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.
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
