Daniel Carter & William Parker
Daniel Carter William Parker
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
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What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Captures the creak and rustle of the forest, with an exhilarating tension let loose in unconfined maniacal and bare-knuckle group thinking.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
A programme looking at landscape, filmic or architectural spaces and at how the fixed stare of a camera frame only captures so much reality; here we focus on how filmmakers structure our relationship with that reality and at how they relate it to or interpret it through sound.
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.