13 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Opaque
Opaque
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
INSTAL 05
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12 November 2010
Tramway
Arika delivers a manifesto
Arika
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
INSTAL 10
22 November 2019
Tramway
States of the Body Produced by Love
Nisha Ramayya
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
19 February 2006
DCA
Emma Hart & Benedict Drew
Benedict Drew Emma Hart
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
12 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Kylie Minoise
Kylie Minoise
Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.
INSTAL 05
24 November 2019
Tramway
aspects caught in the headspace we’re in
James Goodwin
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
27 February 2010
DCA
Screening Room & Teatro Amazonas
Morgan Fisher Sharon Lockhart
A double bill. A simple first person, Dundee-specific tracking shot that approaches the cinema/ screen/ space the film will eventually be shown in and in Brazilian opera house, a fixed camera gazes at a local audience from the stage: a choir, hidden in the orchestra pit, sings and gradually fades to silence.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
18 November 2017
Tramway
Speech Captions Body Language
Storyboard P
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
24 February 2010
Investigation – Loïc Blairon & Marc Baron
Loïc Blairon Marc Baron
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
11 December 2004
DCA
Text of Light and Films by Stan Brakhage
Alan Licht Lee Ranaldo Stan Brakhage Tim Barnes Ulrich Krieger
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
Shuji Inaba
Shuji Inaba
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
21 April 2013
Tramway
Fred Moten – Chat
Fred Moten
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle