Ascension
Paul Hession Stefan Jaworzyn
A recently reanimated Ascension, with mighty Leeds drum hero Paul Hession bringing a dense polyrhythmic torrent into play with Jaworzyn’s reinvigorated piercing guitar.
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A recently reanimated Ascension, with mighty Leeds drum hero Paul Hession bringing a dense polyrhythmic torrent into play with Jaworzyn’s reinvigorated piercing guitar.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
A workshop for educators, activists and young people to think about radical, anti-imperialist pedagogy, and what fighting for the Palestinian cause looks like for young people in the imperial core. PDF of the resource available soon.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.