The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XVII

The Spirit of Gravity in co-operation with Hardworking Families presents The Scope with Hardworking Family Nan and Realisations of Daniel Tully’s ‘… As a Process of Line-Making’

Hardworking Family Nan
Mutated Ultra-Noise Cello

Hardworking Family Nan is a new duo that takes a cello and a no-input mixer and melds them together into one totalising mass. When the going is good, the two become one, as though the horse-hair bow were reaching directly into the guts of the circuitry. Ever heard a cello harmonising perfectly with harsh lashings of mixer-feedback? No? Well don’t miss it then.

Daniel Tully’s ‘… As a Process of Line-Making’
Experimental Text Score made flesh, several times

Composer and artist Daniel Tully has challenged a number of local performers to interpret his weighty text score ‘… As a Process of Line-Making’. As it’s a complex, beautiful and open-ended thing, we’ve decided to have a few different goes at it, in a few different set-ups. Performers will include some combination(s) of Duncan Harrison, Kev Nickells, Karl M V Waugh, Tom Bench and John Guzek

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 16th December | 8.00pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

COMING SOON

7th January at the Green Door Store: Baby (album launch) / Goitt / Komuso

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

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XV

Quinta
Free play and experimentation with musical substance (Collectress)

Quinta is a multi-instrumen​talist 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://theonei​rologist.bandca​mp.com/
https://www.you​tube.com/user/T​heOneirologist

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

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XIV

Deemer
A two-piece electro-acoustic orchestra composed of Hackney-based Merijn Royaards and Dee Byrne, Deemer blur the boundaries between free jazz and sound installation using, among other implements, alto saxophone, max MSP, analogue electronics, tape, and transducer microphones/speakers to instantly compose and activate space.

Andre’s Elbow
Dan Powell (small objects) and Tony Rimbaud (live processing and effects). Expect a table of acoustic instruments, kitchen implements, toys, a Kaoss pad and electronic bits and pieces. Rimbaud will udse his sonic devices to loop, rearrange, defile and denude Powell’s tabletop of tat into a sonic smorgasbord of interventions and inventions.

Plus…
Cheesemaster’s holiday video
A jetboat ride as an AV wonderland

Hopefully more to be confirmed….

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 16th September | 8pm – 10.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

COMING SOON

1st October 2015 at the Green Door Store: Fanny Ampism / Rothko Veil / The Birds of Death Valley