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.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
