Bantu: Bass music noise
Yewen Jin: Viscerally dreamy post drone
Armatures: Sturdy beats underpinning softly glitching machine music
Bantu: Gary Stewart is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. His work examines social and political issues of identity, culture, and technology. Through the application of innovative technologies and practices he is part of a global network of collaborators who are advocates for equality, climate justice and better health through the arts especially those from marginalised communities. Operating through a range of theoretical, fictional, and artistic frames, his work traverses media art, experimental music, and research.
www.garystewart.org/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fwppfPiGg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th1WZbomLsA&t=20s
Yewen Jin is a multidisciplinary artist and research based curator who has been investigating the relationship between the self, the body and reality as systems of stimuli in the post-digital era. Her work primarily focused on data-driven real-time remote collaboration in sound and movement, particularly in the context of performances and events spaces.
Coming from the background of architecture, philosophy and mathematics, she is particularly interested in creating experiences through mediums at the crossing between the virtual and the physical construction of space-time intervals such as performance, music, digital place making and story telling.
Yewen is also co-founder of Skopetur, a new media tech research based curatorial and event production platform for globally linked network performances. And has been involved with Chinabot who have curated a night at The Rose Hill.
yewenjin.com/
Armatures is Brighton-based electronic musician Preston Parris (previously recorded as preston.outatime). This live set will feature works from his new album Limitation, late-night ambience, with sturdy yet gentle beats, underpinning glitching machine music, reminiscent of Mesh recordings or early Boards Of Canada without the hauntological aspects.
Morse code beats and shuddering chords.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mraqk3eANRM
armaturesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/limitation
Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.
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
Unfortunately, we’re unable to livestream more of our gigs, due to internet problems at the venue, but you can still catch us streaming live music sets from home at stream.gravitons.org.
“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”
Thursday 5th September 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
