Artist and event line up for Counterflows Festival 2017

1. Counterflows is a four
day celebration of under-
ground music, featuring a
wide array of artists bound
together by their question-
ing spirit and refusal of
easy categorisation. Wheth-
er born out of the likes of
so-called DIY scenes, the
internet or geographically
remote communities, we be-
lieve that the underground
belongs to a myriad of voic-
es and is best engaged with
when we come together,
share ideas, break down bor-
ders, challenge hierarchies
and push boundaries.
The festival will unravel
over a selection of careful-
ly picked venues and spaces
around Glasgow (with next-
to-no scheduling clashes!).
We hope to create a space
for you to enjoy the mu-
sic that feels inclusive,
anti-elitist and fun, and
hopefully in some way feels
like an extension of the
activity and community at
the heart of Glasgow’s own
music/art scene(s).
Day 1
6th april
7.30pm
Midori Takada + Pancrace
Project Glasgow Universi-
ty Chapel
£10
The festival kicks off with the UK
debut performance from Japanese
percussionist Midori Takada -
whose work distills rhythms from
around the world into transfixing
minimalist dreamscapes. Pancrace
Project from France open the show
with their beautiful and anarchistic
improvisations and loose compo-
sitions, created using a variety of
medievil and church-born instru-
ments, as well as field recordings
and electronics.
10.30 pm
Counterflows Social
The Doublet
free
Join us for a post show drink in
one of the finest pubs in Glasgow!
Day 2
7th april
6pm
A Carnatic Paradigm -
Mark Fell, Rian Treanor &
Nakul Krishnamurthy
CCA 5
£10
The debut of ‘A Carnatic Paradigm’
- a project that responds to the
system and processes of Carnatic
Music of South India. Created
and curated by Mark Fell, this
event will feature series of curat-
ed performances by Mark, Nakul
Krishnamurthy, Rian Treanor and
other various musicians from the
South Indian tradition.
9pm
Ashley Paul Ensemble +
Sue Tompkins
Garnethill Multicultural
Community Centre
£8

2. This year’s featured artist, Ashley
Paul, presents the first ever perfor-
mance with an all new ensemble
formed for Counterflows, per-
forming unheard pieces from her
forthcoming record. Sue Tompkins
from Glasgow opens the show with
a solo voice performance, layering,
arranging and configuring snatch-
es of material gleaned from the
everyday - distorting meaning by
metering their arrangement and
delivery.
11pm - 3am
Counterflows Social: Olimpia
Splendid + Anxiety + Rebecca
Marshall (DJ)
CCA Foyer
£5
The first late night party of Coun-
terflows welcomes two acts whose
work rides the outer-fringes of
punk. Helsinki’s Olimpia Splendid
make wiry, hypnotic and out-of
tune DIY punk with guitars, bass
and a drum machine. No-holds-
barred, lofi, fast, confrontational
and seething in feedback, Anxiety
from Glasgow will take things off
the hinges at 1am. On the decks
we’re happy to have Rebecca Mar-
shall - one of the most exciting new
DJs in Glasgow.
Day 3
8th April
12-9 pm
A Carnatic Paradigm – Instal-
lation & Reading Room
CCA 5
free
Saturday offers the chance to
contemplate Mark Fell’s new work.
The installation space in the CCA
theatre will be open all day for
people to consider his creation and
give more time to engage with The
Reading Room, a collection of doc-
uments, books, objects and various
miscellany connected and perti-
nent to the project, and to explore
the sound and light experience.
12pm
Mark Fell, Nandini Mu-
thuswamy and Nakul Kr-
ishnamurthy in discussion
with Frances Morgan
CCA Intermedia Gallery
free
Frances Morgan of the Wire will
chair this Q & A session with
artists involved with the Carnatic
Paradigm Project – Mark Fell,
Nandini Muthuswamy and Nakul
Krishnamurthy.
1pm
Film Screening: A Story of Sa-
hel Sounds (plus discussion)
The Art School
£4
Delighted to present the UK
debut screening of ‘A Story of
Sahel Sounds’. . Shot on three
continents, the film provides an
inside look at “Sahel Sounds” – a
blog, record label and platform to
explore arts and music of the Sahel
region through non-traditional
ethnographic fieldwork. The film
questions how far beyond the term
“world music” are we by now? Is
music culture transnational? And
who are the pirates of the desert?
The screening will be followed
by a discussion with the film’s
director Florian Klaeger, hosted
by Stewart Smith (The Wire/The
Quietus)
1.30 and 2.30 pm
Ashley Paul intimate perfor-
mance CCA cinema
£5
Join our featured-artist for a super
intimate performance in the CCA’s
cinema room.
Please note that these two events
are not included in the festival
pass and needs to be purchased
separately. Tickets for are very
limited, too.
2pm
Book Launch with Neil Da-
vidson & Arild Vange’s Line
Vocabulary CCA Intermedia
Gallery
free
Line Vocabulary is a book by Arild
Vange and Per Formo, translated
from Norwegian by Neil Davidson.
This event will feature a perfor-
mance by Neil Davidson and Arild
Vange followed by a discussion on
the relationship between the Per
Formo’s art, the writing and trans-
lation process, and the influence
of improvisation on these. Co-pre-
sented with Aye-Aye Books
4pm
The Modern Institute + Taka-
hiro Kawaguchi & Utah Kawa-
saki @ The Laurieston Arches
£8
Born from the belly of Glasgow’s
mutant underground, The Modern

3. Institute bring their fluxus-in-
spired electronics to the cavernous
Laurieston Arches. Opening will be
the European debut performance
from Takahiro Kawaguchi & Utah
Kawasaki from Japan, who use air
horns, home-made appliances and
electronic devices to make strik-
ingly strange, dramatic and often
beautiful music. PS: Please bring
warm clothes as the Laurieston
Arches is quite cold!
NOTE: There will be a bus running
to the Laurieston Arches from the
CCA entrance at 3.45pm and re-
turning at 6pm. The bus is free but
you need to reserve a spot online
7pm
Farmers Manual
The Art School
£6
Farmers Manual are a radical
electronic and visual arts group
formed in Vienna in the early
1990s. The group’s live shows are
often described as ‘anti-perfor-
mances’ – long drawn-out domes-
tic events, featuring members of
the group playing and improvising
on various software programmes.
“the farmers manual collective
represents media art at its most
anarchistic” – Anton Nikkilä
9pm
Les Filles de Illighadad + Glo-
rias Navales
Garnethill Multicultural Com-
munity Centre
£8
Two acts from very different parts
of the world present their own take
on communal campfire folk music.
Les Filles de Illighadad from Ala-
bak present a curious and original
approach to two very different
sides of Tuareg music – dreamy
ishumar acoustic guitar sessions,
and the hypnotic polyphonic tende
drum that inspires it. Glorias
Navales offer a raw, unvarnished
walkway straight into heart the of
the contemporary Chilean under-
ground with their loose, psychedel-
ic, trance-like jams.
11pm – 3am
Counterflows Social with
Clara! + Letitia Pleaides
The Art School
£5
The mischevious Clara! from Brus-
sels presents a “Reggaetoneras”
DJ set made up of 100% female
reggaetron MCs and rhythms from
the ‘90s up to the modern day.
Letitia Pleaides - whose sets side-
wind between UK bass, dancehall,
house and techno - will play for the
first 2 hours of the night. Totally
anarchic and unpredictable, we
can’t wait to see what she has in
store for us.
Day 4
9th April
12pm
Communal Leisure:
Game > Theory
The Glad Cafe
free
Communal Leisure present a free
two hour workshop/game that
looks at ideas of art, improvisation
and communality through playing
a specially prepared version of the
anarchic ‘1000 Blank White Cards’
game. They will facilitate a few
rounds of the game in small teams,
followed by a critical discussion
around issues of representation,
access and ‘experimentation’ at the
festival and beyond. All welcome,
all ages, bring pens.
2pm
Ashley Paul in conversation
with Frances Morgan
The Glad Cafe
free
Join our featured artist Ashley
Paul in conversation with Frances
Morgan (The Wire).
3pm
Svitlana Nianio + Eva Maria
Houben
Langside Halls
£8
Described as “deeply rooted in
primeval myths, creating a world
of magic realism” Svitlana Nianio’s
music pushes ancient Ukraini-
an folk music in haunting and
unpredictable directions, whilst
retaining a tender minimalism at
its core. German-born Eva-Maria
Houben will open the event with
her evocative solo piano works
- which create vast, incorporeal
forms from almost nothing – mu-
sic that lingers long after the last
note has dissipated.

4. 5.30pm
Ashley Paul / Rashad Becker
(duo) + Mark Vernon
venue TBA
£6
Delighted to welcome the first ever
duo performance by German based
electronic artist Rashad Becker
and our featured artist Ashley
Paul. Glasgow’s Mark Vernon will
open the event with live presenta-
tion of his newest LP, ‘Lend an ear,
leave a word’- composed from field
recordings of contemporary Lisbon
combined with reel-to-reel tapes
and micro-cassettes found at the
Feira de Ladra flea market.
8pm
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga
Rhythm Force + Mother (DJ)
Langside Halls
£10
The debut UK performance from
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm
Force; a collaboration between a
group of Senegalese musicians and
Berlin dub-techno legend Mark
Ernestus (Basic Channel / Rhythm
& Sound), birthed from a series
of sizzling sessions in the city of
Dakar. One of Glasgow’s most
encyclopedic DJs, Mark Maxwell
(Mother) will open with a special
dub-based set.
10pm
Counterflows Social
The Glad Cafe
A final chance to hang out and
drink before we all go home.
VENUES
The Art School
20 Scott Street, G3 6PE
CCA
350 Sauchiehall St, G23JD
The Doublet
74 Park Road, G49JF
Garnethill Multicultural Cen-
tre
21 Rose Street, G36RE
The Glad Cafe
1006A Pollockshaws Rd, G41 2HG
Glasgow University Chapel
Gilmore Campus, G12 8QQ
Langside Halls
5 Langside Ave, G14 2QR
Laurieston Arches
Cleland Lane, G59DS
TICKETS
Day passes and tickets for individ-
ual events can purchased on our
website at www.counterflows.com.
There might be tickets on the door
for some events, but please check
our website beforehand incase
they are sold out.
Contact us
hi@counterflows.com
Counterflows is directed and pro-
duced by Alasdair Campbell/AC
Projects and co-curated by Field-
ing Hope.
The festival would not be possible
without the help from our extend-
ed team: Alison Murray, Gavin
Robertson, Claire Hoare, Silja
Strøm, Oliver Pitt, Sukaina Kubba,
Hamish Dunbar, Tim Matthew and
more.
Counterflows gratefully acknowl-
edges funding from: