Self-Cancellation – Mark & John Bain, John Butcher, Michael Colligan, Rhodri Davies, Benedict Drew, Robin Hayward, Gustav Metzger, Lee Patterson, Sarah Washington :: February 2 – 9, 2008 :: Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London

Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance in London and Glasgow. Commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and developed with Beaconsfield.

February 2 – 11am-4 pm: SpeedDataRadio 2 – multiple round-table live-to-air mixdown on Resonance FM for artists musicians academics & enthusiasts (free but booking essential); February 6 – 2 pm: Gustav Metzger: Art & Compromise lecture series (free but booking essential); February 9 – 8 pm: Performances.

February 15 – 17 as part of INSTAL. Public conferences in both cities are delivered in partnership with City and Guilds of London Art School and Glasgow School of Art :: The Arches, Glasgow.

INSTAL: a cast of pioneering, provocative spirits (musicians, artists, writers, poets and bon viveurs), who exist outside the mainstream, between borders or definitions and (surprisingly) and for one weekend only, also in Glasgow. We’ve hooked up with nearly 50 of the most original, essential and legendary musicians (folk, free jazz, noise or improvisation) of the last 50 years, as well as visual artists, conceptual poets and radical thinkers and asked them what it is that really inspires them, what’s right at the core of what they do and do they ever get asked to do that? And then we’ve gone about turning those ideas, those key impulses to create from some of the most creative people in music, into one-off happenings, readings, performances and a couple of guerrilla distractions about town.

Loads more info on our website.