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September radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM – an apology

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

We at the Spirit of Gravity would like to apologise that our previous information was incorrect, and the September radio edition of Gravity Waves and the Spirit World actually went out on the evening of Friday 23rd September. However, there is no need to miss out, we will publish a link to the show on Mixcloud as soon as this has been uploaded.

The previous show, which went out on Saturday 27th August, is still online to stream at: www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-27th-august-2016/

1st September at the Green Door Store: Benjamin Finger / Map71 / Wild Anima / Henry Collins

The Spirit of Gravity have got together with Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records (bluetapes.co.uk/) for this special one off show in September, that should set you up nicely for Fort Process (fortprocess.co.uk/)

Benjamin Finger
Norwegian Fever Dream; Gorgeous and Fiery

Norwegian composer Benjamin Finger has released 10 full-length LPs since 2009 that have taken in a wide variety of musics, from delicate ambient to modern classical, free jazz and techno – sometimes even within the space of one piece!

His Amorosa Sensitiva LP for Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records was described by The Ransom Note as “a gleaming reverie, slightly submerged, redolent of Alice Coltrane’s graceful, spiritual ecstasy and the decelerated density and dusky forest-plunge of Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project. A fever dream at turns gorgeous and fiery.”

Map71
Art Punk Electro-Poets

Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubaten, The Fall, Suicide and John Zorn are some of the artists that Brighton legends Map 71 have been compared to, but this art-punk combination of performance poet Lisa Jayne and drummer/noisemaker Andy Pyne (Medicine and Duty, Kellar, Shrag) have proved themselves over the past year or two of mind-rewiring gigs and cryptic releases to be a singular force, miles apart from any identifiable trend in their hometown or the world.

“Lisa Jayne is one of the most physically arresting performers of poetry in Brighton, with a stage presence informed by visiting London strip clubs and observing strippers at work: a persona at once both provocative and absent; lingering eye contact and gyrating hips behind a wall of cool Perspex charisma. As can be heard on Map 71’s tape on Blue Tapes, Andy Pyne’s primal approach offers the perfect backing for Jayne’s stark confessions, delivered in a thick Essex accent like apocalyptic proclamations from some piss-stained midnight car park of the mind.” – The Wire

Wild Anima
Field Recordings and looped shards

In her previous Blue Tapes incarnation as Kurosounds, the Paris-based sound designer Alex Alexopoulos weaved subtle field recordings around looped shards of music to create intuitive and atmospheric soundworlds that sucked the listener in. Rechristening herself Wild Anima, Alex has collaborated with a range of musicians to further develop her own brand of “spiritual pop” – a transcendent and uplifting sound that draws on techno, spiritual singers and mbira music.

Plus special guest –
Henry Collins
Short, brutal and on early

Thursday 1st September | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton


The Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label has now re-emerged from a short hiatus, with a new release by I’m Dr Buoyant, “I’m Dr Buoyant plays Ron Caines.”

I'm Dr Buoyant Plays Ron Caines

For this album, I’m Dr Buoyant has taken the solo saxophone recordings of Ron Caines, and edited and manipulated them to create new forms, making more or less oblique references to the original material. No other sound source was used for these tracks.

The result is a thirteen track album of astounding variety; lyrical pieces jostle with jagged and stark soundscapes that is never anything but highly compelling and listenable.

This new release is available for donations via the following link:

https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/im-dr-buoyant-plays-ron-caines

Further releases are in the pipeline from Music of Benares and Bramblings.


Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Saturday 27th August 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Saturday 27th August from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

Gravity waves #7 – Fort Process edition

This weeks show highlights some of the acts who will be appearing at the Fort Process event in Newhaven on 3rd September, it’s a one day festival of sound art, experimental music, talks and films. For this event the labyrinthine Victorian fort on the cliffs above the town is filled with installations and stages set up in all sorts of unexpected places. For more details see fortprocess.co.uk/

Adam Bushell – Nameless Vibes 1
CRUSH!!!
Pierre Bastien – Dos Soleares
Graham Dunning – Auxon – 13 – Grey Goo Scenario
Skatgobs –
Ichi – Klaxon
Noteherder & McCloud – We run interference training
Jo Thomas – Mini Oramics machine demonstration
Sculpture – Form Foam
Konk Pack – Orwell’s Knee

The Spirit World

Iris Garrelfs – Morse Code Choir
Ekca Liena – Summoning Dust
Spheress – Sadiru
Katsoura Yamouchi – Patiruma
Pierre Bastien – B2-Dub’s Bud

The last show, which went out on Saturday 23rd July, is online to stream at: https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-23rd-july-2016/

This show includes new pieces by Joshua Legalliene and Scott Sciacca, a 2004 improv session by Henry Collins and J’m Black, a live performance of Terry Riley’ s ‘In C’ from the One Church in Brighton in June, plus a track from the new I’m Dr Buoyant release.

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.

4th August at the Green Door Store: Ahtuf Kontrol / MSVFCK / Memorial Bench

Spacy dance, electronics, dirty grooves, lush drones and ambient noise

Ahtuf Kontrol
Out of space dance and music with retro keys and moods

MSVFCK
Dirty electronic grooves, lush drones and screaming fuzz

Memorial Bench
Synth based abstract ambient noise

Thursday 4th August | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton


The Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label has now re-emerged from a short hiatus, with a new release by I’m Dr Buoyant, “I’m Dr Buoyant plays Ron Caines.”

I'm Dr Buoyant Plays Ron Caines

For this album, I’m Dr Buoyant has taken the solo saxophone recordings of Ron Caines, and edited and manipulated them to create new forms, making more or less oblique references to the original material. No other sound source was used for these tracks.

The result is a thirteen track album of astounding variety; lyrical pieces jostle with jagged and stark soundscapes that is never anything but highly compelling and listenable.

This new release is available for donations via the following link:

https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/im-dr-buoyant-plays-ron-caines

Further releases are in the pipeline from Music of Benares and Bramblings.


Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Saturday 23rd July 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Saturday 23rd July from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

Gravity waves #6

Joshua Legalliene – Untitled (Norwood Thaw)
Scott Sciacca – Twin Transects: Parallel walks in Newhaven and Dieppe
• “Newhaven”
• “Ferry”
• “Dieppe”
Henry Collins and J’m Black – Club Quiet improvisation Nov 2004 #2

The Spirit World

Lost Property presents Terry Riley’s “In C”, Saturday 27th June at the One Church Brighton
Tuned percussion – Adam Bushell
Violins – Kev Nickells, Carrie Topley
Viola – Patrick Harrex
Cellos – Rebecca Davies, Agnes Keplinger
Double Bass – Gus Garside
Flutes – Chris Parfitt, Natalie Daly
Cor Anglais – Suzie Shrubb
Cornet – Alistair Strachan
Piano/Keys – Asami Nishimura, Andrew Greaves
Guitars – Geoff Cheesemaster, Will Prentice
Voice – Mary Hampton, Jo Burke

I’m Dr Buoyant – PROJ025 OPVAR1

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.

7th July at the Green Door Store

Extraterrestrial electronics, lasers and drones; beamed directly to Brighton

Aqua Dentata
Sublime electronic drones

Shirty
Laser controlled drum kits

Nick Langley and Ian Murphy
Prepared piano

Jo Knell & Alex Peckham
2 short films

Thursday 7th July | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton


Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Saturday 25th June 6.00 to 9.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Saturday 25th June from 6.00 to 9.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

This week’s radio show will be a live broadcast from a field near Hassocks. It will be broadcast live on DAB in the Brighton area on Resonance Extra, and over the internet to the entire world from 6pm Saturday night.

It will then be repeated on Sunday and Tuesday, and archived on Mixcloud

Broadcasting from the farm will be some old Spirit of Gravity favourites:
Goitt: Jack Cottrell on visceral tenor saxophone and abstract electronics.
Antipattern: Alistair Strachan on electronics, toys, hydrophones and most likely cornet.
Rounding off the Spirit of Gravity crew will be Noteherder & McCloud getting a bit lairy with harsh electronics and free-flowing soprano saxophone.

Also on the bill are the excellent London Sound Survey and Tom Graham from The Archers and The Resonance Radio Orchestra.

Hosting the event will be radio regular Caleb Madden with the possibility of a quick hit of Fluorescent Tube action.

The last edition from 28th May is still online to stream at: https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-28th-may-2016/

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.