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.
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
Jacobs’ pulsing and abstract 3D Nervous Magic Lantern performance grounded by Eric La Casa’s manipulated recordings of everyday locations.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
