Festival Club - Saturday

CCA Theatre

Saturday Music Club - Red Note Ensemble

James Dillon (Scotland): Tanz/haus
Tine Surel Lange (Norway): Flaskepost

Red Note Ensemble, Scotland’s internationally-renowned contemporary music ensemble, bring a programme that celebrates the ensemble’s links with the Nordic countries alongside one of its most significant recent Scottish commissions - the award-winning Tanz/haus by James Dillon.

Tine Surel Lange’s Flaskepost was premiered at soundfestival 2023 in Aberdeen as part of Northern Connection, a new and innovative project to connect Nordic countries and Scotland by establishing and strengthening liaisons between composers, ensembles and festivals in contemporary music.

The world premiere of James Dillon’s Tanz/haus opened Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival’s 40th edition to great acclaim, with the work being awarded the RPS composition prize and nominated for the BASCA British Composer Awards 2018. It has been recorded by Red Note and is available on Delphian Records.

Festival Club tickets £10/£6

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

Singing the Wooden House: Kirsten Adkins (Scotland) & Karoliina Kantilenen (Finland)

In April 2023 film-maker Kirsten Adkins travelled with a camera to a wooden house near the border town in Eastern Finland. The area was fought over during wars between 1939 and 1944. Some 400,000 people were evacuated as the border between Finland and the Soviet Union shifted. A 30 minute film installation blends film, family interviews, archive photographs, poetry and traditional song.

The film project comprises original poetry by Max Mulgrew, and composed song by Finnish singer and composer Karoliina Kantilenen.