The Belarina Experiment: Bela Emerson, her cello, new effects, new pieces
Morwell: Sci-fi rave and soundsystem pressure
Bennu: Egyptian noise via Italy

The Belarina Experiment: Bela Emerson, her cello, new effects, new pieces.
Bela is a versatile sonic artist with lived experience of neurodivergence. Since 2003, she’s been making improvised and responsive music on acoustic cello, electric cello with effects pedals, voice and environmental sounds. This work has taken her on tours of North America, Europe and the UK, to festivals including Glastonbury; she’s also been commissioned as a solo artist by BBC Radio 3 and had four solo releases.
In 2023 Bela was selected for a prestigious 12-month Arts Council England-funded Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award, focusing on creative sustainability and explored through movement, embodiment, listening, and sound, with Contact Improvisation (CI) and other movement practitioners.
Bela had three artist residencies in 2024/25: Fabrica (Brighton), Positive Ambisonics (Tayvallich), Anita’s Room (Brighton Dome).
Following these residencies, Bela is currently recording, and presenting new – written – work live: a new and exciting process for a performer whose acclaimed solo work has previously almost exclusively been based in improvisation.
belaemerson.com/artistic-work/

Morwell: Warped storytelling built from glitchy audio collage and low-end pressure Releasing disorienting electronic music from the North East since 2018, Morwell has been featured on BBC 6 Music, NTS, Rinse FM, and even Radio 1. His live show explores the dark, immersive psychedelia of his new label Spiritual Transmissions. Spoken word collages culled from late-night YouTube sessions and archival interviews sit on shapeshifting blends of IDM, shoegaze, free jazz, and club music informed by UK soundsystem traditions and the hardcore continuum.
morwell.net

BENNU is Mohammed Ashraf (Pie Are Squared) and Ahmed Abdelaziz (PYLON&ON&ON, ZIZO), Egyptian producers based in Italy and the UK respectively.
The ancient Egyptian god of pre & post existence, Atum, takes many aspects. The Bennu bird, the Grey Heron, is one aspect of Atum; its cry is the first sound in existence. Bennu is also an asteroid the size of the empire state building, on course to potentially hit earth in just over a hundred years and cause a mass extinction event to terran life. TABANGO, BENNU’s debut EP, sounds like the latter.
thisisbennu.bandcamp.com/album/tabango
piearesquared.bandcamp.com/album/plstc
zizo.bandcamp.com/album/i-feel-you

Live visuals by Meljoann

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 6th November 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th October 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour on this month’s show features two new albums from artists who were there at the dawn of the Spirit of Gravity; Multiplex and Rashamon. We also have tracks from a new compilation, “Abstrakce Sample II”. In the second hour we present the final episode from the Omnisitional Cultures Research Unit. Omnistitions #6: Transmissions From a Place to Come blends and reworks material taken from 36 hours of audio recorded over the course of the 6 month Gravity Waves… residency. As a culmination of the OCRU project, the piece combines and transforms various performances, research activities and experiments by the OCRU as they attempt to build a sonic portal toward an unbounded future.
First hour: Multiplex – Citra21 / Multiplex – Ache 1.5 / Multiplex – The long Way Ohm / Rashamon – Amarillo Sines / Rashamon – Femme Rêvée / Rashamon – Polaris / Emra Grid – Mente / Against Interpretation – 3 .3 / Cristov – Smart Telekinese / Hari Sima & Mínim – Tartessos
Second hour: Omnistitions #6: Transmissions From a Place to Come

The September edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
extra.resonance.fm/episodes/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-omnistitions-transmissions-from-the-rehearsal-room-2025-09-28
This show features new releases by Evey, Nicola Woodham and Natty Purbrick, a live track from Animal Machine, tracks from a compilation by Australian electronica collective Clan Analogue, ‘Sublime Wavelengths The Cosmic Bliss of FM Synthesis’, plus the penultimate transmission from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit (OCRU), Transmission from the Rehearsal Room.

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 28th September 2025 from 7.00 to 9.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIMING FOR THIS EDITION

This show features new releases by Evey, Nicola Woodham and Natty Purbrick, a live track from Animal Machine, tracks from a compilation by Australian electronica collective Clan Analogue, ‘Sublime Wavelengths The Cosmic Bliss of FM Synthesis’, plus the penultimate transmission from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit (OCRU), Transmission from the Rehearsal Room.

First hour: Natty Purbrick – Leo’s Piano II / Evey – Trespasser / Nicola Woodham – Parenthesis / Animal Machine – Live in Brighton 2017 (Edit) / Evey – Biamus / Nicola Woodham – Tip of my tongue / Cylan – Mourning / Sussiglia – Liminal Space Aesthetic
Second hour: Omnistitions #5: Transmission from the Rehearsal Room
The penultimate transmission from the OCRU pushes further into the territory of bass. Testing the potential for a mutation of the superstructure. Dancing with Pride. Flying the flag of LOVE.

The July 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-dystopias-dismantled-omnistitions-4-transmissions-from-the-h/
This month’s show features tracks from the Alien Alarms album “Dystopias Dismantled”, and also a couple of tracks from “2025: Capture the Moment” that we missed last month, plus the fourth transmission from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit (OCRU): Omnistitions #4: Transmissions from the Horse Hospital

Glacially evolving ambient music and memories of glaciers are the inspirations behind Remember Glaciers. This project of Jim Purbrick shares the memories of the last people to remember visiting glaciers, as improvised live streamed performances.

This performance recording, entitled ‘Ice Core (Rhône Glacier 2009 and 2024)’ uses fragments of Duncan Porter’s memories of two trips to the glacier, recovered from the past like bubbles of air trapped in ice cores. Glacially slow ambient soundscapes echo and fade, using generative techniques and granular processing.

Stream or download (£7) here: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/2025-07-13-ice-core-rhoneglacier-2009-and-2024