at SoG June 2009

Animal Magic Tricks pt II SoG July 2009

Monster Bobby Live at SoG June 2009

There are more videos at the SoG Myspace Page.

you can't keep a good typo down

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:08:00 +0000

I have more pictures which I'll add later.

So this was our festical show featuring top fun from many places.

The elektrocreche kicked the mood off nicely with some chaotic fun.

Then it were Strangers From Birth.

Cranking up the noise levels were Henry Collins taking on the mighty Henry Collins in an earal waxbath made in hell.

Ital Tek cranked out some tunes.

Then Tim Exile

went all improv breakbeat on our asses.

and controlled it all from hisremote joystick.

Before Ceephax bought us back to earth with a great deal of old records.

Here is some video and there is lots more on our myspace page.

Tim Exile at SoG may 2009 pt II

Henry Collins vs minimal impact Sog may 2009

Strangers from birth sog may 2009

Slacking in space

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:28:00 +0000

With a minimal input from _minimalVector Bartosz takes it easy and enjoys Chris Cook and Dan Powells set.

Although he did have to work hard on the slide projectors - analogue style for The Vainglories.

This is "Crystalloid".

And then 4 big blokes in furry suits: MSG playing subtle dense bass music.

MSG Live at the Spirit of Gravity April 2009

The Vainglories live at SoG april 2009

Chris Cook and Dan Powell

Lighting effects

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:24:00 +0000

We had native lighting this, for various reasons, so it was a good job we had a 'no laptop' month. But there is still video footage if you scroll to the end.

Dancing up a storm with his 16bit raveups was DJ Meagre Sexy Drive:

Here is a little snatch of the soundtrack to his youth.

Following that up with a brief but wonderful set was D-Face. PArt of Super Mega Ultra Crew and fidgital.
Here is some beat and violin.

The finishing off with an epic set of sweep and analogy was Fronter Telegraph.

Here is a
small section of his set.

And cos he looks so nice in is WSB togs, here is Derek at the bar.

dj meagre sexy drive

Frontier Telegraph

D-Face

Plus bonus bits!

dj meagre sexy drive

A journey through February sound

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Starting with lots of space : reverbed pianos and field recordings and banging through to Hi density bangers.

Komuso, starting as a two piece , finishing as four had a musical journey of their own, and here is a bit of it.

Replaced by Gagarin, all on his ownsome, but making up for that with an increase in intensity and rhythm.

Heres some of his set with more rhythm and less tune that most, but I liked the clicky bits.

Then with a foot on the monitor and something of a bounce in the step, we rounded off with Urban Delights who unplugged my recorder so I have no mp3.

Still they are on myspace and I have some video below. . . .

Komuso Live at the Spirit of Gravity feb 2009

Komuso Live at the Spirit of Gravity feb 2009

Gagarin Live at the Spirit of Gravity. feb 2009. II

gagarin live at SoG feb2009

urban delights live at sog feb 2009

brothers and the hoover

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:34:00 +0000

An exciting evenings entertainment, lets get going. pictures and mp3's first, video later....

Heres an brief snippet of Tony Rimbauds current project I'm Dr Buoyant

And then Robin Rimbauds Scanner followed by another picture showing _minimalVector to better effect.

And then a drop down roll on the floor crazyfest

From Slash's Wormhole.

I'm dr bouyant - Sog Jan

slash's wormhole sog jan 2009

slash's wormhole intro sog 2009

scanner @ sog Jan 2009

scanner @ sog Jan 2009 pt II

scanner @ sog Jan 2009 pt III

so many guitars

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:31:00 +0000

The November Spirit of Gravity saw more guitars on stage than we usually get in a year, but were happy to keep welcoming back old friends by having Waxed Apple back for their only Brighton date in 2008.

We started the evening with Birmingham's Concrete Belly. A nice mix of Sonic Youth guitar tunings, cheap drum boxers, bent toys and voice cutups.

Then some ranting electronic noise rock from Passiondale.

And finally local heroes Waxed Apple.

Videos start somehwere around here on the Vimeo page (no myspace videos this month -flat batteries in my camera!).

October Videos

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:38:00 +0000

Just the videos from last month in thi spost.

Its all good:
Shitmat and Scotchegg bass-off, The Meat Sweats, DJScotchegg, Shitmat.

shitmat and DJscotchegg bass-off

shitmat and DJscotchegg bass-off 2

Meat sweats

Meat sweats 2

djscotchegg live at SoG 2

DJScotchegg 1

Shitmat Live at SoG II

New Home

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:22:00 +0000

Just in case you thought it was all done with mirrors, here is a Bartosz eye view of how the live visuals work:

So the first act to play at the Komedia Theatre bar was a Bass off between Shige Ishihara and Henry Collins. Shige on mainly the SH101, Henry in his Slash's Wormhole guise with the legendary two string hoover bass (Sarah, I believe).

I think I've caught a bit where the hoover is switched on, oh yes, Henry does like to keep things clean.

Second on the bill were kerazy pig mask wearing Meat Sweats.
The Meat Sweats sound like this. And look even better (see the video later).

DJScotchegg had prepared a special sonic set for us, featuring not just the gameboy but some excellent Synth work for a totally unexpected treat.

Then to crown the evenings antics we had Captain Shitmat on fine form.

Here is a live version of the mighty "Ellesse Warrior". Ish.

"Rewind!"
"NO! - FAST-FORWARD!!!!"

Video to follow soon!

White Night Storm of Video

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:08:00 +0000

THE 2008 White Night event remains a blur, a total Art-out experience.
Apologies for not having HRT, ElMaes, the SogWrongnyxestra and some other stuff recorded - I did my best.

there is some more on the Vimeo HDTV site (linked on the right)

Anyway feast your eyes - the next two posts will be a treat for your ears AND your eyes.

Nyx Live at White Nights Brighton 2008

I'm dr bouyant - white nights 2008

I'm dr bouyant - white nights 2008 II

minimal impact live at white night 2008

minimal impact slashs wormhole live at white night 2008

slashs wormhole 1

slashs wormhole 2

henry and lizzie

Henry and Lizzie 2

chris cook and camilo

Noteherder & McCloud live at the Phoenix White Night Festival 25.10.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

the subtlety will out

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:10:00 +0000

Somewhere I have a picture from tonight of Bartosz tweaking the code for the _minimalVector software during a performance.

Thats cool for you.

OK we have a feast of noise this month.

And well.

here it is
The king of emodrone - first we have Slow Listener.

On a special and long overdue visit from London its BBBlood!

And with Sound of the Planets 2 its the Spirit of Gravity's very own minimal impact for his first headliner.

ANd videos
minimal impact live at SoG sept 2008

look you can just see BBBlood at teh front on the floor!
bbblood live @ SoG sept 2008

Slow Listener Live @ SoG

experiments sometimes work

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:18:00 +0000

Capslock 20s reprised the Strobe Experiment # 2 and made a much better fist of it this time.

As you can see they mic'd up a strobe, and as you can't see but would expect ran it through some carefully chosen effects. Gently riding the feedback and forming into warblings andf shapes that recalled the ipcress file.
Video footage below. soundfiles here.

The Birds of DIsco Valley are The Disco Tears and the Birds of Death Valley combining into a Brass band dub stomp rave up ambient theremin thingy of fun.

If you don't believe me just ask here.

Tomas Hiltz, partially just back from Beachdown festival were beaty but improvy, drony but funky and some other contradictory things.

But All Good.

The Video

Thomas Hiltz live at the Spirit of Gravity 26.08.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

The capSlock 20's live at the Spirit of Gravity 26.08.2008 (part 1). Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

The capSlock 20's live at the Spirit of Gravity 26.08.2008 (part 2). Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

audio July

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Blimey that seems so long ago, we were missing an act so Capslock 20s gave an impromptu preview of their August experience "Strobe experiment #1".

Thanos Chrysakis, James O'Sullivan and Oli Mayne were ewxceptional

listen here:

And that fired up Gus Garside and Dan Powell, who were also very good.

As you can tell from this.

video july

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:24:00 +0000

I've been a bit busy so haven't finished off everything for July yet, but we do have some video of teh amazing sets from Dan Powell and Gus Garside; plus Oli Mayne, Thanos Chrysakis and James O' Sullivan.

Unfortunately the advertised Jilke and Tulin Fee couldn't make it (part of a recurring dream).

So Anyway Oli and his crew:

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan

Gus Garside and Dan Powell

Gus Garside and Dan Powell 2

Shadowplay hometime

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:18:00 +0000

Travelling backwards through time we rounded off the evening with a powerful set from Power Up, violin drones and patters, casio organ fusillades and beats raging from stomach settling to ear tugging.

Heres an unnamed treat from the quieter end of the spectrum.

The Vainglories provided a scary turn, spooky piano's and eldritch scratches set against _minimalVectors shadowplay of birds trees and moon.

This piece is called "paper birds".

Starting the evening in a very low key was Casio Headbutt with echoes, casio and field recordings.

This segment of the performance is called "Junglistic Casiosweep".

And then some video of The Vainglories and Power Up from the myspace page.

The Vainglories

Power Up Live at SoG

jawa java jibber jabber

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:12:00 +0000

May was a packed event, lots to pack in and a wide variety of things.

But only after first making some notes......

Les Dins

Hitting the floor running. Or dancing was Les Dins. Many moons ago the brains behind _minimalVector made quite popular house records. Now plundering the stores near his hideaway in Picardy for Nino Nardini records he's gone back to his roots. Sort of.

Then Chris Cook of Same Actor and Hot Roddy fame (link to wrong cd) linked up with Chris Parfitt of 21 Grams and Noteherder & McCloud for a semi improvised microtonal piece featuring Soprano Saxophone and processed Sitar. Video below, no decent pictures I'm afraid. But heres some audio.

Jammed in at the last minute we had a special appearance from nwodtleM, Canada's king of the cassette cutup. This time cutting up video footage to make music. A technique he obscurely calls "Jawa". It works as funny video montage, and bizarrely, sounds just like nwodtleM.

Capping the evening off we had a return of the excellent Meat Dream from Eastbourne. A male/female DiY noise-art guitar and drums duo with electronics and processing. Not at all like the white stripes.
Not at all.

Les Dins

Chris Cook and Chris Parfitt Live

Meat Dream may 2008 #1

Meat Dream may 2008 #2

nights without lights

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:12:00 +0000

The Disco Tears bought their own lightshow, which was handy as we had severe technical problems and NO _minimalVector.

So laptops, melodica, cornet, effects and a film combine to mixed effect.

For a masterclass in controlling feedback see the footage below, for the rousing climax toi their set listen to this mp3

We forgot to move Con Brio out from behind the PA, so Steve who took the pictures was a little unsighted.
Didn't stop us enjoying the sounds though, and we can all close our eyes and dream to stuff like this.

Rounding off the evening in near darkness from his spot on the floor was o.m.s.-n.m.a. Hard to describe the murky yet strangely uplifting soundscapes from Belgium.

The Disco Tears

o m s - n m a 2

Bits of Vids - Cos its spring

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:54:00 +0000

march 2008, Bemass and T-Toe video.

Niiiiice.

Bemass

Bemass at SoG 3

Bemass at SoG 2

Bemass at SoG 1

T-Toe

T-Toe live at SoG 1

T-Toe live at SoG 2

electroacoustic delay

noreply@blogger.com (SoG) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:49:00 +0000

The much anticipated UK début of bemass, postponed from November along with other electronic and acoustic madness.

In Sand and T-toe.

In Sand is another of Gus Garside's many aggregations. Gus on double bass, Richard Padley on guitar, Thor Magnussen on laptop and Danny Kingshill on Cello (missing Satoko Fukuda on violin on this occasion).

This being The Spirit of Gravity we played up the laptop slightly more than usual for this chamber quintet.

In_Sand-for_blog.mp3

T-Toe is Terry, he plays trombone and laptop Coming from a more breakbeat background he showcased the trombone slightly more than usual.

I know the name of this tune!

T-toe-gymnopedie_no_1.mp3

bemass are Bela Emerson from Brighton and Magnus Alexanderson and Sten Sandell from Sweden. This was their first ever show in the UK and went to extremes in just about every way.

bemass_desk-for_blog.mp3

HDTV video by _minimalVector

Bemass live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

T -Toe live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

In Sand live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.