 
Object of Thought
Mattin
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
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A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
 
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
 
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?
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
 
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
 
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
 
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
 
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
 
Dave will lead a session created for teenagers and designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.
 
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
 
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).