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Since its formation in 2008, Red Note Ensemble has taken up a leadership position as Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble, performing and developing both an extensive, highly-varied and critically-acclaimed programme of new music.

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1 day ago

Red Note at soundfestival 2026Thursday 29 October, 7:30pmKing’s Pavilion, AberdeenRed Note heads to Aberdeen for an evening of new music featuring work by Bekah Simms, Les Harmoniques du Néon, Gillian Walker and Kate Sagovsky. The programme includes Simms’ Embryonic, a powerful new work commissioned by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Red Note, alongside La Langue du Perroquet by French collective Les Harmoniques du Néon, exploring language as sound, imitation and distortion.The programme also features two new works by Gillian Walker and Kate Sagovsky, developed in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. #newmusic #contemporarymusic #soundfestival #aberdeen #aberdeengigs ...
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2 weeks ago

JUST BRING OPEN EARS.Noisy Nights is an evening of brand new music, performed live for the very first time.Three brilliant players, one room full of curious people and eight short pieces:• Ynyr Pritchard ‘hauntingly delicate like a sigh’• Alejandro Ariza ‘PITCH, PLEASE’• Daniel Quigley ‘Bealach Mo Mhuinitr’• Will Frampton ‘Circle Limit’• Feargus Hetherington ‘Jackson Pollock _ Number 18’• Kenneth Li ‘In Semisoporem’• Archie Wallace ‘Fractured Fragments’• Oli Cairns ‘earthenware’You don’t need to know what you’re listening for. You don’t need to know anything about contemporary music. Just come along and see what happens.And if you’re feeling brave, there’s the 10-Minute Composer Challenge, where a musical idea created on the night could be brought to life by our players before the evening is over.Noisy NightsDrygate, GlasgowTuesday 29 September7.30pmFREE – Booking essentialRed Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL.#newmusic #contemporarymusic #glasgowgigs #glasgowevents #freegigs ...
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3 weeks ago

WE CANNOT WAIT FOR THE TUBAS.This Saturday, 100 tuba players descend on Amisfield Walled Garden for Anthony Braxton’s extraordinary Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas).We’ve been talking about this one for a while. Now it’s almost time to hear what happens when 100 individual players come together as one huge, shifting musical landscape.We’ll also be joined by four Red Note trumpeters, with the music unfolding across the garden as the evening moves towards dusk.John Harris, Red Note Artistic Director and founder, has written about the back story of the project for The @Guardian tracing how this extraordinary piece of music made its way from Anthony Braxton’s archive to Amisfield Walled Garden.Click the link in our bio to read. And yes, it’s SOLD OUT. But if you’re lucky to have a ticket, we’ll see you in the garden.#LammermuirFestival #AnthonyBraxton #TubaCommunity #ContemporaryMusic #Scotland ...
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3 weeks ago

WE CANNOT WAIT FOR THE TUBAS.This Saturday, 100 tuba players descend on Amisfield Walled Garden for Anthony Braxton’s extraordinary Composition No. 19 (For 100 Tubas).We’ve been talking about this one for a while. Now it’s almost time to hear what happens when 100 individual players come together as one huge, shifting musical landscape.We’ll also be joined by four Red Note trumpeters, with the music unfolding across the garden as the evening moves towards dusk.John Harris, Red Note Artistic Director and founder, has written about the back story of the project for The @Guardian tracing how this extraordinary piece of music made its way from Anthony Braxton’s archive to Amisfield Walled Garden.Click the link in our bio to read. And yes, it’s SOLD OUT. But if you’re lucky to have a ticket, we’ll see you in the garden.#LammermuirFestival #AnthonyBraxton #TubaCommunity #ContemporaryMusic #Scotland ...
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3 weeks ago

Two weeks to go!In two weeks, Almanac: Part 2 (Songflight) comes to Logie Coldstone Hall.Here, composer Thomas Butler talks about the wider Almanac project, its connection to Scotland’s natural world, and the inspiration behind Songflight, the second work in this four-part journey through the seasons.Expect bats, field recordings, live music, electronics and a guided bat watch with NatureScot. Logie Coldstone HallSaturday 26 September, 6.45pm£15 / £10 (FREE Under 26) Tickets via link in bio#NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #Scotland #Aberdeenshire #PipistrelleBats ...
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