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Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
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Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
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”.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A panel exploring how to dismantle the master’s house — its material edifices and ideological architecture — and the construction of abolitionist futures in the present.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
Psychedelic and intense, and featuring some of the most visually stunning, mesmerizing and transcendent experiences you can imagine, batten down the hatches for some of the boldest, most immersive and abrasive works in experimental cinema.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.