The Secret of Music
Keiji Haino
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
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Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
One of the most startling cinematic debuts on record, The Flicker is more a hallucination than a film, an out of body experience and riotous celebration of visual harmonics frequencies. An experiment in perception, come with your mind and eyes open.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’