Our second online event featured in no particular order Ensemble 1, The Zero Map and Cutlasses: home-made kit, drones & interwoven intricacies from the Brighton and Hove area.

Cutlasses is the solo project of maker and musician, Scott Pitkethly. A sound art project which seeks to integrate the process of creating music with the process of making the sound creation tools themselves. The compositions combine field recordings, recorded from various sites around the British Isles, which are heavily manipulated using DIY electronic controllers and effects he has designed and built himself, accompanied by live guitar drones and melodies. Taking cues from the world of sound art and horror film soundtracks but always trying to apply pop sensibilities, the result is lush and cinematic soundscapes topped with delicate melody.
www.cutlasses.co.uk/about :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBhX_wTx44

The Zero Map is Chloe Wallace and Karl M V Waugh … (blah blah) … Brighton …. Since 2008 … (blah blah) … psychedelic ambient noise … (blah blah) … released albums on Apollolaan, Sonic Oyster, Infinite Exchange, Ikuisuus, Golden Lab, Different Lands, Armed Within Movement, Tor Press, RHP and Sheepscar Light Industrial … (blah blah) … frequently with video installations … (blah blah) … Supernormal / Splitting The Atom (s) / The Spirit Of Gravity / & around the U.K. … (blah blah) … other bands they’re in include: Thee Hairee Kuntz, The Larsens, Eye-eN T T, God’s Teeth and the Interstellar Tropics, Binnsclagg, The Emperors Of Ice Cream, The A Band (wherein they have both played extensively) … (blah blah) … facebook around the internet and thezeromap.bandcamp.com/

Ensemble 1: Solo home performance vid of ‘Submerged Harmonics’ for electric bass and delay, a long-form work utilising high feedback delay loops over three broad sections consisting of variations on tone frequency, technique, process and rhythmic counterpoint, FFO Steve Reich, Eliane Radigue, John Luther Adams, Live Minimal/Electronic/Instrumental.
www.facebook.com/ensemble1music
ensemble1.bandcamp.com

Live at: 8pm on 4th March
Event location: youtu.be/bQ6QodBVDOQ

So we’re finally getting on the online event train.

A year on from our last physical event at The Rossi Bar our inaugural online event has a mix of approaches, Dan Powell’s film based on an installation for Fort Process – video & audio based on sounds made by objects in the Newhaven fort archive, Noteherder & McCloud reconstructing a musical zoom meeting, and finally midi_error’s new foray into AV improvisation.

We’re keeping it focused and brief, there’ll be no invitations to partake of the electrocreche – although I have an idea for that for next time, so keep ’em peeled.

midi_error:
midierror returns with an improvised electronic set, syncing machines from the last 20 years with a set of MIDI lights in his bedroom.
Shot top-down so you can see the action clearly, strap yourselves in for a high octane experiment!
www.youtube.com/user/midierror
www.youtube.com/channel/UCv6or8QoEfcYFYWqO7dj2ig

Dan Powell:
danpowelldanpowell.wordpress.com

Noteherder & McCloud:
www.facebook.com/NoteherderandMcCloud

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 24th January 2021 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Celebrating 20 years of the Spirit of Gravity on the 17th January, including tracks from the re-released 1st CD from May 2002.

Gravity Waves
The Spirit of Gravity Quartet – minimal effort (tribute to minimal impact) / McCloud – Andy (tribute to minimal impact) / Andrew Greaves – Alapanal (tribute to minimal impact) / Multiplex – Fun with Fractals / So Whitehawk Crew (pre Shitmat) – Kestrel Tannoy Syndicate / Remote – Gamelan Twelvestep / Malevich – Feet of Clay / Waxed Apple – Monkeys / minimal impact – Battle Strength

The Spirit World
Distant Animals – Outer Side (excerpt) / Shortghost – Mana Man (Spheress remix) / Mark Churcher – Poi Poi Poi (MA) / Embla Quickbeam – To The Centre / Barker & Baumecker – Cipher  /
Fane – End of Days at Race Hill / Secret Commonwealth – Secret Commonwealth

The December 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-december-2020-sunday-27th-december-2020/

This month presents an Amass Radiant Heretics mix, featuring Othermen, Jordan McDougall, Stephen Mallinder and more, plus music from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity, including a track from the recent Cookie release, and contributions from Gagarin, McCloud and Cutlasses.

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 25th October 2020 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This month features an hour of Japanese mid 20th century electronic music followed by tracks from 2 new albums by friends of ours, Map71 and Monzen Nakacho, and more music from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity, including an excerpt from a new release by longstanding member Henry Collins.

Makoto Moroi – & Toshiro Mayuzumi – Variations on a Musical Principle of 7 / Yoshio Hasegawa – The World In The Jar / Toru Takemitsu – Ki, Sora, Tiri / Toshiro Mayuzumi – Works For Musical Concept X / Toru Takemitsu – Clap Vocalism

Map 71 – Turn Back Metropolis / Monzen Nakacho – Death Spiral / Henry Collins – excerpt from Prepared Rain side A / Nostril Flair – Playing In The Sirens / mærcstapa – Burnt Biscuit / Cutlasses / Rotten Bliss – Spun out In Devon / Monzen Nakacho – Cogs / Map 71 – Suburbanites / Kutchi – Small Hands

The August 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_august_2020/

This month we had a taster for 2 upcoming Spirit of Gravity netlabel releases from Noteherder & McCloud and TRA2, plus part 12 of Ascsoms ongoing isolation reel experiments with 2m tape loops – check them out on Bandcamp – also a tribute to Brighton’s Green Door Store.

The September 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-september-2020-sunday-27th-september-2020

This edition featured another selection of tracks from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective, including Rotten Bliss, Karl MV Waugh and Chris Cobilis, plus a special mix compiled for us by Spheress.