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Wednesday Festival Club: The Legend of Kuokkamummo

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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 and Sound + Art is a set of four 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. 

Supported by Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare 

CCA Theatre: The Legend of Kuokkamummo

Chris Catriona Glenshee

  • Jon Øivind Ness (Norway): Eg har så lun ei hytte

Marianne Baudoin Lie (cello) & Unni Løvlid (voice)

A re-interpretation of a traditional Psalm tune, inspired by Unni Løvlid’s recording, Jon Øivind Ness embraces the microtonal qualities of the piece in a new perspective on an old melody.

  • Alessandro Perini (Sweden): Stones / Sand / Clay

Performer

Alessandro Perini’s work for horn (with custom-made mouthpiece) and tape was developed in collaboration with Swedish horn player Sören Hermansson. Using a 3D printed mouthpiece containing a key from a thumb piano, the pitchless horn player weaves in and out of a tape part based on geological cycles of erosion.

  • The Legend of Kuokkamummo

Performers

  • Tiina Hautala and Marko Hautala (story tellers)
  • Catriona McKay (clarsach)
  • Chris Stout (fiddle)
  • Alistair MacDonald (electronics)

A performance that weaves together the threads of real and imagined folklore in story and music, blending haunting stories with immersive soundscapes. Set in the shadowy, subarctic coastal town of Vaasa, Finland, these tales unfold where the chilling figure of Kuokkamummo (‘Granny Hatchet’) lurks in the dense, dark forests of Suvilahti, stalking and claiming the lives of children who wander too far into the darkness.

CCA Cinema: Singing the Wooden House & Out of Whose Womb Comes the Ice

Trees in the forest

Kirsten Adkins (Scotland) & Karoliina Kantelinen (Finland): Singing the Wooden House

In April 2023 film-maker Kirsten Adkins travelled with a camera to a wooden house near the border town in Eastern Finland. The area was fought over during wars between 1939 and 1944. Some 400,000 people were evacuated as the border between Finland and the Soviet Union shifted. A 30 minute film installation blends film, family interviews, archive photographs, poetry and traditional song.

The film project comprises original poetry by Max Mulgrew, and composed song by Finnish singer and composer Karoliina Kantelinen.

 

Michael Begg (Scotland): Out of Whose Womb Comes the Ice

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.

CCA Club Room: FR33 J4ZZ: Cancelled
Robotic trombone player

Unfortunately FR33 J4ZZ is no longer being presented due to illness. 

Morten Ladehoff’s mechanical jazz trombonist takes up residence in the Club Room, freely improvising and allowing its creativity to flourish, FR33 J4ZZ allows an autonomous machine to captivate and enthral…or alienate and baffle…it’s a thin line!

FR33 J4ZZ will also appear in the hall foyers before concerts with a particularly prominent trombone feature!

 

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.

The Third Eye bar will be open each night, as composers, creators, performers, programmers, producers and audiences mix, socialise, and find new musical experiences behind every door. Wednesday night's programme in the Theatre jumps between the old and the new, with a Norwegian Psalm tune, a customised horn, and a special collaboration between musicians and storytellers that looks ahead to Hallowe'en. The Cinema screens a fascinating film that reflects on the history of the Finnish-Russian border, and the Club Room is filled with the melifluous sound of a robotic jazz trombone.

Tickets £10/ £6

Wednesday Festival Club programme is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, Arts and Culture Norway, and the Cockaigne Fund