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.
Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
