Thorn

An extract from 'Nohmega', one side of the cassette of unreleased recordings included in 'Châsse ∴', the triple boxed set of CD re-releases, released by VOD-Records in June 2025 (full track length 18:00)

Mastered for cassette by Sam Grant at Blank Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne

VOD-Records

Nohmega (SoundCloud Edit)

Recorded live at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002

What Are Doing It (live)

Excerpt from "lesser gods iv" on nipple runs:
1987: self-released (ltd ed 50 cass with elaborate packaging)
Re-released on White Noise: 1988 (WNCS 01)
Re-released on Le Gros Bit Ici: 1993

nipple runs.

lesser gods iv

Lesser gods iv (1987)

Scott Gibbons & the Roberto Gini Ensemble, for Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio's "Il Combattmento"

Every Sound Is An Insidious Silence

Remix of the theme from Romeo Castellucci's "Paradiso" (Avignon, 2008)

Theme From Paradiso

Scott Gibbons + Chiara Guidi, from "Summa Tragedia" - A collection of sounds from the laboratories, episodes, outgrowths and film cycle of Tragedia Endogonidia - for Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (dir. Romeo Castellucci)

2007: Rarovideo, RVD 40143 (3xDVD+CD)

The Departure Of The Fleet

GQ.c 3.16

"Subterranean Sky" - a 2002 collaboration between sculptor george deMerle and composer Scott Gibbons - is a spacial environment that defies everyday perceptions of mass, form and time. An incredibly strong yet lightweight plastic, originally developed by deMerle using materials from NASA, is the medium used to create delicate fabrics of a proposed alternate reality.

The first to propose putting art into space*, deMerle sculpts light out of darkness with this webbing to create environments which seem to defy gravity. In fact, a recent deMerle piece which was so large as to fill an aircraft hangar weighed only 1 lb total, suspended. deMerle is best known as a political activist who fights for civil liberties, and for many decades he was considered an Outsider artist. But his art is a natural extension of his politics, which celebrates the necessity of personal expression for self-actualization.

Gibbons' original audio score is incorporated directly into the piece, directed through speakers that are integrated into deMerle's ethereal sculpture.

Although this is their first collaboration, deMerle and Gibbons have been close friends since the mid-80's, and in many ways Gibbons' work with audio is the sonic equivalent of deMerle's webbed designs; both of which often suggest more than they reveal.

* Although the NEA was very excited to back this project in 1977, they were ultimately unable to do so as there was no category for this kind of proposal.

Subterranean Sky (excerpts)

Montage from FOLK, by Romeo Castellucci / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.

Folk

Modal Analysis feat. Noor1 – 10 November 2020

music...... 

Its controversy of beauty and danger a harmonious shape.  With the power to undermine reason, trigger ancient instincts before education or culture.  

Music's not just a sedative as they make you believe, nor a tale, nor the innocent spirit of man....

Thorn

desierto de los leones

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