Kazuo Imai
Kazuo Imai
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
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One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.
A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.