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Thursday 4th December at the Rossi Bar: Chase Coley & Henry Collins / Meljoann / Luuma

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Henry Collins & Chase Coley / Hyacinth Bucket and the Magical Testicles Filled with Thousands of Bumble Bees and the Essence of Creation
Meljoann: Deconstructed R&B beats
Luuma: Feedback systems & DIY instruments

Henry Oolli Collins: Nothing I can write will prepare you for what Henry Collins is going to do. A sound artist operating always at the limits of music, although he’s most famous for hist frenzied Shitmat alter ego, he’s also produced considered electronica, free improv rummaging, an album of the Sound of Music without music, and who could forget the exercise bike hurdy-gurdy. Look at these but do not consider them to be useful in working out what the performance will be like.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-sound
henryliamcollins.wordpress.com/”

Chase Coley is an experimental sound artist and natural science educator. Chases’s instrument-making practice is a point of departure that interrogates the choreography of movements, actions and intentions, to produce new acoustic instruments, he will joined with fellow sound artist Henry Collins
www.chasecoley.com

‘Hyacinth Bucket And The Magical Testicle Filled With Thousands Of Bumble Bees and the Essence of Creation’ is also Henry Oooli Collins and Chase Coley

Something slightly different from the head of our Gravitons live streaming organiser; Meljoann puts aside her usual high concept performances for something special just for us.
meljoann.com

Luuma will be be summoning homemade instruments into life to render a live remix of his recent release Ffroeds (on Flaming Pines). Created with DIY electronics, unruly string instruments, self-modulating analogue synths, erratic machine learning models and esoteric sound synthesis, Ffroeds is a series of experiments into the (edge of) chaotic world of musical feedback systems.
luuma.net/pages/listen/
flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/ffroeds

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 4th December 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 23rd November – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 23rd November 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour this month 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.
The second hour has long form works from our own collective member Remember Glaciers and, from Japan, a favourite of ours, Kina:Suttsu.
We may be the last generation who can remember Glaciers.

1st Hour: Gravity Waves
Sophie Sirota – I see / Sophie Sirota – Glitch / Dave Poole – Solstician Drone / John Gallen UY Scoti / Gagarin – Cingulum / Pie Are Squared – Plasdronal / Pie Are Squared –Propel / Siesmic Hum – Dentgist
2nd hour: The Spirit World
Kina: Suttsu – ex.meta halations / Remember Glaciers – Ice Core (Rhone Glacier 2009 and 2024)

The October 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-omnistitions-transmissions-from-a-place-to-come-2025-10-26
This show features two new albums from artists who were there at the dawn of the Spirit of Gravity; Multiplex and Rashamon. We also have tracks from a new compilation, “Abstrakce Sample II”, plus the final episode from the Omnisitional Cultures Research Unit.

New release on the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label – Wilde Volk: Rites and Reverberations

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The latest Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label release is WILDE VOLK: RITES AND REVERBERATIONS.

For over eight years, Suzanne Rolfe, Melita Dennett and Kerry Boettcher have journeyed deep into the heart of Europe’s masked esoteric festivals – from the devilish Krampus parades and primordial Kramperl/ Buttnmandle of Germany, to the horned Perchten of Austria, the vibrant Kurkeri masquerades of Bulgaria, and the animistic Bear dances of Romania. Their travels, documented through photography, writing and field recordings, culminated in the immersive Wilde Volk installation at Rottingdean Windmill, on the cliffs just to the east of Brighton, in July 2025.

To conjure the aural spirit of these rites, artists from the Spirit of Gravity Collective and their associates were invited to reinterpret the raw field recordings. The result is a mesmerising soundscape of analogue textures and elemental rhythms, resonating through the photographs, sculptures and artworks of Wilde Volk, and inviting the audience to cross the threshold into another world.

Stream or download (£10) here: https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/wilde-volk-rites-and-reverberations

Thursday 6th November at the Rossi Bar: The Belarina Experiment / Morwell / Bennu

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The Belarina Experiment: Bela Emerson, her cello, new effects, new pieces
Morwell: Sci-fi rave and soundsystem pressure
Bennu: Egyptian noise via Italy

The Belarina Experiment: Bela Emerson, her cello, new effects, new pieces.
Bela is a versatile sonic artist with lived experience of neurodivergence. Since 2003, she’s been making improvised and responsive music on acoustic cello, electric cello with effects pedals, voice and environmental sounds. This work has taken her on tours of North America, Europe and the UK, to festivals including Glastonbury; she’s also been commissioned as a solo artist by BBC Radio 3 and had four solo releases.
In 2023 Bela was selected for a prestigious 12-month Arts Council England-funded Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award, focusing on creative sustainability and explored through movement, embodiment, listening, and sound, with Contact Improvisation (CI) and other movement practitioners.
Bela had three artist residencies in 2024/25: Fabrica (Brighton), Positive Ambisonics (Tayvallich), Anita’s Room (Brighton Dome).
Following these residencies, Bela is currently recording, and presenting new – written – work live: a new and exciting process for a performer whose acclaimed solo work has previously almost exclusively been based in improvisation.
belaemerson.com/artistic-work/

Morwell: Warped storytelling built from glitchy audio collage and low-end pressure Releasing disorienting electronic music from the North East since 2018, Morwell has been featured on BBC 6 Music, NTS, Rinse FM, and even Radio 1. His live show explores the dark, immersive psychedelia of his new label Spiritual Transmissions. Spoken word collages culled from late-night YouTube sessions and archival interviews sit on shapeshifting blends of IDM, shoegaze, free jazz, and club music informed by UK soundsystem traditions and the hardcore continuum.
morwell.net

BENNU is Mohammed Ashraf (Pie Are Squared) and Ahmed Abdelaziz (PYLON&ON&ON, ZIZO), Egyptian producers based in Italy and the UK respectively.
The ancient Egyptian god of pre & post existence, Atum, takes many aspects. The Bennu bird, the Grey Heron, is one aspect of Atum; its cry is the first sound in existence. Bennu is also an asteroid the size of the empire state building, on course to potentially hit earth in just over a hundred years and cause a mass extinction event to terran life. TABANGO, BENNU’s debut EP, sounds like the latter.
thisisbennu.bandcamp.com/album/tabango
piearesquared.bandcamp.com/album/plstc
zizo.bandcamp.com/album/i-feel-you

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 6th November 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA