Category: Archive

Thursday 7th March at the Rossi Bar: Olivia Louvel / [something else] / Automouse

Olivia Louvel: Voice and Electronic Sound Art
[something else]: Sound and Text duo
Automouse: Cyclopean Noisy Rave-ups

Olivia Louvel is an Ivor Novello-award winner composer and artist whose work draws on voice, computer music and digital narrative. Her work is presented in the form of sound recordings, sound art installations, video art and live performances. Her practice is built upon a long-standing exploration of the voice, sung, or spoken, and its manipulation through digital technology as a compositional method.
Louvel often operates at the intersection of creation and documentation. Throughout her extensive research on Barbara Hepworth [also called Hepworth Resounds], she produced ‘The Sculptor Speaks’ (2020) a resounding of a Barbara Hepworth archival tape, which was premiered on Resonance Extra and followed by an audio-visual version presented at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021, and at Towner in 2023. ‘SculptOr’ is a suite of nine pieces based on Hepworth’s writings released as a digipak CD.
For this show, her first in four years, she will be performing a hybrid set.
www.olivialouvel.com/
catwerkimprint.bandcamp.com/

[something’s happening] is the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). The project explores textual and sonic permutation through improvisation. Their first release, an album of single-take live improvisations recorded with a single mic in a practice room, ‘Something Like That’, was released in May 2022 by Sensory Leakage.  Their second release, a recording of a live performance from October 2022 at Cafe Oto was recently released on the venue’s digital label Otoroku.
Otoroku release: www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/somethings-happening-121022/
Something Like That: somethingshappening.bandcamp.com/album/something-like-that

Automouse – improvised lo-fi hardware, with swamps of distortion and really filthy beats. Future refuse reused.
automouse.bandcamp.com

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.

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

If you can’t make it to the Rossi Bar, you can now live stream all of our gigs on our new Owncast platform at stream.gravitons.org/.

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 7th March 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

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

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 25th February 2024 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This month, guest curator Think-Twice presents his latest mix Rascal Arts Volume 1, followed by another high quality selection of sounds from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity

First hour: Think-twice presents Rascal Arts Volume 1
Second hour: Mi Cosa De Resistance – Darling Doom / Daphne X – Non-linear Time Lapse / Evey – Choir for the Wind / Hannya White – Just Yours / Paul Khimasia Morgan – Negative Impacts / Daou – Magnetic Dream II / Marcelo Armani – Wake up After Winter

Rascal Arts Volume 1
Rascal Arts is an approach of cheeky darkness,
of ‘cheeky darkness approaching’
‘wom’, ‘yum’, ‘l’yump’, ‘grolsch’ and ‘Reese’…
oiling lick of flame, oorange warmth of the fire and the smoke
Bitches your skin, tugging at the sides with a crooked smile
Mouth parted at the corner
in an upward tilt

Expect monomutations of excessive depth and pressure
Expect mastard beautations of ailing scrawl
Expect the banana to watch your step instead of you fearing ‘the skidding’

The January 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-sirius-dj-cheesemaster-28th-january-2024/
This month’s show featured a guest mix by Sirius (Katie Mess and Ellis Warren) entitled Mighty Blue. The other hour contains music from around the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity, including MelJoann, Sealionwoman, Tam Lin, Barelife track, Emma Papper and Hannya White.

Thursday 1st February at the Rossi Bar: DRASS / Geraldine Snell / Tam Lin

DRASS: Lynchian sinister electronics meets regrettable landlord punk
Geraldine Snell: Lofi choral sonic soothing
Tam Lin: Industrial noise, quiet ambience & displaced beats

The mysterious & legendary AI figure DRASS makes his live performance debut at The Spirit of Gravity. He has recently been making creepy AV works which can be found on social media and www.shardcore.org/spx/

Geraldine Snell is a multifaceted artist and musician from Keighley, now based in Hebden Bridge (via Edinburgh and London). Her melodic, meditative, mellifluous music makes mesmerized audiences slow down and soften to the precious vulnerability and medicinal potential of creative expression. Her sound is tender, ethereal, and hypnotic, channelling similar vibes as artists ranging from Grouper, Julee Cruise, Laurie Anderson, and Portishead to Tirzah, Cocteau Twins, James Blake, and Beach House. Inspired by eclectic influences – from classical and choral music through to dreampop and downtempo, indie and lofi, via jazz and jams in all genres – her enchanting sets promise sonic soothing and grooving. With recent highlights ranging from the release of second album Light & Love LIVE (produced on a creative retreat awarded by Britten Pears Arts Trust) and Cocoon: Eclosion EP with Debugger (Richard Knight) to performances at Spice of Life Soho, Katzpace London, and festivals across the UK, Geraldine will be releasing new music in the lead up to her third album overlove, across 2024.
Listen and stay tuned at geraldinesnell.com

Tam Lin flickers between the synthetic and organic in search of meaningful chaos. With hardware electronics and a collection of carefully chosen objects, they move between industrial noisescapes, quiet ambient, and displaced club beats.

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.

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

If you can’t make it to the Rossi Bar, you can now live stream all of our gigs on our new Owncast platform at stream.gravitons.org/.

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 1st February 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 28th January – 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 28th January 2024 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This show features a guest mix by Sirius (Katie Mess and Ellis Warren) entitled Mighty Blue. The other hour contains music from around the orbit of the spirit of Gravity, including new releases from MelJoann and Sealionwoman, a lengthy piece from Tam Lin who plays at the February show, a specially recorded exclusive mix of a Barelife track, plus pieces by Emma Papper and Hannya White.

Mighty Blue: guest mix by Sirius (Katie Mess and Ellis Warren)
Sealionwoman – GISELLE / Hannya White – Bring me back / Emma Papper – Hidden Tribe / MelJoann – Broke / Daphne X – eleven sun-rays / Tam Lin – stasis / Hannya White – Just Yours / Emma Papper – Falcom Punch / Barelife – Presumed Dead > Isn’t Dead > Dies (Cracks in the armour remix)

The December edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-december-2023-24th-december-2023/
This month’s show featured a chest box of runkles and heckles from Think Twice, the Expedient the honing loops. And a ruminagory curology by DJ Cheesemaster.