Bleu Shut
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
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Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
A series of three short performed situations and statements to be examined or judged from the most interesting young musician in Glasgow (we think).
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)