Instal
13 - 15 October 2006
Background
Programme
Infest
Workshops
Glasgow's festival of underground music takes place at The Arches in the middle of October.
Instal is about fearless self-expression through music and sound, and features a three-day programme of musicians 'who are brave enough to want to honestly say something about themselves, the world around them or simply to investigate or lose themselves in the form of music itself, without worrying about what scene they might fit into, about sounding like someone else, about being correct.' The festival's organisers, who also produce Kill Your Timid Notion, Resonant Spaces and Music Lovers Field Companion, aimed to build a programme which they hope 'feels honest and open to anybody with an inquisitive mind. We want it to be an atmosphere where the connection between the artist, their work and the audience is direct and democratic.'
Artists from the UK, USA and Japan will fill the Instal programme, which starts at 7.00 pm on Friday and 4.00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. With as many as six performances each night, festival-goers can expect to hear anything from conventional musical instruments to something truly out-of-the-ordinary.
| On Friday, Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument is a unique construction involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over great distances, and will take up an entire 40 metre arch at Instal. Placing between the long strings, Ellen moves as if waist deep in water, eliciting tones by stroking the strongs with rosined hands, creating compression waves. |
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On Saturday, Kiyoharu Kuwayama's first UK performance of his solo project Lethe involves a performance for four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot. With those he extracts coarse, ever-shifting metallic drones by rubbing dry ice across the table top, causing both steel and ice to shake, pop and whirr. Arrington de Dionyso appears on the final day of Instal, working across bas clarinet, wild throat singing, copper kettle and jaw harp.
For full programme details visit the Instal website.
Free downloads of every performance, as well as photos, viedos and some special radio shows will be available on the Instal website in the week after the festival.
An extra stage has been added to this year's Instal, featuring some of the best underground acts from Scotland and the UK. Some of the acts appearing from 11.00 pm each night are:
Two free workshops will be held during Instal. On Saturday (12 noon - 3.00 pm) Arrington de Dionyso will work with 12 participants in Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined Technique. On Sunday (12 noon - 2.00 pm) David Dove will run a creative music workshop for teenagers. Bookings are required for both events.
| For more information on Instal, visit the Arika website. Tickets and festival passes for Instal can be bought through The Arches website or by calling the Box Office on 0870 240 7528. |
Instal is funded by the Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow City Council, PRS Foundation for New Music and the Japan Foundation. |