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.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
