15 Years in 24 hours

Celebrating 15 years of the Spirit of Gravity Collective with a marathon 24 hour takeover radio broadcast on Resonance Extra, on DAB in Brighton and surrounding areas and on the web – the show begins at midday on Sunday 21st February and finishes at midday the following day:
https://extra.resonance.fm/

The Spirit of Gravity have been at the heart of Brighton’s experimental music scene for the last 15 years. Established by maverick art duo Maphead and rapidly growing into a collective of around 12 artists/bands, they have been quietly and continuously programming and presenting the best weirdo music they can make and find. Recently validated with a request to submit to the British Library Sound Archive, the Collective felt this is a good time to broadcast a whole load of live gigs and ephemera collected over 15 years of live gigs, festivals, collaborations and label releases.

Tune in on DAB or online and witness recordings that range from shambling amateurish live events to shambling amateurish live events, but also include absolute gems from the likes of Dan Powell, Malevich, Hot Roddy, minimal impact, Multiplex, DJ Cheesemaster, Terror Wogan, DJ Shitmat, DJ Scotch Egg, Metronomy, Halal Kebab Hut, I’m Dr Buoyant and many, many, many, many, many, more….

Also catch Gravity Waves And The Spirit World, the regular Spirit of Gravity show that goes out every month on Resonance extra – next show – Saturday 27th February at 8pm

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XVIII

Fernando Perales
Return of the South American guitar processor

Fernando Perales, musician, performer, cinema critic and boxing trainer, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1971.

Starting in 1995, for almost 10 years, Fernando Perales was part of Reynols, the surrealist and experimental Argentinian cult band. With them he released more than 30 records and tracks on dozens of compilations for experimental and noise albums from USA, Europe and Japan.

Viva La Muerte is Fernando Perales´s solo project, based on free improvisation and on the non-semantic difference between noise and traditional musical sounds, using composition and execution techniques, working without a harmonic and melodic structure, focusing on exploring the timbric and material aspect of sound and noise. Viva La Muerte is a unipersonal orchestra, composed of guitars, tapes, contact mics, pieces of metal, garage tools, metal sheets and industrial matrix fallen into disuse, creating a mix of noise, drone and post-industrial minimalism.

Baby
New album ‘Nomenclature’ out now on Bandcamp:
http://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/nomenclature

New trio version of Baby. Will Miles on guitar and flute, Adam Bushell on Vibraphone and percussion, Alfie Weedon on double bass. New album on the Spirit of Gravity label, even though the line up is different. (Baby formerly known as Viv and Vole).

Static Memories with Will Miles
Electro-acoustic improv

Gus Garside (double bass/electronics) has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players. Gus formed arc in 1988 and their third album “the pursuit of happiness” was released on Emanem Records in 2009. He formed In Sand in 2004 and their first album Whatever came out mid 2008.
Gus is part of the Brighton Safehouse collective. He has collaborated with a wide range of improvising and contemporary music players and dancers and frequently works with laptop musicians and also performs solo.
“…where he differs from the average jazz bassist is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his instrument” Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

Dan Powell, (guitar, electronics, small percussion), began making sound for installation works in London in the mid 90′s and was involved in live arts group OMSK.
Since moving to Brighton in 2000 he has concentrated on experimental and improvised music. He is a member of Brighton based collective The Spirit of Gravity and has performed across the UK. Dan is also a member of free improv duo Nil with Chris Parfitt.

Will Miles is the founder of Baby and a well known local improvisor and musician. He generally plays flute and guitar

Andrew Greaves has an Electrocreche piece

Andrew Greaves is a musician and composer living in Brighton, last year he performed a piece written for Terry Riley’s birthday at the Lost Property event.
For tonight he has written a special piece based on the idea of collaborating with the Electrocreche.

The Electrocreche is something from very early in the history of The Spirit of Gravity, in order to avoid having someone inflict their record collection on the audience between acts, it was decided to bring down a collection of rubbish keyboards and toy instruments and let audience members loose on them. With Hilarious Consequences.

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 20th January | 8.00pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XVII

The Spirit of Gravity in co-operation with Hardworking Families presents The Scope with Hardworking Family Nan and Realisations of Daniel Tully’s ‘… As a Process of Line-Making’

Hardworking Family Nan
Mutated Ultra-Noise Cello

Hardworking Family Nan is a new duo that takes a cello and a no-input mixer and melds them together into one totalising mass. When the going is good, the two become one, as though the horse-hair bow were reaching directly into the guts of the circuitry. Ever heard a cello harmonising perfectly with harsh lashings of mixer-feedback? No? Well don’t miss it then.

Daniel Tully’s ‘… As a Process of Line-Making’
Experimental Text Score made flesh, several times

Composer and artist Daniel Tully has challenged a number of local performers to interpret his weighty text score ‘… As a Process of Line-Making’. As it’s a complex, beautiful and open-ended thing, we’ve decided to have a few different goes at it, in a few different set-ups. Performers will include some combination(s) of Duncan Harrison, Kev Nickells, Karl M V Waugh, Tom Bench and John Guzek

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 16th December | 8.00pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

COMING SOON

7th January at the Green Door Store: Baby (album launch) / Goitt / Komuso

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XVI

Futuro De Hierro
Destroyed sounds and rhythmic electronics

Futuro De Hierro is the new noise and rhythmic electronic project by multi-instrumentalist and producer Víctor Hurtado (Ordre Etern, Qa’a and Huan) and collaborator of artists such as Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Nurse With Wound, among others.
Disjointed rhythms, between rhythmic noise concrete music and gabba/speedcore. Destroyed sounds, sonic detritus and live sound manipulation with a rock’n’roll attitude not usually found in solo projects.
Back in Brighton after his mind-blowing concert at Black Dove last July.

Franck Barriac
Futurist EA assemblies

“Mixing radio art and electronic improvisation. Futurist sounding and electroacoustic ambience assembled; a short but intense solo between noisy and pure sounds, mixed textures. Rugged sweetness from south France to south England: Punk poetic noisy zouk sounding solo gig.”
With the bonus of 4 channel sound.

Gus Garside
Wrestling with composed and improvised music

His performance at Scope is likely to include contemporary music, acoustic and electronic improvisation.. but who knows for sure?

“The double bassist, Gus Garside, is a bit of a legend on the improv scene, and watching him wrestle with his instrument is such a joy”
Daniel Alexander Hignell, Brighton Noise
“..veteran polystylistic jazzman, Gus Garside, sprung into life with a series of breathtaking double bass improvisations. the audience were mesmerised by Garside’s dexterous flair, humble mastery and radical subversion of his Titanic classical instrument. ”
Kyle McAllum, Extra normal
Gus has worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players.

Inspired by the late John Stevens, Gus took to running creative music workshops. This led him into leading music projects with musicians of a wide range of abilities. He performs in a number of improvising and contemporary music settings including his long standing string trio arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill); The Static Memories, a duo with Dan Powell (on laptop and processed percussion and guitar), the West Hill Blast Quartet, a free jazz quartet with Ron Caines, Dan Spicer and Andy Pyne and a do with violinist Annie Kerr.
His most recent composition, The Sleepwalkers, for a 10 piece improvising string orchestra premiered at For Process, Newhaven Fort in 2014.
Gus is part of the Brighton Safehouse collective

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 18th November | 8.00pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

COMING SOON

3rd December at the Green Door Store: Matawan / Map71 / Noteherder and McCloud