health and safety night

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

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos



slashs wormhole - sog nov 2010

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos


Noteherder & McCloud live at The Spirit of Gravity nov 2010

Noteherder & McCloud | Myspace Music Videos

electroacoustic delay

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.

Ghosts and Aliens

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.