For one night only! The Ballroom, Palace Hotel, Peterhead @ 7pm – Free. Dales Park School and Peterhead Central School will perform two shows that celebrate the benefits to a maritime community as well as warning of the dangers. The performances are the result of a nine-month collaboration between children, their teachers and professional musicians [...]
Are you interested in playing new music in Aberdeen? All welcome. sound, North East Scotland’s festival of new music, is forming soundlab, a collective of musicians who will rehearse and perform existing new music, newly commissioned works and works composed by local composers/members of the group. The group will be run by clarinettist Joanna Nicholson [...]
MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY In association with SOUND and THREE CITIES PROJECT ACOUSMATIC MUSIC BY: PETE STOLLERY, ROSS WHYTE, TROND LOSSIUS and SUK-JUN KIM MUSA, EXCHANGE STREET, ABERDEEN Sunday, 22 April 2012 The Three Cities Project links three northern cities, Aberdeen, Bergen and St. Petersburg. All three are seaports and both Aberdeen and Bergen are [...]
Are children more receptive to ‘difficult’ music? Pop (and definitely not classical) critic Alexis Petridis took his five-year-old daughter Esme to Whitstable to find out. Read more here
The everyday noise of three cities is captured for a fascinating Aberdeen-led investigation of sonic identity. By Kate Molleson in The Herald Not music … just sounds: maybe the hum of a fridge or the clunk of a front door; the whirr of a bicycle wheel, the drone of a motorway, the polyrhythmic tapping of [...]
As part of the 2012 festival opera weekend (1 – 4 November), sound is organising a bus tour to visit three site-specific operas on Saturday 3 November. We want to commission an opera or opera-themed work to be played on the bus during part of this journey. The work should be between 15 and 30 [...]
sound are pleased to be part of the Year of Creative Scotland 2012. We have been awarded funding from Creative Scotland to support our ‘Opera Weekend’ as part of sound 2012.
Lightspeed is a temporary light and sound installation extending over 100 metres, celebrating human power and speed. It is 100 years since the 100metre world record was first officially recognized and Lightspeed aims to capture the excitement and energy of this iconic race in the year that the Olympic and Paralympic games come to the [...]
Education and Outreach Officer sound (North East Scotland’s festival of new music) is seeking to appoint a part-time freelance Education and Outreach Officer. The Education and Outreach Officer will deliver existing activities and develop a strategic multi-year framework for workshops/projects involving new music performance and composition. The successful candidate will have a background in the [...]
