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Last stand at the Komedia

2012-02-03T21:23:00.000Z

Davison Era - the guests arrive by The Spirit of Gravity

Gus Garside and Clive Craske - Cages Ryoanji (excerpt) by The Spirit of Gravity

Stasis73 by The Spirit of Gravity

Jez north competition time by The Spirit of Gravity

craske/garside

davison era

jez

Missing Time

2011-11-09T16:15:00.000Z

Hobo Sonn

Hobo Sonn by The Spirit of Gravity

Hoofus

Hoofus - mad bit in the middle by The Spirit of Gravity

Kay Grant, Lepke B and David May

Kay Grant - a bit with no burks talking crap by The Spirit of Gravity

The Zero Map

The zero map - space bit by The Spirit of Gravity

piecemeal/pellmell August

2011-09-29T18:11:00.000+01:00

August finally turned out to be a hot one, in between switching the air conditioner on and off we saw some cracing sets.

Plurals had added violin, keyboards and saxaphone.

Plurals by The Spirit of Gravity

Nil started in the middle of the room but wound up on and near the stage.

Nil by The Spirit of Gravity

White Tiger had some lovely crafted boxes.

White tiger by The Spirit of Gravity

Finn, Smith, Ziemianin turned out to be called "Tiger walking downhill".

Tiger walking downhill by The Spirit of Gravity

I remember the sun

2011-09-20T17:22:00.007+01:00

Another last minute skweeze: Filthy Eyes were Kev Kilter and Robin Slow Listener

With a feast of tapey noise and general fun:

Dirty eyes - 4 quid by The Spirit of Gravity

I'm Dr Buoyant teamed up with Ron Caines for a number of Sax based loopy tunes.

Im dr buoyant feat ron gaines - opening section by The Spirit of Gravity

Kaya King were replaced by Kayaka, exactly one half in magnitude, but sonically it was more than enough.

Kayaka - second section 4 blog by The Spirit of Gravity

And Norfolks Transept rounded the evening off with their psychedelic sea shanties.

Transept-4blog by The Spirit of Gravity

The video is all a bit dark this month, but top sounding, nonetheless.

Brighton Eyeball events test

2011-09-13T22:14:00.011+01:00

We're looking at producing a new listings sheet for misanthropes who don't like enthusiasm or discotheques.
Much.

Anyway this is seeing if I can embed the calendar on this page....

On the first day of autumn, or was it the last day of summer

2011-07-18T14:33:00.005+01:00

A packed evening kicked off with the remaining Wrong Music Maestro The Gross Consumer with a pile of knackered toys built around a headless bent plastic Dalmatian. Covered with contacts for crocodile clips.

Top fun, it made nasty noises, played cheesy demo tunes that got mangled, growled and generally played the fool.
Jolly Good Fun.

Thee Gross Consumer - bid de bong bid de bong bong by The Spirit of Gravity

Swiftly we followed this with a far scarier set by field recordiningistas and general research bods Fallow

Fallow - an excerpt from the middle (fallow deer field recordings and incidental music) by The Spirit of Gravity

On an especially extended visit to blight, An Infinity Room filled our heads with superior drone technique on the bolt operated twin organs

This is an end section so you can hear the beat frequencies disappear as it winds down.
An Infinity Room - End section by The Spirit of Gravity

Rounding of the evening with his dancing feet was an inspired dubstep set from Gagarin.

Gagarin bit for blog by The Spirit of Gravity

So your eyes don't feel let out. Here's the video.

Festivities, 2011

2011-06-27T10:48:00.005+01:00

The May showactually fell during the Brighton Festival this year.

So we had a special Spirit of Gravity Orchestra occasion, playing Richard Miles' "Mebo".

Mebo
SoG Orchestra mebo cycles 2+3 by The Spirit of Gravity

HereHareHere vocalesed for us.

HereHareHere desk 4 blog by The Spirit of Gravity

Geoff Leigh, Kay Grant and Nick Weekes got a lot out of voice, flute, tree and in this case the rubber bands on a Dennis the Menace bow and arrow set.

Kay Grant Geoff Leigh and Nick Weekes - rubber band bit by The Spirit of Gravity

April Lately Video

2011-06-16T14:35:00.002+01:00

Well, getting back into Youtube was relatively straightforward.

Here are the April Videos.

That was easy, the "embed" code is much better than Myspace, too...

Empty words but full of music

2011-05-20T13:33:00.004+01:00

No video up for this month yet as Myspace is now so rubbish I can't upload video, I'll reactivate the youtube account and put it up there eventually. Promise.

Broken Star have been playing with Ron Caines who is a long standing member of Jazz-proggers East of Eden. If you ask them nicely they'll give you a copy of the cd they've done with him, in the meantime here is a bit of space music from the middle of their set.

Dan and Gus have been playing together for a while, and here they get quiet on yo' ass.

Meshmass are on a mission to produce a vast amount of loopy music. Heres a bit now.

Radio times

2011-04-14T21:13:00.006+01:00

Nick Rilke, Founder and lately radio host blagged his way into an early set

Then the worlds finest minimal impact tribute act: minimal effort (no photo I'm afraid: too ugly).

4thirtythree stepped in for a long overdue show.

Finally, a set of great subtlety from Morgan Whetton Jones.

minimal effort live at The Spirit of Gravity March 2011

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4thirtythree live at The Spirit of Gravity March 2011 pt II

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morgan whetton jones live at SoG March 2011 pt II

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More videos of 4thirtythree, morgan/whetton jones and lots more at : http://www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity/videos

Funbox House Party

2011-03-09T13:02:00.005Z

An evening where I feel I should have been taking notes, Laboratoro combined Gallician poetry, dancing, drums, funny looking old electronics and field recordings.

Komuso skipped the field recordings this time, but did use i-phones. but not on this bit.

No electronics at all for Barking Toad but plenty of left field inclination. This is some of the more sensual side, to complement the skronkier side displayed in the video below.

Visuals as usual by Vache, some nice video of her at work on the Komuso video.

There is more video on the myspace site.

http://www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity

Laboratoro live at The SPirit of Gravity Feb 2011

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Komuso Live at The Spirit of Gravity Feb 2011 (vache)

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Barking Toad Live at The Spirit of Gravity Feb 2011

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Temporal Visions

2011-02-10T10:05:00.011Z

Travelling through time: a backwards look at The Future with The Spirit of Gravity. As usual Video at the end!

I'm Dr Buoyant and Broken Star collaborated on taking a sideways look at memory,

The Organ Grinders Monkey sang about Robots and Humans.

The Glyphs discussed philsophy with Aliens.

And Cosmonaut Transfer cut the crap and just went out there.

Here is Cosmonaut Transfers full set on soundcloud:

Cosmonauttransfer Live at the Komedia Club January 2011 by cosmonauttransfer

I'm Dr Buoyant and Broken Star live Spirit of Gravity jan 2011

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The Organ Grinders Monkey

Glyphs

Cosmonaut Transfer live at The Spirit of Gravity jan 2011

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health and safety night

2010-12-16T11:04:00.005Z

Axes, saws, Psycho style kitchen knives, and no proper block for keeping any of them in.

ALthough at least no-one was senseless enough to run around with any scissors.

The guitar Orchestra led the way with Dereks mighty chopper. . . . fnar

Headliners Bela Emerson, Geoff Leigh and Richard Miles actually came tooled up with nothing more dangerous than ferocious improvising skills.

Henry Collins , presumably as Slashs Wormhole although we never discussed it, disembowelled some unfortunate piece of wood.

And Noteherder & McCloud had unsuitable loose clothing for lathe work. Good thing there were no lathes in the shop.

Bela Emerson, Geoff Leigh and Richard Miles

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slashs wormhole - sog nov 2010

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Noteherder & McCloud live at The Spirit of Gravity nov 2010

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The Atom is Split

2010-12-08T11:07:00.005Z

October proper - all darkness and wind.

2010-11-17T14:08:00.005Z

It was a Dark and Stormy night, but we were very happy in the Komedia with a top bill.

kicking off things we had Romanoids tribute to Solar Records. Though to be fair I think its only me that sees the disco connection.

Then Tom Mudd gave us some Joypad joyful noise.

Twocsinak was just pointing out the words from this list, rather than reading them.
Although he did have a stand with them on. This song? Poem? was called "Zen and the art of "something which went on for a long time and Joe got bored even before we did.

And finally John Wall worked with Vache to provide a digital soundtrack to an 8bit display (have a look at the video below, too)

Also lots more videos on our myspace page. click on the video button, there is yards of the stuff.

Romanoid live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

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Tom Mudd live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

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Twocsinak live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

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John Wall Live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2010

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Bonus in Red

2010-11-03T14:09:00.006Z

We did a co-promotion with Hype PR in November.
Lawrence English and Simon Scott up at The Albert.
It was top, here is some video:

Lawrence English Brighton Nov 2010

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simon scott live in brighton Nov 2010

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Lawrence English and Simon Scott Brighton Nov 2010

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No footage of the SoG Q4, though. And no mp3's.

wreckless recommends

2010-10-07T13:00:00.007+01:00

Apparently Eric, who was playing at The Albert, asked his crowd why on earth they weren't at ours to see Eugene Chadbourne.
And quite right too.

I thought we'd start with a picture of SoG regular Simon hacking his teddybear at the elektrocreche.

Set up next to the elektrocreche was Vache who was handspooling VHS for the visuals.

It was a tough show to schedule but someone had to go first, Henry grasped the nettle and took the opportunity to play a full length Slashs Wormhole set in three parts. pt I featured a tennis racquet and ping pong ball and harp chair, followed by a duet for exercise bike/bass hurdy gurdy and fuzz guitar and rounded off with a duet for toolbox and vuvuzela.

Sandwiched in the middle were Gus Garside, Annie Kerr and Monty Oxymoron, who I'm trying to convince call themselves HaHaHa. This a bit from near the end where Monty was whacking a brass dog he had stashed under the birdcage.

And the main event was Eugene Chadbourne, starting on banjo and finishing on electric guitar (including a rousing version of "City of Corruption"). This is the first song, possibly called the old piano.

Eugene Chadbourne live at SoG Sept 2010

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Eugene Chadbourne live at sog September 2010

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Gus Garside, Monty Oxymoron and Annie Kerr - Monty spanks

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Slashs Wormhole live at SoG sept 2010

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omg latew again

2010-09-23T13:08:00.005+01:00

August Sog: Circus toe, Slow Listener, Clang Sayne and $un$hine Republic.

Cirucs Toe here!

Slow Listener here

And Clang Sayne

Finally $un$hine Republic

vachescapes

2010-08-24T22:19:00.003+01:00

The July Spirit of Gravity was something of a backhanded tribute to Wrong Music.
Starting off the evening was Life President of The Spirit of Gravity in his Same Actor guise. Eventually I'll be posting up some video of his version of "Steptoe and Son"

So for the mp3 I'm posting up a bit with some stolen cymbal (live sampling of Medicine and Duty's drum kits).

Next up were a group I've wanted to book since I saw them play in the cramped spaces of the downstairs room at The Volks at 3am.

This is the beginning of their set, before the growling started.

Rounding off the evening were the vanguard of the Shoreham Electronic Alliance, The 55th Flotilla.

Telegraph and wheel: this is just a good bit.

Aircon 1: long hot night of the soul (ViV, Warriro Squares,The Zero Map)

2010-07-28T11:02:00.006+01:00

The midsummer shows are always a bit tricky when we come up against a major football tournament, who could fail to forget the music being drowned out at The Little Marlborough Theatre by the ladies downstairs cheering when Joe Cole scored?
So not being up against an England game was a good start. The lineup being such quality also helped.

Set up in front of the stage we had The Zero Map, Chloe and Karl from the A Band making moody psychedelic stuff. That gets harder to describe every time I listen to it.
It started out with a didgeridoo-ish warble and ended like this.

I'm still not sure if Geoff Leigh is a full time member of the Warrior Squares or has just happened to be sitting in with them whenever I've seen them, but this set was blindingly good, Geoff was on fire and so where the St Leonards boys.
Perversely rather than put up something from the beginning which was amongst the best I've ever seen at SoG, I've cut this bit from near the end.

And rounding off the evening in their inimitable fashion, we have ViV, featuring Alistairs new toy...

ViV live @ SoG - "have you seen this cat?"

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The Zero Map live @ SoG

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The Warrior Squares (w/Geoff Leigh) at SoG

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crowds with staying power

2010-06-15T20:33:00.005+01:00

I don't have any pictures of pimmel, I'd left my camera at home. But you can still listen to a bit of music for massed fuzz organs.

Heres a screenshot of the House Music TV - you can just see the transducers.

us

Adam Bushell listens to his voice disintegrating during "I am sitting in a room"

some of the sogchestra (in fact non sog sogchestra members). Soundchecking In C.
Playing it is here.

I've not seen THAT at an electronica show before.

2010-05-03T21:03:00.005+01:00

TETRA'S, Concrete Belly, Jez North.

This was the first show we did with visuals by Vache, we liked 'em. Please note that the recordings are from the audience this month, nothing from the desk due to the setups.

Thanos Chrysakis (not pictured!) leads a quartet of top improvisers through the early hour at the April show.

Concrete Belly takes his medicine and girds his loins.

Jez North took it like a man and really went for it.

Tetras live at the SoG april 2010

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Concrete Belly Live at SoG April 2010

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Jez North live at SoG April 2010

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Recruitment Drive

2010-04-28T17:06:00.005+01:00

Grasscut, Hellboy, Broken Star.

This a great bit from the middle of Broken Stars set. And not just cos of the fuzz organ. Or Tom Del Rio's visuals.

Hellboy really lets rip in the middle of his set.

I don't have any audio of Grasscut available, sorry, but here is some video:

Grasscut Live at The Spirit of Gravity

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Hellboy live at The Spirit of Gravity

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Broken Star live at The Spirit of Gravity - Dawn

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A simple click and thats it for the murky video

2010-03-07T21:30:00.005Z

I think that picture is the elektrocreche. Whatever, I just liked it.

February shaped up nicely. We started the night with Plurals who make rich warm drones like its 1972. Helped out by wil from viv on flute and guitar.

The night of full stages continued with a set of half mad performance and half weird electronics from Beatabet. I still have the feeling I missed 2/3 of what was going on.

and finishing with a Daniel Spicer-less Bolide who turned in a blinding set - Dan, no-one is indispensable!

No video this month due to a moments lack of attention.

House Music

2010-02-15T14:05:00.005Z

Last Friday (12/2/10) we went down to The D La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill for their February Random Friday.

Caleb Madden, ex Waxed Apple/Capslock/Terror Wogan and all round sound man for 3 years had an installation in the North Staircase called House Music.
Its all bits of sound crafted from household objects.

I want to book it for one of our shows, maybe instead of the electrocreche.

house music installation De La Warr Pavilion Feb 2010

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Things I spotted:
A shed
a car wing loudspeaker
ironing board
fluorescent tube with no starter
gameboy camera/TV feedback with optical transducers
ironing board
cat litter tray
paint tins
electric fan

Even the elektrocreche was hot

2010-02-06T20:58:00.004Z

The first show of the 2010 was a corker, no better way to start the year.

There are 3 new tracks recorded from the elektrocreche up on the myspace pageto prove the point in the heading. The elektrocreche is an open session where we set up some toys for playing with between acts.

But beyond that everyone who played on stage was good too, so without further delay.

Nathaniel Virgo started the evening off with his twin joystick supercollidor improvisations.

Quickly followed by Thomas Hiltz with some suspiciously orthodox looking instruments twisted into interesting aural shapes.

And to round the evening off in twin drummer style was AK/DK. Here with their tribute to Raymond Scott.

Also here is some video footage of the evenings entertainments.

The Elektrocreche SoG January 2010

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Nathaniel Virgo live at SoG jan 2010 I

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Thomas Hiltz Live SoG Jan 2010 II

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AKDK live at SoG Jan 2010 long noisy bit

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and in reverse order

2009-12-01T17:09:00.003Z

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

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Ryan Jordan sog November 2009

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Sunday Mourning sog November 2009

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radiant saul

2009-11-16T13:07:00.008Z

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

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Not By Radium live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2009

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This Sound Bureaucracy at The Spirit of Gravity Oct 2009

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This Sound Bureaucracy at The Spirit of Gravity Oct 2009

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Fractal live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2009

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Fractal live at the spirit of gravity October 2009

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T-Toe live at The Spirit of Gravity October 2009

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White Room / White Night - Phoenix Gallery 2009

2009-11-12T17:42:00.002Z

Catalan Soup Kitchen

2009-10-16T16:13:00.003+01:00

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

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Joe Gilmore Live at SoG September 2009

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Joe Gilmore Live at SoG September 2009

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EVOL Live at The Spirit of Gravity Sept 2009

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neils greek diamond

2009-09-11T13:32:00.003+01:00

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

2009-07-30T21:40:00.006+01:00

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

2009-07-07T17:10:00.005+01:00

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

2009-06-04T21:08:00.005+01:00

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

2009-05-14T17:28:00.003+01:00

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

2009-04-01T16:24:00.003+01:00

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

2009-03-11T17:32:00.003Z

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

2009-02-13T10:34:00.005Z

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

2008-12-12T12:31:00.000Z

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

2008-12-12T11:38:00.000Z

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

2008-12-01T16:22:00.003Z

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

2008-11-04T13:08:00.001Z

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

2008-10-21T17:10:00.000+01:00

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

2008-09-17T17:18:00.001+01:00

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

2008-09-09T17:20:00.001+01:00

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

2008-08-26T09:24:00.000+01:00

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

2008-07-28T14:18:00.002+01:00

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

2008-06-19T13:12:00.001+01:00

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

2008-06-05T17:12:00.002+01:00

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

2008-05-07T13:54:00.000+01:00

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

2008-04-28T12:49:00.002+01:00

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.

February sunshine part II

2008-03-20T13:38:00.000Z

When the spirit of gravity was founded, round here it was all fields,

Wise words from Mr Nick Rilke of This Sound Bureaucracy, the electro-poetic rantings of the permanently sane.

Here is a rerun of an old live favourite, the first time we've managed to snag it for ourselves.

this_sound_bureaucracy-bad_rap.mp3

Ry-Om spent a while loading their laptops with guitar scrapes squeaks and squangles.

Then slowly let them escape to run around the room.
ry-om-extract_of_birds-and_bells.mp3

Halal Kebab Hut defy explanation.

Listen to this and then it may be better to watch the video in part I
halal_kebab_hut-casio_thing.mp3

Heres another still from Ry-Om's set, we liked this one, a nice shot of _minimalVector action.

February sunshine part I

2008-03-20T10:26:00.000Z

Some video for your entertainment, mp3's in pt II
Ry-oms video is a bit big and needs editing but will be coming along nicely.

Halal Kebab Hut

Halal Kebab Hut - kazoo daftness

Hahal Kebab Hut 1

Hahal Kebab Hut 2

This Sound Bureaucracy

This Souind Bureaucracy

This Souind Bureaucracy Pt 2

caching up

2008-03-10T12:18:00.003Z

I've been a bit busy so got behind with the blog - sorry about that.
January was another good one, too.

With the mighty Gagarin.

Gagarin_for_blog.mp3

The first show from The Vainglories

vainglories_for_blog.mp3

And a band! The English Channel

EnglishChannel_beginning.mp3

embed with _minimalVector

2008-01-29T14:06:00.001Z

Bartosz has been very busy.....

With Dan:

Powell/Dylewski "Elst-Pizzaro" 2008 from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

Powell/Dylewski "Olbers" 2008 from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

With The vainglories.

The Vainglories "Chips and Cheese and JW" 2008

If you follow the links you can see the videos in glorious HDTV, it's well worth the effort.

the snowy country of mental states

2007-12-18T14:35:00.000Z

As you can imagine Xmas provides us all with a stressful opportunity to do something festive, no matter what we're usually like.

So I'm Dr Buoyant Collected together loads of cheery Christmas samples and got together and made some spectacularly weird music. As you'd expect.

Then we had Don Tempi to show us how its done, TV Advertising from July 1981. Couldn't be finer.

Only video of Don I'm afraid.
Don Tempi - Pacers

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Finally the Samoans enacted Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Daft buggers. Here is the bit with the chairs all upside down and the football game.

The samoans vs HST

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This soundclip is actually from the following night at Wrong music when they tried to do it again with mi and only one Samoan. And failed miserably.

A new home

2007-12-03T12:06:00.000Z

So the first show in our new home The Three And Ten in Steine Street.

We like it, it has something of the Albert, Something of the Marlborough and a little something all of its own.

We were the first show in apart from the comedians so things were a bit tricky at first. but we soon got the hang of it.

Dan Powell opened the venue, playing from the back. Perversely. Accompanied by very abstract visuals from _minimalVector.

he never gives me titles for his pieces, so I've called this segment "Wilf"
dan_powell-wilf.mp3

Setting up on the floor of the stage with his Sitar, out of sight, but partially in range of Bartosz video feed was Same Actor making his second appearance in this blog of recent times. It is another good one, natch.

same_actor-life_drawing.mp3

Stepping in at the last minute for Bemass, who couldn't make it due to bela being caught ill in Vancvouver, was 'J'm black (again) with a Safehouse Wildcard Electro-Acoustic Ensemble.
Featuring Monty Oxymoron, from The Damned, Alasdair Willis from The Vitamin B12, Alastair Strachan from Vole, and matt Grey, who I've not seen play before.

This is a bit from the space section of their set, before Monty got into jazzy chords.

safehouse_wildcard_ensemble-60_cycle_groan.mp3

Safehouse @ Spirit of Gravity

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Sog Vs London

2007-11-16T12:04:00.000Z

A brief one for this.

Hot Roddy arranged a trip to London.

It was great. Really.

representing London (Twice) we had the Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys.

A bit of the second set

Providing the bridge we had Same Actor (a preview for the coming Brighton show?)

A Bit of Same Actor

And from Brighton Noteherder & McCloud accompanied by _minimalVector

insights and oberservations

Noteherder & McCloud - follow the Stokey alien
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Four to Two

2007-10-25T12:20:00.000+01:00

Blimey, chaos all round.

First it was going to be Vole and 'This Sound Bureaucracy' and 'Jilk and Tulin-Fée'.
But Jilk and Tulin-Fée couldn't make it.

Then it was Vole and 'This Sound Bureaucracy' and 'McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom'.
Then it was Vole and 'Shitmat and Horacio Pollard and nwodtlem' and 'This Sound Bureaucracy' and 'Noteherder and McCloud': Busy.

Then This Sound Bureaucracy pulled out.
So then it was Vole and 'Shitmat and Horacio Pollard and nwodtlem' and 'McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom'.

But although Shitmat and Horacio Pollard came along to the soundcheck, they had to go down to another venue they were playing later and never came back leaving...
Vole and ' 'McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom'.

Got that?

Well, I suppose it's not that important anyway. But it keep me on my toes, I can tell you.

So the last minute addition was McCloud featuring the endless guitars of Hagbard Strom previewing the next Spirit of Gravity Compilation

festival

and then quite differently, Vole played, we nearly got everyone in for this picture, we missed the trumpet and electronics player. He's standing over on the right.

Have you seen this cat?

And because I liked the picture heres another one of Vole showing the _minimalVector visuals that helped give Vole an odd fifties arthouse film vibe.
If you'll excuse the pun.

Sunsets and other September stuff

2007-10-23T13:16:00.001+01:00

While the sun treated us to a lovely September treat we treated our ears.

Starting off the evening with a set of Buddha machine and Deer noises was Fallow. Creepy, Loud, quiet and blissful by turns.
Here's a quiet bit so you can hear the Buddha Machines.
The buddha and the beast

Continuing the run opf arriving late from the west country with no time to soundcheck we had Little Boat and his guitar (lovely old) amp and pedals.

This is a cover version, it kind of stops halfway through, but that doesn't matter.
cover version.

And rounding off the evening were the wonderful Power Up, violin, voice and various electronics I think this section has something of the variety of their set.
song from the middle

fabulous.

now, thats a youtube moment

2007-10-09T12:49:00.000+01:00

The second gig gets written up first: For Brighton live we took over the window of the clothes Shop juju in the North Laine as part of the Brighton Live promoters festival.

We set up _minimalVector inside the shop with a projector and his laptop for visuals, Tim and Soly kindly cleared the window and a rack of clothes inside.

Hot Roddy took first place and drew quite a crowd. He played a blinding set for about 40 minutes. Lee took a picture:

ANd we recorded an mp3:

hot_roddy-the_generation_game.mp3

Second in the space was Rashamon, hot foot from his show at Concorde2. Lee played a trademark set of hip hop inspired beats, beautiful washes and detailed psychedelia.

Heres the tail end of his set:
rashamon-Kelowna_Radio+Girl_ from_81.mp3

Last of all Terror Wogan let rip with the Atari stomp. crunching lo-fi 8bit ragga and electro.
terror_wogan-alien_mouse_dance.mp3

pleased to say, that a passer by did capture the moment for us and post it up to youtube. Thanks clubberholic. He's also the source for the photo's up on flickr - so double thanks.

werewolves of brighton - clocks tick by themselves

2007-09-26T12:16:00.000+01:00

The full moon played havoc with us tonight. Equipment malfunctions, homing pigeons circling the neighbourhood unable to find a home, badness all round.

The lucky recipients of the brunt of the lunar waywardness were ad:art who repeatedly struggled against collapsing hard drives, but eventually succumbed to the whmsy of fate.
But not before leaving us this singular version of
fat (but happy)

Practically the last thing con_fuzed did before taking her coach over the sea was play this show. A terrible grapple with the gods of Brightons traffic meant that she arrived too late for a soundcheck, we did get a recording of her set though: here is an excerpt.

Noteherder &McCloud actually played first and escaped relatively unscathed.
Here is a segment of something seen through the window of a passing El

After another attempt to pay their set gave rise to a further abbreviated song and a lengthened sense of frustration, ad:art played some stuff off this CD, while _minimalVector did some visuals.
Its a good CD, if you see it anywhere, you should snap it up.

stay out of the woods

2007-09-05T09:33:00.000+01:00

Due to a catastrophic system failure at 10pm the previous night (oh the joys of 'just doing that final tweaking to the set') Rekalix had to withdraw at the last minute, which is a shame as we were really looking forward to his set.

So minimal impact stepped in with a refined minimalist minimal impact set. Not as expansive as the uberdrone of legend, it was an exploration into the detail of what makes him tick. Illuminating.
minimal_impact.mp3

We're very pleased to have hosted Misha Begley's first live show. A tour de force of Vocoder, distortion, strange loops and abrasive noises crowned with a creepy version of one of my favourite songs (its from "the wicker man", the scariest film ever).
misha_begley-willows_song.mp3

And bringing things to a chaotic and imaginative close was a collaboration between Eastbournes finest and a another group making their debut we had Deepkiss720 featuring Meat Dream. Beyond description as anything that involves Deepkiss720 seems to be it featured home made suits and masks; an electronic mug tree, unplugged leads and all manner of butchered devices.
deepkiss_720_feat_meat dream-35to40mins.mp3

There is some video, too at the myspace page

Visuals by _minimal vector.

the colours flow through me

2007-07-06T15:40:00.000+01:00

Following from last months show, where we had _minimal vector provide up to the minute processed images, we went back to old school slide projectors and incense for what was billed as an evening of twenty first century psychedelia.
The first shot is what we saw (we had projectors on stage, couldn't get quite enough smoke up for full effect due to the high level of electric fan action going on).

'J'm Black played a set with his new loop setup, which seemed to include some breaks and beats that were quite unexpected. An excellent set of improvised pieces, which included some amazing space guitar and a terrific bit of Jazz/Space call and response guitar, with the response seeming to come from the other side of time.

J'mBlack-TakeTheFifth.mp3

The Birds of Death Valley were a duo, and it's hard to find fault with an act that start their set with a Theremin, so I won't. A space electronica dub tribute to Sun Ra with robes and shades, the Theremin I've mentioned and cornet. And Planet earth in her glory full screen behind.

The Birds of Death Valley-orbital_point.mp3

And to round the evening off ElMaes, a five piece, played "5" in a long version, sitar (Hot Roddy/Same Actor) and tablas, electronics and voices (more voices in fact than there seemed to be people talking). Incense and swirly lights I've also mentioned. Didn't I?

elmaes300=(5+5over5)x50.mp3

Berlin Beat Club

2007-06-15T13:27:00.001+01:00

Bugger London: the visuals by _minimalVector have added a vital piece to the Spirit of Gravity Jigsaw. Check out the picture of Harmonium A Hash Tables above.
Stare at it intently while listening to this piece of aquatic foolery.
Harmonium A Hash Table - Whaleslide
If you only know Steve from his minimal impact work, this may be a shock (Rhythm! Bass! Percussion!). So brace yourselves for a pleasant time.

Terror Wogan returned to The Spirit of Gravity for the first time in ages. Looking a bit better and with meaty chanteuse Sirloin Dion in tow for a feast of Ragga breaks, bent toys and 4o year old effects units. Nice.
Terror Wogan vs Sirloin Dion - Peak to beat

Unfortunately Faoi couldn't make it.

So in the tradition of the earliest Spirit of Gravity nights, we finished with an improvised collaboration between minimal impact, Terror Wogan and Sirloin Dion. The recording is confused and confusing, droneful and giggly, Steve described the set to me as "Comedy Dronecore" and that seems fair enough.
minimal impact vs Terror Wogan and Sirloin Dion - duppy stalks norn village - seeks origins of sound

Again you can see a little of the visuals in this picture.

Bells

2007-05-14T12:23:00.000+01:00

We have a new host, tying things together and making up for the fact Rashamon is on holiday, electronica superstar and funnyman Lee Hume.

If you really want I'll put some of his introductions up, just so he gets a soundfile too.

Dan Powell started the evening with a set of electro-acoustic improvisations and new sound processing software. It was mad, like a kids toy train stealing a 1950's computer.
here's a track called Bells.
dan_powell-bells.mp3

Following dan was Made out of wool, an act with a special place in the heart of the Spirit of Gravity. After blasting us with a solo set as yellow not yellow at SoG@Wrong, this collaborative set between Jason and Nikki, was a much more subtle beast. The mp3 starts from the point I started hallucinating. Its a track called Bells.
made_out_of_wood-bells.mp3

They said it couldn't be done. "The Gross Consumer playing at Spirit of Gravity - you're having a laugh, it'll never work".
So proving two things, the broad tastes of The Spirit of Gravity, and the broader musical reaches of The Gross Consumer, we proved them wrong. We love it. Heres a track called Bells.

the_gross_consumer-bells.mp3

And thanks to steve at minimal impact we have a (large) download of the whole of The Gross Consumer set, including feeble attempts at justifying his actions in light of what was on the flyer (that is, it has all the banter).

Ghosts and Aliens

2007-03-30T13:16:00.000+01:00

I've been told some people are having problems getting the files to play, if you are, try saving them to your machine and playing them from there.

We have a new camera, and a new Minidisk Recorder, so its all gone a bit art this week. The full size picture of Gus in particular is a rare treat, scary powerful stuff.

Gus plays Bass

Thor and Dan process it - a set of results are here.

minimal impact also process Gus and some of their results are here.

Chevron give us a break from strings and plays a silver keyboard, this should have been the first outing for Chevvers new laptop, instead it was (hopefully) the last outing for the old one, poor broken thing, I've never seen a laptop struggle so manfully.

Bela played her Cello and this her new Viol, we were hoping to have a lovely clear shot of it, its quite lovely to look at, oh well.

Bela also played the Saw, and sang, the saw isn't on our recording as we didn't mic it up, but as she was processing her voice we did capture that.

Outside the space-age

2007-03-02T13:30:00.000Z

A busy night at the marlborough Theatre, starting off with a brief but entertaining burst of unpoesy analogue improv from that fake bureacracy. The picture has Notnick Rilke reclining and Untony's rather nice van's just visible from behind the table.

this_fake_bureaucracy-miro_face.mp3
Is their entire set.

Komuso Buddha machines had another special one off performance for us. This time a piece for six Buddha machines and two Zoundz. The Buddha machines were distributed amongst members of the audience who had complete control of them and there was one Zoundz machine onstage with FX and one Zoundz in the audience. Overall a very inetersting experience in 3d sound. Here rendered in Mono simulated stereo.

komuso_buddha_machines-zoundz.mp3

Hot Roddy Bingo. Really needs no description. But that won't stop me. Brief bursts of Hot Roddy songs, including live sitar. In random order, with bingo numbers called. The winner was Mr Gillitt of Roundhill Crescent who won the ingredients to make pancakes (it was shrove Tuesday after all).

Hot_Roddy_Bingo.mp3

KEYKEEPER+TEMPOS, Henry made an introductory speech about the nature of experimental music making and its current state. Then with some new software tweaked to strangeness, a toy guitar and some household appliances he sang a few songs There is a point on the recording where you can hear someone say "It's like Danny and the Dressmakers crossed with The Butthole Surfers in a washing machine...In space"
And thats a fair enough set of pointers if you know any of them concerend. For the rest of you its Outsider electro-noise art.

KEYKEEPER+TEMPOS_aubergine.mp3

January Songs and things

2007-02-13T16:33:00.000Z

Rashamon and the ghost. i suspect its possible to construct a history of the world from the live versions of !Mates to Some Pilgrim". But I'm not going to help you to do it by posting the great version from this show.
Instead here is Lees remix of The Uneven Dots song "Assembling at Dusk".
He likes it so much he plays it out even if it is 'unfinished'.

Komon gets too songs on the blog, mostly cos we loved Antonia's cover of "Velocity Girl" so much, and it is so short we had to include one of her own songs too - "Take it as a compliment". And because we loved that one, too.

And as for choosing one of Twocsinak's songs, very tricky, too. And then there is the problem of what the name of the song actually may be. So we emailed Joe....

' (it) is one of a trilogy of songs, going under the umbrella title "Three submissions for Readers Digest"; it is the third section, entitled "Poetry for the elderly" or possibly "The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot)". If it were to have an individual title, therefore, it would be "Three submissions for Readers Digest - iii) Poetry for the elderly: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (T.S. Eliot)". But that's a bit long; also, I tend to give live recordings different names to the actual recorded version. In which case, could you call it "An anagram of toilets, accidentally started an octave too low (live submission)"? '

Um, I don't think I did call it that in the end, cos I couldn't be bothered turning the spaces into underscores.
twocsinak-3 submissions for readers digest pt III.

That's all, next month something very different.

Things to do for SoG@Wrong music

2007-01-17T15:00:00.000Z

You could sit and Watch Hot Roddy do his stuff amidst the smoke.

You could try and see Jay from Yellow not Yellow trying to hammer his Cymbal flat

You could dance to minimal impact.

No seriously, you COULD dance to minimal impact.

Or you could talk to Dan, Bobby or Roddy.
But not while minimal impact were playing, obviously.

And It Wuz

2006-12-18T13:42:00.000Z

The second show in November saw the collective in maximum effect at Wrong Music. We had the second room and it was a great chance to play loudly for a change. Much as we like the chinstroking ambience of that the Marlborough Theatre provides, once in a while its nice to really let rip.

No Pictures yet - Sorry!

Starting the live sets proper, in a stop start improv manner was The Spirit of Gravity Quartet, with Chris Cook (Hot Roddy) on Sitar and Jason T on violin alongside the base SoGQ4 of Steve from minimal impact, Dan Powell and McCloud.

sogq4_+_jayt_+_same_actor-k9_ate_my_tractor.mp3

Rising from that starting with a Same Actor style processing of the Sitar but quickly getting the breaks going was Hot Roddy. Showcasing lots of stuff from his impending Wrong Music CD and some new tracks, it was rattling good stuff. Unfortunately, apart from "missed callers" a track we posted up about a year ago, the only recording we got was this one song. Which isn't to say its bad, just that I like to have the whole set to brag about.

It's a new one, this is its working title.

hot_roddy-knock_knock.mp3

Getting the drone thing going for the first time that evening was Yellow Not Yellow, Jay from nost8ments new solo effort. Ripping stuff, violin, voices, cymbal, effected to hell and back. In the Gravitational Pull review I call it Industrial Ghost music, and it is, a machine roar with screams and mutterings from the pits.

yellow_not_yellow-the_bit_near_the_end_with_the_cymbal.mp3

Changing the mood slightly Casio Headbutt surfaced for their second show, kicking off with some high density organ psyche, followed by some silly casio preset action before finishing off quite nicely with this.

casio_headbutt-breakcore_science_lesson.mp3

After that minimal impact finished off the evening with a no prisoners set of uber drone violence. mi is custom made for this sort of environment: every damn thing in the room was vibrating along with a sound that sent us home dribbling and grinning empty eyed.

miinimal_impact-time_to_kill_the_room.mp3

Although minimal impact did have more people dancing than anyone else.
I don't understand.

november will be magic again

2006-12-05T14:16:00.000Z

As close as we'll get to a Christmas show I reckon, the November show was indeed magic.

The Reasonable Men displayed simple virtuosity on guitars, keyboards laptop and some strange tone generator that I was quite enthralled by (More! More!). And they played for 45 minutes. Good job they started early.
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Monster Bobby played his guitar, Dr Sample and Casio keyboard ("The hiss? I could get rid of that, but I rather like it"). He sings songs, including "The burning ambition of early diuretics" and this one, the epic "I heard you'd moved away".
monster_bobby-I_heard_you_moved_away.mp3

minimal impact, well, compared to the high intensity version that was to follow on Thursday at Sog@Wrong this was pretty low impact, but still, dronetastic. Echoes, drones, sheep and spacemen.
minimal_impact-fine_eastern_rain.mp3

Wide open spaces - the October show

2006-11-06T13:56:00.000Z

Guests for October came from countries where travelling by car is measured in days. Except Celled, who come from a place where finding a parking space takes days.

Just before he headed back to Canada, the long way round (while the nights have got colder here, I've just heard from Sean its 32 degrees C where he is in Thailand) nwodtleM played his fourth set for us.

Sean came up with a special set for us, eschewing the normal breaks and 80's samples, it was a blast of tones, white noise and found concrete. All pitched up and down and messed around with and sourced from philips compact cassette.

nwodtlem-electric_privates.mp3

On a busmans holiday, Chris Cobilis stopped off to bang the table, play guitar and zither and occasionally sing. The cultural ambassador from Perth Western Australia. I haven't got a clip if his encore lecture on Australian Culture or the introduction to the Australian piss-weak seagull.

But I have got this dry and dusty as the West Australian plains version of
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which Chris loops up out of a dodgy guitar lead crackle. Class.

Trekking in by Taxi from Hove came Celled. A minimalist treat of piano, Korg and effects, Celled took three songs by their noisy alter ego's Sold, slowed them down beyond the point of it being funny and played them extremely quietly.

Joined by Ben Inman on very quiet Cornet, this is an unrecognisable version of Solds live favourite .
celled-sunglasses.mp3

The Battle of Brighton Live

2006-10-25T13:53:00.000+01:00

SoG's new out-reach programme nearly fell at the first hurdle when various acts were booked to appear in Bond Street's trendy bar Riki Tik's on 30th September as part of Brighton Live's city-wide free music fest. Let's just say that the selection of abstract electro-acoustic experimentation didn't go down that well with the locals. Funny as it sounds OK to me when I listen to it now, particularly Dan Powell's set, which started the evening off:

Dan_Powell-BL06.mp3

This Sound Bureacracy followed, although technical problems stopped them producing the full range of sounds that were planned. Despite this, the set still came together from time to time:

This_Sound_Bureaucracy-BL06.mp3

The tentative nature of the performance didn't help with the audience though, so here is the entirety of Minimal Impact's set, before he ran for the hills:

Minimal_Impact-BL06.mp3

Celled didn't play at all, but the night was saved when, fresh from his triumph at Concorde 2, Rashamon rode in on his white charger and quietened the natives with a smooth performance of hypnotic beats and melodies, which quite frankly was what the whole gig should have been like if we had thought it through. I'm sorry to say that I was cowering in the corner by this time, so didn't get a recording of the set, but please acept my word when I say it was a cracker.

Tony Rimbaud

The Argus He Knows

2006-09-29T14:18:00.000+01:00

This Sound Bureaucracy get down.
Why does Nick Rilke always wear a hood onstage?
Random poetic guests and loopoopoops comprise their set.
Heres guest poet from Sold/Celled Howard letting us know what he likes to look at in art galleries (mp3).
It was either this or Lee Rashamons Britney piece about Emperor Penguins.

Simon Fupper plays guitar and sings a treat, he definitely played the b-side of his Jonson family single but maybe not the fabulous a side.
This is Lea (mp3) anyway.

Leo Abrahams just plays the guitar, he may sing, but he didn't for us, but then we didn't let him have a microphone. He does play the guitar though, this photo was taken right at the beginning of the second song I think, part of the percussion loop that drives the song along.
Thats what he does, builds instrumental songs with loops: bright, clear loops. Even the distortion is clear as a bell.
This is "Anemone" from his new album "Scene memory" on Biphop.
One of the quiet songs.

Hot August Night

2006-09-08T12:54:00.000+01:00

Stealing the show with his mighty tower of power was Jonny Faoi.

I chose the beatiest passage I could to prove a point. Which isn't to say it’s the most banging.

faoi-i_left_the_iron_on.mp3

After that a trip to space might be in order.

With Henry Collins, Steve minimal impact and McCloud providing the Spirit of Gravity Quartet, and Safehouses Geoff Hearn providing the Saxello (curved Soprano Saxophone apparently).

SoGQ4+Geoff_Hearn-spaceflight_simulator.mp3

The saxello was actually so loud at the show that hardly any of it needed to come through the PA, so this was about the only section you can hear Geoff. Unlike on the night when it was clear as a bell. If I'd been more organised we could have a microphone recording as well.

And dear, DearBritch hiding behind the curtains.

Reading from The Book, funny and frightening as usual. Again, Stuarts voice was hardly in need of the PA in this theatre space (Good ProjecTion there), so I had to tinker a bit to make him (even barely) audible from this desk recording. But aren't the backing tracks great, though? And if you wanted hi-fidelity you wouldn't be looking for it on a 96K mp3 of a live show would you?

DearBritch-fag_off.mp3

God, I love the BBC

2006-09-01T14:29:00.000+01:00

I just found out Rob Da Bank played one of my ElMaes tracks last night, I say mine, I think it was one of steves remixes, it was hard to tell through my poxy little speakers here at work, but great stuff.
rob da bank
Unfortunatly they spelt the name wrong Geburah (5) is by Elmaes rather than Elmeas.
Which is the point of this post, if anyone tries to google Elmeas, not much comes up.
the track is from the WMRecordings CD thats upcoming rather than the 7.

Also Mixing It are playing Dans track from the Shitmat remix CD tonight
mixing it
The 7 and the CD are available via the Spirit of Gravity Website.

The August gig will be posted next week.

Cheers