The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XIII

BEAM SPLITTER
Audrey Chen – voice/cello
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø – trombone
… as with many seemingly incongruous pairings, what defines the subtle union of this duo are the deeper synergies that are simmering beneath the surface. Together, Nørstebø and Chen, with the three sources of trombone, voice and cello, manoeuvre a balance between fragility, intimacy, the ecstatic and measured control. They share a common sense of pulse and an inherent understanding of the way they each aurally manage and let go of every consecutive moment. The lungs release through to mouths to bell to strings, back and forth like a tactile breathing exchange.

Annie Kerr – violin
Gus Garside – double bass
Exceptional High Risk Improv dialogues
“you blow me away – this sort of improv is the type of art experience that gives back 110% – risk at such a high level – the chaos of the first section begs to be resolved and then attempts of resolution and then it is left up to us – exceptional”
a fan from Washington State

A Piece about In C
Andrew Greaves and Dan Powell with an Audiovisual deconstruction of Terry Riley’s minimalist classic using Pure Data and keyboards.

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 19th August | 8pm – 10.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XII

Hugs Bison seaside tour

Candy floss, penny arcades, donkey rides, fairgrounds, Punch and Judy; all part of the quintessential British summer. Memories of a favourite resort, family picnics, romantic walks on the prom, watching a late sunset; all fading, receding into a distant past.

Hugs Bison present B-Side The Seaside, a tour of seaside resorts in July 2015, which lands in Brighton on 14th & 15th July.

They are looking for film and audio recordings of the British seaside to be part of the show. You might have some old family holiday films or made recordings of the waves crashing against the pier. You may wish to write and record a poem, or a tell us about a vivid memory. You might go to your favourite part of Brighton and film it for us.

All donated source material will be added to a pool to be used in an improvised audio visual show in each town. Contact Shaun at info@shaunbleza​rd.com for more details or to arrange to send us something.

Hugs Bison will be Out & About on the 14th and performing at The Scope on the 15th.

The Out & About day sees them exploring Brighton, filming and recording, talking to the public and building up resources for the next days performance.

Shaun Blezard of Hugs Bison said ‘We both grew up with regular visits to the seaside as kids and have strong memories of holidays on the beach, going to the fair, eating fish and chips. Many resorts are not doing as well as they used to and we wanted to search for that seaside of our childhood. It would be lovely if the local population would join us on this journey’.

The tour is supported by Sound and Music, the national charity for new music and sound art: soundandmusic.o​rg

Gilli Bloodaxe

Bloodaxe performs his poems and stories with his calamitous collaborateurs Foz and/or Astra Chan, molti-multi instrumentalist​s, who make up the music as they go along.
Ian Macmillan describes “Ace manipulator of words and music, the indefinable Gilli Bloodaxe. I was astonished by it … amazing little stories … He’s a real find, old Gilli Bloodaxe”
www.gill​ibloodaxe.co.uk​

Isnaj Dui

Standing awkwardly between neo-impressioni​sm and electronica, Isnaj Dui (aka Katie English) conveys a minimal yet capturing sound using flutes, home-made dulcimers and electronics. As a classically trained flautist, English has also studied electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Balinese gamelan and has collaborated with numerous artists from electronica acts to folk bands.
isnajdu​i.bandcamp.com/

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 15th July | 8pm – 10.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

Lorenzo Abbatoir
Italian structural sonic engineering

Lorenzo Abattoir (aka Nascitari): Italian based sound engineer & noise artist since 2008, founder of several projects with various international noise artists. He works as a solo artist or with the electroacoustic collective Mare di Dirac in which realized ritualistic performances with the use of field recording samples, microsound and unconventional musical instruments, combine with the natural sound effects of various locations. Using noise generators, Tape recorders, Shruti box, Granular synthesis, Real-time sampler, Lorenzo Abattoir studied the various resonances of the materials and their interaction with unusual types of microphones.

Slow Slow Loris
Berlin melodic noise duo

Slow Slow Loris is a new experimental/avant-garde noise-music duo from Berlin, Germany that uses voice and electronic devices to reveal the melody within the discord. We played our debut show at the Schlagstrom Festival 2014, followed by several Berlin noise events and a US east coast tour, all to a great response.
Epic, sweeping live performance using vocal melodies, samples, various instruments, live looping and multiple pedal chains to coax the music out of the noise. Like wanting to protect an endangered species, they enter raw emotional imagination to give the nuances of subconscious permission to come forth.

Clive Henry
The thinking man of HNW

Clive Henry has been actively pursuing sound for over twenty years. Whilst he has done this in bands and looser groupings, his solo work has seen him pick an untutored route through “noise” and associated areas. His work has often been autobiographical, with recurring themes and ideas including: dissonance, the process of decay, and the human body as instrument. recent recorded work has concentrated on noise textures and “Harsh Noise Walls”, as well as pieces more clearly akin to musique concrete; whilst live performances have utilised vocal work and a commitment to physicality and tension. His formative experiences in music occurred within the DIY punk / hardcore scene and the values of this community continue to inform his musical activities and beliefs. He was a founder member of the Bang The Bore collective, who have organised gigs and occurrences around the UK. He has played across Europe and the US, and been heard on Radio 1. He lives alone in Southampton, with no friends but hundreds of noise tapes which all sound the same. He dislikes writing short bios.
See more at: http://www.temptingfailure.com/2014/09/clive-henry-yol-make-noise-at-tempting.html

I don’t believe in free will, but it gives me a sense of freedom.
http://www.clivehenry.org/

Thursday 4th June | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

COMING SOON

Wednesday 17th June at the Scope: Thomas Stone / Ragamatic

Tim Shaw and Sébastien Piquemal
Fields – mobile technology as a medium for sound diffusion

Sébastien and Tim explore mobile technology as a medium for sound diffusion. Audience members can join in by simply connecting to a specific website with their mobile phone, laptop or tablet. The connected devices become an array of speakers that the performers can control live, resulting in an omni-directional sonic experience. This project provides an alternative method for sound spatialisation as well as offering new ways in which audiences can engage in sonic works. Fields has been performed in Helsinki, Berlin, Athens, Lisbon and Newcastle.
tim-shaw.net/fields_/

Tim Shaw (tim-shaw.net)

Tim Shaw has worked internationally as a professional composer, performer, sound designer and researcher. His practice incorporates diverse approaches to sound capture and processing, and includes creating immersive and site responsive sonic installations. His compositional methods include field recordings, synthesized sounds and live electronics, providing a wide scope for creative diversity. At the heart of his work lies a concern with the auditory reflection and mirroring of real world environments through sound and technology. He is currently studying a PhD in Digital Media at Culture Lab alongside managing Newcastle based record label Triptik. Tim has created commissions for Warp Records, The British Council, The British Science Association, Pacitti Company, Tender Buttons and Transform Festival.

Sébastien Piquemal (funktion.fm/)

Sébastien Piquemal is a computer engineer, obsessively exploring the artistic capabilities of machines. After working several years as a full-stack web developer in Helsinki, Finland, he decided to dedicate himself fully to making music. Since then, he has been an active contributor to the open-source software community, leading various projects such as WebPd (Pure Data patches running in the web browser). As a lover of Jazz and improvised music, Sébastien is seeking new ways to place human interaction at the core of live music. He is presently doing a MA degree in sound in new media at Media Lab Helsinki.

Binnsclagg
Franchised esoteric babble & slash-poems

“Binnsclagg is an international franchise comprising Karl M V Waugh (CEO – Spock) and Veritie French (Secretary, Harry). Circuits, collage, slash-poems, Scientology, esoteric babble, game-play, unique, money.” – Steve Lamacq
“Despite accusations of impropriety they have continued to manufacture robots with deep psychological quirks and occasional psychedelic schisms.” – David Tibet

Nuclear Whale
Evolving Dark Ambient Electronica

Nuclear Whale for your consideration presents a dark slab of space ambience… evolving and snarling in anticipation of a new album. Analogue industrial evolving beats and overlapping drone textures.

Thursday 9th April | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

COMING SOON

Wednesday 15th April at the Scope: Renfield / Chemical Bbrench / I’m Dr Buoyant & Ron Caines