PIVOT OFF OFF Festiwal The members of the band are:
Richard Pike - guitar, bass, keyboards, production
Laurence Pike - drums, keyboards, percussion
Dave Miller - laptop, production
According to omniscient Wikipedia ‘pivot’ may refer to:
• Pivot, the fulcrum as part of a lever
• Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body
• Pivot turn, a dance move
In mathematics:
• Pivot element, the first element distinct from zero in a matrix in echelon form
• Pivotal quantity, in statistics
… and many more…
Being an opponent of tendencies that try to put the music into defined frames, this time I will deny my beliefs and I will stand up to the difficult task of putting the ambivalency of music in the light of the nominalism. In other words – to figure out Pivot`s tune.
With reference to the above attempt to define the notion ‘pivot’, the character of this band’s music with such name, I would define as a ride on bicycle with solid frame, albeit without hundred per cent awareness of the control over brakes. What's more, the state that this music created by three Australians gets you to, is located in wide areas of physics’ law, however getting to their limits in the same time, what gives a particular feeling of tearing away at least a part of corporality from rules of gravity.
The band’s music is abashing. It divides the listener in half. On part is stuck into a hard background of math rhythms of drums, awfully precisely synchronized with electro-symphonic samples, and the second one, breaking away from a physiological need of the rhythm absorption and making a way to direction of relieving the emotional charge by mental harmony and identification with ambitious constellation of metaphysical sounds.
Pike brothers – Richard and Laurence; the second one is already known from Triosk (on drums), that visited Krakow some time ago – and finally Dave Miller with extraordinary feeling; they all mix their inspirations, which they all admitted on their Mayspace profile. The inspirations come from electro-symphonic music: Brian Eno, Jean Michel Jarre or Philip Glass – for me, at least; and also classics of rock: King Crimson, Pink Floyd, getting to Aphex Twin or, more fresh, Arcade Fire and The Battles, mentioned before. This, not exactly defined mixture, confirms a multi-disciplined or rather ‘cross-genres’ tendencies in contemporary music.
