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Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Thursday 23rd February 8.00 to 10.00pm

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Spirit of Gravity

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Thursday 23rd February from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

Gravity Waves

The first hour will be dedicated to the various sonic works made by the enigma that is Mr Chriddof. For years he has been making surreal and fantastic YouTube videos that blend infantile toilet humour, deep knowledge of historical avant-garde film, DIY software processing accidents and extensive use of 80’s and 90’s British television broadcast archives. Here we present a mix of ripped soundtracks and purely musical Chriddof endeavours. It all adds up to a truly strange and captivating body of work. Mr Chriddof, we salute you!

@chriddof
chriddof.nfshost.com/
www.youtube.com/user/fizzymilk1989

The second hour is our usual line up of the very best experimental music and sonic exploration from the exotic, parallel universe, that is the Spirit of Gravity.

The Spirit World
Kris T Reeder – Shattered Truths
Benjamin Finger – Whirlbrainpoolin
Spheress – Mixed at Midnight
Oryk and Mystero – Electricity (Part 2 Drain)
Wagstaff – Track 1 from Funkencomputer
Paul Kendall – It’s OK
Proprio – Columbo
The Music of Benares meet The Spirit of Gravity – Wasp Tabla Sitar take 6
Stereocilia – Still Breeze
The Gross Consumer – Haircut

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.

2nd February at the Green Door Store: Slow Listener / PSK / D503

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Spirit of Gravity

Rasping tones and full strength drones from Brighton and beyond

Slow Listener
Robin Dickinson blends a sensitive ear for decomposing drones (think an atonal William Basinski) with a keen understanding of musique concrète and noise. Recently he’s been moving away from grubbed up field recordings and tapes into more synthetic, tonal areas.

PSK
Kev Hough, Steve Psylon and Rock Sizemore: An ill judged Surrealist Electronica from three towering figures of the Worthing underground.
www.facebook.com/PSKband

D503
An Italian duo based in London: Francesco Garau, manipulated guitars, and Nicola Serra, bass synth and rhythmic. Their music aims to explore dark, cold and abstract territories under the umbrella of a variety of genres such as drone, industrial, techno and ambient, by using primitive, minimal and repetitive sounds.
d503.bandcamp.com/

Thursday 2nd February 2017 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

COMING SOON
The Spirit of Gravity at the Green Door Store Thursday 2nd March: Clive Henry / Feed Back Cell / Gagarin

The latest release on the Spirit of Gravity label documents a beautiful and unique live collaboration
between the traditional Indian instrumentalists of The Music of Benares and the electronic
soundmakers of The Spirit of Gravity.

The album is available for audition and as a pay-what-you want download on the label’s page:
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-benares-in-brighton

On 8 November 2015, sitarists Pandit Shivnath Mishra and Deobrat Mishra, together with tabla player Prashant Mishra – three generations of the same family from Benares, northern India – played a sold-out concert at the Dome studio. Two fusion pieces – performed that evening with the Spirit of Gravity collective’s Geoff Reader, Andrew Greaves and Howard Spencer – are presented on this album, along with four improvisations from a session at Bird Studios the previous day.

The Mishras tour Europe every year but had never previously visited the UK. The collaboration was facilitated by Spirit of Gravity Life President Chris Cook, and the resulting intertwining of subtle synth drones and wash was recorded and filmed by collective members Dan Powell and by Sarah Nelson at the Dome.

“It was great opportunity to perform for the first time in the UK in 2015 – we had some great memories of performing with local musicians and having great cultural exchange with the music” says Deobrat Mishra.

Stormy all round

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Spirit of Gravity

January 2017
Green Door Store

Meshmass

Meshmass

Starting early we had Meshmass, Peter Picket on the uncomfy chair to the right with laptop, saxophone and effects, Richard Miles to the left with a normal sized guitar (this time) that still looks small on his lanky frame. They start so early because they like to warm up slowly, some ride pattern tapping, a slur of guitar and smoky sax tones setting a misleading mood, as the guitar slowly drifts in wayward taps and wanders off to one side. The second piece starts with Richard building tonal loops of sustain, with a rattley snare loop, xylophone plonks, thickening up with some textures and e-bow, synth and long sax notes. It breaks down a couple of times before peter starts hammering the sax with a pretty serious blart. And that’s pretty much how it continues, a loop or two, a layer of rhythm some misdirection and some disruption. They’ve played at SoG a few times now, but I think this was the most satisfying performance. The pair working well at the layers.

The Zero Map

The Zero Map

Second up was the Zero Map, us, like everyone else getting a piece of them while the getting is good. They have the full trestle on the go, Chloe sat behind the (bass) guitar for once – it being flat on the table ready to be bowed, they start with field recordings, blown shell drones, chimes. Karl lightly thrums a mandolin; Chloe sings through cave-ish echo. She makes other more disturbing sounds with her voice, too. A thumb piano loop plicks in the background as waves of voice and bowed bass wash back and forth. Someone introduces the voice from the Red Room and things start to get a bit darker. The sound thickens and the volume increases. At the same time the film – 5 year’s worth of short clips from Chloe’s outtakes from what looks like half a dozen different cameras starts to get a bit scarier. Distortion. Wailing. Some feedback. A train. A hoover. Harsh Noise. And out into radio static.

Scrase

Scrase

Last up and in the dark is Scrase, there are folk travelled up from Portsmouth to see him. They’ll need good eyesight – Ha! Can hear him plenty though. This is a laptop set, generative processing and completely tonal. So abstract its hard to describe, its the kind of thing that would normally be expected to be cold and distant, but this is warm, and immediate and oddly thrilling. Um, things change abruptly, algorithmically I suspect, sometimes slurring, sometimes loud, sometimes quiet. Things switch back and forth as if controlled by an old style squarewave LFO. There sa bit that reminds me of EVOLS clanger conversation set back at the Komedia, but then it drifts off into moogy space territory. Some passages are dense with incident, some sparse and rather lovely. Constant motion. I’m going to give up now. Proper artistic endeavour. And I loved it.

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Thursday 26th January 8.00 to 10.00pm

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Spirit of Gravity

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Thursday 26th January from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM – please note the change of day.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

This edition includes another piece of Spirit of Gravity-themed radio art, a composition from Daniel MacKenzie, then in the second hour another prime selection from SoG friends and fellow travellers.

Gravity Waves
The first hour this month begins with the second in a series of sound journeys around the letters SOG. This month we walked SOG around Brighton Pier. Next up is Daniel MacKenzie with a piece composed for the Dear Serge presents: Sonic Rebellion Now event at 2 Temple Place, London on 15th March, 5pm to 9pm. Daniel will be performing the piece live and there will also be live performances from Ewa Justka and Audrey Chen.

The Spirit World
Verity Spott – It Pulls Them Down
Spheress – Mixed at Midnight
Olivia Louvel – Pinkie 1547
4thirtythree – The Gamblers Prayer
Ecka Liena – Post Altitude
Alphabets heaven – Amin
Monster Bobby – Bedtime Baby
Roshi featuring Pars Radio – Aziz Joon
Der Plan – Hohe kante
Monster Bobby – A Bureaucracy of Angels

The last show, which went out on Saturday 24th November, is online to stream at:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-24th-november-2016/

This edition includes an hour long piece of Spirit of Gravity-themed radio art, ‘SOG Underscore’ by Caleb Madden and Geoff Reader, plus tracks from some of the best acts that have recently played live at the Spirit of Gravity’s live shows, Geoff’s special radio version of “I Am Sitting in a Room” and a collage of live extracts from the Spirit of Gravity / SafeHouse / Beatabet Oxjam event at the Rosehill Tavern on 15th October.