Tag: minimal impact

the subtlety will out

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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

stay out of the woods

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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.

november will be magic again

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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.
the_reasonable_men-live_edit.mp3


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

The Battle of Brighton Live

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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