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4th July at the Rossi Bar: Simon James / Rapt / Kina:Suttsu

Simon James
Buchla 200e, Lorre Mill Double Knot, Apollo 11

The Simonsound’s Simon James will be performing using the Buchla 200e and Lorre Mill Double Knot. Celebrating the Apollo 11 50th anniversary. 

Brighton based, he played at the first Fort Process. Under the name The Simonsound, he took inspiration from the cold war, space race, science fiction and library music, and the album ‘Reverse Engineering’ was selected by Giles Peterson as one of his BBC Radio 1 Records Of The Year.  A darker sound in Black Channels (a collaboration with singer Becky Randall) found a home on cult soundtrack label Death Waltz Records. The soundtrack to the radio drama Akiha Den Den, described by Electronic Sound Magazine as ’21st Century Radiophonica at its very best’ and ‘a seamless adventure in spot on sound design’, has recently been released by Castles in Space Records.

https://thesimonsound.bandcamp.com/

Rapt
Neo-classical drone with a techno influence.

Jacob Ware’s electronic music operating on the liminal areas between drone, neo-classical music and techno. Inspired by late night thought loops and long distance collaboration.

https://rapt.bandcamp.com/

Kina:Suttsur
Japanese experimentalism from minimal to maximal

Kina:Suttsu (from joumon-JAPAN) Ambient, noise, experimental music using guitar, sax, voice etc…. The sense of the world takes what it listens to another dimension. Kina:suttsu is the word of Ainu tribes in Japan and means dragon god.

Thursday 4th July 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 23rd June 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Please note the new time slot from June:

Sunday 23rd June 2019 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM. extra.resonance.fm/

Details to be confirmed

The April 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-ellis-warren-9th-april-2019/

Audio from points within the quantum field of the Spirit of Gravity collective, including Noteherder and McCloud live + a full hour from Brighton producer Ellis Warren – a.k.a. Zero Margin Reality presenting his Staly mode mixtape project – “A homage to Soundcloud poverty; a relentless stream of hyper self-awareness; a big ol slapp. Staly is the brine. This is R££L LYF£!”

Noteherder & McCloud live at The Rose Hill, Brighton / Dame Area – Luce / Monzen Nakacho – Planeto De Mortuorum Part I  / Iain Paxon – Decades – Days / Ugly Animal – Unco-ordinating 

Staly mode mix tapes – Ellis Warren for Zero Margin reality

6th June at the Rossi Bar: Mai Mai Mai / Dolly Dollycore / Muster

Mai Mai Mai
Italian Gnod related scorched synthesis AV set

As a child, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai followed his parents around Europe and the Near East, ending up in the south of Italy, assimilating different cultures, atmospheres and sonorities of the places he was involuntarily taken to. These sensations and sounds were intense enough to leave indelible traces in his music, but Roman noise omnivore Cutrone own decade-plus experience in the Italian underground has doubtless played a role as well .

Each and everyone of Mai Mai Mai poisonous, punishing electronic miasmas are named after characters of the Greek alphabet, beginning with Theta (Boring Machines, 2013) and followed by Δέλτα (Delta) (Yerevan Tapes, 2014) and Φ (Phi) (Not Not Fun Records / Boring Machines, 2017), final installment of his Mediterranean trilogy, which pushes the project deeper into a vivid interzone of digital synthesis and scorched ritual.

Mai Mai Mai latest project, “Nel Sud” is also in a way inspired by the Mediterranean. “Nel Sud” is a journey in the past of the Italian south, done through original footage taken from Italian ethno-documentaries made during the 60s and 70s with original soundtrack by Mai Mai Mai mixed with sounds from the original movies.

Films by directors such as Luigi Di Gianni, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Vittorio De Seta and Cecilia Mangini, edited and manipulated in real time by the video artist Simne Donadni, together with Mai Mai Mai hypnotic music, make you wander in the “Mezzogiorno d’Italia”, exploring the intertwining of pagan rituals and Catholicism in southern Italy, the labor and the dignity of Life and Death, the fragility of man subdued by Nature, by “Divine” and “Magic”. The original soundtrack for this project is due to be released as an album at the end of April 2019 by La tempesta International.

Recently, Mai Mai Mai was also part of last Gnod record “Chapel perilous” (on Rocket Recordings) as a member of the recording band. In his many European and Uk tours he played with Silver Apples and Tanya Tagaq, toured with Gnod, was invited at Liverpool Psych Fest.

“Cutrone deserves admiration for how much he crams into such a short space of time, preventing the listener from ever locking the record into the straightjackets of genre and influence.” – The Quietus

“Mai Mai Mai trades in energising blasts of biomechanical synth noise which snarl and throb like a demonically possessed star cruiser” – The Wire

“Diggin this f-cked, weirded out, atonal mad shizzle from Rome” – The Bug

“Mai Mai Mai records rich and challenging drone, ambient, and electronic music, which is often as elegant as it is abrasive” – Daily Bandcamp

www.theransomnote.com/music/news/italian-noise-artist-gnod-affiliate-mai-mai-mai-announces-new-lp-nel-sud/

Dolly Dollycore
Spoken words and electronics

Dolly Dollycore is sometimes Dolly Turing and works in poetry, sound, play, ritual, magic. They are interested in process, and in what going through experiences of sound, words, smell, movement and play may invoke in us, in our consciousness, and in the world. She is currently working on two projects, one (Quest)ion)) exploring home, attachment, interruption, ancestral impacts, wide open space and nothingness, the other (Play Stance) play as transmutation, metamorphosis and meaning cookery. Both with a side of queerness, and with plenty of interesting spirits getting involved. Her first pamphlet OH (PARA)COSMIC BEING came out with The Vinter Olympiks in October 2016. They had work in the recent anthology Spells published by Ignota, and have had work published by Datableed, Hesterglock and Litmus. There’ll be gongs, words, electronic soundscapes and “bold anthem(s)” – The New Statesman (wtf).

They also play in various bands including God’s Teeth and The Interstellar Tropics

dollydollycore.bandcamp.com/

Muster
Electronics/guitar

MUSTER is the improvising duo of Dan Powell (Brighton) and James O’Sullivan (South London), formed accidentally on 2nd November, 2016, in the Catford Constitutional Club. Its musical elements are simultaneously intricately interwoven and related far from their point of origin, both site-specific and existing nowhere in particular.

James O’Sullivan is an experimental guitar player, active on the fringes of London’s free improvisation scene over the past decade. He aims to exploit the full sonic potential of the guitar, relating it meaningfully and enduringly to both the immediate physical environment and the domain of recorded improvised music. His interest in improvisation, recording and performance has led him to record and perform across the UK and internationally, both solo and with numerous improvised music groups. More longstanding arrangements include Found Drowned, a trio with Pete Marsh and Paul May, and his collaboration with Thanos Chrysakis on several releases on the Aural Terrains imprint. His debut solo album, feed back couple, was released in 2011. His second solo album, IL Y A, is out now on Linear Obsessional.

Dan Powell was born in Essex and moved to London to study photography at The Polytechnic of Central London. After college he ran a gallery on the South Bank, showed a few installations and was involved in the OMSK collective putting on arts events. He moved to Brighton in 1999 and is a sound artist who uses handmade and proprietary electronics, tuned percussion and a variety of acoustic instruments and household objects to make his work. A lot of the time he prefers to work with other people in various combinations, especially with Gus Garside and Chris Parfitt in The Static Memories and Nil respectively. Solo projects include a hand built electronic instrument and, and a piece marking 75 years of St Dunstans hospital.

soundcloud.com/dan-powell/muster-live-at-club-integral

vimeo.com/200731403

Thursday 6th June 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

2nd May at the Rossi Bar: Robyn Steward / Xylitol / Zero Map / Zener Breakdown

Robyn Steward
Psychedelic space trumpeters

The London based psychedelic space trumpeter joins us for her Spirit of Gravity debut.
https://hatonauts.com/

Xylitol
Lo-fi synth-core

Xylitol is the long-running lo-fi synth-core project of artist and actor Catherine Backhouse. With a battery of casiotone keyboards and still using the same copy of Fruity Loops given to her in 2005 by poet, musician and flaneur Edmund Davie, Xylitol’s music channels the fiery brutalism of early grime, minimal-wave and the potting shed electronics of unsung tape-music pioneers such as FC Judd. She has soundtracked radio plays and films by Peter Strickland (who also released her second 7″ EP ‘Kunst Ist Tot’ in 2013) and Piaou Xie, collaborated with Sculpture, Belbury Poly (Ghost Box) and industrial music legends Nocturnal Emissions and recorded split releases with Gloria Gloucestershire and Libbe Matz Gang. Her 2015 mixtape “The Pavilion Is Half Finished” was described by Simon Reynolds as “glorious […] drifting between radiophonia, sinogrime, Aphex […]” while her current work explores shifting notions of class and identity under neoliberalism, drawing on elements of UK garage, oi! and the chanson tradition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHNS3nafFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPgIcs3d9Bg&t

The Zero Map
10th Anniversary Show

…”thought provoking and mind expanding” – Avant Music News
“The sounds themselves are never less than engaging and often very lovely” – Wire Magazine
“If spooky, atmosphere-heavy (and I mean: VERY heavy) and heady electronic music is into your alley, The Zero Map is very well worth checking out” – Weed Temple

Zener Breakdown
Improv electronic/noise

Zener Breakdown is a new Improvised electronics and noise duo from Jason Hotchkiss, notorious creator of the Tesla Organ, and Chris Calcutt.
https://soundcloud.com/zenerbreakdown

Thursday 2nd May 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 9th April 10.00pm to 12.00

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Tuesday 9th April 2019 from 10.00pm to 12.00 on ResonanceExtra FM. extra.resonance.fm/

Audio from points within the quantum field of the Spirit of Gravity collective, including Noteherder and McCloud live + a full hour from Brighton producer Ellis Warren – a.k.a. Zero Margin Reality presenting his Staly mode mixtape project – “A homage to Soundcloud poverty; a relentless stream of hyper self-awareness; a big ol slapp. Staly is the brine. This is R££L LYF£!”

Noteherder & McCloud live at The Rose Hill, Brighton / Dame Area – Luce / Monzen Nakacho – Planeto De Mortuorum Part I  / Iain Paxon – Decades – Days / Ugly Animal – Unco-ordinating 

Staly mode mix tapes – Ellis Warren for Zero Margin reality

Resonance Extra is available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world (how to listen). You can also listen online at extra.resonance.fm and directly using this link. Resonance Extra is also available via Radioplayer and TuneIn.

The March 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-march-12th-march-2019/

The first hour of this edition is dedicated to an extended noise track from new outfit Change and Stasis. The second hour transmits a selection of sounds from within the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective.

Gravity Waves: Change & Stasis – 40 Windows

The Spirit World: Alea – Palaces Intro / Static Memories – The Fifteenth Boulder / Child – Love Rapt – II / Iain Paxon – Crater, Pit / Not by Radium – Movement 1 an inner agitation / Jair-Rohm Parker Wells – Safe Days

4th April at the Rossi Bar: Not By Radium / Distant Animals / Stone Cornelius

Not by Radium
Dice Driven Droneworks

Promoting the new release on the Spirit of Gravity netlabel “A Symphony of Bones”, Not By Radium, I’m Dr Buoyant’s occasional project concentrating on longform works, uses samples that have been stretched, overlaid and manipulated to create work of epic loops and drones, selected, sequenced and organised according to the roll of dice.
New Release: https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/a-symphony-of-bones
https://soundcloud.com/im-dr-buoyant

Distant Animals <In a Forest of Signs>
Alternative scores for a modular synthesiser.

Distant Animals <In a Forest of Signs> is the artistic output of Daniel Alexander Hignell, a researcher and sound, video and performance artist from South East England. Hignell has developed a practice indebted to political and participatory resonance of creative acts, interrogating notions of autonomy, collaboration, and the tension between sense (what is perceived by the senses) and sense (what is made sensible by the community). He has recorded, written, performed and researched numerous socially-oriented sound works across Europe, often choosing to work with a diverse range of collaborators, including visual artists, choreographers, theologians, lawyers, and political activists.  In 2017 he was awarded a doctorate in Musical Composition from Sussex University. He will be continuing his research into alternative means of scoring for the modular synthesiser, to create a long-form electronic audio-visual work.
Daniel’s album ‘Lines’ is available: https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/distant-animals-lines. His next album ‘Weaves’ is soon to be released on Hallow Ground.
Last time he played for us was just after releasing his drone masterpiece Lines and he dressed like a rabbit in a tux, or a member of DAF and played a monstrously beaty set accompanied by a painter.

Stone Cornelius
Sound Collage and live performance

Stone Cornelius brings together voyeuristic sound collage of background life in the city with live performance of activities that pass the day. An unsettling blend of actuality, and things as they actually happen.

Thursday 4th April 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 12th March 10.00pm to 12.00

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Tuesday 12th March 2019 from 10.00pm to 12.00 on ResonanceExtra FM.
extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour this month is dedicated to an extended noise track from new outfit Change and Stasis. The second hour transmits a selection of sounds from within the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective.

Gravity Waves Change & Stasis – 40 Windows

The Spirit World Alea – Palaces Intro / Static Memories – The Fifteenth Boulder / Child – Love Rapt – II / Iain Paxon – Crater, Pit / Not by Radium – Movement 1 an inner agitation / Jair-Rohm Parker Wells – Safe Days

Resonance Extra is available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world (how to listen). You can also listen online at extra.resonance.fm and directly using this link. Resonance Extra is also available via Radioplayer and TuneIn.

The February 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-beatrice-dillon-keith-harrison-outlands-12th-february-201/

In this edition there is a conversation with the producers of the new Keith Harrison/Beatrice Dillon touring show: Ecstatic Materials, followed by some selected tracks from Dillon and tour support Copper Sounds, then an hour of music from inside the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective.

1st hour:

  • OUTLANDS – Meet the Producers Podcast
  • Beatrice Dillon – Face B
  • Carl Craig ( Beatrice Dillion Remix ) – Darkness
  • Beatrice Dillon  – Ecstatic Materials
  • Copper Sounds – Gong
  • Beatrice Dillon – Reebs Dub
  • Beatrice Dillon – Carrier and Mask
  • Beatrice Dillon – My Nocturne

2nd Hour:

  • Lia Mice – Which Memories Will Make It (The Sampler As A Time Machine, Optimo Music)
  • My Cosa de Resistance – 7 Sisters (Music from Airports- Vol 3ª Krakow Airport.)
  • The Static Memories –  Recedes at Daybreak (Pudding)
  • Karl M V Waugh – Last ticket at the spaceport
  • Twocsinak – New Senile bias-I Enable Sinews. Vs. Edward Chambers Went The Wrong Way
  • Rapt – V
  • Paul Khimasia Morgan – Pneumatophores
  • My Cosa de Resistance – 5 leaves has left (Music from Airports- Vol 3ª Krakow Airport.)
  • Lia Mice – Human Being (The Sampler As A Time Machine, Optimo Music)