John Butcher & Ingar Zach
Ingar Zach John Butcher
Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
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Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.