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Ryoji Ikeda
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
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Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
 
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
 
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
 
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.
 
Nothing if not repetitive, film is founded on the incremental succession of minute difference. But how does repetition of the same play out, and is it a tool to comment on the standardising repetition of the mass media?
 
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
 
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
 
A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.
 
Ubuntu Women Shelter, National Ugly Mugs and the Sex Workers Union warmly invite you to a generative conversation (and Q&A) about the needs and rights of migrant sex workers in Scotland.
 
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
 
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
 
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.