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Thursday 3rd March at the Rossi Bar: Alien Alarms / The Zero Map / Nuclear Whale

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Alien Alarms: live generative sequencing and beat chopping
The Zero Map: A cabinet of Victorian toys possessed by the spirit of Sun Ra
Nuclear Whale: Coastal tides inspired Modular set with drones & samples.

Alien Alarms: Trying to sound like a drummer trying to sound like a drum machine someone is trying to make not sound like a drum machine. With the never before heard sounds of DozenCrows’ custom built synth hardware.
alienalarms.bandcamp.com/

The Zero Map: Since 2008 Chloe Wallace and Karl M V Waugh have made psychedelic ambient noise and had fun doing it
thezeromap.bandcamp.com/
A review of the Zero Map live at a previous Spirit of Gravity show: radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/artifacts-of-the-no-audience-underground-the-zero-map-live-spirit-of-gravity-2011/

Nuclear Whale, aka Jonathan Ridley, presents a coastal tides inspired Modular set encompassing drones and samples. In this performance Jonathan shall be presenting his first ever modular performance and improvising his performance from scratch. His work is influenced by performers such as Stars of the Lid, Popol Vuh, Allesandro Cortini, Tangerine Dream, Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada.

Thursday 3rd March 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 27th February – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 27th February 2022 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

1st hour – a track from Raeppen that didn’t make it onto the Elliptical Orbits 2 compilation and 2 tracks from the latest SoG release Washing Up Time based on an original bowl by Carl Anderson. The 2nd is the usual melange of sounds from the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity.

Raeppen- Gohchchát / Matt Finucane – Washing Up Time (glub glub glub) / ¥eti – Washing Up Time (‘suds’)

Gagarin – Therapia / Spheress – Gut Punch / Safehouse Lockdown Sessions (Part 5) – M01 N02 O04 / Safehouse Lockdown Sessions (Part 5) – 06 M06 N07 O09 / Mephisto Halabi – Killer in the Sky / Pavor Nocturnus – Caduta dei Dannati / Secret Nuclear – Gaussian Memory 1 / Denny Pie – Tropic of Capricorn / Andrew Greaves – Anshe

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-2022-23rd-january-2022/
This edition includes tracks from the second 20th Anniversary compilation Elliptical Orbits 2

Thursday 3rd February at the Rossi Bar: Kieran Mahon / R. Dyer / Martin Chick

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The Spirit of Gravity presents KIERAN MAHON / R. DYER / MARTIN CHICK

Kieran Mahon: Drones, loops and modulated sequences.
R. Dyer: Odd songs built from memories and stray kit
Martin Chick: Bleeps and tweaks for the rods and cones in your ears.

Kieran Mahon makes electronic music using a modular synth set up to create drones, loops and heavily modulated sequences. His set for Spirit of Gravity will be an improvised journey into kosmische and psychedelia.

R. Dyer uses saxophone, saw, harp, found sounds, tape samples, looped vocals and synth to create mesmerising baroque pop laced with chaotic improvisation.
soundcloud.com/r-dyer-uk
rdyermusic.bandcamp.com/

Martin Chick – Modular bursts and clusters firing like sonic snipers targeting synaesthetic synapses; a strafe across your cranium  to jerk your limbs to life.

We still don’t have the elektrocreche, but may stream this on FaceBook. If things go to plan.

Thursday 3rd February 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

New release on the Spirit of Gravity netlabel: Washing Up Time

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The Spirit of Gravity is continuing to pump out strange, unusual and inspired sounds via netlabel releases.

Washing Up Time is a 36-track compilation curated by Nil By Nose.

During the first lockdown, looking for ways to make a difference to the days, Nil By Nose started to livestream himself doing the washing up.
‘To keep things interesting for myself ’, he avers, ‘ I started to run the sound of the washing up though a Gechologic Loopsynth while I streamed. As I listened I noticed that the looping created interesting rhythms and textures.’

This prompted the idea of a collaborative project, using his audio as a base. The result is 36 astonishingly varied tracks – by some people who we know, and some who we
don’t – that will take you to some far-flung shores of electronica and experimentalia.

Stream and download the EP here on a pay-as-you-will basis: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/washing-up-time