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 LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
The Scottish based Paragon Ensemble has commissioned David Fennessy to compose music for Instal, which will be performed during the evening.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
