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.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
Join Scot-PEP, SWARM and Decrim Now for a day of panel discussions focusing on: sex worker’s labour rights, how decriminalisation can help in the struggle for sex worker safety, sex work & migration with a film screening of Crossings.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Performances at CCA Glasgow by Keiji Haino, My Cat Is An Alien, Taurpis Tula, Jandek with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
