Martin Chick: Noise, beats and modular tweaks.
Resting Pulse: Apocalyptic Sounds
Melinda Bronstein: Melancholy vocals and Casiotone drones

Martin Chick: Live not dead. Modular bursts and clusters firing like sonic snipers targeting synaesthetic synapses; a strafe across your cranium to jerk your limbs to life. He’s given up lugging his bulky old synthesisers in favour of lugging about a monster modular set up, which he uses to fire up a right old racket. Just how we like it.

Resting Pulse: Andy (Monsters Build Mean Robots, Court of Hidden Faces, Winter at Sea, etc.) puts down the tools of post-rock to bring you an uneasy atmosphere & apocalyptic beats from a device that reacts as much to the surrounding environment and the performers’ own conductivity as it does to their will or programmed sequences. We witnessed this encounter of man vs. machine in the basement of The Brunswick and invited another round for the Spirit of Gravity’s stage.

Melinda Bronstein: Melancholy atmospheres, improvised vocal drone loops, casiotone, found objects, noises and toyses, magic in the mundane.
melindabronstein.bandcamp.com/music

Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.

The Rossi Bar is a small grade II building, and they are restricted with how they can improve access for anyone with mobility issues. The live music venue is located in the basement, which can only be accessed by a short spiral staircase. More accessibility information and images of the venue are in this document:
spiritofgravity.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/The-Spirit-of-Gravity-at-The-Rossi-Bar-for-audience-members.pdf

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 5th December 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 24th November 2024 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Details to follow

The October edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-midnight-in-the-haunted-karaoke-27th-october-2024/
This month’s show includes some long overdue tracks from I Am Fya, tracks from the new Xylitol & Alien Alarms albums, a couple of remixes from Nil by Nose’s new trains based album, and some pieces by friends of the Spirit of Gravity. In the 2nd hour, Spectral Transmissions present Transmission 7: Midnight in the Haunted Karaoke.

Friday 15th November: Scanner: Harry Smith at 100

Harry Smith (1923–1991) was a great American eccentric, experimental filmmaker, musicologist, graphic designer, bohemian and anthropologist. He was also a collector of found objects and sounds, including the world’s largest known private paper aeroplane collection. The Anthology of American Folk Music is perhaps his most famous contribution.

British artist Robin Rimbaud, also known as Scanner, has been invited by the Harry Smith Archives to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth by performing live scores to a wide selection of his films. For this event, Scanner will be performing a live soundtrack to Smith’s Early Abstractions (1946–57) and Untitled Seminole Patchwork (1965–66) films.

Scanner has been intensely active in sonic art since the 1980s, producing concerts, installations and recordings, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he names Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan amongst his previous collaborators.

www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5160/scanner-harry-smith-at-100/

Right on cue as the shorter days and the darker evenings make indoors attractive ….  Gravitons, an exciting and varied series of live streamed performances starts on 31 October and continues throughout November.

Each performance will run for approximately an hour. The livestream, which may be accessed with no charge, is here: stream.gravitons.org
The full lineup is:
31 October, 8pm – Meljoann – avant-pop songs, disorientating AV, wellness cult recruitment.
16 November, 3pm – Screaming Alice – improvised analogue synth-driven grooves
17 November, 3 pm – Dan Powell – semi–improvised soundtracks to films by Chris Marker
21 November, 8pm – Rashamon – laptop and iphone based stratified disco brainchild
23 November, 8pm – midierror – vintage and current grooveboxes on a sonic voyage
24 November, 7pm – Remember Glaciers – slow ambient soundscapes, improvised
27 November, 8pm – McCloud – noise beats from aka DJ Cheesemaster
29 November, 8pm – Emma Papper and Joe Davin – ethereal ambient collaboration with voice

Updates and more information here: gravitons.org

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