Calling Out Of Context

Throughout Calling Out Of Context the ICA’s upper gallery operates as a fully equipped recording studio, with artists and musicians producing work which will be posted online as the season progresses.

Teppich – the collaborative name of artist Ei Arakawa and composer Sergei Tcherepnin – present Sky, Horse & Death, an 8-channel soundwork and performance.

Watkins presents The Luminiferous Aether, a new soundwork created through a series of field recordings made in the Arctic Circle.

Lucky Dragons mix electroacoustic ambient tones with simple folk instrumentation and psychedelic layering, and play amongst their audience rather than on a stage.

Mark Fisher (aka influential music blogger k-punk) considers the passivity of listening and discusses the possibilities for collective, intimate and fresh ways of hearing.

Composer Rhys Chatham in conversation with musician and author David Toop.

Rhys Chatham performs his 1977 piece Guitar Trio, a highly influential work that combines the textural intricacies and repetitions of minimalism with the elemental energy of punk.

A night of experimental music from Gravetemple and Chocolate Monk.

9! Drummer Eddie Prévost, Seb Rochford and theremin player Pamelia Kurstin, and Steve Noble and Alex Ward all play tonight.

Experimental music group Plus Minus Ensemble joins forces with other musicians under the umbrella of Kämmer Klang.

The Red Krayola perform Five American Portraits, a new album of songs made with Art & Language.

AGF and Mira Calix both work with the fluid states of production encouraged by new digital technologies.

Through talks, performances and panel discussions, the symposium aims to remake—rather than repeat—the legacy of Cardew, examining the questions and contradictions of his practice for their contemporary relevance.

On both days of the Cornelius Cardew conference, artists and activists Ultra-red will be in the lower gallery with the School of Echoes.

Jan St Werner, one half of German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, creates a new composition for the ICA that uses the structure and daily sounds of the building.

As a culmination of A Series of Actions, Jan St Werner and Stefan Streich direct the performance of two individual works.