9 December 2001
The Arches
Fennesz
Fennesz
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
INSTAL 01
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24 February 2012
Tramway
De Musicorum Infelicitate
Esther Ferrer Walter Marchetti
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
20 June 2006
Ring of Brodgar
Stones of Stenness (Ring of Brodgar)
Akio Suzuki John Butcher
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing by the Stones of Stenness, instead of the Ring of Brodgar, because of bad weather.
Resonant Spaces
20 – 22 March 2009
The Arches
INSTAL 09
Looking at and listening to different ideas about sound and music, INSTAL 09’s collection of artists included Tetsuo Kogawa, vocalist Joan La Barbara, Phil Minton (and his Century FC feral choir), Austrian Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Steve McCaffery and many more.
21 March 2009
The Arches
An Unrhymed Chord
Aileen Campbell Eva-Maria Houben Jean-Philippe Gross Jerome Noetinger Klaus Filip Michael Pisaro Neil Davidson Nikos Veliotis Radu Malfatti Seymour Wright Taku Unami Toshimaru Nakamura
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
INSTAL 09
23 November 2003
The Arches
Paragon Ensemble
Paragon Ensemble
Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.
INSTAL 03
21 April 2013
Tramway
Listener as Operator
Howard Slater
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
12 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: The Last Clean Shirt
Alfred Leslie
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
27 September 2014
Tramway
You’ve Never Seen Pain Expressed Like This
Danielle Goldman Kia Labeija Miss Prissy Pony Zion
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
21 January 2012
CCA
Argument – We would argue: an ante/post discussion group
Gil Leung Ian White
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
13 October 2006
The Bridge
Symphony for Swimmers
David Dove Nmperign
During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.
INSTAL 06
28 April 2025
Week Eight: Psycho-emotional Health – Exploring Experiences
Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal
We’ll look more at psycho-emotional health – exploring experiences as opposed to diagnoses. And exploring collective care and collective healing.
In Our Hands 2025