Object of Thought
Mattin
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
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A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Includes: a £20 note, stock fluctuations, an examination of words in the video medium, a linguistic challenge for your mind, a frame by frame dissection 50 words, shop front poetry, image and language head to head and newspapers under the microscope.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
An open collaborative workshop space in which games, warm-up sessions, exercises and scenes are potentially the same thing, through which to project your own concerns onto the stage.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.