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.
Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
Performances of compositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet and others, with Julia Letitia Scott, Iain Campbell F-W, Neil Davidson, Fritz Welch, Liene Rozite, Emilia Beatriz.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
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.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
