Martin Chick: Noise, beats and modular tweaks.
Resting Pulse: Apocalyptic Sounds
Melinda Bronstein: Melancholy vocals and Casiotone drones

Martin Chick: Live not dead. Modular bursts and clusters firing like sonic snipers targeting synaesthetic synapses; a strafe across your cranium to jerk your limbs to life. He’s given up lugging his bulky old synthesisers in favour of lugging about a monster modular set up, which he uses to fire up a right old racket. Just how we like it.

Resting Pulse: Andy (Monsters Build Mean Robots, Court of Hidden Faces, Winter at Sea, etc.) puts down the tools of post-rock to bring you an uneasy atmosphere & apocalyptic beats from a device that reacts as much to the surrounding environment and the performers’ own conductivity as it does to their will or programmed sequences. We witnessed this encounter of man vs. machine in the basement of The Brunswick and invited another round for the Spirit of Gravity’s stage.

Melinda Bronstein: Melancholy atmospheres, improvised vocal drone loops, casiotone, found objects, noises and toyses, magic in the mundane.
melindabronstein.bandcamp.com/music

Visuals by Meljoann

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

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 5th December 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Friday 15th November: Scanner: Harry Smith at 100

Harry Smith (1923–1991) was a great American eccentric, experimental filmmaker, musicologist, graphic designer, bohemian and anthropologist. He was also a collector of found objects and sounds, including the world’s largest known private paper aeroplane collection. The Anthology of American Folk Music is perhaps his most famous contribution.

British artist Robin Rimbaud, also known as Scanner, has been invited by the Harry Smith Archives to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth by performing live scores to a wide selection of his films. For this event, Scanner will be performing a live soundtrack to Smith’s Early Abstractions (1946–57) and Untitled Seminole Patchwork (1965–66) films.

Scanner has been intensely active in sonic art since the 1980s, producing concerts, installations and recordings, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he names Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan amongst his previous collaborators.

www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5160/scanner-harry-smith-at-100/

We are very excited to be invited to co-promote two upcoming events at the Attenborough Centre:

Saturday 2nd November: Colleen, support from Johanna Bramli

Over the course of eight critically acclaimed albums (2003–2023), Colleen has consistently reinvented herself, first by taking acoustic instruments out of their usual context and pushing the boundaries of their playability, then through avant-pop electronic explorations, and now dedicates herself to her own unique brand of warm analogue synthesis. Colleen has played over 250 concerts in prestigious venues across Europe, the US, Japan, Brazil and Singapore and festivals (such as Big Ears, Moogfest, Mutek, Le Guess Who, Transmediale and Rewire).

French-Swedish musician, composer and sound artist Johanna Bramli blends found sounds, drones, DIY noise devices, and harmonised vocals to create melodic, dreamy yet haunting soundscapes. She uses textural sounds with a melodic sensibility that sets the scene for a cinematic experience.

Friday 15th November: Scanner: Harry Smith at 100

Harry Smith (1923–1991) was a great American eccentric, experimental filmmaker, musicologist, graphic designer, bohemian and anthropologist. He was also a collector of found objects and sounds, including the world’s largest known private paper aeroplane collection. The Anthology of American Folk Music is perhaps his most famous contribution.

British artist Robin Rimbaud, also known as Scanner, has been invited by the Harry Smith Archives to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth by performing live scores to a wide selection of his films. For this event, Scanner will be performing a live soundtrack to Smith’s Early Abstractions (1946–57) and Untitled Seminole Patchwork (1965–66) films.

Scanner has been intensely active in sonic art since the 1980s, producing concerts, installations and recordings, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he names Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan amongst his previous collaborators.

www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5160/scanner-harry-smith-at-100/

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 27th October 2024 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

As preparation for her new album, some long overdue tracks from I Am Fya, some tracks from the new Xylitol & Alien Alarms albums, a couple of remixes from Nil by Nose’s new trains based album, and some pieces by friends of the Spirit of Gravity. In the 2nd hour, Spectral Transmissions present Transmission 7: Midnight in the Haunted Karaoke.

I Am Fya – A Womxn Pt 1 / Xylitol – Moebius / Alien Alarms – No Warriors / Armatures – Seeding Tome / Nil by Nose – Top to Bottom Wholecar Graffiti Trains (Daytime), second try (Orok Version) / Lekomo – Scary night / Alien Alarms – The Spirit Of Gravity  / Xylitol – Monte Mare  / I Am Fya – A Womxn Pt 2 / Nil By Nose – T.H.A ; the T.V.G Mix. – The Human Aerial / Lekomo – Pipes of War

Part 02: The Spirit World: Spectral Transmissions 
Transmission 7: Midnight in the Haunted Karaoke
It is nighttime in the city. Tatty terraces and scattered concrete tower blocks, the detritus of a vast up-turned wheelie bin bathed in orange twilight. Around this time of year strange things happen. The ether is populated with unruly beasts. Pipes can be heard tapping in the darkness, lightbulbs flicker, music plays on an unplugged jukebox and faint calls of distant laughter can be heard echoing in the subway. An empty karaoke booth crackles into life and the soft crooning lament drifts through the still corridors. Someone has entered the building.

The September edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-peripheral-visions-22nd-september-2024/
This month’s show is drawn from two compilations featuring friends off the Spirit of Gravity, WE DON’T BELONG HERE VOL.1 and Exploring an Exploding Soundtrack, plus the 6th instalment from Spectral Transmissions: Peripheral Visions