15 May 2010
Tramway
Bleu Shut
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
UNINSTAL
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10 December 2004
DCA
AMM & Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice AMM
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
16 May 2010
Kinning Park Complex
In The Shadow of Shadow – Listening Session
The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
UNINSTAL
27 June 2006
Wormit Reservoir
Wormit Reservoir
Akio Suzuki John Butcher
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Resonant Spaces
18 October 2003
DCA
Corpus Callosum
Michael Snow
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
16 February 2008
The Arches
Translation
Jarrod Fowler
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
INSTAL 08
26 February 2010
DCA
Investigation – Summing Up
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
12 April 2007
DCA
Chord of the Fifth Force
Barry Weisblat
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
14 – 16 October 2005
The Arches
INSTAL 05
A cast of pioneering spirits over an expanded three day festival including Jandek (one year on from his first ever show at INSTAL 04), JO-JO, Tetuzi Akiyama,Tom Bruno, Pauline Oliveros, a legendary Hijokaiden performance and Henri Chopin.
15 October 2005
The Arches
Hijokaidan
Hijokaidan
Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.
INSTAL 05
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Talk by Alan Cummings: A personal history of the Japanese Underground
Alan Cummings
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
21 October 2016
Tramway
Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Dean Spade Hope Dector Tourmaline
A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp