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.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
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?
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
