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.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
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Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Performing with hand built radio transmitters, which react to interference in the atmosphere and the electrical impedance of his hands, his radio art is a form of social practice; a statement in opposition to mass media.
Seven women recite monologues composed from texts from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic. A kind of cultural echo: an experience of histories brought to the present.