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.
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
A delicate and detailed walk through the urban and rural landscape around Dundee; a poetic focus on the details found. A performance for 16mm projection and live amplified objects (maybe pine cones, maybe a coke bottle).
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
