Optical Sound Film Talk
Guy Sherwin
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
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Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
The program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.