 
Merzbow
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
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Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
 
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.
 
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
 
A film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
 
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
 
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
 
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
 
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
 
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
 
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
 
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.