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Opportunity for singers to perform a new work at this year’s sound festival!

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 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 […]

Press Release: sound festival commission selected for Made in Scotland 2015

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 […]

Press Release: sound awarded project funding from Creative Scotland for 2015-2016

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 […]

Red Note Ensemble vacancies

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 […]

Sound and Music Summer School 2015 – applications now open

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 […]

Apply to be a Young Programmer!

News from Aberdeen Festivals

4 star review of ‘The Garden’, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

Made in Aberdeen commission for sound and DanceLive

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 […]

The Herald: ‘Composers express anger at funding cut for music festival’

Festival 2014 blog: Pete Stollery, chair of sound ‘Halfway through…’

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 […]

Press release: ‘Shockwaves as arts body pulls regular funding from Scotland’s acclaimed new music festival’

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, […]

**** review by David Kettle The Scotsman

**** review by Kate Molleson The Guardian

P&J: North-east music festival to celebrate 10th anniversary

The List: sound festival 2014 line-up announced

The Maiden Stone – weather update

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 […]

P&J: Tasty culture project across Aberdeenshire

NMC Recording ‘Three Fables’ – available to buy now!

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 […]

Skills Biennale 2014

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 […]

STV Aberdeen: musical duo create world’s first Doric opera

Aberdeen International Youth Festival

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 […]

Job Vacancy: Freelance p/t Festival Coordinator

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 […]

Invitation to tender for concept and design of logo for Aberdeen Festivals Collective

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 […]

Video – GRIND at Transition Extreme Skatepark, Aberdeen

When two worlds collide – interview with Samuel Bordoli

New Approaches to Traditional Music Residency

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 […]

Invitation to Tender: Design and production of marketing materials

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. […]

Composer Stephen Montague chats about New Music Biennial commission

Support The Maiden Stone – an outdoor opera!

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 […]

Vacancy with Visit Aberdeen: Festivals Coordinator

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 […]

Scottish Music Centre: Composition Marathon

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 […]

Cancellation notice: Ed Jones

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.  

sound 2013 online survey

We’ve created a short online survey for you to give us some feedback on your experience of sound events.     Alternatively you can contact us by whichever means you prefer. We’re grateful for your time, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Review: Scotland on Sunday

review: The Edinburgh Quartet

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 […]

Review: Alex South, New York Counterpoint

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 […]

Programme alteration: Ensemble Al-Kindi

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 […]

Dervishes and spacemen set for sound festival

Interview in the Scotsman with flautist Richard Craig

The Herald profiles poet Billy Letford and the Framed Against The Sky project

soundlab rehearsal Sun 20 Oct

sound invites musicians in the NE to come along to ‘soundlab‘, a newly formed contemporary music group led by clarinettist Joanna Nicholson. The group will be getting together for a rehearsal this Sunday in anticipation of a performance in Newton Dee on Sat 9 Nov during sound festival. These rehearsals will look at contemporary pieces some […]

soundgeneration

–       Are you between 12 and 26 and from the NE of Scotland? –       Interested in composing and/or performing new music? soundgeneration is a brand new programme of workshops and events offering you opportunities to develop your performing and composing skills. You can take part as much or as little as you like – attending […]