What's it all about?
A 3-day festival of experimental music, sound and performance. This year we've pulled in a clutch of artists to create a series of events that each explore different aspects of music that doesn't quite fit any given category.
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What this requires of you
An open mind, an interest in things that don't fit into the normal, given categories, and to be in Glasgow between the 15th and 17th Feb 2008. Not much else. Well, let's be honest; you'll need a ticket. But we've made them real cheap: a mere tenner for a day or 25 quid for the whole lot. But then that's not much; it's cheaper than last year.
Call 0141 565 1000 or visit www.thearches.co.uk to book your tickets, find out where the Arches is, how to get there, accessibility and the like.
Thank you
Many thanks to all our supporters.
Where to stay
If you're needing accommodation in Glasgow during the fest, we have some ideas.
TRANSLATION brings together a bunch of artists who cast a magpie's eye over everyday culture and change it, (sometimes radically, sometimes barely at all), to create inquisitive and ingenious, inspired and sometimes pretty radical sound and music, text and language.
Running all the way through 20th C avant-thought there's a trend of appropriation, of giving something that many people at the time would consider to have no artistic value a voice, a locus in art. Think about Pierre Henry's re-thinking of everyday sounds as musique concrete. Or how about John Oswald's plunderphonics (an anti-copyright two fingered salute to corporate America via "electroquotations" of Michael Jackson and U2), or even Warhol's appropriation of pop culture icons and mass production as high art.
And so TRANSLATION might involve anything from a NYC radio station's weather reports retooled as poetry, to every performance (and your own reactions to it) at the festival so far transformed into densely layered hard-assed noise and musical overload.
Potentially confusing or confusingly full of potential? You decide, I guess.
Creator of some of the most wry, brilliantly conceived and wilfully misleading conceptual and uncreative writing about. From transcriptions of every movement his body made in a day, to the entire New York Times re-typed, ads, stocks and all. His poetry has been called "some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly
European sound and light artist, and creator of inspired translation based works like "Ulysses", in which 1,000 people read Joyce's masterpiece collectively, in 3 mins; if each person reads a page, together they've read the whole book.
Responsible for some obsessively and slightly deranged reinterpretations of Freud, extreme reading and text based art.
Dense shape-shifting and right now hellish loud in performance: "a hermetic universe of thoughts about music and its practice expressed in sound. Interesting? Hell yes! Difficult to understand and get into? Hell yes! I just had to check out his website and learn more. Did I? Hell no! So, what have we here? We have serious art, packed in a normal CD case, presented to the public as music. Is it? You tell me!" Massimo Ricci
Conceived with Craig Douglas Dworkin
