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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