Ascsoms: Sound materials balancing atop a foundation of musique concrete
Jo Thomas: Voice, glitch, field recordings & synthesis
Simon James: Phantom Sounds from South of Shoreham Port

Adam Wimbush’s solo project Ascsoms is an ever evolving sound world formed from semi-improvisatory performance, signal processing systems and experiments with analogue equipment, tape players, loopers, field recordings, miscellaneous electronics, toys and a rotating cast of effects pedals. Sounds emerge and disintegrate, drone blankets shimmer, this is post-ambient music for derelict dreams.
ascsoms.bandcamp.com/music

Jo Thomas will be performing a series of electronic glitch landscapes. Her electronic work is bold, vast and sometimes delicate. Jo Thomas lives and works as a musician and composer in London. She publishes under her own imprint Soft Apple. Her work is available through Entracte , Tapeworm. Naxos, NMC Recordings and Ty Cerdd.
softapplesound.blogspot.com

Simon James: “Over two years of listening and recording around Shoreham Port I’ve had many experiences of what I describe as Phantom Sounds. They are fleeting, carried on the wind,  dissipating the moment I turn my attention to them, leaving me to wonder if they were real or imagined.   I’ll share extracts from my collection of field recordings and the Buchla Electric Music Box will provide the phantoms. This is a first public sharing of part of an ambitious large scale project focussed on the area around Shoreham Port, which sits just over the road from my house.”

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 2nd March 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

This month the first hour features tracks from within the inner orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective – a section of artists from Brighton UK, including the new Slightly Off Kilter compilation: Dulcet Business News 3. The second hour starts with a formidable new Dhangsha set recorded live at The Spirit of Gravity in November 2022, and continues with tracks from our friends Gorgonn, Ninit, Jilk, and Darren Harper.

First Hour: Correlations – Repetitions & Transitions Live from Kemptown – 01 Live from Kemptown Part 1 / Blanca Regina & Pierre Bouvier-Patron – A Better Place / Somnambulance – Wally’s Ashes / King Razor – Submerging / Ocean in a Bottle – Homage to Guion Bluford / Steve Beresford – Faradena Afifi – Paul Khimasia Morgan – flksngr
Second hour: Dhangsha – Systemik / Dhangsha – Re-Germinate / Gorgonn – Acid Body / Gorgonn – Abyss / Gorgonn – Not Yet Surrendered / Ninit – todaystomorrowstrance / Jilk – Lost and Gained / Darren Harper – A Thousand Tiny Heartbreaks

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-january-2023-22nd-january-2023/
This month’s show is bookended by long pieces by Simon Pyke and Marcelo Armani, and it also features old friends of the Spirit of Gravity Fane, Thomas Stove and Jonathan Higgins, plus new to us noisemakers Bantu.