DJ E
Chuquimamani-Condori
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
This theme brings together work and concepts that have been explored throughout the archive. It might lead you to the euphoric-psych-fuzz-excess of Acid Mothers Temple or the Bain Brothers shaking the Arches to the core with super low frequencies.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Fernando thinks that when maths is deep, it should be simple and able to be explained by hand gestures. By embodying ideas, we’re able to more clearly think about their cultural implications.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.