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Thursday 5th March at the Rossi Bar: Oddfellows Casino / Andrew Greaves / Tam Lin

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Oddfellows Casino: The Cult of Water – Al Strachan, Emma Papper, David Bramwell, Eliza Skelton + the Voice of Alan Moore
Andrew Greaves: Layered analogue soundscapes, warm, dark, fragmented earworms
Tam Lin: Sensitive noise pop

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

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 22nd February – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 22nd February 2026 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This special edition marks the passing of one the original Spirit of Gravity founding members: Steve Gillitt, AKA minimal impact. The first hour contains a helping of top grade experimental audio from around the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective, some choice cuts from recent SoG performers, and a sonic tribute to Minimal Impact. The second hour continues with some essential and unreleased Minimal Impact recordings. Rest in noise Steve.

First hour: Gravity Waves: Spirit of Gravity Quartet – minimal effort (tribute to minimal impact) / Hannya White – Slow My Mind / Ugly Animal – Airlocked  /OSVoS – confiture de parapluie / Jim Howard – Legerwood / Steve’s boutique – Space
Second hour: The Spirit World: Tribute to minimal impact / Steve Gillitt
Minimal impact live at The Hobgoblin September 2004 / Minimal impact live at The RoseHill July 2017 / Minimal Impact Gorgonotic (unreleased private copy)

The January 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-25-year-anniversary-music-to-come-2026-01-25
This first show of the Spirit of Gravity’s 25th year sees us revisiting last year’s Wilde Volk exhibition at Rottingdean windmill, a couple from Zizo’s new E.P. on Patchworks and some tracks from the new compilation from Coastal Electronauts. This month’s show will also be the first in a (probably irregular) series of spotlights on experimental music coming out of various UK cities, starting with Bristol, and the new artist-run platform Music to Come.

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

Steve ‘minimal impact’ Gillitt

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We are extremely saddened to hear of the death this month of one of the founding members of the Spirit of Gravity Collective, Steve minimal impact Gillitt. In some ways he was the beating experimental heart of the Spirit of Gravity, with his single-minded search for the perfect noise, and keen willingness to collaborate, although if you played with him, he nearly always drowned you out with his volume. His 30 or so live performances in the first 15 years or so of our history were all memorably uncompromising, as were his appearances at related nights such as Wrong Music. He gave us the audience participation concept the electrocreche, although unfortunately we cannot fit this in at our current venue at the Rossi Bar, and his sardonic humour and rebellious attitude kept us honest through the years. His last release on our BandCamp label in 2018 was due to be part of a larger project, which we are very sad not to be able to experience, but he has left an archive of unreleased material from over the years, some of which we hope to be able to share with you in due course. We have lost a friend as well as a remarkable artist, so we will be marking Steve’s passing a number of times through our 25th Anniversary year, but this starts with Geoff Cheesemaster’s more comprehensive tribute on our website here: spiritofgravity.com/steve-minimal-impact-gillitt/ 

Thursday 5th February at the Rossi Bar: ChopChop / rhubiqs / Em-

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ChopChop: special electroChopChop set
rhubiqs: experimental electronic & ambient drone
Em-: Hardware and Software modified for a better world

CHOPCHOP’s music snakes round its orator like a slippery thing, cymbals replaced by the clatter of hubcaps on toms, cutlery-jammed guitars – there’s an itchy jazzy vibe to the melodics, fuelled by a fertile imagination full of bruised shapes and punkish angles.

rhubiqs is the solo project of London-based composer and sound designer Tom Squires.
Squires’ music creates a world where Actress meets Kranky, with a side dose of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works for good measure. These are far-reaching electronic and ambient sounds that provide immersive soundscapes for listeners to lose themselves in amidst thought-provoking textures, samples and field recordings.
rhubiqs.com/

Em― presents a live set that revels in the whimsy and ferocity of continuously evolving ideas, with dense synthetic textures, playful glitchy grooves and moments of accelerating chaos. Behind the wheel is musician June Kiff, using her live music ecosystem composed of drum machines and various custom devices, in service of the transformation of nonsense.
emdash.bandcamp.com/
www.junes.website/music/live

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

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

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 25th January 2026 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This first show of the Spirit of Gravity’s 25th year sees us revisiting last year’s Wilde Volk exhibition at Rottingdean windmill, which we soundtracked. We are also playing a couple from Zizo’s new E.P. on Patchworks and to finish some tracks from the new compilation from our friends at Coastal Electronauts.
This month’s show will also be the first in a (probably irregular) series of spotlights on experimental music coming out of various UK cities. To get the ball rolling, the spotlight will be on Bristol, and specifically the output of new artist-run platform Music to Come, with tracks from Dali de Saint Paul; (Content Provider), Kinlaw and Franco Franco, and do you have peace? (Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs).

First hour: R. Dyer – Krampusglocken / Rackets – Bear Dance / Nanonic – Grieswirt Descent / DRASS – The Spell of Frau Perchta / Ring Modulator – Perchten / Ascsoms – Mill Fourteen / Gigi Catrina – Blestem / ZIZO – Da Mesh Zar / ZIZO – El Dayra / Dave Poole – Solstician Drone / Ghostyhed – SIX.
Second hour: Content Provider – This Music / Kinlaw and Franco Franco – Air Loom Gang / do you have peace? – Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs, Track 1 / Content Provider – A Feeling (RS Tangent Heatwave Mix) / Kinlaw and Franco Franco – A Spectre Still Haunting / Content Provider – This Urban Solitude (Monika Badly’s Hostile Architecture Mix) / do you have peace? – Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs, Track 2 / Kinlaw and Franco Franco – Faith Elsewhere (reprise) / do you have peace? – Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs, Track 4 / Content Provider – Walking Home / Content Provider – Sunday Morning

The November edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page (there was no show in December):
extra.resonance.fm/episodes/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-coastal-electronauts-brighton-s-patchworks-2025-11-30
This show features music from the North Kent Coast from the Coastal Electronauts crew, including tracks from Sophie Sirota’s new album, and then from the Sussex coast with some music from Brighton’s Patchworks label, plus long form works from our own collective member Remember Glaciers and, from Japan, a favourite of ours, Kina:Suttsu.

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

Thursday 8th January at the Rossi Bar: Sophie Sirota / Agnes Haus / Remember Glaciers

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Sophie Sirota: Viola: ambient soundscapes & evolving textures
Agnes Haus: Fractured semi-autonomous modular explorations
Remember Glaciers: Improvised guitar, flute & generative synth

Sophie Sirota is a classically trained violist, singer, and composer. With an extensive career spanning across genres, Sophie has collaborated as a session musician, live performer, arranger, and composer with some of the most iconic names in music, including 4-Hero, D’Influence, Gabrielle, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, Paul Weller, Kim Deal, Robert Kirkby, Tindersticks, and visual artists Jeremy Millar and Sadie Hennesey.
Sophie blends her classical training with modern experimental sounds. A member of Coastal Electronauts and the Free Range String Orchestra, she regularly performs in the South East and London. Known for her innovative performances, Sophie creates ambient soundscapes, using looper and effects pedals to craft intricate, evolving textures. These live performances, particularly at electronic events, have garnered attention for their atmospheric depth and emotional resonance.
Her debut album, ‘Pressure Drop’ came out on Oct 24th, and has been reviewed as:
‘….captivating solo work using voice, viola and pedalboard.’ (JA- Electronic Sound)
‘A flame in the dark and a moment in time, as universal as it is deeply personal…’ (Rowan Blair Colver- Sound Read Six)
‘…takes you to big spaces with dreamy skies, all the while with a slight, ominous undertow which adds a certain industrial, urban spice.’ (Tim London- Outside Left)
sophiesirota.bandcamp.com/

Agnes Haus is a Brighton-based non-binary audio-visual artist and composer, creating murky, fractured aural landscapes that revolve around semi-autonomous explorations with modular synthesisers. In 2023 and 2024, respectively, their first two albums, “Sequel’ and ‘Everything Is Resurrection’ were released on the iconic Opal Tapes label – praised for their bleak minimalism and organic spaciousness. The upcoming 3rd album, Inexorable Ascent, is out 5 December 2025 on PenelopeTrappes’ Brighton imprint, Nite Hive. Agnes Haus’ live performances are fully improvisational, purposefully slow and hypnotic, with haunting self-created dystopian cinematics. Along with audio, Agnes Haus is known for their visual work, exploring the dark and the surreal through music videos for artists such as Mogwai, Penelope Trappes, and Microcorps. They have shown their visual work at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Attenborough Centre for the Arts, EarTH, Dark MOFO Festival, Sonica Festival and SXSW.
www.instagram.com/agneshaus_noise
agneshaus.bandcamp.com/

Remember Glaciers: Memories of glaciers echo and fade into glacially slow improvised generative ambient soundscapes joined by live guitar and flute improvisations by Natty Purbrick.
We may be the last generations to remember glaciers: if you have memories of glaciers you would like to share, please get in touch.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/2025-07-13-ice-core-rhone-glacier-2009-and-2024

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

This was an actual birthday

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January 2026
The Rossi Bar

Starting the year – a New Year following yet again another hottest year on record – we have a set by an augmented Remember Glaciers, with Jim with his laptop, but also electric guitar, and live memories narrated by Sophie Cowan and flute by Natty Purbrick. The synthesizer, as is the case with Remember Glaciers unfolds at a very slow rate, exceeding slow arpeggios and washes as befits the subject. The guitar and flute unfurl gently in the spaces around Sophie’s story of her visit to the Franz Josef Glacier on New Zealand’s south island. There is a melancholy, as you would expect from a series of performances based on the premise that we could be the last generation to remember glaciers. Jim and Natty alternate their responses to Sophie, each responding to the last’s playing. It’s really understated, and adds a nice level of detail on top of what is usually so stately in its flow. Sophie pauses speaking for a while and takes on some pre-recorded speech and starts to chop it using the Ableton controller, although its somewhat less frenzied than in others of Jim’s projects. While that is happening Jim and Natty play off each other, gently circling around and around.  Jim plays a little descending line that indicates closure and the piece ends with Jim’s usual request for more memories of glaciers.

Agnes Haus is next up, with a modular setup and their own flickering grey visuals. Starting with a reverb-y collapse into a church organ from a tidy modular setup. There is some creepy reverbed scrape from an untrue cassette player adding a warbling atmosphere, a scatter of harpsichord chimes give us a narrative frame. A slow regular staple double tap gives a rhythm and everything else strips away. The modular syncopates beeps slowly against that. A pinging piano line emerges from the mass of cables. This cycles away quite hypnotically for a while. Stephe picks up an electric mandolin (I believe) and holding it vertically bows in some harsh raspy drones and some blustery bursts of noise, which builds to a crescendo of squalls and racket – a nice buzzing bass-line underpinning it. It dies away to church organ drones again. Slowly against these we get bouncing little piano parts. The church organ fads and everything slows, there is a flapping fan, there’s a fade out while Stephe tries to find the source of the fan, and with a dramatic twist of a pot, kills it, to a burst of laughter from the audience.

And to finish off the evening it’s our friend from The North Kent Coastal Electronauts, Sophie Sirota who had travelled 90 miles through rain and fog. She starts with a nicely melancholic electric viola line set against an insistent buzzing synth bass with a hard square LFO modulating it. After a while she loops part of the viola, and then gets to work against it adding texture, counter melodic lines. As the loops thicken the bassline seems to recede. There’s some whooshing and then she gets down on the floor to get working on the effects units before hitting us with a melodic line over the top and some metallic fuzz soloing. The second piece starts with a single plucked note that sets up a cascading backing synth line. She sings breathily into a deep reverb. Again it’s loading the looper, some tricky work with a delay pedal, some lovely rich tones, some more singing. Some more of that lovely viola line and back to the vocals. We finish off with a song that was written for an Intox Extravaganza, which may or may be called either “F**k it” or “These are the good days”. This one starts with a jabbing riff through loads of delay, some creaking bass bow-work, and some floating creepiness. Over this insistent backing track Sophie sings, and plays viola lines that to me invoked Tuxedomoon’s haunting “Ninotchka”. Full of Eastern European mystery. The song winds out in a savage deconstruction of the jabbing riff and a harsh warbling.