Programme

  • Thursday 6th July at the Rossi Bar: Új Bála / Sonaura / A New Question

    Új Bála: noise, psychedelia & the fringes of techno
    Sonaura: Dreamy drones, crunchy tape loops and found sounds.
    A New Question: Twisted sounds; absurdist poetry

    Gábor Kovács is a Budapest/Brussels-based musician and visual artist, also an alumni artist of the Shape platform. Active in a number of projects, he works with a wide range of genres and sounds, although his main output is Új Bála. Új Bála merges noise, psychedelia and fringes of techno and summons the rhythmic skeletons of dance music to bring order to his backdrop of mangled synth noises. In the past couple of years Új Bála released on labels such as Plaque, Baba Vanga, Altered States Tapes, Czaszka Rec.,Lost Dogs Entertainment or Dalmata Daniel, performed at festivals like Schiev(Bruxelles), Les Siestes Électroniques(Toulouse), Novas Frequencias(Rio de Janeiro), Rokolectiv(Bucharest), Tauron Nowa Muzyka (Katowice), Pohoda(Trencin), Next Festival(Bratislava), Uh Fest(Budapest) and played in clubs and DIY spaces all across Europe with his live act.

    Sonaura – dreamy drones, crunchy tape loops and found sounds from Kent.
    www.instagram.com/sonauramusic/
    sonaura.bandcamp.com
    www.youtube.com/user/sonauratube

    A New Question is a solo project that takes organic sounds and twists them electronically, interwoven with absurdist poetry and cut-up monologue to create moments that attempt to communicate something that neither sound design or poetry can quite capture alone
    anewquestion.bandcamp.com/music

    Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

    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

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

    Thursday 6th July 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
    Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
    8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

  • Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 25th June – 8.00 to 10.00pm

    Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

    Sunday 25th June 2023 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

    Details to follow

    The May 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-may-2023-28th-may-2023/
    This edition features an edit from Linden Pomeroy’s 5 hour long live improvisation in aid of the Men Walk Talk charity for men’s mental health featuring Spirit of Gravity member, McCloud, along with an airing of Eliane Radigue‘s drone masterpiece Triptych.
    For more info and to contribute: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/thepathiknow / menwalktalk.co.uk/learn-more

  • New re-release on the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label: Roots and Culture

    The Spirit of Gravity presents another release from our capacious vaults. This is ‘Roots and Culture’, originally released in 2010 – a compilation featuring various projects of members of the Spirit of Gravity collective and their associates, including I’m Dr Buoyant, Noteherder & McCloud, minimal impact and Hot Roddy.

    A recurring theme – hinted at in the title – is homage to influences and lodestars, who include Alvin Lucier, Raymond Scott, Anna Mendelssohn and the MC of BBC TV’s The Good Old Days.

    Stream or download here: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/roots-and-culture