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.
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
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.
