I never needed the metaphor until I started describing the real
Loïc Blairon
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
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A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.