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

Fanny Ampism
Post noise tape and synth scrapes from Bolide member

Rothko Veil
Alice Eldridge (Collectress) and Ron Caines (East of Eden)

The Birds of Death Valley
Electronic rhythms and recorder reveilles.

Thursday 1st October| 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton


COMING SOON

21st October at the Scope: Quinta / The Oneirologist / minimal impact and Dan Powell


16th September at the Scope: Deemer / Andre’s Elbow / Cheesemaster / more tbc

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


19th August at the Scope: Beam Splitter / Annie Kerr & Gus Garside / Andrew Greaves & Dan Powell

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XIII

Scope Aug 15

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


6th August at the Green Door Store: Gagarin / Kuroneko / Ingrid Plum

GDS August 15

Gagarin
Pluto bound astral explorer

Gagarin has been making music on the edges of the musical galaxy for many years in many guises. Currently he works alone crafting atmospheric digital soundscapes, sculpting future grooves and polishing aching melodies. He plays out live – an exciting mix of software precision and human frailty / spontaneity that’s never the same twice.
Early adventures in cult Manchester band Ludus were followed by a sustained period playing and co-writing with the legendary Nico of the Velvet Underground. He’s since recorded and collaborated with John Cale, Suns of Arqa, Eric Random, David Thomas & Pere Ubu, Bill Pritchard, Cabar​et Voltaire.

New CD “aoticp” out now.
http://www.gaga​rin.org.uk/

Kuroneko
Dark ambient creepy noise

Post ritual drone Quartet making dark ambient creepy noise.

Ingrid Plum
Vocalese with electrical extremities

Ingrid Plum uses her voice with extended technique, improvisation, field recordings and electronics, to create layered soundscapes, spoken word and songs. Having performed and exhibited installation sound and visual art since 2002, she creates work that sits between sound art, improvisation, multi-media installation, neo classical and contemporary Nordic folk music.
www.ingr​idplum.com/abou​t/

Thursday 6th August | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton


COMING SOON

Wednesday 12th August at the Scope: Gus Garside & Annie Kerr / Beam Splitter / Dan and Andrew play ‘A Piece about In C’


15th July at the Scope: Hugs Bison / Gilli Bloodaxe / Isnaj Dui

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


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

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XI

Scope May 15

Thomas Stone
Contrabassoon and activated snare

Thomas Stone makes his music using contrabassoon, bass guitar and percussion with various forms of electronic intervention. Informed by a background in visual fine art, an interest in bass frequencies and musical contexts of drone, ambient and contemporary chamber. With previous projects and collaborations performed at a diverse range of venues including The Serpentine Gallery, Tate Britain and Resonance FM, Thomas’s latest music (2 related pieces entitled Incantation and Transference) is designed for solo performance under the moniker Jecklin.

Ragamatic
classic ragas on sitar + electro

Classic Ragas played on the Sitar with electronic backing. After working with Mario Niemuth as a duo (Mexico) on the project Reiner Heidorn now operates Ragamatic as a solo project. This comes with the approval of Life President Chris Cook (Same Actor, Hot Roddy). Short Indian ragas excerpts that /sing/ for electro pieces.

Swarbrooke
Circuit bent synth seizures

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 17th June| 8pm – 10.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Coach House, 22 Walpole Rd, Kemptown, Brighton


4th June at the Green Door Store: Lorenzo Abbatoir / Slow Slow Loris / Clive Henry

GDS June 15

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