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.
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
A recording session for BBC Radio Scotland under the M74 ‘Ski Jump’ extension ramp, a secion of motorway that doesn’t go anywhere, one of several such structures that populate the motorway system in the centre of Glasgow.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
