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.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
