Author: Spirit of Gravity

Thursday 6th November at the Rossi Bar: The Belarina Experiment / Morwell / Bennu

The Belarina Experiment: Bela Emerson, her cello, new effects, new pieces
Morwell: Sci-fi rave and soundsystem pressure
Bennu: Egyptian noise via Italy

The Belarina Experiment: Bela Emerson, her cello, new effects, new pieces.
Bela is a versatile sonic artist with lived experience of neurodivergence. Since 2003, she’s been making improvised and responsive music on acoustic cello, electric cello with effects pedals, voice and environmental sounds. This work has taken her on tours of North America, Europe and the UK, to festivals including Glastonbury; she’s also been commissioned as a solo artist by BBC Radio 3 and had four solo releases.
In 2023 Bela was selected for a prestigious 12-month Arts Council England-funded Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award, focusing on creative sustainability and explored through movement, embodiment, listening, and sound, with Contact Improvisation (CI) and other movement practitioners.
Bela had three artist residencies in 2024/25: Fabrica (Brighton), Positive Ambisonics (Tayvallich), Anita’s Room (Brighton Dome).
Following these residencies, Bela is currently recording, and presenting new – written – work live: a new and exciting process for a performer whose acclaimed solo work has previously almost exclusively been based in improvisation.
belaemerson.com/artistic-work/

Morwell: Warped storytelling built from glitchy audio collage and low-end pressure Releasing disorienting electronic music from the North East since 2018, Morwell has been featured on BBC 6 Music, NTS, Rinse FM, and even Radio 1. His live show explores the dark, immersive psychedelia of his new label Spiritual Transmissions. Spoken word collages culled from late-night YouTube sessions and archival interviews sit on shapeshifting blends of IDM, shoegaze, free jazz, and club music informed by UK soundsystem traditions and the hardcore continuum.
morwell.net

BENNU is Mohammed Ashraf (Pie Are Squared) and Ahmed Abdelaziz (PYLON&ON&ON, ZIZO), Egyptian producers based in Italy and the UK respectively.
The ancient Egyptian god of pre & post existence, Atum, takes many aspects. The Bennu bird, the Grey Heron, is one aspect of Atum; its cry is the first sound in existence. Bennu is also an asteroid the size of the empire state building, on course to potentially hit earth in just over a hundred years and cause a mass extinction event to terran life. TABANGO, BENNU’s debut EP, sounds like the latter.
thisisbennu.bandcamp.com/album/tabango
piearesquared.bandcamp.com/album/plstc
zizo.bandcamp.com/album/i-feel-you

Live visuals by Meljoann

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 6th November 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

New release on the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label – 2025: Capture the Moment

The new release on the Spirit of Gravity Bandcamp label is an exciting new compilation featuring a variety of vital and interesting works of experimental and electronic music.
In April 2025, a call was circulated for submissions on the broad theme “2025: Capture the moment”. The call was answered by members of the Spirit of Gravity collective, their close associates, and others from the wider experimental / electronic artist community, who all provided unreleased tracks created specifically for this release.

The artists have interpreted the brief variously as an opportunity to capture moments of their own experience and to react to world events – or sometimes a mixture of the two.
Featured artists: Alien Alarms, Rashamon, Frixon Klatt, Spheress, King Dong Quixote, J. G. Ould, Secret Nuclear, I’m Dr Buoyant, Shimmerglisten, Automouse, Urzla, McCloud+1, Screaming Alice, Tigersonic, Warped Love Group, Memory Noise, Rackets, Ascoms and Aunty Morbid

The album can be streamed or downloaded from today at: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/2025-capture-the-moment

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 26th October – 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th October 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour on this month’s show features two new albums from artists who were there at the dawn of the Spirit of Gravity; Multiplex and Rashamon. We also have tracks from a new compilation, “Abstrakce Sample II”. In the second hour we present the final episode from the Omnisitional Cultures Research Unit. Omnistitions #6: Transmissions From a Place to Come blends and reworks material taken from 36 hours of audio recorded over the course of the 6 month Gravity Waves… residency. As a culmination of the OCRU project, the piece combines and transforms various performances, research activities and experiments by the OCRU as they attempt to build a sonic portal toward an unbounded future.
First hour: Multiplex – Citra21 / Multiplex – Ache 1.5 / Multiplex – The long Way Ohm / Rashamon – Amarillo Sines / Rashamon – Femme Rêvée / Rashamon – Polaris / Emra Grid – Mente / Against Interpretation – 3 .3 / Cristov – Smart Telekinese / Hari Sima & Mínim – Tartessos
Second hour: Omnistitions #6: Transmissions From a Place to Come

The September edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
extra.resonance.fm/episodes/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-omnistitions-transmissions-from-the-rehearsal-room-2025-09-28
This show features new releases by Evey, Nicola Woodham and Natty Purbrick, a live track from Animal Machine, tracks from a compilation by Australian electronica collective Clan Analogue, ‘Sublime Wavelengths The Cosmic Bliss of FM Synthesis’, plus the penultimate transmission from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit (OCRU), Transmission from the Rehearsal Room.

Thursday 2nd October at the Rossi Bar: Rashamon / Perry Frank / Automouse

Rashamon: Presenting an indulgence of winsome strings & synths from This Morbid Age
Perry Frank: Guitar and synth loop soundscapes, creating imaginary and dreamlike textures
Automouse: Cyclopean Noise Rave-ups!

Formed in 2002 with a deliberate misspelling of the Kurosawa film, Rashamon favours skewed melodic, glitched pop with hip hop and post rock leanings. Has been an on/off act at Spirit of Gravity in Brighton, once got played on Radio 1, had a nice review in the Wire and has some proper releases on all manner of streaming services. Latest stuff to be found at Bandcamp
rashamon.bandcamp.com/

PERRY FRANK is a one man band project of Ambient, Post-Rock and Acoustic Music from Sardinia.
The unique sound of Perry Frank is based on guitar and synth loop soundscapes that create imaginary and dreamy textures on which arpeggios and melodies move with a timeless and spaceless feeling.
The influences are Basinski, Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, Fennesz, Tycho, Bonobo, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd.
www.perryfrankmusic.com/

Automouse:
All hardware heavy brain massage. Queer beats to squeeze you until you burst.
Crazed raucous hardware rave-ups of reconstructed dancehall that are a massive hit whenever they play for us.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/track/eight-tall-buildings
automouse.bandcamp.com/

Live visuals by Meljoann

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 2nd October 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA