Some orchestral musings from the worlds favourite Richie FACT. Thursday saw a collaboration between The Heavy Heads and Orchestra Cube for an evening dedicated to the Beat Writers. There were several very rare films, one of which had been saved and rearranged by Genesis .P. Orridge which featured good old Uncle BillBurroughs. This film featured a live soundtrack by The Cube Orchestra. I thought we did a really good job and we featured a good cross section of instruments; Pedal steel Guitar, keyboards (x3), Harmonica, tabla, saxophone, drums, therimin, electric, bass & acoustic guitars and violin. Good job chums.
After that I improvised some drums whilst Poet Bij did his thing
I have to admit I’ve always loved the Beats, especially Kerouac so to be able to do something like this was great, big thanks to The Heavy Heads for letting us have the opportunity.
As circulated by Ed Siebert, The Cube and Bristol got a mention in Bizarre magazine.
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If you’re straining to read that, the bit about The Cube follows . . .
THE CUBE
The Cube is Bristol’s very own Microplex, an underground one-screen fleapit cinema, mixing internationally renowned live music,film,webcasts, DJs, performance art and some of the weirdest shit you are likely to find. Run by a ragtag team of bo-ho artist type volunteers pandering free-trade coffee and organic beer, its free-spirited chaos is its charm, even if the 1960’s projector might break down every other screening. Current regular nights include Movieoke (where you pick a film, have a rummage in the dressing-up box and step up to the stage to become a star) and To Hell With Hollywood (fucked-up mondo movies to give you night terrors).
Cubecinema.com
Word is . . .
> That article is written by early years Cube
> projectionist and memorable office ‘presence’ Mark
> Berry aka Alan Smithee.
“Red and yellow and pink and blue, purple and orange and green. I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.”
For one week in September 2006 Hannah Godfrey, writer, artist and Skateboarder ran The Ribbon Project.
On each day of the week Godfrey handed out and posted to participants in Bristol and beyond sets of ribbon.
Each day was a different colour . The aim being that participants would tie ribbons in their locality. A celebration of unmarked things which when intervened by tying ribbon to them encouraged enjendered alternative narratives in these interventions in the public space by passers by.
Coloured ribbons has various different associations. Girls hair is tied in them, Easter Simnel cake, cutting the ribbon, launching a boat, wrapped around presents, The Maypole. All of these celebratory in some way. But also serious issues, red ribbon for world aids day, pink for breast cancer, white for peace.
This project feels somewhere in between these two ideas. Prehaps the personal really is political here ?
Why Godfrey chose the different colours for each day we don’t know.
But this is not an HSBC advert or the united colours of Benetton campaign. It has more to do with DIY sensibilities, mail art, fluxus. pschyco Geography and the playfulness of the film Amelie.
Godfrey became a curator or ribbon tyers anoynomous. Carriers taking the ribbon to intervene with the location of their choice that means and meant a different thing to each and every one tier in place, location and country. Signifiers mapping peoples responses. Ribbons infiltrating the city through ideas.
the cube is as mysterious as its power to awaken truth
the cube is smooth except for an air vent and openings for plugs and cables
the cube is a product with no discernable placement
the cube is comprehended
the cube is a work of art
the cube is open for business
the cube is currently functional
the cube is being sold on style and quality
the cube is the sum of the areas of all its 6 surfaces
the cube is the next big thing
the cube is an imagination game - and more – that holds a secret you are dared not to reveal
the cube is a quiet fanless machine cooled by convection
the cube is a lot of fun to play around with
the cube is a stereoscopic back
the cube is closer
the cube is free
the cube is called above and corresponds to the magician
the cube is a nice piece of furniture and you can add other cube components
the cube is called a quadrirectangual tetrahedron
the cube is 50mhz faster
the cube is downward and to the left
the cube is made up of 3 identical pyramids
the cube is composed of 12 coils
the cube is staging a comeback
the cube is headed for demise
the cube is now possible
the cube is ready
the cube is like most complicated things in life
the cube is 75kgs of seasoned hardwood logs and comes in a polyproplene bag that is 60cm x 50cm x 60cm in dimension and fits through normal gateways
the cube is not solvable with a ruler and a compass
the cube is transparent
the cube is placed on a grey rug on a blue floor
the cube is now the place for project managers to find diversions from the stress of the modern workplace
the cube is slightly s t r e t c h
the cube is completed and mixed
the cube is being sliced parallel
the cube is sleeping
the cube is one of the three classic unsolved problems of antiquity
the cube is just a new and unique design statement
the cube is always built in the same place
the cube is mapped to infinitely many different points on the plane
the cube is cute though
the cube is designed to whisk away heat
the cube is equal to the buoyant force
the cube is super cool
the cube is fear
the cube is subdivided into a network of 134 million smaller cubes roughly one million light years on a side
the cube is also available as linked cubes on multiple analysis
the cube is approximately 4×4x4 inches
the cube is designed to fit in that niche
the cube is one cool machine
the cube is down until further notice
the cube is beavered
the cube is preserved
the cube is back
the cube is dead
the cube is you
the cube is now finished
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[Though most of you have probably seen googlism.com before, I hadn’t and got very excited. This is the slightly adapted result.]
Hope I’m not jumping in and stealing his thunder, but original Cubester and Blog poster Ben Slater has just finished his book - for now here is a simple link.
He may be back here with more to say on the matter, or not - he’s pretty busy . . . but word on the wire is he’ll be in this country, and this part of it, very soon . . .
Richie Paradise
