sound

Exhibition opening Monday 28 October 6pm (Exhibition will run until Sun 3 November) This exhibition sees the culmination of an adventure into collaborative partnerships between visual artists/designers from Gray’s School of Art and musicians/composers from the University of Aberdeen’s Music department. You are warmly invited to view/listen to what the collaborators have created.

Joanna Nicholson, clarinet and Richard Craig, flute sound invited composers from around the world were invited to submit brief scores written in response to a piece of artwork held in Aberdeen Art Gallery. This afternoon you can hear the selected scores which will be premièred next to their respective visual inspirations. More: Read a review

Tonight we celebrate the life and work of experimental British composer Jonathan Harvey who sadly died towards the end of 2012. Harvey’s contributions to music are profound and hugely influential. The screening of Barrie Gavin’s new portrait film seeks to explore Harvey’s musical and philosophical world by means of a journey outward from his own […]

Air Field presents Fault Planes (world première) Bill Thomson (sound artist), Ian Spink (director/choreographer), Steinvor Pallson (dancer) in collaboration with Scottish film-maker Alan Paterson. “Millions of years ago England drove into Scotland. Things have never been quite the same since. What happens when continents collide? What does it feel like and… where are we now?” […]

This concert and conversation celebrates the recent publication of Joachim Steinheuer / Rohan de Saram “Conversations”. The book is a fascinating portrait of Rohan’s musical life from early years in Sri Lanka through six decades and counting, as a world-renowned soloist and chamber musician. A patron of sound, Rohan’s work spans both western classical music […]

Internationally acclaimed percussionist Joby Burgess brings us Powerplant, an inspiring collaboration with sound designer Matthew Fairclough and visual artist Kathy Hinde. In a lavish audio feast the worlds of minimalism and electronic collide as Powerplant presents Steve Reich’s recently revitalized My Name Is and the landmark collaboration with composer Gabriel Prokofiev Import/Export – suite for global […]

(music with silent film) The Apollo Saxophone Quartet have handpicked a series of short films, many from the early experimental days of film in the early 1900s, and set them to original scores which bring these quirky, thought provoking, often bizarre films to light in a way that extends and enhances their original meaning, often […]

Currently on his Around Britten tour Matthew Barley pays homage to Benjamin Britten’s creativity and innovation, alongside a selection of new music. Dai Fujikura The Spirit of Beings (with electronics) Britten Cello Suite No.3 (with visuals) Giovanni Solima Lamentatio More: Read a review  

Currently on his Around Britten tour Matthew Barley pays homage to Benjamin Britten’s creativity and innovation, alongside a selection of new music. Gavin Bryars Laude Dolce John Tavener Chant Britten Cello Suite No.1 More: Read a review

By Stephen Deazley and Martin Parker with Andy McGregor (video artist) US Airforce test pilot, Joseph Kittinger’s death defying leap from the edge of space remains one of the pinnacles of mans’ achievements in space exploration. Iconic film footage of his fall to earth from the US Space Archive, has been recut to create an […]

Young composers, sound designers and musicians have been working with Stephen Deazley to create their own film scores set to ManHigh footage and will be showcasing their work.

Yorkshire come London lad, John Burton has made remarkable contributions to electronic, folk and experimental music since his primary exploring with an old computer he originally bought to write his Art School dissertation in 1998. Since then he’s released 5 critically acclaimed albums which combine elements of music concrete and electro acoustic music with voice […]

with Andrew Lewis and Lucy Kendra invisiblEARts, a group of Scottish composers specialising in acousmatic music (electronic music where the origins of the sounds are not visible), present a collection of audio works, rich in imagery, featuring new work by Pippa Murphy, Alistair MacDonald, Nick Virgo, Pete Stollery and Robert Dow. For this performance, the group […]

Exhibition runs Mon 28 October – Sun 3 November (Exhibition opening Monday 28 October 6pm) This exhibition sees the culmination of an adventure into collaborative partnerships between visual artists/designers from Gray’s School of Art and musicians/composers from the University of Aberdeen’s Music department. You are warmly invited to view/listen to what the collaborators have created.

Having reinvented the sound of The Last Days of Pompeii, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Inferno, the four composers of Italy’s Edison Studio perform live electronics to a recently reworked version of Alfred Hitchcock‘s Blackmail.

Newly created short films created from handmade, found, and recycled footage during SCRATCH workshops.

10 am – 5 pm, Sat 2 – Sat 9 November Glasgow-based German artist Torsten Lauschmann will be in residence at the Barn developing new work, Matter in the Wrong Place. Working with artist Charlie Hammond, they are planning to create a performance/screening which incorporates projections and objects, static and animated. The work will explore […]