Author: Spirit of Gravity

New release on the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label: 25

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The Spirit of Gravity was founded in 2001 by Nick Rilke and Tony Rimbaud, to provide a platform for live experimental electronic music.

Before long it gathered a nucleus of local musicians and was attracting artists from around the world.

As part of the 25th birthday celebrations this year for the Spirit of Gravity, we wanted to release a compilation CD, to expand on the vinyl LP format we used for our 21st, and include artists old and new who we have loved over the years. There are a few missing for various reasons, but we’re very happy with the outcome.

Stream the two sample tracks from Rashamon and Rackets and place your pre-orders for the CD or digital release here: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/25 

Thursday 3rd September at the Rossi Bar: Arconic / Nicola Woodham / f.ampism

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Arconic: Ambient sound with visual stimulation
Nicola Woodham: Voice making through movement; interrupting proceedings
f.ampism: Bringing a meticulous approach to electroacoustic collage

Arconic is the solo project of Rob Parton, an electronic musician and sound artist from London. His work explores sound, space, and time through synthesis, feedback, and field recordings. Blending ambient, acousmatic, and spatial sound practices, he creates immersive live performances that evolve in response to the acoustics of each venue.
Recent work includes performances and presentations through Sound/Image Festival, CRUX AV London, Spatial Audio Gathering and Project DIVFUSE. His practice developed through a Master’s in Music and Sound Design at the University of Greenwich, focuses on spatial composition and live improvisation. His live performances combine looping delays, drones, and evolving textures to invite deep listening and calm reflection.
www.arconicsound.com
www.instagram.com/arconicsound/

Nicola Woodham, who hails from Brighton, started making vocal performances in 2014. Vocal experimentation is her life’s work and is deeply personal. Nicola spends hours in the studio processing her voice and devising sound poetry. What she shares with her audience are finely tuned performances with lots of space for free improvisation. Performing with these methods is a way for Nicola to create estrangement, here between her mouthings and any expectations for her to sound and behave in specific ways due to her gender. Out of this rupture evolves the weird, the other, and the affecting. A rustling creaturedness.
nicolawoodham.bandcamp.com/
www.nicolawoodham.com/
Instagram: @nicola.woodham

f.ampism is paul wilson is f.ampism.
Sound/visual artist based in Brighton,UK.
He also plays in Kaloja; a duo with Jan Anderzén, and Yayoba; a trio with Johannes Schebler and Jani Hirvonen.
Member of Brighton-based gonzo free-jazz fünftet Bolide.
Monthly radio show The Infinite Inward, on Resonance Extra.
When he’s not making stuff, he’s practising/teaching Yoga.
f.ampism.com/

Live visuals by Meljoann

Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster

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 3rd September 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 27th September – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 27th September 2026 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

THERE WILL BE NO SHOW IN AUGUST DUE TO THE RESONANCEFM SUMMER BREAK

The July 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-number-hard-to-place
The first hour features more recordings from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity, including a track recorded around the time we started out featuring “American Jeff” and recorded in his office above our first venue 25 years ago. The second hour is dedicated to ‘Hard to Reach’, an extended piece produced for Gravity Waves by Christopher Simms. ‘Hard to Reach’ is an audio essay about Simms’ experience of growing up in care in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s.

You can also catch up on all the previous shows this year from the Gravity Waves page at spiritofgravity.com/gravity-waves/

Thursday 6th August at the Rossi Bar: Simon Heartfield / Sheraws & Chris Essex / Complaints Department

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Simon Heartfield: Emotive techno/electro
Sheraws & Chris Essex: A musical marriage of bard, beats and beauty
Complaints Department: Experimental noise handles audience complaints

“Simon’s music and visuals are deep, emotive pieces, reminiscent of Chris & Cosey and Coil whilst still showing a crisp contemporary edge” PLEX
Simon Heartfield‘s musical history starts in the 1980s when he formed electronic post punk band Twelve 88 Cartel and was bass player in Psylons and later formed Seatman Separator with former Psylons bandmates Keith Seatman and Jack Packer featuring on both John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 and MTVs 120 Minutes Shows.
He has released on UK labels Werra Foxma, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Wolf Trap, MixTape, On Test, Deca Rhythm, Taro Records plus Domestica (Spain), Machine Records (New Zealand), Low Noise Productions (Canada) and Shady Ridge (US)
Simon has also released several albums and EPs on his own Limbic Production label – these releases covered a wide range of genres from ambient, techno, electro to post-punk and modern-classical receiving play from Deb Grant on BBC 6 Music.
Since making his club DJ debut at the legendary Geushky techno night in Portsmouth in 1995 he has since played alongside some of techno’s finest names including The Orb, System 7, Regis, Mark Broom, Oliver Ho, Truss, Ancient Methods, Darren Price, Billy Nasty, Umek, Actress, Luke Slater and many more and has performed live A/V shows for Plex and Colony at Corsica Studios in London.
He also formed techno live act Total State Machine with former Geushky resident DJ Chris Collins performing live at Icebreaker and Victorious Festivals.
Simon had a monthly show on Seance Radio and has featured guest mixes from The Gasman, DVNT, Stephanie Merchak, Lair, Halina Rice, TVO, Kritzkom, Hence Therefore, Inge K and Dot Product.
He also did a monthly show on Fnoob Techno Radio for two years which had guests including Billy Allen, Kamikaze Space Programme, Hiroaki Iizuka and Manni Dee.
He has also recorded guest mixes for Decoding The Void, Taro Records, Le Catalyste, Recovery Radio Show, A Darker Wave, Bleep43, Murge, Nothing Ventured Vinyl and Det Sync.
In the last two years Simon has been promoting Syncing Not Swimming
live electronic events with guests such Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Kayla Painter, Sulk Rooms, Bunkr and Kieran Mahon and playing live sets across the UK supporting Halina Rice at Oxford 02 Academy and dates in Glasgow, Brighton and Chelmsford.
Music | Simon Heartfield

Sheraws and Chris Essex: A London based duo of spoken word, electronics and live bass guitar. We saw them at Intox Extravaganza and thought they were great.

The Complaints Department will be sending an operative to the Spirit of Gravity event to receive your complaints. On arrival you will be given a complaint card to fill out. Have your complaint ready. Our operative will be entering these into the machine so the data can be processed. Be warned, this process involves some high volume and is not without complications.
The Complaints Department believes that by airing your grievances you can become a more productive human.

Live visuals by Meljoann

Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster

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 August 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

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

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th July 2026 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour features more recordings from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity, including a track recorded around the time we started out featuring “American Jeff” and recorded in his office above our first venue 25 years ago. The second hour is dedicated to ‘Hard to Reach’, an extended piece produced for Gravity Waves by Christopher Simms. ‘Hard to Reach’ is an audio essay about Simms’ experience of growing up in care in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. As a mixed-race child, Simms had to navigate multiple layers of loss, prejudice, and uncertainty while searching for a sense of identity within a care system that often lacked cultural understanding.

1st Hour: Dhangsha – Sacred Rage / Andrew Greaves – Long Ago, Far Away / Disastronaut – Paranoid Disasteroid / Ascsoms – Mill Fourteen / Map71 – The Cobra / Simon Whetham – Channelling track 2 / Marcelo Armani – Sounds Work track four / Mein Host – Going out of my head (edit) / Parz Permilion – A Mass

2nd Hour: Christopher Simms – Hard to Reach

The June 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-june-2026-28-june-2026/
After some irregular shows this month we are catching up with our friends, the second half focusing on longer form tracks. We are also previewing a couple of acts who will be playing for us in July.

You can also catch up on all the previous shows this year from the Gravity Waves page at spiritofgravity.com/gravity-waves/

Saturday 18th July at the Rossi Bar: 25th Birthday All Day Event

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Celebrating a quarter century of wonderful electronic music

Featuring: Dhangsha / Screaming Alice / Inwards / Slow Listener / Melinda Bronstein / Henry Collins / C U L T / Meljoann / The Spirit of Gravity Quartet
And the return of the World Famous electrocreche

Your host for the day: Nick Rilke

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

Saturday 18th July 2026 | 3pm – 10.30pm | £10 (cash only)
Advance tickets from WeGotTickets at wegottickets.com/f/22060
Green Door Store, 2, 3, 4, Trafalgar Arches, Brighton, BN1 4FQ

Thursday 2nd July at the Rossi Bar: Neo Geodesia / Astral Engineering / Paradise Nothing

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Neo Geodesia: Hypnotic melody, Extreme audio processing
Astral Engineering: ambient algorithmic indeterminacy.
Paradise Nothing: creates experimental deconstructed beats, drawing influence from Algerian françarabe

Röntgen Rae is unfortunately no longer able to appear.

Neo Geodesia is the recording name of Saphy Vong (born 1982), an experimental electronic music producer and composer born to Cambodian parents, raised in Nancy, France, and currently based in Brighton, UK. He is known for creating intricate electronic music that is characterised by its emphasis on melody and hypnotic pacing, conceptually stylised structures and extreme use of audio processing techniques.
Early incarnations of Neo Geodesia date back to the mid 2000s when performing under the moniker Lafidki. That project saw him begin using the stylistic forms of electronic and experimental music, combined with the structure and abrasiveness of noise music. He has released on Orange Milk records before founding Chinabot, a collective of Asian artists. In 2021 he released his LP ‘2562 Neon Flames’ on Chinabot, which focused heavily on experimental funeral compositions.
His work has been extensively presented in festivals and venues across the world such as the Tate Modern, Hyperdub night, Pitchfork Festival in London, Act Festival Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Lost Music Festival in Parma, and Unsafe+Sounds Festival in Vienna.

Astral Engineering is an ambient music project employing algorithmic systems and indeterminacy in the production of layered sonic textures. Processed field recordings connect the chaos of the natural and mathematical worlds.

Paradise Nothing (AV performance) creates experimental deconstructed beats, drawing influence from Algerian françarabe

Live visuals by Meljoann

Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster

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 July 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA