Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
AVVA sees the internal feedback of Toshi’s no-input mixing desk is fed to Billy, and transformed into bright and variegated patters, striations and blooming colour, before being fed back to Toshi and manipulated on route to the PA.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
