Author: Spirit of Gravity

Thursday 6th July at the Rossi Bar: Új Bála / Sonaura / A New Question

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Új Bála: noise, psychedelia & the fringes of techno
Sonaura: Dreamy drones, crunchy tape loops and found sounds.
A New Question: Twisted sounds; absurdist poetry

Gábor Kovács is a Budapest/Brussels-based musician and visual artist, also an alumni artist of the Shape platform. Active in a number of projects, he works with a wide range of genres and sounds, although his main output is Új Bála. Új Bála merges noise, psychedelia and fringes of techno and summons the rhythmic skeletons of dance music to bring order to his backdrop of mangled synth noises. In the past couple of years Új Bála released on labels such as Plaque, Baba Vanga, Altered States Tapes, Czaszka Rec.,Lost Dogs Entertainment or Dalmata Daniel, performed at festivals like Schiev(Bruxelles), Les Siestes Électroniques(Toulouse), Novas Frequencias(Rio de Janeiro), Rokolectiv(Bucharest), Tauron Nowa Muzyka (Katowice), Pohoda(Trencin), Next Festival(Bratislava), Uh Fest(Budapest) and played in clubs and DIY spaces all across Europe with his live act.

Sonaura – dreamy drones, crunchy tape loops and found sounds from Kent.
www.instagram.com/sonauramusic/
sonaura.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/user/sonauratube

A New Question is a solo project that takes organic sounds and twists them electronically, interwoven with absurdist poetry and cut-up monologue to create moments that attempt to communicate something that neither sound design or poetry can quite capture alone
anewquestion.bandcamp.com/music

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

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 6th July 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 25th June – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 25th June 2023 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Details to follow

The May 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-may-2023-28th-may-2023/
This edition features an edit from Linden Pomeroy’s 5 hour long live improvisation in aid of the Men Walk Talk charity for men’s mental health featuring Spirit of Gravity member, McCloud, along with an airing of Eliane Radigue‘s drone masterpiece Triptych.
For more info and to contribute: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/thepathiknow / menwalktalk.co.uk/learn-more

Thursday 1st June at the Rossi Bar: f.Ampism / Yiskāh / Dale Frost

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f.Ampism: Immersive improvised synth & sample gloop
Yiskāh: Drones & field recordings; generative & interactive natural environments
Dale Frost: Drums and Synthesiser; exploring rhythm through process

Paul Wilson has been playing around with sound for 20 years. As f.Ampism he has released albums on Ikuisuus, Lal Lal Lal, Chocolate Monk, Giant Tank and more. He is currently working on an album for Brighton-based Hive MInd. He contributed to the 2018 Kemialliset Ystavat LP “Siipe Empii” and is currently putting the finishing touches to a collaborative duo with Jan Anderzen (Kaloja) and a trio collaboration with Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin).
Also in 2018 he attended a 5 day immersive workshop/retreat in the French Pyrenees with ambient legend Laraaji. This included body and breath work as well as deep listening and sonic experimentation. He hosts a monthly radio show, “The Infinite Inward” on Resonance Extra, currently in its 5th year.

 Yiskāh is the performance alias of Jessica Beechey, a Cornish sound artist, performer, sound designer and live sound engineer based between London and Cornwall. A Falmouth University BA(Hons) Creative Music Technology graduate, she is currently in her final year of MMus Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Working primarily as a Sound Artist, she performs and produces works within the realm of drone music, using field recordings and interactive & generative means of creation to explore natural environments.

 Dale Frost is a drummer and electronic musician who performs solo using an acoustic drum kit connected to a sampler and loop pedal, allowing him to create loops and layer sounds in real-time. His previous work has explored networked, interconnected rhythms, as in his ‘Perm Octo Clavè Induction Set’ project.
Currently, Frost is exploring the use of audio sampling and resampling to generate polyrhythms in his solo drum kit performances. His music uses a blend of organic and synthetic sounds, drawing influences from minimalism, post-rock, IDM, and free jazz.

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

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 1st June 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 28th May – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 28th May 2023 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

1st hour: Recently, Linden Pomeroy led a 5 hour long live improvisation in aid of the Men Walk Talk charity for men’s mental health. This is an edit of a contribution by McCloud, a pointedly minimal and repetitive radio piece, featuring Linden Pomeroy on guitar, Kev Nickells on guitar, Jamie Bowden on piano, Steve Peckon  saxophone and McCloud on synthesiser.
Please contribute: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/thepathiknow / menwalktalk.co.uk/learn-more
2nd hour: An Eliane Radique special.

The April 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-april-2023-23rdapril-2023/
For the first hour, in preparation for the upcoming AI release by Alien Alarms, Jim has lovingly prepared a mix of computer music from the deep past to the current day. The second hour features 3 tracks from Map 71 prior to the launch of their new album “Blood Fruit”. We also have new music from Jo Thomas, Ascsoms and Edgar Hansa.