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.
Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
