Hi all:
I'm curating Instal again this year, the arches annual experimental
music happening, and thought Ambit members might be interested. I've
copied some text below [apologies for the length], in the hope that it
might convince some of you to come along.
Even if you can't make it, please do spread the word to all whom you
think might.
Best: Barry
Barry Esson
Curator
Instal
The Arches, Glasgow
+ 44 [0] 7970 682 865
www.thearches.co.uk
instal03
16:00 - 00:00: 23/11/03
The Arches
Box Office: 0141 565 1023
www.thearches.co.uk
Instal, The Arches’ annual new music blow out, is your chance to
experience ground breaking and genre defining live experimental music in
the unique surroundings of the Arches. In its third year, Instal
features one-off performances from some of the most striking artists in
contemporary music today. Running on two stages with tightly packed acts
performing from 4pm till midnight, instal 03 is your chance to take a
chance and expand your musical horizons.
Whitehouse
[just added to the bill and on early, so don’t miss them by pitching up
late]
Formed as means to realise William Bennett's goal of "a sound that could
bludgeon an audience into submission” and on the backdrop of Birdseed,
the group's most inventive and sonically sculpted noisescapes of their
23-year existence, this is an extremely rare chance to catch the
pioneering, brutal and headsplittingly radical electronic force of
nature that is Whitehouse.
Infamous for their much debated, taboo-blasting lyrics,
[spine-chillingly dramatic and involving/ sneering indictments that have
recently developing a degree of complexity and intellectualised
psychological probing], they remain utterly dedicated to what they do,
still displaying a readiness to experiment and re-birth their core
palette of explorations into unchallengeable sonic extremes, electronic
noise and feedback. Whitehouse remain an oft-misunderstood group, but
one that deserves a wider audience. Here’s your chance.
V∞redoms: [The Boredoms]
For 15 years the Boredoms' specialised in a legendary and manic post
punk explosion of disaffected youth. Finally in 1999 they achieved
international acclaim with the release of Super AE and its attendant
shift in focus to studio manipulations, layers of bombastic guitar
noise, insane bursts of tape manipulation and the wax and wane of
desperate screams and urgent percussion. It’s follow up, Vision
Creation Newsun, cemented them as the most urgently experimental
avant-rock act currently recording. Their performance at instal03 will
be only their second in the UK since the release of those seminal
recordings.
Merzbow: [Masami Akita]
For those of you not familiar with it, Merzbow is the noise project led
by Japan's Masami Akita. If you recall your art history, Kurt Schwitters
began a project in the 1930s of constructing the Merzbau -- a house
which was shaped, dissolved, and built out of junk. Akita's project of a
similar name takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering
noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact. He is the
defining artist in the noise canon, one who opened up new ways off
appreciating sound and whose influence can be traced across huge swathes
contemporary music: from Scandinavian death metal to the harsh
experimental electronica of the Mego set. This extremely rare
performance at instal03 will be his first ever in Scotland.
AMM:
[Keith Rowe + Eddie Prevost + John Tilbury]
With each new release and every [admittedly rare] live performance AMM
provide yet another reason why AMM music could be considered the primer
for all 'experimental' music. What makes their music seem so timeless is
the degree to which they are successfully 'listening', so present with
one another as listeners during performance that you can only imagine
that their ears must extend far into the reaches of the music culture at
any given time -- spanning the years since 1966 with the release of the
first AMM record. AMM have undoubtedly been the most important
contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are
extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished
musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.
Vibracathedra Orchestra + Matthew Bower + John Godbert
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral
Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds. Specialising
in dreamy phase patterns, stratospheric noise, and vaguely rockish
hypno-drone, made up of squealing Egyptian reeds, drum circle grooves,
random sustained notes on a cheap Casio, hazy electric guitar
distortion, flanging sitars, and lots of acoustic guitar strum 'n'
scrape, in the end they fall squarely between the free jazz of Albert
Alyer and the dissonance of the experimental sides of Thurston Moore &
Lee Ranaldo
Live is definitely where the VCO come into their own, stretching and
exploring the sonic possibilities of rock and roll, and coming up with
some of the most gorgeous and transcendentally intense droning free-rock
around at the moment. For this one off performance they are joined by
Matthew Bower and John Godbert from mighty UK heavy/drone/psych
behemoths Skullfower, Sunroof! and Total.
Cosmos: [Sachiko M + Ami Yoshida]
Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida are two of the most prominent members of the
burgeoning Onkyo movement. Onkyo, a Japanese word meaning 'reverberation
of sound', places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical
structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music
into a unique hybrid. Sachiko M has developed a unique style utilizing a
memory-free sampler, coaxing pure, piercing sine waves with the device's
built-in test tones and noise. Ami Yoshida, using only voice, creates
abstract vocalizations that both jar and rival the extremity of sound
Sachiko throws out. They both minimize their music to a gorgeous
maximum.
CCI Sound System: [Ryoji Ikeda]
Japanese composer Ryoji Ikeda has been the key artists to define
experimental electronic composition over the past decade, breaking new
ground every new release since. Currently undergoing a brave and
intriguing surge in creativity; he is leaving behind the pin-point
pricks and digital purism of earlier works and refocusing on
mathematical and spartan compositions, decidedly different from his
previous works, but equally challenging and unique. The culmination of
this is the world premiere of “CCI Sound system” at instal03, a
performance in which his new material will be mixed and phased between
two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a wall of Marshall
amps!
Paragon Ensemble:
Single handedly responsible for bringing avant classical music out of
airless concert halls to a wider audience in Scotland, and having been
one of the highlights of instal02 with their commissioned collaboration
with Japanese sound artist Koji Asano, Paragon return to the Arches,
this time with some of the best improvising musicians in Scotland in tow
for a special one off performance.
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