Thon: Dark drone and night terrors with VHS televisions
Missing Music: AV with vintage Macs and obsolete software
En Creux: Sound creation via analogue and digital feedback systems

THON: DRONENOISE VISUALSDREADAMBIENT Live noise hardware & visuals from South Coast. Power Ambient.

Missing Music: Suren Seneviratne (b. 1986) is a British Sri Lankan, London based producer, DJ and sound artist who is no stranger to the world of electronic music. For over a decade, he has explored the threshold of experimental media through a DIY lens using an arsenal of software, home-made electronics and modified synthesisers to create work that defies the limits of genre classification. His prolific output across various media can be found in record production, remix work, live performance, radio broadcast, film composition, theatre design, Net Art, interactive VR and exhibition. His newest endeavour Missing Music shines a spotlight on the innovative audio, digital signal processing and music software developed for the Macintosh computer system during the ‘90s to ‘00s.

En Creux is a Taiwanese experimental artist based in London. Performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from their fascinations in noise generated via feedback on digital and analogue equipment, and their role as a ‘mediator-performer’ in the multifaceted relationship between the sonic events incurring within the self-regulated system. ‘Fuzz comes alive, moving at odd angles like the sinuous threads are being chased by a series of subatomic bleeps and flashes. Tension rises as the tempo picks up, fueling the disjointed rhythmic quality within each sterile, self-contained unit.’ – Fox Digitalis
encreuxmusic.bandcamp.com
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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 September 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Far Rainbow: Ghost machines and tangible percussion.
Screaming Alice: More direct/less polite/than you/might expect/and not a screen/to be seen.
Frixon Klatt: Ominous atmospheric beats

Far Rainbow is the London-based duo of Emily Mary Barnett and Bobby Barry. Their new album The Blue Hugeness begins with bubbling sounds which Barnett’s cymbals splash through, taking on a gait somewhere between Jack DeJohnette and a leaky pipe. Later, flickering drones emerge that seem more electrical than instrumental – which might be true as previous releases have seen Barry credited with playing electric toothbrush and various small motors. Submerged in it all are eerie field recordings, the most beguiling sounding like a baby cooing in the distance. It’s seldom clear where any sound comes from on this tape. Even where the drums begin and end gets a little hazy, while the lush reverb that glistens off everything is a source of intrigue in itself. It’s a spooky and hypnotic zone, one where machines seem to live in ghostly spaces. Every sound on ‘The Blue Hugeness’ is a riddle, slipping along the boundary between familiar and unfamiliar to find an alluring place in the in-between.

Screaming Alice: improvised organic pieces around skeletal structures. Motorik grooves, major keys, misbehaving analogue synths and perhaps some animal noises from Spirit of Gravity collective members Andrew Greaves (Broken Star, as himself and in various collaborations) and Howard Spencer (Birds of Death Valley, Hazandaz, Sold, Celled).

Frixon Klatt is a solo electronic act from Southampton now exploring his interest in old IDM, jungle and breakbeat with a atmospheric ominous twist. Check him out on SoundCloud at soundcloud.com/frixonklatt

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

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

Thursday 3rd August 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA