Sol, Stattu Kyr
Clare & Colin rehearsing a beautiful new work by Stefan Sand - New Words, New Instruments, New Duos tonight St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum do come!!
Rhona & Stephanie in rehearsal
Wonderful performances by many harps today at Edinburgh International Harp Festival. Beginning with a programme of solos performed by Elinor Evans, followed by a new suite featuring Rhona Smith & Stephanie Humphreys as soloists accompanied by the full Festival Orchestra of well over 30 harps.
Thanks to Isobel Mieras and Rosemary McKerchar for directing.
Here is a clip from the rehearsal with Rhona and Stephanie weaving magical textures.
Special mention to Ali Gillies for his technical and artistic support.
Thanks to Creative Scotland for supporting Rhona's involvement.
Notion by PreSonus
Ableton
Collide Final Part
Get yourself along to COLLIDE by Sean Logan and Angus Bradley. First 'Cryptic Night' of 2024.
Original music - all played live, motion capture, robots, live visuals - all on an epic scale.
We've been supporting Sean as part of DMS create for over three years and his latest show is just brilliant!
📅 Thursday 7 March
🕗 20:00
📍 CCA Glasgow
More information and tickets ➡️https://www.cryptic.org.uk/whatson/cryptic-nights-sean-logan/
Cryptic Glasgow
PRS Foundation Creative Scotland
Lesley's Behind the Scenes Prep for School Projects
This lovely little video is from one of our Associate Musicians, Lesley with some behind the scenes prep for school sessions for our LEARN programme. You can see here she is making fun little backing tracks for young people to jam along to with ThumbJam using Figurenotes colours. These kinds of tracks are fantastic in creating relaxed atmospheres in sessions and offering plenty of space for exploration.
Video Visual Description - Laptop with Logic Software open with several tracks, and in front an iPad with the app Thumbjam open. Lesley's hand is running up and down the app to play the notes on the app along with the backing track.
#DMSLearn #LEARN #BTS #BehindTheScenes #AccessibleMusic #Thumbjam #Figurenotes #Logic
iPad Fingers
working on a new creative project with Edinburgh Festival Fringe to create some mellow, chilled music to counteract the sometimes overwhelming busy city centre in August. Early days but already getting some lovely stuff
#DigitalOrchestra
#edfringe #CounterActiveComposition #iPadmusic #Thumbjam
ThumbJam
Jessica Teaches Our Associate Musician A Song
Young people who take part in #DMSLearn projects have the opportunity to express themselves through music. 🎼 Our Associate Musician, Abi, talks about how Jessica taught her a piece of music:
For weeks she had been singing this tune to me and playing bits of it on the keyboard, every time we worked together. Then she would gesture for me to play it but I had no idea what it was. She always seemed a bit frustrated that I didn't know it, so I asked her to teach me how to play it. I definitely didn't get it all right! It was my first time trying but I just love how delighted she was when I picked some of it up. I guess that was her way of communicating her music with me.
This project was funded through Aberdeenshire Council from Creative Scotland's Youth Music Initiative Funding. Live Life Aberdeenshire #YMusicMatters
Sean Logan Arrival - Recording Day 2
Day 2 of Sean's recording project. Lovely to be out at Castlesound Studios again! So excited for this music to be released in May!
Creative Scotland PRS Foundation
Clare Johnston Jam with Students at RCS
Improvised cascades from students at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland working with Clare Johnston Music today. Sharing experience of using music tech on many projects, and snippets about life as a disabled composer. Thanks to Oliver Iredale Searle for putting it all together (and taking the video clip!). Part of the Creative Composition Module with Drake Music Scotland
RCS Composition
ThumbJam
(Video of acoustic musicians and iPad musicians improvising together in a lecture room at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Entwine - Industry rehearsal
Karen, Chris & Kris were rehearsing Entwine at CCA Theatre this afternoon. Part of the fantastic Cryptic Glasgow this afternoon. Here is a clip of Chris testing out INDUSTRY- the middle section! It's going to be a fantastic gig tomorrow evening, 7pm at CCA.
Tickets - https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/cryptic-nights-entwine
Dyskinetic.
Chris Jacquin
Cryptic Glasgow
PRS Foundation Creative Scotland Sound and Music
MI.MU Ableton Embodme
#CrypticNights #MusicTechnology #glasgowmusic #NewMusic
In just over a week Karen Sutherland will present her fantastic new audio-visual work ENTWINE as part of Cryptic Nights. Here she is working on the MiMu glove programming for her zone - 'Future'
International Women's Day
Cryptic Glasgow
Playing live at CCA Glagow, 7pm next Thurs 16th March, Dyskinetic.
Tickets here - https://tinyurl.com/2p8rfmud
Creative Scotland PRS Foundation MI.MU Ableton
Please share sign this vital petition from Sanjeev Mann aka Supermann on da beat.
The petition is asking the UK government to take action & make funding available to make venues fully accessible and to improve access to stages, toilets, bars, and viewing areas fully accessible to disabled people!
We need more role models to show it's possible and Sanjeev is a great example.
SIGN HERE
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/630579
READ SANJEEV'S FULL STATEMENT 👇🏽
‘For too long, the needs and rights of disabled people have been made secondary to financial costs and this isn’t good enough anymore. For a country that claims to be progressive, Scotland and the UK should be leading the way in making the world a more accessible place. But over the last 10 years, we haven’t made much progress in terms of physical accessibility and raising awareness about the importance of this and how it impacts the lives of millions of disabled people They recognise the core issue but do nothing about it. For example, people acknowledge that they want equality and want all buildings to be accessible, yet nobody feels obliged to do anything so we can move forward. To deliver change everyone must share responsibility for the world around them without expecting others, in this case, disabled people, to push for equal access.
In terms of the arts, there seems to be a common misconception that disabled people don’t really exist. There are reasons why you can’t name 5 disabled musicians from the top of your head. Why? There are two main reasons. Firstly, people have very low expectations and they’re shocked and surprised when they realise that disabled people can be equally successful as their able-bodied counterparts - this idea needs to change. Secondly, how can you expect equality when disabled people often can’t access stages to perform? Millions of musicians start their careers by performing at small local independent venues, but for disabled people, this just is
Liveheart utterly smashed it at our MusicSPACE Christmas gig on Tuesday! Well done to you & to all the magnificent acts, supported by our talented team of Associate Musicians 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎄🎄🎶🎶
Can't wait to be part of Sound Festival later today.
We're opening the festival with a premiere performance of Room to Breathe by Sonia Allori!
5pm in the Anatomy Rooms.
Here is a sneak preview from the last movement 'Take a Deep Breath'.
https://sound-scotland.co.uk/event/room-to-breathe
Nevis Ensemble PRS Foundation Creative Scotland
#newmusic #digitalmusic #ipad #aberdeen
