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OK – so we’re just over half-way through this year’s festival and it’s fair to say that it’s been an interesting couple of weeks… What an amazing start to our 10th anniversary festival – Colin Currie and Fabiana Galante/Luis Conde both performing to capacity audiences in the Cowdray Hall and then the following evening, premieres from Red […]

sound seeks local singers to join a specially formed community choir who will rehearse and perform a newly commissioned work by locally based composer, Dr Phillip Cooke, entitled By Reason of Darkness. This new work is specifically designed to be performed outdoors and will open this year’s sound festival! All levels of singing experience are […]

New Music Scotland SHOWCASE CALL: “In Cahoots” New Music Scotland is hosting “In Cahoots”, a Conference on collaborations between new music and other art forms on the 23rd and 24th October 2015 in Aberdeen during the sound festival. Within the Conference there will be curated performances and showings of new collaborative work, and there will […]

The Garden, a work created by Zinnie and John Harris, to be featured in prestigious showcase   The Garden, a work commissioned by the sound Festival from Zinnie and John Harris for its critically-acclaimed “Out of the Box” opera weekend, has been selected for the prestigious Made in Scotland showcase it was confirmed 20 May […]

Earlier today Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs, announced in the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament that sound Festival has been awarded a grant of £130,000 for the 2015 Festival. We are delighted to have received a sufficient grant from Creative Scotland’s Open Fund to stage the 2015 Festival. We […]

3 exciting new opportunities have arisen to work with Red Note, Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble: * Administrator – 0.8FTE * Director of Access, Engagement and Participation Programme (0.5FTE Freelance) * Fundraiser (Freelance) The closing date for all applications is 5pm on 9th March 2015. For further information, please contact [email protected] (John Harris, Chief Executive), or […]

Applications now open to 14-18 year old composers to attend Sound and Music’s Summer School. This unique residential course, from 2-8 August 2015, helps students advance their composition skills through an inspiring and intensive week using the specialist facilities of the Purcell School of Music. Full of collaboration, fun, learning and creativity, 75 young composers […]

For their 2015 festivals, DanceLive and sound will jointly commission a number of new works for dance and new music. One of these will be a “Made in Aberdeen” commission. Brief To write a new work for dance and new music of between 20-40 minutes long that is “made” in Aberdeen. “Made” means rehearsed and […]

Shockwaves were felt widely today as the national arts body, Creative Scotland, pulled regular funding from sound, Scotland’s acclaimed new music Festival. Currently celebrating its 10th anniversary, sound is recognised internationally as a leading festival of new music and locally for its vibrant programme of concerts and community projects across the north east. The festival, […]

We can confirm that we intend to go ahead with the Maiden Stone performances this afternoon (Friday), despite the rain.  Please be prepared for delays, and dress appropriately for the weather.  Hiking boots, rain coats, and warm clothing recommended.  We may ask you not to use umbrellas due to the nature of the performance and […]

Following New Music Biennial performances of Three Fables at Woodend Barn in Banchory, Southbank Centre in London and Glasgow Royal Concert Halls as part of the Commonwealth Games celebrations, the NMC Recording is now available to buy and download from as little as £0.79! Download from NMC Download from iTunes Download from Amazon Artists: Crawford […]

We’re thrilled to be involved in a collaboration between five major arts organisations based in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City (Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Sound Festival, Deveron Arts, Woodend Barn and Gray’s School of Art) to deliver Skills Biennale 2014. The theme of Food And Sustainability creates a platform for five collaborations between artists and local food […]

Friday 25 July until Saturday 2 August Aberdeen International Youth Festival (AIYF) this year sees more than 1000 talented young people from across the Globe, and closer to home, come together to produce a diverse programme of dance, jazz, opera, orchestral, theatre and choral. The young people collaborate and celebrate their often diverse cultures and will put […]

sound, Scotland’s festival of new music, is seeking to appoint a freelance Festival Coordinator from approximately mid to late August to mid-November. The Festival Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating the logistics and smooth running of the 2014 sound festival which takes place from the 23rd October to the 10th November. The successful candidate will […]

Aberdeen Festivals Collective/Aberdeen Festivals is a newly formed group of festivals looking to work collaboratively to promote and market the city’s unique, exciting and diverse festival offering at a local, national and international level. The Collective is also committed to raising the cultural profile of Aberdeen, promoting the city as a culturally exciting and vibrant […]

Aberdeen-based instrumentalist/composer Ross Whyte and Glasgow-based folk singer/guitarist/composer Alasdair Roberts collaborate musically for the first time in a series of residencies in Braemar. They will take the opportunity of four separate periods throughout 2014, spent in the Braemar/Cairngorm Park area to explore the history, landscape, folklore and musical heritage of that location, researches which will […]

Suitably qualified organisations or individuals are being invited to tender for the contract to design the marketing materials for sound, Scotland’s Festival of New Music. The contract is to conceive, develop and deliver the festival identity and design work for the 2014 festival which runs from 23 October to 10 November 2014, and looking forward. […]

We’ve recently launched a crowdfunding project on sponsume to help raise funds towards the production of Joe Stollery’s small-scale opera The Maiden Stone!  The opera is based on Aberdeenshire legend of the Maiden Stone and will take place on location on Bennachie on 5th and 6th September 2014.  The story has it that a stranger […]

Aberdeen Festivals Collective Co-ordinator Aberdeen festivals collective is looking for a strategic, self-starter to help them develop a new collaboration between the festivals in Aberdeen, with the aim of raising the profile of the festivals, building their audiences and establishing Aberdeen as an exciting, innovative cultural centre. The post is part time, 2.5 days a […]

After an extensive and exciting application process which included the recent recruitment of five of Scotland’s top chamber ensembles, the Scottish Music Centre are delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for the third and final Composition Marathon! On Saturday 8th March ten of Scotland’s finest emerging and established composers will be paired […]

We regret to inform that Ed Jones’ concert tonight will not be going ahead due to illness, and we wish to apologise for any inconvenience caused. We hope to reschedule the event soon – please get in touch if you wish to be advised of these details in the future.  

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Music in the University in association with sound 2013 The Edinburgh Quartet King’s College Chapel Saturday 26 October 2013 Alan Cooper As the programme for Saturday evening’s performance intimated, this concert was part of “Beyond the Semitone” a symposium on Tuning, Scale Systems and Microtonality in Historical and Contemporary Contexts hosted by the University of […]

LUNCHBREAK CONCERT in association with sound 2013 ALEX SOUTH, Clarinet ABERDEEN ART GALLERY Saturday, 26 October 2013 Alan Cooper Extra chairs had to be found to accommodate the gratifyingly large audience that turned out to hear Alex South’s solo clarinet recital in Aberdeen Art Gallery on Saturday. The organisers even ran out of programmes, a […]

sound regrets to inform that musicians and dancers from Syrian group Ensemble Al-Kindi have unfortunately been unable to obtain visas to travel to the UK for their performance during sound festival on Friday 25 October. Although this is disappointing news, we are pleased that Al-Kindi founder and kanun player Julien Weiss will still be performing […]

I arrived in Scotland two weeks ago. One of the projects I have been working on is called  “A la pipeta !”, (a popular language expression in Argentina that means ” surprising!”) a contemporary approach to traditional instruments for pipers, soprano sax with electronics and electroacoustic music.  This piece  has been collaboratively created with electroacoustic music composer […]