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/

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

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 31st May 2026 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Postponed from Sunday 24th May

This months show is a Colour Out Of Space special, field recordings from around and about the weekend festival, including excerpts from many of the artists involved:

Aaron Dilloway  + Hali Palombo + Billa Ensemble  + Zheng Hao  + Tongue Depressor  + Augusté Vickunaité  Chik White  + Alice Kemp + CIA Debutante  + Chop Shop (USA) + Anna Schimkat & Michael Barthel  + Luciano Maggiore+ Absurd Cosmos Late Nite  + Shakeeb Abu Hamdan  + Hexakaidecagon  + 4046 Group  + Lucia H Chung + John Macedo  + Regan Bowering + Matt Atkins  + Vicky Sparrow  + James Shearman  + Paul Margree  + Zhao Ziyi & Lonny Hoffmann  + Marija Kovačević + Julian Weaver  + Sh!t Creek  + Jo Morrison  + Adam Buffington  + Marc Matter  + Fleshtone Aura  + Rory Salter  + Ypsmael  + Suppwiyah

The March 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-hyena-collective-2026-03-22
In this episode, a special guest takeover by Hyena Collective. It features a stereo radio mix of Bass Superstructure – a recent 10 channel sound installation-performance by the collective, and a sonic response from Dr RAYPOWER inspired by a forthcoming exhibition text titled Hyenic Polyphony.

There was no show in April due to the ResonanceFM Easter Break.

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

Another Spirit of Gravity release has been launched on bandcamp – Satellites by WASPS 

WASPS are Andrew Greaves and Dan Powell, both members of the Spirit of Gravity music collective. ‘Satellites’ is their first release as WASPS. Its three tracks use found objects and understated layering of digital and analogue synths to create atmospheric pieces of great economy and beauty. There is abstraction, fragmentary melodies, and plenty of light, shade, and space.

The germ of the album was sown with successful, largely improvised live collaborations at the Rose Hill and, under the Spirit of Gravity banner, at the Rossi Bar. ‘Satellites’ too was mostly improvised, and was recorded in a single day at ChiffChaff Studios in Brighton in late 2025. The duo then spent the long winter evenings mixing the recordings.

Stream or download (£9) here: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/satellites