Music is about more than just music.

In fact, any radical music has always been provoked by something from outside: by non-musical ideas, ideas from and about our situation. And it only stays radical if it keeps saying something back to that situation, if it tries to change it.

An experimental festival of experimental music, Instal 10 addresses itself to these and subsequent concerns.

So.
We think that the most exciting music, music that is actually, genuinely radical, makes a basic appeal to ideas. It reaches out, it tries to be bigger than itself, it engages with things other than the just musical; and occasionally, admirably so.

Also.
Music has always been most radical, and has the most to offer, when it applies the incredible tools it has developed (ideas about how to improvise situations, how to deal with noise and the unwanted, how to foster intense social interaction) to unexpected situations. Or when it allows unexpected ideas, situations or ways of thinking to gain purchase on it.

But so then.
Instal 10 is a festival of these kinds of situations, and of the cross-pollination (through performance, discussion and action) of ideas from experimental music with: radical thought, activism, geography, hard-core mathematics, everyday life, social interaction and/or politics… and more.

Remember.
Music is about more than just music.

• " " [Sic] Tim Goldie is a UK drummer and scathing noise artist, unafraid of fairly perilous behaviour. A kind of mutant cross-pollination of noise, live art, dada and UK improvisation.

• Mattin is one of the most provocative musicians in Europe, committed to using the ideas of noise and improvisation to explore our wider cultural, social, political situation.

• French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity, Matthieu Saladin. Stock Exchange Piece ("Gold & Light Sweet Crude Oil") The Stock Exchange Pieces are transpositions of rates and index of the Stock Exchange to sine waves, with simple substitution of units. The rates fluctuations determine the swings of resulting frequencies. The sine waves move about, converge or move away from each other, mirroring oscillations of the Stock Exchange - sonic transcription of a flow.

• Neil Davidson is a guitarist and contemplative bon viveur. Co-instigator of the great Never Come Ashore and Iorram record labels.

• Glaswegian 'composersuperimposerperformerclown', Iain Campbell, whose music is tracing an arc away from maximalist rock, through improvisation into some new hybrid arbitrary examination of documents and artefacts

• Christopher DeLaurenti is a field recording artist with a keen and radical political ear/commitment. "...You listen on the edge of your seat, every shout and noise significant, the raw emotion on show extraordinarily moving..." – Ben Watson, The Wire

• In May, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa spent time listening with people in Glasgow to their relationships to their own homes in Glasgow, how they listen to music, and to their situation. Four un-edited, one-shot subjective sonic portraits of four houses, their inhabitants and their relationship through sound were made for UNINSTAL, Tramway, May 2010, this is one of them.

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• Against an Aesthetics of Noise, an interview with Ray Brassier, one of the most interesting radical philosophers in Europe.

• Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Murayama Seijiro, Mattin – notes and downloads - Live at NPAI festival Niort

• Robin Mackay, philosopher and editor of the journal Collapse, will discuss how Florian Hecker's engineering-as-hallucination invokes a fundamental philosophical question that haunts the scientific discipline of psychoacoustics: What is an (auditory) object?

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• Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.

• It’s fair to say: Diego Chamy is really pushing things. His music (if it is music) is moving in what feels like totally non-musical directions, but it’s still somehow a musical investigation, an investigation of things bigger than music itself.

LINKS
• Florian Hecker’s Speculative Solution uses the ideas of hyper-chaos, thought and its relation to the world proposed by one of the most exciting philosophical books of the last 5 years, Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude, to create a music in which there is no such thing as cause and effect; it turns ideas into a physical, spatial, (at times brutal, at others quite affecting), experience. Link to resource including texts by Quentin Meillassoux

• Creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s, and possessor of an almost unbelievable role call of avant-collaborators/ mentors. Dutch Radio Broadcast of Catherine Christer Hennix works

• Vanessa Place is a leading conceptual writer, editor, theorist and publisher, and a practicing lawyer. Vanessa's writing tries to cultivate a thinkership, not a readership. She writes as a platform to leap off into thought. The most challenging of Vanessa's writing makes us pay attention, or listen to, already existing, unaltered texts.

Instal 10 is supported by The Wire. Participants include Brandon LaBelle, Catherine Christer Hennix, Christopher DeLaurenti, Christian Kesten, Diego Chamy, Eric La Casa, Florian Hecker, Glasgow Open School Situation, Iain Campbell, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Lucio Capece, Mark Sanders, Matthieu Saladin, Mattin, Neil Davidson, Pascal Le Gall, Ray Brassier, Resonance Radio Orchestra, Robin Mackay, Seijiro Murayama, Steven Anderson, Tim Goldie, Vanessa Place and an artist known as “ ” . Glasgow Tramway, 12–14 November, £25/festival pass, £10/day.