Press 2012
You can download a copy of our current press release for sound 2012.
Press contact for further information on sound, images and interviews:
Lesley Booth, tel 07799 414 474, [email protected]
Press coverage
Previews and reviews of sound events will be listed here as they become available.
- A Caedmon Symphony – 18 November 2012
“Electro-acoustic elements were merged comfortably, sometimes almost subliminally with choral or orchestral textures…”
[full review] [event details] - Red Note Ensemble – 17 November 2012
“Saturday’s concert was a dazzling multi-media event and as Jahanshahi sang his songs, beautifully calligraphed titles in Arabic script were shown on screen behind the performer along with an English translation…”
[full review] [event details] - BBC SSO + University Music Prize – 16 November 2012
“a dazzling firework display for orchestra…”
[full review] [event details] - Canto Per Tre – 15 November 2012
“Something really magical happens when a piece of music finds a performer whose talent matches it to perfection…”
[full review] [event details] - NYCoS/NYOS Futures – 13 November 2012
“a lustrous performance of a work that imbues traditional melodic and harmonic language with new life…”
– The Herald [full review] [event details] - Daniel’s Beard at Migvie – 12 November 2012
“A row of gas lamps lit the way to the door of the ancient looking little church but once inside I was in a different world entirely – a church certainly, but a modern bijou arts centre as well…”
[full review] [event details] - Aberdeen Sinfonietta – 11 November 2012
“An easily accessible and attractive work for strings alone…”
[full review] [event details] - NYOS Futures and NYCoS – 11 November 2012
“Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams was on top form with his movingly dramatic solos…”
[full review] [event details] - NYOS Futures with Richard Craig – 10 November 2012
“The range of timbres available from this giant flute was remarkable…”
[full review] [event details] - NYOS Futures with Elisabeth Chojnakca – 9 November 2012
“There have been several really fine performances at this year’s sound Festival but this must rank as one of the very best…”
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- Rolf Hind, piano – 8 November 2012
“This was a splendidly revealing performance…”
[full review] [event details] - Rolf Hind – French piano music of the 20th Century – 8 November 2012
“amazing delicacy, carefully judged pacing, expressive phrasing…”
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- Ruth Wall – The girl with three harps – 7 November 2012
“three harps and twelve very different pieces amounted to a real adventure through the world of an instrument we do not normally hear to any extent…”
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- Roger Williams, Organ recital – 6 November 2012
“from start to finish, this was a thrilling virtuoso performance from Roger Williams tackling some very challenging music…”
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- The Kungsbacka Trio – 5 November 2012
“the jagged rhythms of the opening movement were given a tingling brilliance by the glittering piano playing…”
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- Sound Festival: Out of the Box Various venues, Aberdeen
– 5 November 2012
“the operas themselves were fresh, often challenging, and boldly fed off their unconventional surroundings…”
– The Scotsman [full review] [event details]
- Sound Festival premieres, various venues, Aberdeen, Scotland
– 5 November 2012
“[sound] opens the world of opera to creators and audiences who feel inhibited by or excluded from its institutional conventions. And it gives those of us with more traditional ideas of music theatre a whiff of the creative zeitgeist…”
– Financial Times [full review] [event details]
- Sound festival, various venues, Aberdeen and Fraserburgh
– 5 November 2012
“New operas in unusual places was the core theme of Sound 2012. Performances were scheduled for stables, a pub, a lighthouse, even a moving bus…”
– The Herald [full review] [event details] - The Garden – 2 November 2012
“The extreme intimacy of the experience made it seem almost like a performance on television except that we were our own cameramen…”
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- Trevor Wishart, Encounters – 2 November 2012
“This was an amazing journey for the ears, for the mind and even at times for the emotions. Thank-you Trevor Wishart for letting us take a glimpse into your fabulous universe of sound…”
[full review] [event details] - Madeleine Mitchell and Nigel Clayton – 1 November 2012
“Two of the composers in this year’s programme were in the Hall to hear their pieces performed and there is no doubt that all the composers living or dead could not have hoped to hear their music performed with a greater degree of technical wizardry or artistic sympathy…”
[full review] [event details] - The Sloans Project – 1 November 2012
“It was amazing and often quite magical…”
[full review] [event details] - Derek Buchan, piano – 28 October 2012
“an attractive atmospheric piece that did evoke visions of a Japanese garden full of carefully contoured greenery and limpid waters. The harmonies were devoid of heat or emotion and the musical textures wonderfully clean and clear…”
[full review] [event details] - Three Cities Project finale – 27 October 2012
“The choice of perspective, of light of angles and cropping of the photograph are just some of the processes employed by the visual artist and the artist in sound must make similar editing judgements…”
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- The opera with everything and the kitchen sink – 26 October 2012
“Composer-playwright duo John and Zinnie Harris premiere The Garden at this year’s Sound Festival – proof positive of an artform that is really pushing the boundaries…”
– The Herald [full article] [event details]
- Interview with Madeleine Mitchell – 25 October 2012
“Mitchell’s involvement with Sound – which extends to educational workshops at the Aberdeen Music School – is completely in tune with the festival’s adventurous spirit and its well-established ambitions to break down the barriers of new music…”
– The Scotsman [full interview] [artist biography]
- Public Service Broadcasting – 25 October 2012
“it was astonishing that only two performers could create such a rich and fulsome tide of sound…”
[full review] [event details]
- Primrose Piano Quartet – 25 October 2012
“the Quartet has managed to pull a splendid contemporary piece out of the bag to surprise and delight the audience…”
[full review] [event details] - Sounding Drawing – 20 October 2012
“delicate abstract electro-acoustic creations, sounds generated from the movements of pencil or felt-tip pen on paper…”
[full review] [event details] - The One Ensemble with Screen Bandita – 19 October 2012
“a kaleidoscopic ever-changing succession of sound textures which matched the changing visuals…”
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To read reviews of previous sound festival events please visit our past festivals page and follow the links marked ‘press’.
