SPECIAL EVENT

Led by sitar maestro Pandi Shivnath Mishra and accompanied by his son Deobrat Mishra also on sitar with his great nephew tabla player Prashant Mishra, Music of Benares perform their unique thumri style of raga in this UK debut concert.

The performance will involve traditional Indian Classical Music from the musicians of Benares, probably a raga and a dhun. It will also include brief collaborations with Spirit of Gravity members Geoff Reader, Howard Spencer, Andrew Greaves and Chris Cook, focusing on drone and tala.

The musicians were brought to the UK by SoG Life President Chris Cook, with the assistance of the Arts Council, Dan Powell, and MP Caroline Lucas who helped with obtaining visas. In addition to the concert, the Benares trio will be involved in workshops with Bela Emerson’s Open Strings cello group, the Stay Up late musicians, and students from two universities and schools.

For more details and to book tickets, go to the Dome website at http://brightondome.org/event/8017/music_of_benares/

Sunday 8th November | 7.30pm | £10 (£8 concessions)
Tickets from the Dome Box office 01273 709709
@ The Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1UG

Fanny Ampism
Post noise tape and synth scrapes from Bolide member

Rothko Veil
Alice Eldridge (Collectress) and Ron Caines (East of Eden)

The Birds of Death Valley
Electronic rhythms and recorder reveilles.

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

COMING SOON

21st October at the Scope: Quinta / The Oneirologist / minimal impact and Dan Powell

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XIII

BEAM SPLITTER
Audrey Chen – voice/cello
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø – trombone
… as with many seemingly incongruous pairings, what defines the subtle union of this duo are the deeper synergies that are simmering beneath the surface. Together, Nørstebø and Chen, with the three sources of trombone, voice and cello, manoeuvre a balance between fragility, intimacy, the ecstatic and measured control. They share a common sense of pulse and an inherent understanding of the way they each aurally manage and let go of every consecutive moment. The lungs release through to mouths to bell to strings, back and forth like a tactile breathing exchange.

Annie Kerr – violin
Gus Garside – double bass
Exceptional High Risk Improv dialogues
“you blow me away – this sort of improv is the type of art experience that gives back 110% – risk at such a high level – the chaos of the first section begs to be resolved and then attempts of resolution and then it is left up to us – exceptional”
a fan from Washington State

A Piece about In C
Andrew Greaves and Dan Powell with an Audiovisual deconstruction of Terry Riley’s minimalist classic using Pure Data and keyboards.

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 19th August | 8pm – 10.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope XII

Hugs Bison seaside tour

Candy floss, penny arcades, donkey rides, fairgrounds, Punch and Judy; all part of the quintessential British summer. Memories of a favourite resort, family picnics, romantic walks on the prom, watching a late sunset; all fading, receding into a distant past.

Hugs Bison present B-Side The Seaside, a tour of seaside resorts in July 2015, which lands in Brighton on 14th & 15th July.

They are looking for film and audio recordings of the British seaside to be part of the show. You might have some old family holiday films or made recordings of the waves crashing against the pier. You may wish to write and record a poem, or a tell us about a vivid memory. You might go to your favourite part of Brighton and film it for us.

All donated source material will be added to a pool to be used in an improvised audio visual show in each town. Contact Shaun at info@shaunbleza​rd.com for more details or to arrange to send us something.

Hugs Bison will be Out & About on the 14th and performing at The Scope on the 15th.

The Out & About day sees them exploring Brighton, filming and recording, talking to the public and building up resources for the next days performance.

Shaun Blezard of Hugs Bison said ‘We both grew up with regular visits to the seaside as kids and have strong memories of holidays on the beach, going to the fair, eating fish and chips. Many resorts are not doing as well as they used to and we wanted to search for that seaside of our childhood. It would be lovely if the local population would join us on this journey’.

The tour is supported by Sound and Music, the national charity for new music and sound art: soundandmusic.o​rg

Gilli Bloodaxe

Bloodaxe performs his poems and stories with his calamitous collaborateurs Foz and/or Astra Chan, molti-multi instrumentalist​s, who make up the music as they go along.
Ian Macmillan describes “Ace manipulator of words and music, the indefinable Gilli Bloodaxe. I was astonished by it … amazing little stories … He’s a real find, old Gilli Bloodaxe”
www.gill​ibloodaxe.co.uk​

Isnaj Dui

Standing awkwardly between neo-impressioni​sm and electronica, Isnaj Dui (aka Katie English) conveys a minimal yet capturing sound using flutes, home-made dulcimers and electronics. As a classically trained flautist, English has also studied electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Balinese gamelan and has collaborated with numerous artists from electronica acts to folk bands.
isnajdu​i.bandcamp.com/

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 15th July | 8pm – 10.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton