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Thursday 5th February at the Rossi Bar: ChopChop / rhubiqs / Em-

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ChopChop: special electroChopChop set
rhubiqs: experimental electronic & ambient drone
Em-: Hardware and Software modified for a better world

CHOPCHOP’s music snakes round its orator like a slippery thing, cymbals replaced by the clatter of hubcaps on toms, cutlery-jammed guitars – there’s an itchy jazzy vibe to the melodics, fuelled by a fertile imagination full of bruised shapes and punkish angles.

rhubiqs is the solo project of London-based composer and sound designer Tom Squires.
Squires’ music creates a world where Actress meets Kranky, with a side dose of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works for good measure. These are far-reaching electronic and ambient sounds that provide immersive soundscapes for listeners to lose themselves in amidst thought-provoking textures, samples and field recordings.
rhubiqs.com/

Em― presents a live set that revels in the whimsy and ferocity of continuously evolving ideas, with dense synthetic textures, playful glitchy grooves and moments of accelerating chaos. Behind the wheel is musician June Kiff, using her live music ecosystem composed of drum machines and various custom devices, in service of the transformation of nonsense.
emdash.bandcamp.com/
www.junes.website/music/live

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 5th February 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 25th January – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 25th January 2026 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This first show of the Spirit of Gravity’s 25th year sees us revisiting last year’s Wilde Volk exhibition at Rottingdean windmill, which we soundtracked. We are also playing a couple from Zizo’s new E.P. on Patchworks and to finish some tracks from the new compilation from our friends at Coastal Electronauts.
This month’s show will also be the first in a (probably irregular) series of spotlights on experimental music coming out of various UK cities. To get the ball rolling, the spotlight will be on Bristol, and specifically the output of new artist-run platform Music to Come, with tracks from Dali de Saint Paul; (Content Provider), Kinlaw and Franco Franco, and do you have peace? (Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs).

First hour: R. Dyer – Krampusglocken / Rackets – Bear Dance / Nanonic – Grieswirt Descent / DRASS – The Spell of Frau Perchta / Ring Modulator – Perchten / Ascsoms – Mill Fourteen / Gigi Catrina – Blestem / ZIZO – Da Mesh Zar / ZIZO – El Dayra / Dave Poole – Solstician Drone / Ghostyhed – SIX.
Second hour: Content Provider – This Music / Kinlaw and Franco Franco – Air Loom Gang / do you have peace? – Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs, Track 1 / Content Provider – A Feeling (RS Tangent Heatwave Mix) / Kinlaw and Franco Franco – A Spectre Still Haunting / Content Provider – This Urban Solitude (Monika Badly’s Hostile Architecture Mix) / do you have peace? – Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs, Track 2 / Kinlaw and Franco Franco – Faith Elsewhere (reprise) / do you have peace? – Teresa Winter, Birthmark, Guest, A.Childs, Track 4 / Content Provider – Walking Home / Content Provider – Sunday Morning

The November edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page (there was no show in December):
extra.resonance.fm/episodes/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-coastal-electronauts-brighton-s-patchworks-2025-11-30
This show 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, plus long form works from our own collective member Remember Glaciers and, from Japan, a favourite of ours, Kina:Suttsu.

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

Thursday 8th January at the Rossi Bar: Sophie Sirota / Agnes Haus / Remember Glaciers

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Sophie Sirota: Viola: ambient soundscapes & evolving textures
Agnes Haus: Fractured semi-autonomous modular explorations
Remember Glaciers: Improvised guitar, flute & generative synth

Sophie Sirota is a classically trained violist, singer, and composer. With an extensive career spanning across genres, Sophie has collaborated as a session musician, live performer, arranger, and composer with some of the most iconic names in music, including 4-Hero, D’Influence, Gabrielle, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, Paul Weller, Kim Deal, Robert Kirkby, Tindersticks, and visual artists Jeremy Millar and Sadie Hennesey.
Sophie blends her classical training with modern experimental sounds. A member of Coastal Electronauts and the Free Range String Orchestra, she regularly performs in the South East and London. Known for her innovative performances, Sophie creates ambient soundscapes, using looper and effects pedals to craft intricate, evolving textures. These live performances, particularly at electronic events, have garnered attention for their atmospheric depth and emotional resonance.
Her debut album, ‘Pressure Drop’ came out on Oct 24th, and has been reviewed as:
‘….captivating solo work using voice, viola and pedalboard.’ (JA- Electronic Sound)
‘A flame in the dark and a moment in time, as universal as it is deeply personal…’ (Rowan Blair Colver- Sound Read Six)
‘…takes you to big spaces with dreamy skies, all the while with a slight, ominous undertow which adds a certain industrial, urban spice.’ (Tim London- Outside Left)
sophiesirota.bandcamp.com/

Agnes Haus is a Brighton-based non-binary audio-visual artist and composer, creating murky, fractured aural landscapes that revolve around semi-autonomous explorations with modular synthesisers. In 2023 and 2024, respectively, their first two albums, “Sequel’ and ‘Everything Is Resurrection’ were released on the iconic Opal Tapes label – praised for their bleak minimalism and organic spaciousness. The upcoming 3rd album, Inexorable Ascent, is out 5 December 2025 on PenelopeTrappes’ Brighton imprint, Nite Hive. Agnes Haus’ live performances are fully improvisational, purposefully slow and hypnotic, with haunting self-created dystopian cinematics. Along with audio, Agnes Haus is known for their visual work, exploring the dark and the surreal through music videos for artists such as Mogwai, Penelope Trappes, and Microcorps. They have shown their visual work at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Attenborough Centre for the Arts, EarTH, Dark MOFO Festival, Sonica Festival and SXSW.
www.instagram.com/agneshaus_noise
agneshaus.bandcamp.com/

Remember Glaciers: Memories of glaciers echo and fade into glacially slow improvised generative ambient soundscapes joined by live guitar and flute improvisations by Natty Purbrick.
We may be the last generations to remember glaciers: if you have memories of glaciers you would like to share, please get in touch.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/2025-07-13-ice-core-rhone-glacier-2009-and-2024

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 8th January 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

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