 
Richard Youngs
Richard Youngs
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
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One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
 
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
 
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.
 
A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
 
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
 
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
 
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
 
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
 
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
 
Series of short sets by Acid Mothers Temple / Ruins offshoots Zubi Zuva X, Akaten & Zoffy.
 
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
 
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.