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Counterflows 2018 – A Festival of Underground, Experimental & International
Counterflows 2018 is an amorphous live music happening that weaves itself through Glasgow’s most interesting venues/spaces, presenting live music as a social, shared and community-based experience. Counterflows uses environments that are living and breathing, that present music as more than just a museum-piece or artefact. We use community halls, cafes, art galleries, churches; whatever feels best suitable for presenting the artists and whatever contributes towards a shared experience that is as warm, inclusive and as positive as possible.
Through live events, club nights, discussions, residencies, film screenings and more, we dream up ways that myriad local and international artists, communities and audiences can come together, share ideas, attempt to break down borders, challenge hierarchies, push boundaries and quite simply have a lot of fun in the process.
We support artists who fall between the cracks; who seek new ways to develop music, encounter song, rhythm and sound; who attempt to find space free from the dogmas and clichés of genre and style. We like to present different artists from a wide pool of backgrounds; from fizzing DIY underground scenes, geographically remote locations to online-based communities and whose artistic approaches vary radically. Through our on-going programmes we present these artists in ways that highlight the diversity in their approaches, as well as explores the potential common ground between each of them.
“Counterflows disputes assumptions that challenging, thrilling experimental art has to be elitist and/or unapproachable. Counterflows offers myriad amenable routes to local and global nirvana” – Nicola Meighan, The Herald.