Festival Club - Friday

Theatre

Eero Hämeenniemi (Finland): Ascoltate
Joanna Nicholson (Scotland): Gyre
Jane Stanley (Scotland): Firefly Reflection
Leo Butt (Scotland): Archives
Jenny Hettne (Sweden): Rop, böljande
Matthew Whiteside (Scotland): Three Pieces for Bass Clarinet and Electronics
Marcus Wrangö (Sweden): Inkognito C20F
Sivert Holmen (Norway): Kyrkjekilane
Bill Sweeney (Scotland): Nine Days
Joanna Nicholson (clarinet/bass clarinet), Lauren Reeves-Rawling (horn), Sivert Holmen (hardanger fiddle)

In partnership with trail blazing contemporary music series The Night With…, Joanna Nicholson plays works for clarinet and electronics from her recent album, Gyre. She is joined by Lauren Reeves-Rawling for Jenny Hettne’s work for horn and tape, and hardanger fiddle virtuoso Sivert Holmen who plays one of his own works. Leo Butt’s ambisonic work uses samples of historical horns and violins from the collection in Edinburgh’s St Cecilia’s Museum of Musical Instruments, and Marcus Wrangö pays tribute to a unique car from Stockholm’s subway fleet.

Cinema

Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (Iceland): Agape

A text/graphic score calls for the performers to predetermine a sonic path unique to their own individual interpretation; they are instructed to navigate a sequence of changes in harmony with circular movements. Performers can come to mutual agreements on aspects of their individual performances regarding intensity/tonality/etc., but this is not necessary or necessarily wanted. Seeking to excavate an individual performer’s fingerprint, what becomes interesting here is how they choose to deliberate and deliver their navigation. Their performances are then collapsed together so a listener/observer can experience the contrast of these interpretations of the “same” moment - through conflating time, the activation of the vertical exposes the manifoldness of the horizontal.

The work is presented in a single screen cinema format for the first time.

Agape was nominated for “work of the year” in the classical/contemporary category at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022

Cinema

Michael Begg (Scotland): Out of Whose Womb Comes the Ice

Earlier in 2024 Michael Begg joined HMS Protector, one of the Royal Navy's Antarctic Ice Patrol vessels, as Musician-in-Residence. The places that he visited included several remote scientific stations, where the melting of the polar ice is closely observed and recorded. This work, presented in film format, reflects on his observations - the melting ice floes, receding glaciers, and unexpected warmth of the water - and forms an elegy to a landscape that will soon be lost.

Club Room

Michael Francis Duch (Norway): Tomba Emanuelle
Michael Francis Duch (double bass)

Originally written for performance in the mausoleum of Emmanuel Vigeland, in Oslo, Tomba Emanuelle is re-imagined with the famous acoustic of Hamilton Mausoleum in mind…and transported to the CCA.

Nick Fells and Sodhi (Scotland): furl
Nick Fells (electronics) & Sodhi (tabla)

Furl is the first performance resulting from an ongoing collaboration between electronic musician Nick Fells and tabla player Sodhi. The project looks at how the dynamism and resonance of the tabla can be extended and expanded to build spatially and spectrally complex enveloping textures. Everything builds from the tabla, weaving outwards, furling and unfurling.

Friday Festival Club programme supported by Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare, Arts and Culture Norway, and the Perfoming Rights Society