Horizontal Alliances / Vertical Conflicts (2018)

Performance interface
Live performance (Cafe Oto, London, 03-10-18)
Live performance (The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 30-11-18)
Album release (Moving Furniture Records, CD, 2019)
Digital release “Horizontal Alliances live” (Broken20, 2019)

For the Horizontal Alliance, Vertical Conflicts (Moving Furniture Records, 2019) album, I built a performance environment that would also generate its own visual accompaniment for the performances that accompanied it. As the auto-harp that provided the basis of the music was played, the audio was split into 9 spectral bands to be manipulated separately, and represented and controlled by the 9 visual strings which were projected on screen









Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling.

His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.

He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.