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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

7th March at the Rossi Bar: Alvin Lucier / Monzen Nakacho / Electric Elizabeth

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Alvin Lucier’s “Criss Cross” and “I am sitting in a room” performed by Adam Bushell and Will Prentice.

Monzen Nakacho: Synth-heavy, atmospheric soundscapes with a horror movie twist.

Electric Elizabeth: Investigative sounds, possibly from metal buckets & beyond

Thursday 7th March 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

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

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

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

This month we are talking to the producers of the new Keith Harrison/Beatrice Dillon touring show: Ecstatic Materials. The production is touring the UK this month and stops at De La Warr Pavilion on Friday the 15th. Following some selected tracks from Dillon and tour support Copper Sounds, 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)

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 December and January editions of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show are available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:

https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-december-2018-tuesday-the-11th-of-december-2018/

Featuring the new minimal impact release on the Spirit of Gravity Bandcamp label in full, the show also features tracks from Map 71, Tom Hall, Freedom Frampton and Karl MV Waugh, amongst others.

https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-tuesday-8th-january-2019/

The first show of the New Year featured a field recording of a jungle clearing being swept, plus tracks from Map71, FAmpism, Sealionwoman and others.

31st January at the Rossi Bar: Child / Rough Work / Kieran Mahon

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Note – New venue!
Note – Strange date!

Child
One woman electronic whirlwind

Solo vocal & electronics with beats, ambience and noises.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MyteE6rjWs

Rough Work
Electro-Acoustic improv

Rough Work is a new electro-acoustic improv duo of Rachel Cohen and Kev Moore. Rachel plays with voice and movement, domestic objects and found texts, Kev with electronics, voice and percussion.
soundcloud.com/user-495862808/safety-rules
soundcloud.com/user-495862808/a-force-cannot-be-seen

Kieran Mahon
deep synth drones & echoes

“I make electronic music with a heavy emphasis on drones, repetitious sequences and long-form ideas.
“My music is inspired by many things, with a recurring theme of space – both inner and outer. My overall aim is to allow the listener to hear more than is being played.”

Thursday 31st January 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA