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Creative Scotland have shared our video on KEIN – a new work for string quartet with a difference by François Sarhan.

The world premiere of KEIN takes place on Friday 28 October as part of sound Festival which runs from 20 October – 6 November 2016.

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The Concorde Hangar is the stunning setting for a concert in which visual images join music to spectacular effect.

Edgard Varèse’s Déserts (1954) is a monumental work which explores the inner deserts of the mind as well as of land and sea. Varèse’s powerful music is accompanied by a film specially created by the visionary American video artist Bill Viola.

George Crumb’s mesmerizingly beautiful and ritualistic Vox Balaenae, inspired by the singing of humpback whales, is followed by Louis Andriessen’s hypnotic, super-dynamic Workers Union, with a brand new film by Alice Nelson, Rebecca Milling and Zoë Irvine commissioned from Scottish filmmakers Eggbox.

As part of the centenary celebrations for Dalcroze UK, Sally Beamish has been commissioned to write a 10-minute piece for three instruments (high/medium/low) for plastique animée (PA).

Dalcroze UK is looking for 3 professional dancers who are interested in exploring their musicality in this exciting project with Red Note Ensemble from 23 – 27 October 2016. All-inclusive fee of £1,000 for the 5 days.

The audition will take the form of a free Dalcroze workshop led by Monica Wilkinson and Helen Gould.

When: Tuesday 14 June 2016 11.00 – 14.00

Where: Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow G41 1BA

How to apply: If you are interested in auditioning, please send your CV and a photo to Monica at ringtime@move2music.co.uk by 31 May 2016.

For more information please visit www.dancebase.co.uk

Eggbox is producing a short film to accompany a live performance by Red Note Ensemble. The piece of music they will perform is ‘Workers Union’ by Louis Andreissen. It will take place as part of the Lammermuir Festival, underneath Concorde at the Museum of Flight. This part of the film involves a pack of men in suits (aged between 20 and 60 roughly) running through the streets of Edinburgh. The idea is we shoot a pack or peloton of men running from different vantage points. It’ll involve sprinting short distances with plenty of rest breaks in between. There is no dialogue – no lines to learn! It will be shot in central Edinburgh in the mornings of Sat 21st and Sun 22nd. In order to minimise interruptions from traffic and pedestrians it will be very early starts (exact time tbc) to have as empty a cityscape as possible. We need 10 – 15 runners in total – ideally it would be great if folk could do both days but we could possibly have a few different faces from one day to the next, if one day is all you can do.

This is a low budget production so we can’t afford to pay a fee, however we will supply food and refreshments throughout and a ticket to the performance in September. Get in touch if you are interested eggboxaudio@gmail.com // 0781 344 0590

Pass on if you know someone else who might be interested.

Enterprise Music Scotland is delighted to announce that “Music Education Matters 2016” will take place on Friday the 20th of May at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

Music Education Matters is a music learning event for practitioners to share ideas, celebrate work and forge new musical partnerships.
This one-day conference includes talks, workshops, networking opportunities and interactive sessions with leading professionals in music education.

Keep up to date with the latest Music Education Matters news by visiting our website – http://www.enterprisemusicscotland.com/learning/education-matters/

Don’t miss out on our early bird ticket offer! Tickets purchased before the 15th of April are available at a discounted price of £35!

To book tickets go to – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-education-matters-tickets-21666201191

Red Note was invited by Glasgow Concert Halls to undertake schools workshops in the manner of their long-running emerging-composer-development series Noisy Nights, for the UNESCO Glasgow City of Music Family Fun Day.

They partnered with Kings Park Secondary School in Glasgow, working with students who were taking Higher Music exams in the following spring. The key element introduced to the school workshops was a version of their 10-minute Composing Challenge from the Noisy Nights series. This involved handing out music manuscript paper to during the interval and asking whoever wants to write a piece for the ensemble in 10 minutes. A selection are then performed at the beginning of the second half.

The New Music Makers initiative addresses two key issues – 1) how to inspire and support composing/inventing with young people in schools and 2) how a professional ensemble working in partnership with a school can create a genuine, practical legacy, supporting a school to take the work forward independently.

Sessions were filmed with the aim of producing four short project ‘episode’ films demonstrating the processes behind the project. Here is the first of these films.

We team up with internationally acclaimed composer, writer and visual artist François Sarhan to make a new work for string quartet with a difference.

François will design and make a set of new, invented instruments for the performers to play on. How the instruments work, look and sound is entirely up to François; the performers of Red Note will need to learn to master these new instruments as they rehearse the work, planned for its first performance in Autumn 2016.

We are in Newark this week for the first of our workshops so keep an eye on our social media for more of François’s amazing sketches, images and updates…

We had a great day with the higher music pupils at Kirkland High School in Methyl for our New Music Makers workshop. This workshop mirrors our long-running emerging-composer-development series Noisy Nights and the 10-minute Composing Challenge. Essentially, it involves handing out music manuscript paper to members of the audience in the interval and asking whoever want to write a piece for the ensemble in 10 minutes. A selection are then performed at the beginning of the second half.

This format works extremely well in the class room – whatever the pupils write we take seriously; we didn’t require them to produce perfectly-notated works, we just needed them to write something. Often this was just a squiggle, which we would treat as though it was a graphic score, or a few notes spread out across some staves, which we would interpret on the spot.

Having broken the ice – and created a level of trust between the players and the students – the students then progressed extremely rapidly, all of them creating fully-formed, fully-notated, coherent pieces within three weeks.

HERE NOW. THERE NEXT.

Sound and Music is once again on the look out for the next generation of musical creators, sound generators and future composers; to join us for a life changing, unique week of experimentation, collaboration, learning, creating and socialising.

This is your opportunity – your journey starts here