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.
Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
When one calls a strike, who hears the call, who attunes and listens to it? How to listen to the call of a strike? What prevents one from hearing this call or stops one from listening to it?
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
