
What is the Sound of Freedom?
Fred Moten Ultra-red
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
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For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?