Smoo Cave
Akio Suzuki John Butcher
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
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Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?