The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XVI
Futuro De Hierro
Destroyed sounds and rhythmic electronics
Futuro De Hierro is the new noise and rhythmic electronic project by multi-instrumentalist and producer Víctor Hurtado (Ordre Etern, Qa’a and Huan) and collaborator of artists such as Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Nurse With Wound, among others.
Disjointed rhythms, between rhythmic noise concrete music and gabba/speedcore. Destroyed sounds, sonic detritus and live sound manipulation with a rock’n’roll attitude not usually found in solo projects.
Back in Brighton after his mind-blowing concert at Black Dove last July.
Franck Barriac
Futurist EA assemblies
“Mixing radio art and electronic improvisation. Futurist sounding and electroacoustic ambience assembled; a short but intense solo between noisy and pure sounds, mixed textures. Rugged sweetness from south France to south England: Punk poetic noisy zouk sounding solo gig.”
With the bonus of 4 channel sound.
Gus Garside
Wrestling with composed and improvised music
His performance at Scope is likely to include contemporary music, acoustic and electronic improvisation.. but who knows for sure?
“The double bassist, Gus Garside, is a bit of a legend on the improv scene, and watching him wrestle with his instrument is such a joy”
Daniel Alexander Hignell, Brighton Noise
“..veteran polystylistic jazzman, Gus Garside, sprung into life with a series of breathtaking double bass improvisations. the audience were mesmerised by Garside’s dexterous flair, humble mastery and radical subversion of his Titanic classical instrument. ”
Kyle McAllum, Extra normal
Gus has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players.
Inspired by the late John Stevens, Gus took to running creative music workshops. This led him into leading music projects with musicians of a wide range of abilities. He performs in a number of improvising and contemporary music settings including his long standing string trio arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill); The Static Memories, a duo with Dan Powell (on laptop and processed percussion and guitar), the West Hill Blast Quartet, a free jazz quartet with Ron Caines, Dan Spicer and Andy Pyne and a do with violinist Annie Kerr.
His most recent composition, The Sleepwalkers, for a 10 piece improvising string orchestra premiered at For Process, Newhaven Fort in 2014.
Gus is part of the Brighton Safehouse collective
Plus Lissajous figure projections
Wednesday 18th November | 8.00pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton
COMING SOON
3rd December at the Green Door Store: Matawan / Map71 / Noteherder and McCloud
Back to a full strength roster tonight, and we got off to a good start with a set from Barn, with a laptop and controller plus some bits and pieces, his set seems to be in five sections, with a foil. The first reminds me somewhat of my airboat ride from last month, a nice gritty sound, but his properly generated. This breaks into pulses and thence into something that has washes of almost sea like noise, before the final section leads onto a cascade of electronic tones.
Quinta is accompanied by two other keyboard players, who also double up on saw and stylophone and laptop. This as you can imagine pushes the limits of the Caroline’s setup pretty effectively. They start with an unaccompanied vocal piece about Boudicca, before moving into a song with some Nyman-esque very rhythmic interlocking piano parts all three of them intricately locked . They then get stuck into the peripheral kit for an uncanny waltz before coming back to, I was going to say orthodox, but perhaps a more finely structured piece of tightly knuckled piano. A really good mix of modernist composition and sub five minutes pop song lengths.
Rick is down in Brighton for his first solo set as The Oneirologist, which is (I think) a live soundtrack project. The film is called something about moths and has two lights (from a boat, maybe) to which he makes some quiet noise or drones – its too fierce for a drone, but too quiet for noise – so work that out yourself. Strongly textured tones, and resonant knocks from séance next door. Overall, unsettling, I think.
And to round the evening off, Dan Powell plays his final collaboration of the series, this one with minimal impact. it was supposed to be acoustic, so he has his Bontempi reed organ mic’d up to a fuzzbox and delay, Steve minimal impact has his plastic harmonium from India, through a new Space Echo pedal he found somewhere and is rightly very pleased with. I found some old visuals by Karl so turn the projector round to play them over the duo while they hum and drone pleasingly.