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3rd May at the Green Door Store: Johanna Bramli / Ned Rush / Binnsclagg

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Johanna Bramli
Manipulated vocals, electronics, drone, found sounds

Johanna blends found sounds, drones, DIY noise devices, and harmonised vocals to create melodic, dreamy yet haunting soundscapes. She is one half of motorik pop band Fröst and is interested in exploring the gap between experimental noise and pop. In her solo work, she attempts to bring elements of melodic and pop structures to experimental sounds and textures.
freq.org.uk/reviews/johanna-bramli-spirals-ep/

Ned Rush
Improvised electro acoustics, musique concrete, breakcore & noise

Ned Rush (aka rude_NHS) is a musician, producer, developer and broadcaster. Live shows are a mixed bag of djing/deconstructing tracks from his commercial releases and improvising with electro acoustics, musique concrete, breakcore and noise in Ableton and Eurorack modular as well as tweaking around with a custom video synth made in MaxMSP. Ideas, riffs and sounds evolve or devolve in and out of the familiar and unusual.
rudenhs.bandcamp.com/

Binnsclagg
Harsh Word Walls, spoken noise

Binnsclagg is the noise project of poets Verity Spott and Karl M V Waugh. They use found words, found sound and fuse them with their own work for singular performances that have included taking power tools to tables and always involve making a mess.

Thursday 3rd May 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

Out the corner of your eye

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

March 2018
Green Door Store

Operationz

Operationz

101, shortly joined by repetitive drum machine and a thick distorted electric guitar. Without sounding like Wire this reminds me of Wire, there is a real dynamic thrust to it. After around 5 minutes he winds down the guitar and the drone gets a nasty edge to it before it drops out to just the SH101 sequencing away, and then it kicks off again. And winds down again to a different harsh drone. A couple of times he kicks off some tasty NDW bass lines but seems convinced that this isn’t the done thing here and cuts them off before they take over. There’s some really nice layering of feedback into the drones at a couple of points too.

Dolly Dollycore

Dolly Dollycore

Dolly Dollycore is set up on an oil drum table to one side of the stage; Shakers in real life and from the laptop. Starts reading a poem, that has occasional interludes for a shake of a shaker or an odd rattle. The gong she didn’t bring tonight comes from the laptop with swimming pool voice-verb, and she dips back into the words. The soundtrack develops into odd a/rhythmic scrapes, and she gives a flexatone flourish. She goes on to a new work in progress on Kesh who had died a few days before, very personal and moving, the room is silent and you can hear the emotion in everyone. I don’t expect to weep at SoG. The backing moves onto ducks on water and she gets back into the Magic Words. The next piece has odd scraped resonant strings and improv percussion parts, unlooped. unjointed. Reflecting the stagger of her spoken lines. And there is a disco ending, where she does dance. The last poem which seems to be about a childhood in Africa has a steady drum beaten, with scrapey violin lines and chain rattles layered up in fine array that just stop. That just leave the voice to carry the message. It ends with Dolly dancing to ELO.

Eub-Astra

Eub-Astra

Eub Astra have a long trestle table in front of the stage strewn with things electrical and acoustical, a string of coloured patio lights strung out over it that come and go as they command, enforcing changes starting with an accordion wheezy pulse put into someone’s looper, against a shimmery drone, there is a certain amount of messing about with it, before the lights change and we move on. Some scrape and light space noise, more string scrape and metal crash this section has a modern electronic shine hovering around the improv stammer. Some cornet parp. Some spooky sweep of an accordion in a haunted alley of broken neon. Cornet breath sweeps odd organ notes in front of it. It gets darker and more psychedelic before morphing into a balloon solo over an earth loop hum that again morphs into a beautiful cornet line over a thin unpleasant unviolin scratch (what was that thing I don’t remember).

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 10th April 10.00pm to 12.00

Posted on April 10, 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 10th April from 10.00pm to 12.00 on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

A set of live recordings from the launch party for Brighton’s new Peripheral visionaries festival. This is a bit of an outlier, some sound art from the Antivoid Alliance, spoken word from A number of local poetry nights, spoken unwords from Dyian Nyoukis and Duncan Harrison, sounds and words from Kayfabe and Vapour Vox.

Running Order:
Joe Bunn
Dylan Nyoukis & Duncan Harrison
Vapour Vox
Peripheral Visionaries showcase
Kayfabe
Antivoid Alliance Installation
Vapour Vox (again)

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 March 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-march-2018/

This month featured a suitably random and murky sonic collage – featuring all the artists who performed at the Splitting the Atom all-dayer, Feb 2018, with: nil by nose, Burial (not THAT Burial), Antivoid Alliance, Durrant/Maquire, Onin, Ja Sputnik, Operationz, Simon Crab, Errant Monks. The latter part of the show is taken by Daniel Jones with his new extended piece: 210317

5th April at the Green Door Store: Map71 / Andrew Greaves / Innixi Fix

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Map71
Words and Drums and Electronics

Lisa jayne and Andy Pyne will be previewing their new album.
www.facebook.com/map71brighton
map71.bandcamp.com/

Andrew Greaves
minimalist organ & percussion

Will be playing his new album “Entartete” with Cojon player Gerald Eyton-Jones.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/octabeast

Innixi Fix
Guitar and electronic drones

Will be playing their first show as a trio.
vimeo.com/238305210

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

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 13th March 10.00pm to 12.00

Posted on March 1, 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 13th March from 10.00pm to 12.00 on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

This month we have a suitably random and murky sonic collage – featuring all the artists who performed at the Splitting the Atom all-dayer, Feb 2018, with: nil by nose, Burial (not THAT Burial), Antivoid Alliance, Durrant/Maquire, Onin, Ja Sputnik, Operationz, Simon Crab, Errant Monks. The latter part of the show is taken by Daniel Jones with his new extended piece: 210317

The February edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is now available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-13th-of-february-2018/

This month featured Dan Powell’s recent Cronica release “At Cuckmere” in full, plus tracks by Antivoid Alliance, Same Actor, Futuro de Hierro and F.Ampism.

1st March at the Green Door Store: Dolly Dollycore / Ultraterrestrials / Eub-Astra

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

Dolly Dollycore
Poetry meets soundscape, movement & ritual

Dolly Dollycore is working on a poetry meets soundscape, movement and other forms ritual exploring intensities of what it can be to love places. Starting at the location of my personal story with South Africa and Zimbabwe, where my parents are from, as well as being a child of immigrants in this country, it delves deep into both real and imaginary spaces, otherworlds, layers of movement, the interruptions, patterns, and horror shadows left by colonialism, spirits, stories and nothingness. The complexities, attachments, disconnections, breaks, knots, care, transcendence. What responsibilities do our ancestors leave us with? What is belonging? What is this feeling? What is ‘home’?
It is an active piece of exploration and magic in development.

Ultraterrestrials
A trio: transmissions shouting in from the ethers (Chemlab, Himmel, Meshmass)

Ultraterrestrials is locust shrill and fly huzz, child shout and the distant huss of cars out on the highway, riot sirens howling as warm Russian transistor tubes capture glowing waves of burbling broadcast voices, transmissions shouting in from the ethers, kettle whistle cycles up to static-scream, telephones, opera house, favorite melody, a single backwards masking kiss, orgasmic screaming moan to cheek-slap and a gunshot. I hear the rhythm of drums.
Ultraterrestrials:
Richard Miles – Meshmass, Himmel.
Tom Mugridge – Himmel
Jared Louche – Chemlab, Prude

Eub-Astra
Musical signalling from A and Z via patio lighting

Z*qhygoem & Alistair Strachan use instruments, lights and electrical devices to make sounds. They both have a long history of making music, Al in particular has played with 3 of your 5 favourite local acts. Possibly all of them.

Thursday 1st March 2018 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

It’s supposed to go the other way!

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Spirit of Gravity

February 2018
Green Door Store

LeCabLe

LeCabLe

So LeCabLe are set up at the back, they have a long trestle table full to overflowing with gear, a couple of synthesisers, a pedal steel, big old cassette player 4 track thing, pedal steel guitar and more delay pedals than you can shake several sticks at. So Daniel Dickel gets us started with a slow Carpenter synth booming across the room while Paul does indeed get to shake his sticks at the steel guitar. After this unfolds for a while we get another sequence stepping a bit more lightly across the room while Paul layers thin ambiences through it, the occasional thunder roll, or thin digital squeal, or one of the delays bounces something around. The cassette slowly washes this out while Paul works on some more improvvy sounding clicks and scrapes and the synths get muddled up in there, sloshing and whishing about. They end up on some fast detuned bubbling sequence that reminds me of that track on Dark Side of the Moon, with some voices and that’s it.

Blister Pack

Blister Pack

Blister Pack are reduced to a two piece as drummer Graham has cracked some ribs, so in front of a slideshow of him, they have their synths racked up. They start loud as hell with a blast of HNW, full throttle that does briefly manage to get even louder. There are some subtleties in there but by and large it manages to alienate a number of folk straight off to the bar. After a few minutes this unpleasantness eases off into a pretty tonal modulating wall of synth which clears slowly before a beat emerges from the gloom. Which in turn winds down to a synth pattern, radio noises, odd sounds, electronic hums and finally whispers out. In many ways it’s a completely reversed set starting as it does with the climax, but it’s an interesting idea and the second half of their set is certainly the most interesting with some nice exposed circuit boards being jabbed with sweaty fingers and right peculiar sounds and devices being moved around.

Jo Thomas

Jo Thomas

Jo Thomas finishes off the evening, she has a rolling distorted film, that may be a loop or the view out of a bus window in the country. She has on her table a clear box electronic noise machine that occupies her attention for the first half of her set, big old fashioned rotary knobs on the top, while she croaks into a head mic. The machine buzzes, modulates, glitches digital ducks and clanks at us. There are pretty evil low beating bumps and reckless alien swoops. It gets into a gabba pumping beat interspersed with some tones that get right into my tinnitus, before it swoops away somewhere else. There are some empty lumpy rhythms, and machine scrapers, with steam driven motors. For the final section she brings her laptop on, which provides some extra-dimensional qualities. Odd boops, and digitally frayed elements, which morph into shimmered digital sheets of rotary saw atmospherics, organ train specialities and finally a massive drone off between the different layers.