Back down to the West Country for the first time in ages and a visit to a new space (for me), Cube Cinema, a former/current cinema space near the bus station, which hosts many an interesting evening of experimental music and artforms. I met up with Charlie from the Liquid Library collective and some very welcome soup is on offer - needed after the pissy autumnal weather bit through earlier.......
Tonight there are 5 acts on and this kicks off with RRS, whose performance is dadaist, daft, funny, really funny, sad and happy all at the same time. Objects are used, repurposed and employed as weapons against himself. I stupidly forget to take any pictures, as it's easy to get lost in what's going on. There are some skilful beats set up on his micro-keyboard and I stupidly forget to ask him which keyboard it is (I need some little keys for future tours.......).
The Swine is up next and I am very happy to have a really good quality monitor, a stage flooded with red light and a really good sound man. This set is more gristly than glitchy and Liquid Library's Owen has recorded the audio, looking forward to listening back.....
Next up is Robin Foster - the ad on the CC website suggests "rummage and clutter". The stage setup features the aforementioned, a table and a box full of "clutter". Robin rummages about in the box and a couple of condenser mics pickup the sounds. Really interesting, very physical (a proper workout is undertaken) and lots of fun. Towards the end of the set, the box becomes more battered and things escape creating their own noise show on the way to the floor.
Ivy Nostrum has a table of all sorts of stuff pre-performance, but I resist the temptation to look too closely, wanting the surprise of sounds. Metronomes on the wonk, tape recorders left in places around the audience on visits offstage, penny whistles, loops and dark synth atmospheres. Bloody good all told.
This leaves us with the pairing of Sascha Brosamer and Graham Dunning to finish the night off. Glitched and broken turntables, guitar textures, broken loops of bird call vinyl LPs. And the opportunity to join in via the server they had set up, via glitchy and scratching audio to join in with the PA audio. This is a really nice touch and everyone has fun and the ambiences created makes this set a perfect evening ender.
Overall, mighty fine evening and decent turnout in spite of the pretty shitty weather. Many thanks to all the acts and the folks involved in running the night and to Steve Scara for the lift back to Portishead.
LoS
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