Spirit of Gravity presents

EVOL / JOE GILMORE / DFACE

The Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time 8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4

Evol - ******************.
Joe Gilmore - ~~~~~~~~~~~~.
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EVOL

EVOL is a computer music cell started in 1996. At the core of the project is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, a musician and composer living and working in Barcelona. Occasional EVOL members and/or collaborators include Aarhus-based sound artist Rubén Patiño, Danish composer and multi-instrumentist Jakob Draminsky Højmark, English sound artist Joe Gilmore, Spanish writer and sound artist Anna María Ramos, English video artist Andy Davies, and Scottish sound artist Joel Ongthorne. Their work has been released on internationally acclaimed record labels such as Mego, Entr'acte, Lucky Kitchen, Diskono, Scarcelight, Antifrost or fals.ch.

In 2003 the group started a series of electroacoustic pieces entitled 'Punani' which addresses some of the main aspects of their work, namely: algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other mathematical phenomena, somewhere in between Denis Smalley's concept of "spectromorphology" and what Agostino Di Scipio called "functional iteration synthesis". The series has six parts so far. In late 2007, the group began working with abstract graphical notation to play computer-generated Punani pieces using pressurized liquid hydrogen horns.

Since 1997, Anna María Ramos and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros co-run the record label and artists' collective ALKU, as well as IMBÉCIL, a platform for absurd computing and binary obfuscation. Apart from ALKU's audio editions (which include works by Edwin van der Heide, Yasunao Tone, JLIAT, Wobbly, Kotra, Team Doyobi, Beige, Peter Rehberg and various concept-driven music compilations) they have produced installations and digital works for art galleries and museums around the world.
http://www.vivapunani.org/

Joe Gilmore

Joe Gilmore is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer. His work has been published internationally on various music labels including 12k and LINE (NYC), Cut (Zürich), Fällt (Belfast), Alku (Barcelona), Melange (Sendai), Entr'acte (London) and Leonardo Music Journal (San Francisco). He was co-creator of rand()%, an automated internet radio station, which streamed realtime generative music.

His work has been exhibited at various digital art festivals and galleries including Lovebytes (Sheffield), VIPER International Festival for Film and New Media (Basel), Sonar (Barcelona), The Media Centre (Huddersfield), Exit Art (New York), Leeds City Art Gallery (Leeds), Ear to the Earth (New York), Aurora (Norwich) and ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medienteknologie, Karlsruhe). He has performed festivals and art spaces in Europe, USA and Japan.
http://joe.qubik.com/wiki/

DFace

DFace is a violinist, producer and rapper (on and off) from Cardiff, now living in Brighton. He has recently supported De La Soul with experimental violin/turntable duo, Fidgital. On the solo tip, DFace tends to make lush, dense, glitchy, gnarled dubsteppy sorts of stuff but isn't averse to a bit of drum'n'bass or breakcore. For recent tunes, please check out http://www.myspace.com/deeface. Alternatively, have a little search for "Fidgital" on YouTube

There will be an elektrocreche available for any unaccompanied toys who will be looked after during the intervals by our professionally trained team of volunteers. And anybody else that wants to bring along a sound toy to play with.

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· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 20th August 2009

Two acts coming back to back off a very successful noise=noise night (basement session #3 at The Foundry) helped us set the mood for a very good night.

First up a little bonus set from Noteherder & McCloud who’d got very excited at the way the previous night had gone and practically forced their way onto the stage. McCloud set up in front of the stage with a table of various 101’s and some small boxes while Noteherder sparkled his new soprano sax in the lights, there were some excellently full throated bass sounds from the synthesisers, grumblings of noise and the usual whirrs while the saxophone soared, and honked while the protagonists roared and shouted adding to the confusion.

Next onto the stage and set up about as far as they could get to the back were VLK (“Velk”), two chaps at laptops, radios and “things”, plus a man in a flat cap on cello and various bowed percussions. Acts like this really push the limits of my descriptive abilities. At the basement session they’d launched straight into the loudest thing they do, with circling pseudo rhythms and a furious melange of twisted noise shapes, but for us they provided some context letting things breathe a little so you could almost feel where things came from before the density became such that sources were lost and you could just sink into the sound and then emerge onto the other side.

Providing more concrete activity Mata Unit stood under the lamp and built up a nicely intricate set of analogue synthesiser pulses and washes crossed pitter patter beats, this was delicately constructed stuff; at times almost channelling the divine melancholy of Juan Atkins before sliding away into some other dusty corner.

And rounding off the evening was an all too brief set from HRT. This was a very intense set of unworldly noises performed by men bathed by blue light dressed in masks and robes with jangling staffs, while an unintelligible video played over them. With HRT the unease that arises as a consequence of their theatricality is inseparable from the music. It Is a Performance (available monthly at the Infernal Salon).

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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