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4th October at the Green Door Store: Isnaj Dui / Loftslag / ESP

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Isnaj Dui
Flutes, dulcimers, electronics

Returning to the Spirit of Gravity since her fist show at The Scope a couple of years ago. Standing awkwardly between neo-impressionism and electronica, Isnaj Dui (aka Katie English) conveys a minimal yet captivating sound using flutes, home-made dulcimers and electronics. As a classically trained flautist, English has also studied electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Balinese gamelan and has collaborated with numerous artists from electronica acts to folk bands.

isnajdui.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/isnaj-dui
www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/isnaj-dui/
Interviews
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen_isnaj-dui-tracks
www.attnmagazine.co.uk/features/12869

Loftslag
A new wave of punk no practice no money just noise.

Angle Zero can no longer make it and have been replaced by Loftslag, featuring members of Benen and Jothi.
ninitxjothi.bandcamp.com/releases

ESP
Electronic Sound Pictures

Born from their love of abstract audio, Brighton based duo E.S.P. is a project by Mark Churcher and Adam Wimbush to create Electronic Sound Pictures.
Combining BBC Sound Effects records with field recordings, sonic experiments and noise accidents, E.S.P. are transforming the non-musical audio into immersive sound collages.
Through experimenting with, and juxtaposing sound effects, this duo have become the architects of their own alternative narratives, atmospheres and audio images – limited only by their imaginations!
They make the sounds, you create the pictures.

Thursday 4th October 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 11th September 10.00pm to 12.00

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Tuesday 11th September from 10.00pm to 12.00 on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

Part 2 of the ECT Podcast crew discussing The Xenofeminist Manifesto and the full Spirit of Gravity release: Casiotopia

Resonance Extra is available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world (how to listen). You can also listen online at extra.resonance.fm and directly using this link. Resonance Extra is also available via Radioplayer and TuneIn.

The August 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-tuesday-the-14th-of-august-2018/

This show features a collage of audio from the “Fort Process Dispersion De La Warr Takeover”; from gravity experiments to installations to cosmic jazz to no wave tennis to actual musical content. This is one of the run up events for September’s Fort Process at Newhaven Fort on the 22nd of September. Featuring The Legend of St Winiborde, Ed Briggs, Antivoid Alliance, F.Ampism, Plurals and Bolide

6th September at the Green Door Store: The Braindead Ensemble / rdyer / Zeyn Mroueh

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

This event forms part of Fort Process Dispersion, a season of events surrounding the third Fort Process festival of experimental music and sound art.
www.fortprocess.co.uk

The Braindead Ensemble
Acoustically networked feedback assemblage

Two feedback cellos a feedback bass and a Threnoscope are plugged together to form a multi-instrument, multi-channel system. The feedback cellos and bass are DIY electro-acoustic-digital resonator instruments. Each instrument has pickups under each of its strings and transducers built into the acoustic instrument body, inducing electromagnetically-controlled feedback which can be digitally processed. The classical model of a bowed instrument is inverted: the player no longer controls and excites the strings to produce sound, but negotiates with an ongoing, lively, self-resonating instrument. The threnoscope is a software system created by ixi audio for drones, live coding and microtonal, spatialised composition. All the instruments are networked acoustically: the channels of the threnoscope are diffused to a quadraphonic PA plus the integral speakers of the string instruments.

These feedback processes summon a wide sonic spectrum including airy microtonal micro-melodies, serene yet colourful drones, complex spectral gestures, and vast brutal explosions surfacing gradually or unpredictably into screams. This is an emergent, negotiated form of performance which involves the steering and shaping of evolving, distributed, sonic energies rather than the instigation and exchange of discrete musical ideas. No one is in control, although everyone is playing.

BDE are: Thor Magnusson (Threnoscope), Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris (Feedback bass), Chris Kiefer (Feedback cello) and Alice Eldridge (Feedback cello)

rdyer
keyboards, saw, loops, performance pop

rdyer is interested in junk, outdated technology and recycling, using a loop pedal, musical saw, saxophone, and site-specific recordings to create performance art and pop songs.

Zeyn Mroueh
Lebanese Palestinian Cypriot Post drone

Zeyn Mroueh is a Cypriot-born, Lebanese-Palestinian musician creating industrial soundscapes and experimental noise music.
He composes primarily on the guitar using an array of pedals and samples to distort and manipulate traditional music into atonal sound experiences.
“Pictures of the Floating World mixes maturity and knowledge with raw, ardent youthfulness in an assimilation of Post Rock, Lo Fi, Drone and Noise. It is at once experimental and deliberate, seamlessly blending dissenting voices and robotic vibrations with mellifluous reverbs.”
zeynmroueh.bandcamp.com/

Thursday 6th September 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

An opportunity for reflection

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

August 2018
Green Door Store

I’m Dr Buoyant

I'm Dr Buoyant

So in front of an animation of a method of straightening a spine twisted by scoliosis Tony Rimbaud aka I’m Dr Buoyant wrestles with his dark looping equipment and tries to distract our slightly perturbed eyes. He starts off with a drone of heavy slow machinery drawn up through a long zinc tunnel, occasionally a slow human moan or stellar slope of thin fuzztone guitar emerges and disappears, before the dark wind takes over. Footsteps come up the tunnel, the two tone riff of the guitar comes back with a jetliner friend. The riff filters out into a horrible thin resonant ghost of itself before Godzilla’s vast footsteps stomp in. Some really nicely detailed trebly grained up drones wash through everything from here with some flying saucer pulses that eventually soar off into a delay loop hammershop crunch. And finally we get washed up with a really nice layered drone that degrades well into a locked groove.

Not for the Suffering Type

Not for the Suffering Type

Iain Paxon & Eleanor Campbell, performing as Not for the Suffering Type, set up on the floor in front of the stage on one of the trestle table covered in a range of keyboards and things, Iain having a bass guitar. Eleanor plays a long descending keyboard part into a looper. Iain plays a bass part, and sings. Eleanor punctuates things with odd sounds. A drum part is written into the Volca beats. It’s wonderfully low key and engaging. Eleanor reads from her book. The bass rolls gently, the noises squirrel around them.

Distant Animals (in a forest of signs)

Distant Animals

Distant Animals (in a forest of signs) finish us off for the evening, with a set of 3 or maybe 4 halves… starting at a mic stand in front of the stage Daniel Alexander Hignell is dressed in a rabbit outfit. This goes on for a while then he peels that off and gets into a worn dinner suit. I don’t think he’s said anything during this time. Nor made a sound. He gets onto the stage left and some business goes on with a cassette player. His accomplice at some stage appears at a chalk board. There are projections based on a camera pointing at the blackboard that feeds back into the main screen. An oddly modulated string part emerges from the cassette. And he makes some odd sounds on some things he has on a table a zither I think. At some stage he gets down of the stage and changes into some NDW type cap sleeved t shirt and things get into a bit of a modular stomp. We then get into an odd bit where the groove goes, and we have the acoustic things getting processed going through a tablet, and the cassettes come back. It’s somewhat confusing, definitely entertaining and if I hadn’t almost immediately gone on holiday I’d be able to remember what I thought it was all about…

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 7th August 10.00pm to 12.00

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Tuesday 7th August from 10.00pm to 12.00 on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

This month’s show will feature a collage of audio from the “Fort Process Dispersion De La Warr Takeover”; from gravity experiments to installations to cosmic jazz to no wave tennis to actual musical content. This is one of the run up events for September’s Fort Process at Newhaven Fort on the 22nd of September. Featuring The Legend of St Winiborde, Ed Briggs, Antivoid Alliance, F.Ampism, Plurals and Bolide

The July 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-tuesday-the-10th-of-july-2018/

The show starts with a full live recording of the recent Yunohama Variations performance at De La Warr Pavilion as part of the new Outlands touring programme, featuring 3 improvisational luminaries; multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, SAICOBAB), avant-garde percussionist Susie Ibarra, and artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens). The second half of the show features tracks from around the orbit of the Spirit Of Gravity.

Drugs, cash and crumble

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

July 2018
Green Door Store

Lorraine Bowen

Lorraine Bowen

It’s hard to believe it but this was not only Lorraine Bowen’s first show for The Spirit of Gravity, but the first time she’d played at the Green Door Store. So we were really pleased to finally convince her to come along. She had about three days notice and did us a wonderful turn with several new songs. Kit-wise she had one of her plethora of Casios on stage and ran with a mixture of backing tracks and onboard rhythms from the thing itself perched on her trademark ironing board and homemade sign. She came onstage to her intro tape and set about generally mocking our regular acts before starting into her first song. After that she bought out her Omnichord and set about demonstrating it to us – I’ve seen her a few times and it doesn’t normally make an appearance – before singing a song about Pizza using it. The next song was one of the new ones about the collapse of Poundland with a nicely distorted bass drum, she could barely keep a straight face. The next song was “The ice cream lady” followed by a song that seemed to be about some kind of sexual encounter in Kew Gardens (at least it wasn’t her song about STDs and tropical resorts). And she finished with a messed up version of “The Crumble Song” taking us through the Casio’s capabilities, messing with the EQ, tempo, dubbing it up generally and getting the strobe going playing it with her boobs (definitely a first for SoG) and messing about with the key. Lotsa fun and good, too.

Midi Error

Midi Error

So after being properly trainspotted while setting up his laptop for the second set was from midi error. You’ve never seen such a gathering outside of OSC as there was peering over his shoulder. Starting with a vocal sample and an off-centre keyboard riff that was give form by the addition of percussion before filtering out to be augmented with something raspily detuned that builds into something horrible before a really minimal bit of techno emerges, again to be subverted by something waywardly exciting. Before again dropping down to something minimal with an interesting marimba ish riff cycling away. This one gets blasted by a flying saucer takeoff. The next one is like a bunch of aliens playing 80s arcade games being zapped by their parents for misbehaviour. He finishes on another minimal techno thing that simultaneously feels like a 60 footer is parking up in your mind.

Ultraterrestrials

Ultraterrestrials

So when Ultraterrestrials start it’s Jared’s socks that are the first thing I notice rather than the pink shoes, although the shoes are nice. Then it’s the two microphones. His voice is the next thing that, rich in tone, American, he talks and its convincing even after you realise what he’s saying doesn’t make that much sense, you want it to continue. Tom and Richard slowly raise something droning behind him on e-bowed guitar and electronic things. At some stage you realise that one of the mics goes back into the effects and his voice is coming back at you in indiscernible ways; the songs ends in the yowl of a child of frozen space. The second starts with gating rhythms from the guitar, bass booms, Jared’s muttering, something like Tuxedomoon happens at some point and the rhythm is happening loudly and there is a strobe, but its not rhythmical and somehow matches the mood of Jared’s stage skulk perfectly. The next one is an uneasy quiet thing, unsettling arpeggios and queasily thin chemtrails. Jared sings. The next one leaps in with a raindrop rhythm and vast bass synths and factory noises, they end on another quiet one with Jared falsettoing over a backward piano and the hellish strings of his effected voice disturb us.

2nd August at the Green Door Store: Distant Animals (in a forest of signs) / I’m Dr Buoyant / Not For The Suffering Type

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Distant Animals (in a forest of signs)
Celebrate the launch of their LP

Distant Animals is the artistic output of Daniel Alexander Hignell, a researcher and sound, video and performance artist from South East England. Hignell has developed a practice indebted to political and participatory resonance of creative acts, interrogating notions of autonomy, collaboration, and the tension between sense (what is perceived by the senses) and sense(what is made sensible by the community). He has recorded, written, performed and researched numerous socially-oriented sound works across Europe, often choosing to work with a diverse range of collaborators, including visual artists, choreographers, theologians, lawyers, and political activists.
With this open-ended approach to composition, his new album ‘Lines’ relies on conceptually rich sonic phrases, exploring over its length both the purity of a musical tapestry that amounts to little more than a complexly modulated square wave -often pushing the filters that shape it to near breaking-point -and the rhythmic dissonance of the voice, noise, and distorted bells that erupt violently from it as the work progresses.
Soundcloud: bit.ly/2q8jsyA

I’m Dr Buoyant
The return of dark loops and distortion

Following a test run in November Thee Founder I’m Dr Buoyant returns to his solo performance mode, but exploring a darker aesthetic. Wielding a more dissonant sound palette, his music is now designed to be more intense and unsettling, reflecting a negative response to contemporary existence. Promoting his latest BandCamp release “Dark Looper”, copies of a short run remix CD will also be available on the night.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/dark-looper
soundcloud.com/im-dr-buoyant

Not For The Suffering Type
LoFi electronic pop improvisations

NOT FOR THE SUFFERING TYPE is the pop improvisation duo of Eleanor Callaghan and Iain Paxon. Literary inspiration comes from Eleanor’s teenage diaries, automatic writing and Christian songs from the Sacred Harp song book. Iain plays mostly bass and drum machine, Eleanor plays mostly keyboard.

Thursday 2nd August 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton