The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope VIII

Nad Spiro
Electronic textures and sound fiction

Underground musician Rosa Arruti has worked for many years under the anonymous alias NAD SPIRO, a solo venture where complex processed guitars are built into a world of electronic textures and sound fictions. Her recordings have been released on the pioneering Spanish experimental label GEOMETRIK RECORDS.
Member of some of Barcelona’s cult underground bands (MohoChemie, Tendre Tembles, Psicópatas del Norte.) she has collaborated with other experimentalists like Kim Cascone or My Cat is an Alien.

Leo Chadburn
Music with surprising and unusual words

Composer and vocalist Leo Chadburn (AKA Simon Bookish) presents an evening of music with surprising and unusual words, ranging from floating dreamscapes, haunting descriptions of imaginary places and mangled poetry.
Featuring song, spoken word and lo-fi electronics, and including rarely-heard experimental music by composers including Peter Ablinger, Travis Just and Jennifer Walshe alongside Chadburn’s own left-field pop aesthetic, the evening aims to invoke a kind of surreal “film for the ears.”

Freedom Frampton
Minimal condensation of the intensity of living

Mixing a cappella with minimal backing on phone and drum machine, Freedom Frampton condenses the intensity of living through this life.

Plus Lissajous figure projections

Wednesday 18th March | 8pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

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Spirit of Gravity pop night

Guards! Guards! were originally booked for this night, but can no longer make it, I’m afraid, so we’ve booked:

Inwards
Acre Recordings/BRVFCE recordings Live electronic analog performance

A childlike soundworld hides a slightly unnerving, psychedelic undertone, simultaneously pleasing restless feet and hazy minds.

Olivia Louvel
Electronic art pop

Olivia Louvel is a French-born, British composer, producer and performer, crafting electronic songs with laptop and voice. She works on the frontier of art and electronic music, often blurring the boundary between the two. Her innovative and quirky songwriting brought her to recently open for Planningtorock at the earsthetic Festival and also for The Irrepressibles, both at the Brighton Dome.

In 2011, she won the album of the year at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards for ‘Doll Divider’, her third album. ‘Doll Divider’ was derived from A4 paintings which she made using pages from fashion magazines and repainting on top of the photos of the models. Collectively these paintings are called ‘Processed Dolls’.
Her previous production ‘ō, music for haiku’, based on haiku by poet Bashō (1644-1694), was released in December 2012. ‘o, music for haiku’ was nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica 2013.

In 2014, she released ‘Beauty Sleep’, 11 songs complemented by a series of experimental short films shot in West Sussex, reinventing herself as a bird-woman.

Electronic Sound
“The award-winning French-born Brit crafts a fresh set of art inspired electronics. Or is it electronics inspired art? Olivia Louvel works on the frontier of art and electronic music, often blurring the boundary between the two.”

Also..

“This is rather special…If you like the kind of darkness of the early Goldfrapp…Sen​sational sound!”
Melita Dennett, BBC Sussex

The Organ Grinder’s Monkey
Mutant guitar-pop-elec​tro-glitch hybrid

Reminding us of mid period Eno: shimmering guitar, tricky beats and a keenness to go the extra yard and overload everything with effects – his last show involved handing out a joystick to audience members to apply random filter to his songs.
http://www.togm​.co.uk/
http://soundclo​ud.com/togm

Plus more TBC

Thursday 5thFebruary | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store

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COMING SOON

Wednesday 18th February at the Scope: Warrior Squares / Kev Nickells and Dan Powell

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The Spirit of Gravity presents the Scope V

Ripsaw Catfish shoaling with Static Memories

Ripsaw Catfish is Anton Hunter (guitar) and Cath Roberts (baritone saxophone). The Manchester and London-based duo formed in 2013 to explore improvised and composed music, and whatever lies between those things. They employ a collection of pre-composed elements which can be drawn upon, or not, during the course of an improvisation.

In Autumn 2014 they are embarking on a UK tour with a collaborative focus. The duo will assemble ad hoc ensembles (‘shoals’) of improvising musicians from each location to play spontaneous sets of new music informed by, incorporating or ignoring the Ripsaw Catfish composed material.

Tourian

Experimental ambient clash electronic noise punk ruido space music from Guadalajara
http://tourianmx.bandcamp.com/album/space-thrive

Nyogotha

Brought into being in 2007, Nyogotha is a project in the creation of introspective soundscapes and meditative ambience that recreates the experience of being in nothingness. Inspired by the minimalism of Sunn O))) and Skepticism in consort with the psychedelic sounds of Hawkwind and Lycia, Nyogtha seeks to bring together Doom and Shoegaze so as to take the listener on a journey into the void.

Idiot Drone Farm in an Idiot Drone Off

Making their Début for The Spirit of Gravity, long time collective members formed IDF last year and will go head to head in a major league drone off. Hopefully with B-Boy jeering and rabble rousing antics.
“All the drone-heads in the house go “HmmMMMmmm!”

All the Lissajous figures you could ask for

Wednesday 17th December | 8pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

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COMING SOON

Wednesday 21st January at the Scope: Warrior Squares / Laborotoro

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The Spirit of Gravity presents the fourth night of the Scope, our new sound lab type of thing

Robert Barry “Music in Texts”

Realisations of text scores from Bobby Barry’s new book “Music in Text” performed by groups and individuals

Late replacement – Dan Powell and Paul Khimasia Morgan

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improviser, currently working with electronics, zither and the sonification of low voltage. Paul’s music has been released on Absence Of Wax, Aural Detritus, Engraved Glass, Con-V, Cronica and his own The Slightly Off Kilter Label. Paul curates aural detritus concert series and writes for The Sound Projector.
“…a weft of mysterious hums and clicks that creeps organically across the intervening space between the speakers and my ears, never quite identifying itself but always offering tantalizing glimpses…” – Brian Olewnik, Just Outside
www.auraldetritus.blogspot.com

Dan Powell 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 and The Static Memories with Gus Garside.
http://danpowelldanpowell.wordpress.com

All the Lissajous figures you could ask for

Wednesday 19th November | 8pm – 11.00pm | Feed the piggy donations on the door please
@ The Caroline of Brunswick, 39 Ditchling Rd, Brighton

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