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Arika bring you the second part of their 2012 expanded festival. Episode 2 asks how do ideas of nihilism, darkness, the self, abjection and horror play out in experimental music and performance? Fun times....

Friday 24 February

Abject Music

Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra

Friday 24 Feb/7.30pm/Day or Festival Pass

In which “ ” [sic] Goldie and Mattin try to accelerate out of the other side of noise music, free improvisation, and rock by amplifying and taking deadly seriously all of those music’s tropes (Cf.: self-expression, signature sounds or moves, transgression). In doing so, they seem to be both one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, and a necessary, ludicrous parody.

De Musicorum Infelicitate

Walter Marchetti – performed by Esther Ferrer

Friday 24 Feb/9.15pm/Day or Festival Pass

What can a composer disgusted with composition compose: exhausted and unhappy, revolted with every note? 10 painful variations, a score, a text: a coruscating self-criticism, a self-parody; an anti-composition. For 50 years Walter has been Europe’s great self-effacing, anarchic, conceptual composer. He has said this is his last composition. He’s asked the great Spanish performance artist Esther Ferrer to perform it, along with Gabriele Bonomo.

Only Your Pre Formance Is Cult

Iain Campbell F-W

Friday 24 Feb/8.45pm /Day or Festival Pass

If consciousness is a performance of approval then can’t we all have a go? Critical awareness and creative skills serve us well in the workplace and look great on our CV. Watch x build a hyper-me using funding, experiences and masking tape. Then produce your value response and add beliefs to yourself, simple…

(with director/dramaturg Amanda Monfrooe)

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This is kind of a festival or salon of experimental music, performance and discussions, variously concerned with the usefulness of nihilism, pessimism and negativity; it’s about the limits of thought and experience, and what we might consider to be ‘ourselves’.

Loads more info on the Website - http://arika.org.uk/events/episode-2-special-form-darkness

Full programme PDF - http://issuu.com/arika/docs/episode2

EARLY BIRD FESTIVAL PASS - £12 (to be purchased by Friday 10 Feb)

FESTIVAL PASS - £14

FRIDAY/SATURDAY OR SUNDAY DAY PASS - £6

Book by calling the Tramway on +44 (0)845 330 3501 or online here:

http://www.tramway.org/events/Pages/Arika-Episode-2-A-Special-Form-Of-Darkness.aspx