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.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).
A chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.
