
Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
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Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
The Cube is a 6 hour performed installation in which sound and image are treated as independent but equal, where musicians and filmmakers sit alongside each other, improvise to and feed off both projected image and amplified and acoustic sound.
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.