 
Self Cancellation – Archisonic
John Bain Mark Bain
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
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A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.
 
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
 
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
 
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
 
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
 
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
 
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
 
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
 
A series of badly felted lock-ups and garages + multiple locations within the Megastructure – a purpose built town centre in one building, comprising (in the 50’s at least) of housing (never occupied), shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities
 
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.
 
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise