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"Meditative minimalism meets outsider electro-folk in this 2 day cultural exchange between the Cube and Glasgow’s hella adventurous Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council (GLARC). Highlights include Propan’s ritualistic percussion and vocal improvisations + Han’s unhinged punky-concrete. Anything goes FFO: Jandek, Olan Monk, Beta Band, Terry Riley, Don Cherry’s Organic Music Society."
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A gig held at The Cube on Saturday 22nd July. The event starts at 19:30.
GLARCive 0001 is a two-day collaborative residency between the cassette label Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council (GLARC) and Cube Cinema in Bristol. The weekend will consist of live
performances, workshops, radio streams and hanging out. All
welcome, workshops are free (just turn up) tickets are for the evening performances.
Saturday Workshops and Talks:
12pm - Fantasy Land acapella singing workshop
1pm - Han: How to be an Ascetic Weirdo workshop
2pm - Food People free improv workshop
4-5pm - NOODs Live broadcast : (Fantasy Land, Food People, Propan?)
6pm - Bring and Share Dinner
7pm - GLARC concert featuring:
PROPAN
https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/loom
Propan was founded in 2011 by Norweigan vocalists Ina Sagstuen and Natali Abraham-sen Garner. They have toured widely throughout the world, including Japan, Australia, USA and Europe. They released their third album, Loom on GLARC in 2022 , following Baby (Va Fongool 2016), Trending (SOFA 2019). The album featured 16 stunning pieces of semi-composed improvisations, layered in time, where timbre, texture, rhythm and form become layers in a sonic weaving, and was featured on Radio Three and the Quietus, who said: “I absolutely love this cassette [...] Loom sits just right on my synapses, simple vocal patterns punching far above their weight”
The Duo come to Cube as part of a wider UK tour, their first since Loom.
FANTASY LAND
https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/adult
Fantasy Land are David deBarra, Jack Sheehan and Isa Gordon.
Formed sometime in the temporal non-space of lockdown, this trio of pals spent months
holed up in a DIY cabin-studio, surrounded by bog, making what would become their de-but
album: ADULT (GLARC 2023).
ADULT expresses a many great things: that madness is the truth of knowledge (an ab-surd
concept in itself), that dischord is the well of cadence, that contemporary pastoral (‘folk’?) is as much a car-window donk as a reverb-setting on a ukulele, that the mating life of Daddy Long Legs deserves greater consideration in the ballad tradition.
Or, less pretentiously – this is fucking nuts and fucking class.
HAN
Han spends half of her time working in NHS operating theatres and the other half of her time making weird noise music about institutions. She lives in Glasgow where she runs membership-based experimental gig series Events Research Programme, is a resident DJ at La Cheetah, and edits radical healthcare zine The Guts of It.
Links: https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/the-institute-of-ecoterrorism / https://soundcloud.com/mixtape_club/boosterhooch-what-kind-of-music-do-u-play
FOOD PEOPLE
Lila Matsumoto, Greg Thomas, and Matthew Hamblin are Food People. They have been making sounds together since 2018 but have been friends for much longer. Their LP Many Glorious Petals is out on Feeding Tube; they’ve also had albums released by labels including Chocolate Monk, Sound Holes, Cardboard Club and Cosmovision Registros Andinos.
Webpage: https://foodpeople.bandcamp.com/
Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OF3JIlInvYI
About GLARCive
GLARCive 0001 is a two day collaborative residency between the cassette label Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council (GLARC) and Cube Cinema in Bristol. The weekend will consist of live performances, workshops, radio streams and hanging out. All welcome!
Many of us involved in both GLARC and the Cube - and the wider ecosystem of DIY arts and experimental music we inhabit - talk regularly in our local scenes about the challenges of doing sustaining this work/leisure in the current moment. Things are tricky, not least because of rents, gentrification, a slow decimation of public space and arts venues, extractive corporate cultural forms, opaque funding bodies, and the many barriers to participation facing people from oppressed backgrounds.
We envisage GLARCive 0001 as a place to explore some of these challenges in a collaborative ways, to compare notes at this particular juncture, and see what's been working (or not) between Bristol and Glasgow. We also want to learn a bit about the history of a space like the Cube, in a playful exploration of archival processes, arts 'documentation' and DIY / social movement memory. Who knows, if it goes well we may even do another one, in another town, at some point.
Check out https://cubecinema.com/ for details on the gigs and free workshops that are taking place over the weekend.
Entry requirements:
performances, workshops, radio streams and hanging out. All
welcome, workshops are free (just turn up) tickets are for the evening performances.
Saturday Workshops and Talks:
12pm - Fantasy Land acapella singing workshop
1pm - Han: How to be an Ascetic Weirdo workshop
2pm - Food People free improv workshop
4-5pm - NOODs Live broadcast : (Fantasy Land, Food People, Propan?)
6pm - Bring and Share Dinner
7pm - GLARC concert featuring:
PROPAN
https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/loom
Propan was founded in 2011 by Norweigan vocalists Ina Sagstuen and Natali Abraham-sen Garner. They have toured widely throughout the world, including Japan, Australia, USA and Europe. They released their third album, Loom on GLARC in 2022 , following Baby (Va Fongool 2016), Trending (SOFA 2019). The album featured 16 stunning pieces of semi-composed improvisations, layered in time, where timbre, texture, rhythm and form become layers in a sonic weaving, and was featured on Radio Three and the Quietus, who said: “I absolutely love this cassette [...] Loom sits just right on my synapses, simple vocal patterns punching far above their weight”
The Duo come to Cube as part of a wider UK tour, their first since Loom.
FANTASY LAND
https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/adult
Fantasy Land are David deBarra, Jack Sheehan and Isa Gordon.
Formed sometime in the temporal non-space of lockdown, this trio of pals spent months
holed up in a DIY cabin-studio, surrounded by bog, making what would become their de-but
album: ADULT (GLARC 2023).
ADULT expresses a many great things: that madness is the truth of knowledge (an ab-surd
concept in itself), that dischord is the well of cadence, that contemporary pastoral (‘folk’?) is as much a car-window donk as a reverb-setting on a ukulele, that the mating life of Daddy Long Legs deserves greater consideration in the ballad tradition.
Or, less pretentiously – this is fucking nuts and fucking class.
HAN
Han spends half of her time working in NHS operating theatres and the other half of her time making weird noise music about institutions. She lives in Glasgow where she runs membership-based experimental gig series Events Research Programme, is a resident DJ at La Cheetah, and edits radical healthcare zine The Guts of It.
Links: https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/the-institute-of-ecoterrorism / https://soundcloud.com/mixtape_club/boosterhooch-what-kind-of-music-do-u-play
FOOD PEOPLE
Lila Matsumoto, Greg Thomas, and Matthew Hamblin are Food People. They have been making sounds together since 2018 but have been friends for much longer. Their LP Many Glorious Petals is out on Feeding Tube; they’ve also had albums released by labels including Chocolate Monk, Sound Holes, Cardboard Club and Cosmovision Registros Andinos.
Webpage: https://foodpeople.bandcamp.com/
Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OF3JIlInvYI
About GLARCive
GLARCive 0001 is a two day collaborative residency between the cassette label Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council (GLARC) and Cube Cinema in Bristol. The weekend will consist of live performances, workshops, radio streams and hanging out. All welcome!
Many of us involved in both GLARC and the Cube - and the wider ecosystem of DIY arts and experimental music we inhabit - talk regularly in our local scenes about the challenges of doing sustaining this work/leisure in the current moment. Things are tricky, not least because of rents, gentrification, a slow decimation of public space and arts venues, extractive corporate cultural forms, opaque funding bodies, and the many barriers to participation facing people from oppressed backgrounds.
We envisage GLARCive 0001 as a place to explore some of these challenges in a collaborative ways, to compare notes at this particular juncture, and see what's been working (or not) between Bristol and Glasgow. We also want to learn a bit about the history of a space like the Cube, in a playful exploration of archival processes, arts 'documentation' and DIY / social movement memory. Who knows, if it goes well we may even do another one, in another town, at some point.
Check out https://cubecinema.com/ for details on the gigs and free workshops that are taking place over the weekend.
Entry requirements:
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