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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø. Credits: Audry Chen

Programme change: Please note A copy of a copy now appears at Waterstones.

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 

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.

CCA Glass Walkway

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 

CCA Theatre: The Night With...
Sivert Holmen (photo by Cathrin Dokken)

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Programme

Performers

  • Joanna Nicholson (clarinet/bass clarinet)
  • Sören Hermansson (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 Sören Hermansson 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.  

CCA Club Room: Tomba Emanuelle & furl
Sodhi with tabla

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.   

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. 

CCA Cinema: Out of Whose Womb Comes the Ice & Agape
Antartic landscape from Michael Begg's film

Earlier in 2024 Michael Begg joined HMS Protector, one of the Royal Navy's Antarctic Ice Patrol vessels, as Musician-in-Residence. The places that he visited included several remote scientific stations, where the melting of the polar ice is closely observed and recorded. This work, presented in film format, reflects on his observations - the melting ice floes, receding glaciers, and unexpected warmth of the water - and forms an elegy to a landscape that will soon be lost.

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

The CCA has long been a hub for adventurous, innovative, and experimental music making in Glasgow, and its spaces will be crammed with performances, installations and films from 22.00 each evening.

Emerging artists alongside established names, thought-provoking stillness following disco infused social commentary... the festival club could be a walk-through mixtape, or a chance to focus on one gig and then relax with a drink.  

Hamilton Mausoleum and the tomb of Emmanuel Vigelund collide in the Club Room on Friday night, before Nick Fells and tabla virtuoso Sodhi present a new work. The theatre hosts a partnership with pioneering Scottish contemporary music series The Night With..., as Jo Nicholson, Lauren Reeves-Rawling, and Sivert Holmen create a mix tape for the ages. Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir's film installation is screened in the cinema.

Tickets £10/£6

Friday Festival Club programme supported by Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare, Arts and Culture Norway, and the Perfoming Rights Society