- Aron Dahl (Norway) & Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (Norway): a copy of a copy first performance
Composer and film-maker Aron Dahl collaborated with experimental trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø to create a copy of a copy. The work uses the concept of the traditional children’s game where a phrase is passed around a circle until it mutates into something unrecognisable. With Henrik’s unique playing as a starting point, both the video and audio take their own paths, with some surprising twists along the way.
Supported by Arts and Culture Norway
- Easterhouse Children’s Manifesto Co-created by Oakwood Primary School, Red Note Ensemble and Dumbworld.
Inspired by the 1931 publication 'La Anarquia Explicada a Los Niños', an instructional manual for children published during the Spanish Civil War that explained the ideas and practises of anarchy -composer Brian Irvine and director John McIlduff in collaboration with the children of Oakwood Primary School in Glasgow and Red Note Ensemble have created a collection of 7 musical animated video posters that explore key elements of “anarchical” thinking such as autonomy, kindness and human connectivity from a child’s perspective.
The work was developed over a year long process of co-creation involving pupils, teachers, artists and musicians.
Born from Red Note’s 5 Places programme, which targets five locations across central Scotland. This programme aims to properly get to know people in their own neighbourhood at grassroots level, and work with them to make and create new live music together in the heart of their community over a number of years. This Easterhouse collaboration is based on the ideas and voices of Oakwood Primary School’s pupils and their partnered groups from the wider community. The project was led by composer Brian Irvine, who wanted to allow young people’s anarchy to direct us, the grown-ups, on ways in which we can uncover the best of what we as humans can be.
- Håkan Lidbo (Sweden): Art+Sound
Art+Sound is a set of three sonic posters that allow the user to select and manipulate drum, bass and melody lines to create their own pieces. This new project is the latest in a set of works allowing users to interact with technology, art and music. Three more posters – the Sound+Art series – can be found in Waterstones Bookstore.
Sound+Art is supported by Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare
Programme
- Eero Hämeenniemi (Finland): Ascoltate
- Joanna Nicholson (Scotland): Gyre
- Jane Stanley (Scotland): Firefly Reflection
- Leo Butt (Scotland): Archives
- Jenny Hettne (Sweden): Rop, böljande
- Matthew Whiteside (Scotland): Three Pieces for Bass Clarinet and Electronics
- Marcus Wrangö (Sweden): Inkognito C20F
- Sivert Holmen (Norway): Kyrkjekilane
- Bill Sweeney (Scotland): Nine Days
Performers
- Joanna Nicholson (clarinet/bass clarinet)
- Lauren Reeves-Rawling (horn)
- Sivert Holmen (hardanger fiddle)
In partnership with trail blazing contemporary music series The Night With…, Joanna Nicholson plays works for clarinet and electronics from her recent album, Gyre.
She is joined by Lauren Reeves-Rawling for Jenny Hettne’s work for horn and tape, and hardanger fiddle virtuoso Sivert Holmen who plays one of his own works.
Leo Butt’s ambisonic work uses samples of historical horns and violins from the collection in Edinburgh’s St Cecilia’s Museum of Musical Instruments, and Marcus Wrangö pays tribute to a unique car from Stockholm’s subway fleet.
- Michael Francis Duch (Norway): Tomba Emanuelle
Performer: Michael Francis Duch (double bass)
Originally written for performance in the mausoleum of Emmanuel Vigeland, in Oslo, Tomba Emanuelle is re-imagined with the famous acoustic of Hamilton Mausoleum in mind…and transported to the CCA.
- Nick Fells and Sodhi (Scotland): furl first performance
Performer: Nick Fells (electronics) & Sodhi (tabla)
Furl is the first performance resulting from an ongoing collaboration between electronic musician Nick Fells and tabla player Sodhi.
The project looks at how the dynamism and resonance of the tabla can be extended and expanded to build spatially and spectrally complex enveloping textures. Everything builds from the tabla, weaving outwards, furling and unfurling.
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (Iceland): Agape
A text/graphic score calls for the performers to predetermine a sonic path unique to their own individual interpretation; they are instructed to navigate a sequence of changes in harmony with circular movements. Performers can come to mutual agreements on aspects of their individual performances regarding intensity/tonality/etc., but this is not necessary or necessarily wanted. Seeking to excavate an individual performer’s fingerprint, what becomes interesting here is how they choose to deliberate and deliver their navigation. Their performances are then collapsed together so a listener/observer can experience the contrast of these interpretations of the “same” moment - through conflating time, the activation of the vertical exposes the manifoldness of the horizontal.
The work is presented in a single screen cinema format for the first time.
Agape was nominated for “work of the year” in the classical/contemporary category at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022