Soundfestival2015

Scotland's Festival of New Music 22 October – 9 November 2015

Our funders, supporters and partners... sound collaborates with a network of local, national and international organisations, working in partnership to promote new music events during the festival and throughout the year. The 2015 network includes: Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts Forgue Church Glenbuchat Village Hall

Inverurie Music

Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall Newton Dee Community

St Andrew’s Cathedral

Many thanks to the following for their support of this year’s festival:

Hinrichsen Foundation

The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation

Astor of Hever Trust

Hugh Fraser Foundation

Aberdeen Endowments Trust

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Welcome

A warm welcome to this year’s festival!

Welcome to this year’s festival! sound offers the opportunity to discover a variety of new music, whether you live locally in Aberdeenshire and want to adventure into the world of contemporary creativity or whether you’re already a new music fan and want to combine a trip to this beautiful part of the world with your passion.

The 2015 programme is as usual wideranging. A variety of cross-art form works can be experienced during the first weekend of the festival. The second weekend focuses on modern contemporary classical music with performances by the renowned pianist Ian Pace and Ensemble Alternance from France.

Our partnership with French festival Musiques Démesurées will be celebrated this year through a focus on the organ.

As well as Roger Williams’ regular exploration of compositions for organ and electronics, Kevin Bowyer will also be joining us to première a new work by composer Jean-Luc Guionnet.

up to take part in the choir if you’d like to be more than just an audience member!

To conclude the festival we are delighted to welcome Krysia Osostowicz and Daniel Tong, who have commissioned ten new works to partner each of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas. This is a unique opportunity to hear the whole cycle, performed sideby-side in five different venues.

Add to all this Brian Irvine, Ian Wilson, Richard Ingham, Rohan de Saram, some brand new operas and an exciting new joint composition by six Scottish composers and you’ll have almost got a feel for this year’s festival!

The Australian Griffyn Ensemble will Do come and join us in another new be featured alongside our Associate music adventure…

Ensemble Red Note in a joint concert launching the festival, exploring the night skies of both southern and northern hemispheres. It will be preceded by a new work for community choir by Aberdeenbased composer Phillip Cooke, so do sign Fiona Robertson, Festival Director

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Booking information & Conferences

Booking Information Tickets for soundfestival events are available through Aberdeen Box Office unless otherwise indicated.

Online www.boxofficeaberdeen.com Tel 01224 641122 In person Music Hall Box Office, Union Street, Aberdeen Booking fees may apply. Events in the programme reflect our programme as of August 2015. This may be subject to change. For current programme details and updates please visit www.sound-scotland.co.uk

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Many of our performances last no longer than an hour and end times are indicated but may be approximate.

Conferences at sound We are delighted to host two conferences at sound this year. Performances during the conferences will be open to all.

FRIDAY 23 & SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER

FRIDAY 30 & SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER

In Cahoots Conference & Showcase Musical Modernity, the Beautiful and the Sublime New Music Scotland will host this conference on new music and other artform collaborations with speakers, workshops, performances and presentations of collaborative work. If you are a new music or other art form practitioner and would like to attend, please see www.newmusicscotland.co.uk for details.

Showcase events will be free and open to all - times and performances can be found on www.sound-scotland.co.uk nearer the time.

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In this interdisciplinary conference, hosted by sound and the University of Aberdeen, a range of scholars will consider the status of the beautiful and the sublime in contemporary Western art music. Beginning either from the musical repertoire or from philosophical theory, they will explore music that embodies conventional and innovative concepts of the beautiful and the sublime, drawing on the work of a range of key thinkers. If you are interested in being a delegate, please see http://bit. do/musicalmodernity for more details.

By Reason of Darkness

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In association with the University of Aberdeen Phillip Cooke’s By Reason of Darkness is a setting of sections of Job, verse 37.

Scored for a community choir* split into three around a central conductor and bells, this work is highly influenced by the Gaelic psalm singing found in the Western Isles, where multiple, heterophonic lines weave around each other.

6 – 6.30pm | King’s College Quad, Aberdeen | FREE

Thu 22 Oct

THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER

With the support of Aberdeen Endowments Trust. * See p25 to take part.

Between 6.30pm and 7.30pm, come and enjoy a bit of stargazing, weatherpermitting (or an inside tour of the night sky if not!). Presented by Aberdeen Astronomical Society at Kings College Quad.

Red Note Ensemble & Griffyn Ensemble In association with the University of Aberdeen photo: RT Photography

7.30 – 9pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) *Co-commissioned by sound and Red Note Ensemble.

With the support of The Leche Trust.

photo: Lindin Heap

What happens when Australian Aboriginal mythology collides with an Estonian composer? This concert, which marks the start of a new relationship between Australia’s The Griffyn Ensemble and Scotland’s Red Note Ensemble, brings Urmas Sisask’s Southern Sky from Australia to Aberdeen, to be partnered with a new work by Norwegian-based composer James Clapperton.

Urmas Sisask James Clapperton

Southern Sky Northern Sky*

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THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER – SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER

Thu 22 Oct – Sat 7 Nov

Collide Collude Collaborate exhibitions

In association with Gray’s School of Art (Robert Gordon University)

Two Worlds Collide

by Matthew Whiteside & Dominika Mayovich

This cross discipline installation uses sound and image to create an immersive emotional experience. It consists of 6 pods each housing a surrealistic painting accompanied by an ambient instrumental piece. Each individual painting also has a motion sensitive sound design element creating an interactive audiovisual artwork.

Co-commissioned by R-Space Gallery, Lisburn.

Bon Accord

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by Shaun Stables & Kaitlyn Dunsmore Aberdeen’s motto “Happy to meet, Sorry to part, Happy to meet again - Bon Accord!” encapsulates the character of the city perfectly. This installation explores the layers that create this welcoming ambience.

Commissioned by sound.

The Fabian Strategy

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by Gemma MacGregor & Craig Ellis

Seventeen, Aberdeen Tue, Thu – Fri: 10am – 5pm Wed: 1:30 – 5pm Sat: 10am – 4pm Closed on Sundays and Mondays FREE

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With the support of Aberdeen City Council Encounters programme.

Time, distance, territory, imperfection Four defining elements at the beginning of this collaboration; four things that gradually evolved through the process into a singularity. Circumstance has led to a journey akin to reciprocal surveillance where the artists let their mutual interest in the negotiation of systems unfold around the work.

Commissioned by sound.

In Cahoots Showcase events In association with New Music Scotland

Various times | ACT Aberdeen FREE

Over two days a number of Scottish composers and performers will be showcasing works in ACT Aberdeen as part of the In Cahoots Conference on cross-art form collaborations. More detail on performers and times will be on our website nearer the time.

Fri 23 Oct – Sat 24 Oct

FRIDAY 23 – SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER

FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER

The Wakeful Chamber

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In association with the University of Aberdeen

by Pippa Murphy (music) and Rebecca Sharp (words) A woman’s chronic somniphobia (fear of sleep) leads her to develop an elaborate system of rituals to survive the night.

Inspired by the work of Aberdeen’s Royal Astronomer Sir David Gill, alchemy, fantasy and bats, this new work explores what happens to our sensory perception when familiar routines are under threat.

6 – 7pm (Doors 5pm) | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £10 (+ booking fee). Including a pint, glass of wine or soft drink and a pie or veggie option.

Co-commissioned by sound, Aberdeen Performing Arts and Òran Mór as part of A Play, A Pie and A Pint Òran Mór Series.

(Also showing Tue 20, Wed 21, Thu 22 Oct 6 – 7pm & Thu 22 & Sat 24 Oct 1 – 2pm)

Sandglass

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In association with DanceLive

by Lucy Boyes (choreography) and Thomas Butler (music) Exploring a shared interest in memory, documentary, time and place, this new dance/music work is based upon an assemblage of recollections and shared experiences of people from Aberdeen.

8 – 8.30pm | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) soundconversation following the performance

Commissioned by sound and DanceLive with the support of Aberdeen City Council’s Made in Aberdeen programme.

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FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER (CONT)

Fri 23 Oct – Sat 24 Oct

Magnetic North: Requiem for Edward Snowden

by Matthew Collings (music) & Jules Rawlinson (visuals)

photo: Alex Woodward

9 – 10pm | ACT Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) The Belmont Filmhouse will be showing a special one off screening of Citizenfour, the documentary about Edward Snowden on Wednesday 14th October at 8.40pm. See belmontfilmhouse.com for more info.

This large scale live audiovisual performance piece focuses on a number of themes relevant to the 21st century, based around the actions of whistleblower Edward Snowden; loss of faith and security, invasion of privacy and personal sacrifice.

The piece explores the consequences of this situation through electronic sound, acoustic instrumentation and live visuals, through the gestures and performance from live electronics performers, a clarinetist and string section which are analysed and interact with the real-time visuals.

Red Note Ensemble: Noisy Nights!

In association with New Music Scotland

10pm onwards | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen FREE

Noisy Nights are the place to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices: they’re a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space and hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer. They’re fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for!) the musicians of Red Note.

SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER

Ensemble Thing: You Can’t Get There From Here

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In association with Aberdeen Art Gallery and Lunchbreaks at Cowdray Hall

1 – 2pm | ACT Aberdeen FREE

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soundconversation following the concert

Can six composers truly collaborate on a single composition? The question came up after a residency at Cove Park in 2014 and the unique process that emerged entails six fragments of music being passed among the group before each finds its final form in the hands of one composer. The performance by Ensemble Thing is the result of this collaboration by Scottish composers Sonia Allori, Colin Broom, John De Simone, Drew Hammond, Francis Macdonald and Oliver Searle.

Encouraging New Opera

Promoted by the University of Aberdeen & Scottish Opera 24 Oct, 3pm & 7.30pm | 25 Oct, 3pm Butchart Recreation Centre, Aberdeen University £10, £5 (conc), free (students)

For the last two years, Scottish Opera has been working with undergraduate writers and composers at the University of Aberdeen to encourage the next generation of opera makers. Guided by experienced mentors, last year’s students created two short operas which premiered at 2014’s soundfestival. This year, the Company is working with two more pairs of students who will present their own short operas.

Sat 24 Oct & Sun 25 Oct

SATURDAY 24 & SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER

Cryptic: The Little Match Girl Passion In association with Aberdeen Performing Arts

photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

8 – 9.15pm | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £12, £10 (+ booking fee) u26, £5 (students)

David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Little Match Girl Passion, directed and designed by Josh Armstrong is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s heart-breaking tale and J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

In a unique presentation of this previously unstaged masterpiece, the tragic story of the little match girl is brought to life by vocal ensemble and percussion. Reverent and gracious, J.S. Bach’s commemorative masterpiece Jesu Meine Freude acts as a poignant precursor to the fragile beauty of the little match girl.

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SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER (CONT)

Sat 24 Oct – Sun 25 Oct

Ivan Ilić, piano

Promoted by Inverurie Music JS Bach

photo: Michelle Biloux

8 – 9.30pm | Kemnay Church Centre, Inverurie £12, £9, £1 (child) (tickets also available from Morgan’s Music, Inverurie or on the door on the night)

Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier Scriabin Selected preludes from op 11 Guirlandes op 73 Scott Wollschleger Music without Metaphor Brontal no 6 Beethoven Rondo in C major, op 51 no 1 Reicha 6 Fugues Beethoven Variations in F Major, op 34

In Cahoots Late Night Showcase in association with New Music Scotland

9.30pm onwards | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen FREE

Discover a variety of Scottish performers and composers at an informal late night event. More detail on performers and times will be on our website nearer the time.

SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER

Turning the Elements

with Joanna Nicholson (clarinet) and Frances Cooper (voice)

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A colourful and captivating hour of music for voice and clarinet, featuring new settings by Scottish composers Rebecca Rowe and Stuart Murray Mitchell of specially commissioned poems by Jane McKie and Stewart Sanderson, exploring the natural world and our place within it. photo: Frances Cooper

3 – 4pm | Migvie Church, Tarland £9, £7, £4 (students, u18)

N.B. Warm clothing and robust footwear recommended (cold setting, access unpaved).

With support from the Astor of Hever Trust.

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Griffyn Ensemble Ghostly quiet, hauntingly beautiful music from the spheres. The Griffyn Ensemble (Australia) evokes the heavens with music for harp, flute and soprano. The centrepiece of the programme is Henryk Górecki’s Good Night, written for his good friend Michael Vyner who passed away in 1989. “Good night...flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

Sun 25 Oct – Tue 27 Oct

SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER (CONT)

8 – 9pm | Glenbuchat Village Hall, Strathdon £9, £7, £4 (students, u18)

TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER

Kevin Bowyer (organ)

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In association with Musiques Démesurées and the University of Aberdeen As part of an ongoing partnership between Clermont-Ferrand’s Musiques Démesurées festival and sound, the two organisations have commissioned a new work for organ by French composer Jean-Luc Guionnet, which will be performed alongside Peter Maxwell Davies’ Capstone.

1.10 – 1.50pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen

soundconversation following the concert

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Organ (e)

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In association with Musiques Démesurées and the University of Aberdeen

Geoffrey Veyrines (electronics) and Oliver Dec (organ) 7.30 – 8.30pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18)

A digital mix for the organ. In the quest for subtle sonoric effects, Organ(e) invites you on an introspective sensorial journey performed and mixed live with four hands and two feet.

Co-production B-pi and Musiques Démesurées with the participation of Studio Blatin, l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Clermont-Métropole and NORSCQ Supported

by Clermont-Communauté and Drac Auvergne.

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THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER

Thu 29 Oct

Athenaeum Winds

In association with Aberdeen Art Gallery & Lunchbreaks at Cowdray Hall photo: Louise Mather

Oliver Searle’s Pilgrim of Curiosity is inspired by the hundreds of religious buildings visited throughout his extensive travelling. The result is an exploration of the amalgamations of culture through a number of musical memories and references.

12.45 – 1.30pm | Aberdeen Citadel FREE WP Rohan de Saram (cello & Kandyan drum), Suren de Saram (marimba, Kandyan drum & drum kit) & Ryan Drucker (piano)

Promoted by Woodend Barn and Woodend Music Society photo: Jane Baker

7.30 – 9.30pm | Woodend Barn, Banchory £12, £10 (seniors), £5 (students, under 18s and jobseekers)

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Three outstanding musicians explore the concept of line in music. The programme will include extracts from Bach’s Suites for solo cello, Xenakis Kottos, Yun Glisseés and the premiere of Rohan de Saram's Fantasy on Traditional Music of Sri Lanka for Kandyan drum and cello. In addition, short pieces by Granados, de Falla, Fauré and Schumann.

The Locked Door

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Promoted by the University of Aberdeen

by Gemma McGregor 29 Oct, 7.30pm & 30 Oct, 3pm & 8.30pm (performances last one hour) | Butchart Recreation Centre, Aberdeen University £10, £5 (conc), free (students)

The Locked Door, a new chamber opera, is based on real events that took place in Sussex during World War II. Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is at home with his wife, Adeline, when an air raid starts and an unexpected visitor arrives. Ralph must go to carry out his wartime duties as fire-watcher, leaving Adeline with this much younger woman who loves Vaughan Williams and has broken social etiquette by coming to the marital home.

Thu 29 Oct – Fri 30 Oct

THURSDAY 29 & FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER

FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER

Finding the Beauty and Wonder in Modern Music In association with the University of Aberdeen

Talk with Dr Edward Campbell

11.45am – 12.30pm | MacRobert Building, Aberdeen

For many listeners, beauty does not spring readily to mind when thinking of new music. While some new music is undoubtedly beautiful in a conventional sense, many contemporary composers are either suspicious of beauty, unconcerned with it, oppose it or even seek to redefine it. Others again suggest that contemporary music is less concerned with beauty than with the sublime, a rich concept encapsulating wonder, intensity and much more.

Aberdeen University lecturer Dr Edward Campbell provides insight into forthcoming performances by Ensemble Alternance and Ian Pace.

FREE

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FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER

Fri 30 Oct

Ensemble Alternance

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In association with the University of Aberdeen French Ensemble Alternance join us for a series of two concerts. The first is dedicated to the music of French composer Raphaël Cendo, one of the leading exponents of saturated music.

Rokh is an enormous mythological bird from the Thousand and One Nights, the keeper of the Tree of Knowledge of the Garden of Hesperides and symbol of renewal and immortality. Cendo explores the themes of life, death and resurrection through the work’s three movements.

12.45 – 1.30pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18)

Raphaël Cendo

Rokh for flutes, violin, cello and piano

The performances of Ensemble Alternance at soundfestival are supported by Diaphonique (a franco-british contemporary music fund supported by the Institut Français, the SACEM, the Bureau export de la musique, the British Council and the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication).

Ian Pace, piano

In association with the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall photo: Luis Castilla

6.30 – 7.30pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) The performances of Ian Pace at soundfestival are supported by Diaphonique (a franco-british contemporary music fund supported by the Institut Français, the SACEM, the Bureau export de la musique, the British Council and the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication).

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Internationally-acclaimed virtuoso Ian Pace presents a rare opportunity to hear the complete cycle of Pascal Dusapin’s Etudes pour piano, which he premiered in 2002 and of which he made a muchacclaimed recording for Naïve Records, alongside UK premieres of two more recent works, the quicksilver Schnell and more pensive 1er février 2007.

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Schnell 1er février 2007 Etudes pour piano

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Ian Pace, piano

In association with the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Lunchbreak Concerts at Cowdray Hall

1 – 1.45pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen FREE

Brian Ferneyhough Helmut Lachenmann Brice Pauset

Quirl Serynade Étude

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Ian Pace’s second concert contrasts the brilliance of composer Brice Pauset’s Etude, here receiving its UK premiere, with the labyrinthine hyper-detail, stretching the limits of perception, of Brian Ferneyhough’s most recent piano work and the imposing and terrifying extended study in sonority and resonance for piano, Serynade by Helmut Lachenmann.

Sat 31 Oct

SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER

Ensemble Alternance

In association with the University of Aberdeen

7– 8pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) Geoffroy Drouin Cinq méditations sur Le Bernin Ricardo Nillni Wipe, Boom, Wipe* Brice Pauset Euridyce** * Commissioned by the Ministère français de la Culture et de la Communication. ** Commissioned by the SACEM.

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In this second concert, Ensemble Alternance explore the music of three contemporary composers. Ricardo Nillni is interested in purity of form and the work of visual artists such as Dan Flavin and Sol Lewitt. Geoffroy Drouin’s composition has its origins in the emotional and analytic drama of certain pieces by baroque sculptor Bernini. Brice Pauset, who eschews metaphor, intends that his music should write itself, in compositions that are polyphonically complex and which look to the medieval and baroque musical past.

Dr Roger B. Williams, organ Promoted by Forgue Church

7.30 – 8.30pm | Forgue Church FREE

This recital will comprise new and recently written music for organ and will include works which mix electronics and organ. The pipe organ will be used as a sound resource to explore the hinterland between sound and silence and sound and music, in order to challenge assumptions about its provenance. The programme will comprise works by Bill Thompson, Pete Stollery, Claire Singer, Roger Williams, John McLeod and Messaien.

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SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER

Sat 31 Oct – Tue 3 Nov

Orphaned Limbs Collective: The Witching Hour

by Ross Whyte (music) and Thania Acarón (dance)

The Witching Hour is a dance theatre work inspired by the folklore and dark history surrounding Japan’s Aokigahara Forest. This performance will coincide with the launch of Ross Whyte’s new album, Kaidan. photo: Colin Thom

With support from Aberdeen City Council’s Made in Aberdeen programme.

7.30 –10pm | Anatomy Rooms, Marischal College, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER

David J. Smith, organ

In association with the University of Aberdeen photo: Kate Sutherland

Improvisation by its very nature is contemporary – the spontaneous creation of new music. In this recital, David J. Smith will include a free contemporary-style improvisation alongside a set of variations.

1.10 – 1.50pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen FREE

Dr Roger B. Williams, organ 7.30 – 8.30pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen | £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) soundconversation with the composers @ 8.30pm

This recital will explore the interface between acoustic and electronically produced sounds.

Bill Thompson deliberately blurs the line, Pete Stollery exploits the situation of the performer hidden from view, while Roger Williams explores unexpected sounds in an eerie world of half shadows.

Bill Thompson

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WP Beneath the Darkening Sea WP Pete Stollery Pipeline Roger B. Williams Ombres Cachées WP Ligeti Volumina And works by Claire Singer and Paul Tierney.

Beethoven Plus 1: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano In association with Aberdeen Performing Arts

Wed 4 Nov

WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER

photo: Sara Lipowitz

1 – 2pm | Music Hall, Aberdeen £8, £6 (APA friends, concessions & groups.)

Additional £4 for lunch.

Beethoven Plus is supported by Arts Council England, Hinrichsen Foundation, Radcliffe Trust, Holst Foundation, RVW Trust and PRS for Music Foundation.

Part of Aberdeen Performing Arts Culture Café lunchtime series.

Beethoven Plus is a Beethoven cycle with a new dimension: Krysia and Daniel invited ten composers to each write a short companion piece inspired by one of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas. These new pieces – each about 5 minutes long – are heard together with the original sonatas, creating conversations between living composers and Beethoven, and shedding new light on what Beethoven’s music means to us today. The ten pairs will be played in five concerts over the next six days. Today’s concert comprises two of these pairs: Jonathan Dove Beethoven Huw Watkins Beethoven

Ludwig Games Violin Sonata no. 1 in D major, op. 12, no. 1 Spring Violin Sonata no. 5 in F major, op. 24, “Spring”

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THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER (CONT)

Thu 5 Nov – Fri 6 Nov

Beethoven Plus 2: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano In association with Aberdeen Art Gallery and Lunchbreaks at Cowdray Hall Matthew Taylor Beethoven

12.45 – 1.30pm | Aberdeen Citadel FREE

Tarantella Furiosa Violin Sonata no. 9 in A major, op. 47 “Kreutzer”

(see page 15 for details on the series of Beethoven Plus concerts)

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Adolphe Sax at 200: A Genius Who Makes a Noise Promoted by the University of Aberdeen

with Richard Ingham (saxophone) Saxophonist Richard Ingham performs eight new works by leading Scottish composers, celebrating Adolphe Sax’s bicentenary. An eclectic mix of contemporary classical, traditional music and jazz.

Featuring Richard with composers / performers: Sally Beamish, Mary Ann Kennedy, Martin Kershaw, Richard Michael, Pete Stollery, James Ross, Fraser Burke, Stuart Semple.

7.30 – 8.30pm | King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen £10, £5 (conc), free (students)

FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER

Beethoven Plus 3: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano In association with Newton Dee Community 7.30 – 8.30pm | Phoenix Hall, Newton Dee £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) (see page 15 for details on the series of Beethoven Plus concerts)

Elspeth Brooke Beethoven Philip Venables Beethoven

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Swoop Violin Sonata no. 3 in E flat major, op. 12, no. 3 Beethoven op. 30/2, Bars 107–112 Violin Sonata no. 7. in C minor op. 30, no. 2

13 Vices with Red Note Ensemble & Ensemble Doubt In association with Woodend Barn, NEAT and Buchanan Food

by Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe 13 Vices explores the weird, humorous, dark and exotic world of contemporary vices - the bad habits, the guilty pleasures, beloved deadly sins, the inane and profound proclivities we all share. Think Pierrot Lunaire meets apeshit jazz - think re-imagined scenes from your favourite trash TV programme or the gentle hypnotic dialogue of beauty product ads as sung by Edith Piaf - think wild sonic explosions of Ornette Coleman mashed up with the frustrated sentimental lyricism of John McCormick as heard from a dodgy, stuttering CD player.

7 – 9pm | Woodend Barn, Banchory £12, £8 (students) Price includes a bowl of hearty & delicious food.

Food is served from 7pm, followed by the performance.

Fri 6 Nov –Sat 7 Nov

FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER (CONT)

Part of Curious, a curated series of evening events sharing food and contemporary music, dance and theatre with like-minded people.

13 Vices is supported through Beyond Borders from the PRS for Music Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales.

SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER

Promenade Concert

In association with Aberdeen Art Gallery and Lunchbreaks at Cowdray Hall

9.30 – 11am | Maritime Museum, Aberdeen FREE

Following last year’s successful first promenade concert, join us for rowies & tea/coffee before making your way through the Maritime Museum to discover three short new music performances by Robert Irvine (cello), Matthew Whiteside (electronics) and Emma Lloyd (viola d’amore), and Joanna Nicolson (clarinet) and Peter McRae (dance/movement). All ages welcome in this relaxed and informal discovery of a variety of new music.

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SATURDAY 7 & SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER

Sat 7 Nov & Sun 8 Nov

Granite! Sound trailblazer

In association with SERG, the National Theatre of Scotland and SHMU

photo: Lucy Kendra

Daily at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm | Locations: Please see website for more information FREE

photo: Sid Scott

As part of National Theatre of Scotland’s Granite! celebration of Aberdeen, join us for a one-hour sound walk with accompanying radiophonic soundtrack listened to over headphones, composed by Pete Stollery and Suk-Jun Kim, featuring music by Phillip Cooke and students on the MMus Sonic Arts programme at the University of Aberdeen and broadcast by SHMU. A number of locations, or dwelling points, will be joined together via the walk and will reflect an aspect of granite and the history of Aberdeen through sound and around themes of excavating and exporting.

SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER

Beethoven Plus 4: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano In association with Aberdeen Art Gallery, Lunchbreaks at Cowdray Hall and St Andrew’s Cathedral 12 –1pm | St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen FREE

(see page 15 for details on the series of Beethoven Plus concerts)

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Jeremy Thurlow Champagne Plus Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 8 in G Major, op. 30, no. 3 Kurt Schwertsik On the Way to Heiligenstadt Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 6 in A major, op. 30, no. 1

The Last Siren: Lauren Kinsella and The Quiet Club music by Ian Wilson, director Ksenija Krnajski

Sat 7 Nov

SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER (CONT)

photo: Sara B. Healy

photo: Aga Tomaszek

8 – 9pm | The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £9, £7, £4 (students, u18)

photo: Ed Cashman

A staged work for improvising singer and sound art collective, The Last Siren is a surprising and exciting combination of myth, opera and ‘happening’ which features some of the finest talents in their respective fields. By turns moving and dramatic, this is an unforgettable sonic and theatrical experience.

The Last Siren was made possible with funding through Beyond Borders from the PRS for Music Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales.

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SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER

Sun 8 Nov – Mon 9 Nov

High Heels and Horse Hair: Nocturnal In association with The Salmon Bothy, Portsoy

With Alice Rickards (violin) and Sonia Cromarty (cello). Lighting design by Kai Fischer

4 – 5pm | Salmon Bothy, Portsoy £9, £7, £4 (students, u18) *Commissioned by Enterprise Music Scotland.

Nocturnal creatures generally have a highly developed sense of hearing and sight. This performance of night music invites the audience to explore how their senses respond to light and sound after dark.

Judith Weir Biber

New work* The Annunciation from the Mystery Sonatas Schnittke Stille Musik Martin Suckling Nocturne John Zorn Zeitgehöft MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER

Beethoven Plus 5: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano Promoted by Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts 7.30 – 9.30pm | Queens Cross Church, Aberdeen £12, £6 (u25, people in receipt of benefits), free for accompanying carers (see page 15 for details on the series of Beethoven Plus concerts)

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Peter Ash Beethoven

A Major Chase Violin Sonata no 2 in A major, op. 12 no. 2 Judith Bingham The Neglected Child Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 4 in A minor, op. 23 David Matthews Sonatina Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 10 in G major, op. 96

soundsessions

serving up fresh new music at Musa!

FRIDAY 30/SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER & FRIDAY 6/SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER

Musa | 8pm – late Table bookings advised Musa is a haven from conformity and the mundane, where fresh, contemporary food lives alongside cutting-edge art and live music.

Join us at Musa in Aberdeen’s Merchant Quarter for some delicious food/a drink (or 2!), and enjoy live new music from the North East and beyond in to the wee hours in a relaxed, warm and friendly setting...

Please keep an eye on our website for details of performing artists coming soon!

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surroundsound

P.S. surroundsound surroundsound is a year-round programme of events. Here are a few happening just before or after the festival. See our website or join our mailing list for all the latest sound news.

SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER

Earth Sounds for dancer and amplified soil

Inverurie Music

Directed by Imogene Newland with performance by Thania Acarón and sound by Ross Whyte.

7.30pm | Riverside East, Robert Gordon University £3.50 on the door Earth Sounds explores soil as a medium of vibrational transference connecting the physical body to the earth and the sonic space of the city beyond. We examine the choreographic potential of the female body and the medium of soil as a metaphor for fertility, destruction and transformation.

SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER

Camilli Quartet 7pm | Cults Parish Church Donation Dvorak A. String Quartet, No. 12. opus 96. 'American' Traditional arranged Nandita Bhatia Ae fond kiss.

This traditional setting of Robert Burn’s poem has been arranged for classical string quartet. The three movements explore the unique elements of Scottish music and combine them with the rich tones and surprising harmonies of the string quartet.

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Maxwell String Quartet 8pm | Acorn Centre, Inverurie £12 (full); £9 (conc); £1 (child). Available in advance from Morgan's Music, Inverurie or on the door from 7.30pm Neilsen

String Quartet No 1 in G min, op13 Gareth Williams new commission for the Maxwell Quartet Schubert String Quartet No 15 in G maj D887 Plus another contemporary piece.

THURSDAY 19TH NOVEMBER

Bangalore Dreams Jazz at The Blue Lamp 8pm (Doors 7.30) | The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen £10, £8 (conc), £5 (students) A collaboration that continues to push musical boundaries, Bangalore Dreams’ captivating improvisation is rooted in Indian Carnatic jazz, interwoven with electronica, funk, Celtic folk, Bollywood and even hip-hop, creating divine harmonies and dazzling rhythms.

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER

Parapet Jazz at The Blue Lamp 8pm (Doors 7.30) | The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen £10, £8 (conc), £5 (students) An ensemble consisting of the best North East jazz musicians perform contemporary pieces written, arranged and led by Al Hyland.

Performances Family shows Free events Film Workshops & Talks

Š Atomos by Company Wayne McGregor. Image by Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp

Participate

Participate Participation, exploration and education are at the heart of sound’s mission. Some of the following opportunities are part of soundgeneration, a programme of contemporary music workshops and events for young people.

Visit www.sound-scotland.co.uk for more information.

Contact admin@sound-scotland.co.uk for all details and bookings.

SUNDAY 11 – TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER

Go Compose!

Timetable Sunday 11 October, 2-5pm / 6 – 8pm Monday 12 October, 10am – 5pm Tuesday 13 October, 10am – 5pm, plus performance including your piece at 6pm Go Compose! is a 3-day composition course for young composers and creative musicians aged 14-19 and in full time education. It's a unique opportunity to work with professional composers Oliver Searle and Usui Shiori and musicians from Red Note Ensemble.

Woodend Barn, Banchory | £45 Application deadline: Mon 28 Sept 2014 (Accommodation available by arrangement)

The best thing about Go Compose was hearing my piece being played by professional musicians!

Over the 3 days you will create your own, original piece of music which will be performed on 13 October, and you will also receive a recording of your piece. If you are enthusiastic about writing music and keen to try out new ideas then this is the course for you!

Places are limited to 15 so apply now!

In association with Red Note Ensemble, Sound and Music and Woodend Barn.

With support from Aberdeen Endowments Trust, the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust and The Robertson Trust.

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Join the By Reason of Darkness Community Choir Rehearsals Thursdays from 10th September – 15th October, 7 – 9pm and 22nd October, 3 – 5.30pm | MacRobert Building, University of Aberdeen Performance Thursday 22 Oct | 6 – 6.30pm | King’s College Quad, University of Aberdeen (see p. 3) FREE With support from the Aberdeen Endowments Trust.

We are seeking singers to join a community choir who will rehearse and perform a newly commissioned work by local composer, Phillip Cooke, entitled By Reason of Darkness. This new work is specifically designed to be performed outdoors and will open this year’s soundfestival!

Participate

THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER – THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER

The work is scored for soprano/alto/ baritone voices.

All levels of singing experience welcome.

SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER

Family music workshop with Joanna Nicholson & Frances Cooper 11.30am – 1pm | Logie Coldstone Village Hall £4

Join Frances and Joanna for a fun session of family creativity where you will make up your own mini-poem and set it to music. Don’t forget to bring your instrument if you play one! If not, we will have some for you to try...

WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER

Jean-Luc Guionnet: Improvisation, terms of influence In association with the University of Aberdeen

2 – 4pm | MacRobert Building, University of Aberdeen FREE

Above all, improvisation is related to a sort of freedom: that of the individual confronted by a place, other musicians and an audience.

Improvisation requires an awareness of this environment and some specific strategies (danger, power, collaboration, independence…) as well as a resulting sociological commitment (communication, responsibility, understanding, apprehension, decision). This workshop with French composer and improviser, Jean-Luc Guionnet, will explore the multiple relationships that take place between music and its environment, and how improvisation can be at the origin of composed music.

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Venues

Venues 1

Aberdeen Citadel 28 Castle Street Aberdeen AB11 5BG

2 Aberdeen Maritime

Museum Shiprow Aberdeen AB11 5BY

3 Acorn Centre

W High St Inverurie AB51 3SA

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The Anatomy Rooms Marischal College Shoe Lane Aberdeen AB10 1YS

5 Arts Centre &

Theatre Aberdeen (ACT Aberdeen) 33 King Street Aberdeen AB24 5AA 6 The Blue Lamp

Aberdeen 121 Gallowgate Aberdeen AB25 1BU 7 Butchart Recreation

Centre University of Aberdeen University Rd Aberdeen AB24 3UT 8 Cults Parish Church

1 Quarry Road Cults Aberdeen AB15 9EX

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9 Forgue Parish Church

18 The Music Hall

10 Glenbuchat Village Hall

19 Phoenix Centre

Forgue Aberdeenshire AB54 6BY Strathdon AB36 8UA

11 Kemnay Church Centre

Church Lane Kemnay AB51 5QP 12 King’s College Chapel,

High Street Aberdeen AB24 3UB 13 The Lemon Tree,

Aberdeen 5 West North Street Aberdeen AB24 5AT

14 Logie Coldstone

Village Hall Logie Coldstone Aboyne AB34 5PQ 15 MacRobert Building

King's Campus University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 5UA 16 Migvie Church

Tarland AB34 4XP 17 MUSA

33 Exchange Street Aberdeen AB11 6PH

Union Street Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Newton Dee Village Bieldside Aberdeen AB15 9DX 20 Queen’s Cross Church

Albyn Place Aberdeen AB10 1YN 21 Robert Gordon’s

University Riverside East Garthdee Road Aberdeen AB10 7GJ 22 The Salmon Bothy

Links Road Portsoy AB45 2SS 23 Seventeen

17 Belmont Street Aberdeen AB10 1JR 24 St Andrew’s Cathedral

28 King Street Aberdeen AB24 5AX 25 Woodend Barn

Banchory AB31 5QA

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Quick Guide

Quick Guide Starts

Venue

Event

6pm

King’s College Quad

By Reason of Darkness

3

7.30pm

King’s College Chapel

Red Note Ensemble & Griffyn Ensemble (Australia)

3

all day (excl.

Sundays & Mondays)

Seventeen

Collide Collude Collaborate exhibitions

4

Fri 23 – Sat 24 various

ACT Aberdeen

In Cahoots! Showcase events

5

Fri 23

6pm

The Lemon Tree

The Wakeful Chamber

5

8pm

The Lemon Tree

Sandglass

5

9pm

ACT Aberdeen

Magnetic North: Requiem for Edward Snowden

6

10pm

The Lemon Tree

Red Note Ensemble: Noisy Nights!

6

1pm

ACT Aberdeen

Ensemble Thing: You Can’t Get There From Here

6

3pm

Butchart Recreation Centre Encouraging New Opera

7

7.30pm

Butchart Recreation Centre Encouraging New Opera

7

8pm

The Lemon Tree

Cryptic: The Little Match Girl Passion

7

8pm

Kemnay Church Centre

Ivan Ilić, piano

8

9.30pm

The Lemon Tree

In Cahoots! Late Night Showcase

8

3pm

Migvie Church, Tarland

Turning the Elements

8

3pm

Butchart Recreation Centre Encouraging New Opera

9

8pm

Glenbuchat Village Hall

Griffyn Ensemble

9

1.10pm

King’s College Chapel

Kevin Bowyer, organ

9

7.30pm

King’s College Chapel

Organ(e)

9

12.45pm

Aberdeen Citadel

Athenaeum Winds

10

7.30pm

Woodend Barn, Banchory

Rohan de Saram, cello and Suren de Saram, Kandyan drum and marimba

10

7.30pm

Butchart Recreation Centre The Locked Door

Date

Page

October Thu 22

Thu 22 Oct –Sat 7 Nov

Sat 24

Sun 25

Tue 27

Thu 29

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Date

Starts

Venue

Event

Fri 30

11.45am

MacRobert Building

Finding the Beauty and Wonder in Modern Music

11

12.45pm

King’s College Chapel

Ensemble Alternance

12

3pm

Butchart Recreation Centre The Locked Door

11

6.30pm

King’s College Chapel

12

8.30pm

Butchart Recreation Centre The Locked Door

11

1pm

King’s College Chapel

Ian Pace, piano

13

7pm

King’s College Chapel

Ensemble Alternance

13

7.30pm

Forgue Church

Dr Roger B. Williams, organ

13

7.30pm

Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen

Orphaned Limbs Collective: The Witching Hour

14

1.10pm

King’s College Chapel

David J. Smith, organ

14

7.30pm

King’s College Chapel

Dr Roger B. Williams, organ

14

Wed 4

1pm

Music Hall

Beethoven Plus 1: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano

15

Thu 5

12.45pm

The Citadel

Beethoven Plus 2: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano

16

7.30pm

King's College Chapel

Adolphe Sax at 200: A Genius Who Makes a Noise

16

7pm

Woodend Barn, Banchory

13 Vices with Red Note Ensemble & Ensemble Doubt

17

7.30pm

Phoenix Hall, Newton Dee Beethoven Plus 3: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano

16

Sat 7

9.30am

Maritime Museum

Promenade Concert

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Sat 7 – Sun 8

10am, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm

Various locations

Granite! Sound trailblazer

18

Sat 7

12pm

St Andrew’s Cathedral

Beethoven Plus 4: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano

18

8pm

The Lemon Tree

The Last Siren: Lauren Kinsella and The Quiet Club

19

Sun 8

4pm

Salmon Bothy, Portsoy

High Heels and Horse Hair: Nocturnal

20

Mon 9

7.30pm

Queen's Cross Church

Beethoven Plus 5: Krysia Osostowicz, violin and Daniel Tong, piano

20

Sat 31

Ian Pace, piano

Quick Guide

Quick Guide Page

November Tue 3

Fri 6

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