Programme

  • Play at the Spirit of Gravity!

    If you’re a group or artist who would like to play at the Spirit of Gravity, we have a new way to submit your music for a live event by completing this form, listing your details and providing examples of your music for us to consider. You can also use this QR code to access the form:

    Please remember that if you’re on tour we’ll need as much notice as possible, as we’re often booked up months in advance.

    Good luck and see you at the Rossi Bar!

  • Thursday 5th December at the Rossi Bar: Martin Chick / Resting Pulse / Melinda Bronstein

    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

  • Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 24th November – 8.00 to 10.00pm

    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.

  • Gravitons festival of live streaming

    Right on cue as the shorter days and the darker evenings make indoors attractive ….  Gravitons, an exciting and varied series of live streamed performances started on 16 November and continues throughout the month.

    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:
    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 – midi_error – vintage and current grooveboxes on a sonic voyage
    24 November, 3pm – Ascsoms – the solo project of Adam Wimbush, one foot firmly planted in Musique Concrete traditions and the other in electronic improvisation
    24 November, 7pm – Remember Glaciers – slow ambient soundscapes, improvised
    27 November, 8pm – McCloud – noise beats from aka DJ Cheesemaster
    29 November, 8pm – Meljoann – avant-pop songs, disorientating AV, wellness cult recruitment
    Updates and more information here: gravitons.org

    All made using ethical alternatives to big tech, with the aim of confusing the algorithms by creating a decentralised, local scene.