13 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Opaque
Opaque
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
INSTAL 05
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15 October 2006
The Arches
Kuwayama & Kijima
Kiyoharu Kuwayama Rina Kijima
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
INSTAL 06
14 April 2007
DCA
Surface Tension
William Raban
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
22 March 2009
The Arches
Music for a Long Time
Rolf Julius
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
INSTAL 09
25 February 2012
Tramway
Junko
Junko
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
21 April 2017
Kinning Park Complex
Party & Performances
Marianne Chargois MC Ray St. Ray Sex Workers’ Opera
A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance
16 October 2005
The Arches
Henri Chopin
Henri Chopin
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
INSTAL 05
19 April 2015
Tramway
Standing in the Flesh
Hortense J. Spillers
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
20 January 2012
CCA
The Museum of Non-Participation
Brad Butler Karen Mirza Nabil Ahmed
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
22 March 2009
The Arches
Sean Meehan & Taku Unami
Sean Meehan Taku Unami
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
INSTAL 09
22 March 2009
The Arches
Free-form hook up
Ben Knight Hannah Ellul Neil Davidson
Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.
INSTAL 09
27 September 2014
Tramway
Speculum Orum
M Lamar
A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way