Death enacting and organ exploring
Posted on 20 Jan 2012
Arika’s 2012 season continues to unfold, with full details for Episode 2 now available, plus a special one-off event coming up with experimental music label Never Come Ashore.
Our production office in the CCA – where Episode 1 began last night with a sold out salon led by Hartmut Bitomsky – fell into a hushed silence as the programmes for A Special Form of Darkness were delivered. We’re excited 1 at embarking on this exploration of nihilism, darkness and horror; we2 will be tackling the big questions head on. How do we make sense of experimental musicians, peformance artists, cultural critics, philosophers and scientists who doubt identity, existence and experience?
Helping us will be – amongst others – Japanese improvisation musician Taku Unami1, with an H.P. Lovecraft inspired performance; L.A. artist Dawn Kasper, enacting the death scenes of a series of characters and personas; and conceptual composer Walter Marchetti, presenting what he says is the last composition he’ll ever write – an anti-composition.
Yeh, we know. It’s going to be good.
In the meantime, we’ve teamed up with Never Come Ashore and invited experimental musician Jean-Luc Guionnet to Glasgow, at the start of February. He’ll be conducting an investigative performance on the organ at Glasgow University Chapel - taking the breath of the machine and its direction in space and letting that breath vibrate in its own certain way without losing its raw quality – as well as talks, and a duet with percussionist Seijiro Murayama later in the week. Oh, and it’s all free.
And now we must return to the demands of a busy production office: we've just received word that the entire weekend is now sold out, which is all the motivation we need. Hope to see you there.
- 1. Tramway’s technical staff consider him to ‘have style’
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