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.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
A recording session for BBC Radio Scotland under the M74 ‘Ski Jump’ extension ramp, a secion of motorway that doesn’t go anywhere, one of several such structures that populate the motorway system in the centre of Glasgow.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
