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.
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Bringing together artists working with music, sound, film and the moving image, KYTN 2008 saw performances, improvisations, screenings and installations over three days at DCA.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
