 
Radio Party
Tetsuo Kogawa
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
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A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
 
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
 
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
 
A recently reanimated Ascension, with mighty Leeds drum hero Paul Hession bringing a dense polyrhythmic torrent into play with Jaworzyn’s reinvigorated piercing guitar.
 
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
 
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
 
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
 
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
 
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
 
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
 
A programme looking at landscape, filmic or architectural spaces and at how the fixed stare of a camera frame only captures so much reality; here we focus on how filmmakers structure our relationship with that reality and at how they relate it to or interpret it through sound.
 
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James