The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XV
Quinta
Free play and experimentation with musical substance (Collectress)
Quinta is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, who has worked with the likes of Collectress, Bat for Lashes, Radiohead’s Philip Selway, Penguin Cafe, Patrick Wolf and The Paper Cinema. Her first record, My Sister Boudicca, used strings, musical saw, harmonium, piano, found sounds & samples. Quinta meets free play and experimentation with musical substance in her work, and brings a mischievous theatricality to her performances.
The Oneirologist
Improvised post noise AV set from Rick Jensen (AJU)
The Oneirologist is the solo post noise moniker for fiery Apocalypse Jazz Unit sax player Rick Jensen. A former resident of Brighton he’s been burning up the big city since he moved away a few years back. Here he puts his horn aside for a more reflective AV set improvising to his own films.
https://theoneirologist.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOneirologist
minimal impact and Dan Powell
Brighton drone maven meets electric guitar mangler uptown
The final collaboration in this long running series at The Scope (you mean you haven’t noticed? Check the listings) sees Dan Powell collaborating on an acoustic set with possibly the most influential figure in The Spirit of Gravity community. Many people will only know Steve as the person who runs the electrocreche, but he has a history, including being described as “The noisiest fuck I know” by Shitmat. Here he joins Dan Powell (Static Memories, one man crime wave, OMSK etc) for a set of unplugged noise to stir the loins.
Plus Lissajous figure projections
Wednesday 21st October| 8.00pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton
COMING SOON
18th November at the Scope: Franck Barriac / Gus Garside / Futuro De Hierro
To start the evening we had the return of The Birds of Death Valley for their first show in an age. Dom was on pretty good form on a chair centre stage with iPad and bass guitar, stage right had Howard on recorder, venerable Wasp and some other bits and pieces, and flanking the oil drum table Ben on whistle, kettle trumpet, pipe and unused slide cornet. They started with a fairly abstract song of floating buzzes and analogue-y drones, before the kettle and a bassline get into a more rhythmic mode, the recorder tipping us over into more fragile almost Takako Minekawa area.
Next up was F.Ampism with his electronical cassette collages. On this form he has to be the best person doing this in Brighton at the moment, a stunning set, multi layered and constantly moving, there were some really interesting textures; voices, percussion, and an urgency – no sitting back and letting things wash over the audience, a constant evolution of audio images, evocative and rather mesmerising. Something about the quality of the sound put me in mind of the soundtrack to Black Orpheus, but I can’t quite say what.
Finally we had Alice Eldridge & Ron Caines celebrating the launch of “Rothko Veil” the latest release on our Spirit of Gravity label (