13 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Opaque
Opaque
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
INSTAL 05
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12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Gateshead 21
Northern Sinfonia Radu Malfatti
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
26 February 2012
Tramway
All the Colours of the Dark, Except Black
Evan Calder Williams
A chat, with examples (Zola, H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Horror), about blackness and the sheer stupid thickness of what has no profundity whatsoever.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
16 November 2017
Tramway
The Motion of Light
Samuel R. Delany
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
17 February 2008
The Arches
Marginal Consort
Marginal Consort
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
INSTAL 08
27 September 2014
Tramway
Touching the Imperceptible
Arthur Jafa Kara Keeling
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
17 February 2006
DCA
Christmas Tree Stand
Bruce McClure
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
17 October 2003
DCA
Steve Roden
Steve Roden
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
12 July 2007
A concrete walkway ending in mid air
Shadowed Spaces Newcastle
Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
Shadowed Spaces
16 November 2017
Tramway
The Body is a Sanctuary That Floats
Storyboard P
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
15 April 2007
DCA
AVVA
Billy Roisz Toshimaru Nakamura
AVVA sees the internal feedback of Toshi’s no-input mixing desk is fed to Billy, and transformed into bright and variegated patters, striations and blooming colour, before being fed back to Toshi and manipulated on route to the PA.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
26 May 2013
Tramway
We have something to say about… Pt2
Emma Hedditch Frank Roberts Michael Roberson Pony Zion Robert Sember Terre Thaemlitz Vjuan Allure Vogue’ology
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight