Red Note

Noisy Nights 14
2011-06-06 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for!) some of the best musicians in Scotland. Noisy Nights is a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space where you can hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer. All sorts of music are welcomed here – as are all sorts of listeners.

The instruments for this Noisy Night will be Electric Guitar, Electric Violin and Electric ‘Cello. New music submitted by composers from around the world responding to our Call for Scores, and the winner of the night’s 10-minute Composing Challenge will be performed.

What is the 10 Minute Composing Challenge? It’s your chance to write an “instant piece” and get it played on the night. During the interval we will hand out manuscript paper for you to write your own piece in 10 minutes – and at the end of the interval we’ll select the one we think is best and perform it there and then. Instant music!

NEW MUSIC SCOTLAND - Conference and Showcase
2011-10-21 - 2011-10-23 | Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, United Kingdom
“New Music: is anybody listening?”

New Music Scotland is a network that brings together performers, composers, promoters of new music in Scotland, to:

* Create a context for dialogues between practitioners and new work;
* Share ideas of best practice;
* Promote the diversity of new music and sound art;
* Create and maintain a supportive environment for innovation

The Conference/Showcase is aimed at all performers, creators and promoters of music in Scotland, the UK and beyond that have an interest in new music. The event will give delegates the opportunity to discuss topics relevant to the promotion of new music and will showcase the best music and sound art that Scotland has to offer, selected via a competitive submission process.

The keynote speech will be given by Jonathan Cross, Professor of Musicology at the University of Oxford.
www.newmusicscotland.org
Friday 21 – Sunday 23 October
New Music Scotland
Aberdeen
Booking via
www.newmusicscotland.org

RED NOTE PERFORMANCES:
21 October 2011, 19:30
Philip Glass – 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof

Judith Howarth, soprano and David McKay, ‘M’
in association with the National Theatre of Scotland
with James Brining, director and Jessica Cottis, conductor

A science fiction music drama in one act
Text by David Henry Hwang
Woodend Barn
Banchory
AB31 5QA
22 October 2011, 20:30
Noisy Nights
Noisy Nights is a regular Red Note event that gives audiences the chance to listen to (and compose for) some of the best musicians in Scotland. The instruments for this Noisy Night will be flute, cello and clarinet and the evening will feature new music created by Go Compose workshop participants.
Woodend Barn
Banchory
AB31 5QA

Noisy Nights 15 and 16
2011-10-22 20:30 - 2011-12-06 22:00 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for!) some of the best musicians in Scotland. Noisy Nights is a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, musicians, composers and artists in an informal space where you can hear some of the best examples of brand new music while having a beer. All sorts of music are welcomed here – as are all sorts of listeners.

Red Note is presenting a special one-off Noisy Night 15 at the sound festival in Banchory on 22nd October to showcase the works created by the Go Compose! course participants.

We will also present Noisy Night 16 in the Bar of the Traverse Theatre on 12th December. The ensemble will be violin, ‘cello and harmonium.

Noisy Night 16 will include the 10 Minute Composing Challenge – your chance to write an “instant piece” and get it played on the night. During the interval we will hand out manuscript paper for you to write your own piece in 10 minutes – and at the end of the interval we’ll select the one we think is best and perform it there and then. Instant music!

The submission deadline is 28 November.

Visit our Youtube Channel to see what Noisy Nights is all about.
Noisy Night 15
Saturday 22nd October, 8:30pm
sound Festival
Woodend Barn
Banchory
Aberdeenshire
Booking: 01330 825431
www.sound-scotland.co.uk
Music by Go Compose! Course Participants

Noisy Night 16
Monday 12th December, 8pm
Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh
FREE
www.traverse.co.uk
New music for violin, ‘cello and harmonium + the 10-minute Composing Challenge

Noisy Words
2011-11-26 - 2011-11-27 | Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED
If you’re a writer (in any form) and would like to be considered, please submit up to three pages of your writing as well as a one page biography and/or CV to jennifer.williams@traverse.co.uk. If you’re a composer (of any tradition) and would like to be considered, please submit up to ten pages from a recent work as well as a one page biography and/or CV to john@rednoteensemble.com.

Deadline for all submissions has been extended to 31 October.

Space: Traverse One
Workshop dates: Saturday 26 November & Sunday 27 November (10am – 6pm)
‘Scratch’ Performance date: Sunday 27 November, (5pm)
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
www.traverse.co.uk

Noisy Nights - Red Note with ICC
2012-05-09 20:00 - 22:00 | The Jam House, The Jam House, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Inventor Composer Coaction (ICC) is a first-of-its-kind event, bringing composers from Edinburgh University together with creators of unique digital musical instruments to explore new sounds and new ways of controlling sound.
Over 30 expert designers from around the world have contributed a variety of instruments, interfaces and sound generators for the seven resident composers from the University of Edinburgh to work with. These range from 3D-printed spheres that respond to touch, to software modelled on neurons firing inside a human brain. The composers will create chamber works written specifically for their chosen instrument, to be performed by Red Note at a special edition of Noisy Nights at The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, Edinburgh at 8pm on Wednesday 9 May.
For more information, and to watch and listen to examples of the instruments, please visit:
www.inventorcomposer.net

Noisy Nights in 4/4
2012-05-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
Red Note’s celebration of contemporary composition. Listen to some cutting-edge new music in the relaxed atmosphere of the Traverse Theatre bar, and take part (if you dare) in the 10-Minute Composing Challenge: write a piece down on the free music paper provided and the best audience composition will be performed at the end of the night. The stipulations for commissions this time round are that the music has to be in 4/4, should ideally be played to a backing track, and has to be for violin, cello and accordion. (The challenge, then, is to stop it from sounding like Serbian turbo-folk…)

Noisy Nights
2013-09-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
Join us at the Traverse Theatre Bar for another new music extravaganza!
Your host for the evening – our very own, John Harris!
Trumpet: Mark O’Keeffe
Viola: Liam Eoin Lynch
‘Cello: Robert Irvine
Charles Gaskell – Forty for Three
Dorian Kelly – Drip Drop
Euan Ferguson – Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool
Jay Capperauld – Restraint
Marcello Messina – Alleggiu
Norbert Stammberger – Epilogue

A VERY CHRISTMASSY NOISY NIGHTS!
2013-12-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
We’ve decided to don our Red Note Santa Robes this Monday Night, 9th December, for a very special Christmas Noisy Night, and we really hope you will join us. With a santa hat, if you wish …
All of the usual ingredients will be there – brand new pieces from new, emerging and established composers, and the 10-minute Composer’s Challenge where YOU get to write a piece for us – but there’s the added twist that all the new pieces must include a well-known Christmas Carol, in some form. We’ve got sing-a-long Noisy Night pieces for you, the audience to join in with, we’ve got funny pieces, we’ve got serious pieces, and we’ve got wild pieces that’ll leave you scratching your head in bewilderment.
Who said contemporary music wasn’t supposed to be fun?!
Do come to the Red Note Noisy Night Christmas Special, Monday 9th December 8pm, in the Bar of the Traverse Theatre, FREE!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Derek Ball: Three Zombie Kings
Martin Gaughan: (Not a) Silent Night
Charles E Gaskell: Christmas!
Rachael Forsyth: I Don’t Want to be Resting
Lucy Hollingworth: Over the Horizon
John Hearne: Xmas in the Shopping Mall
Conrad Molleson: Good King Winceless
Vroni Holzmann: Memories of Things Not True
Philip Smith: Three Men in a Boat
Paul Chilver: Buss or Beild
Amble Skuse: Untitled (probably “let’s get shot of Christmas”)
John and all at Red Note (Nose) x
What is Noisy Nights? Noisy Nights is fun, free and your chance to listen to (and compose for) the musicians of Red Note. Noisy Nights is 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.
All sorts of music are welcomed here – as are all sorts of listeners. And, with the established 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, the audience also get the chance to write their own pieces to be played by the ensemble after the interval.

Noisy Nights at Summerhall
2014-11-16 19:30 - 22:00 | The Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Summerhall Pl., Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, United Kingdom
This time it’s 5 new 10-minute works for string quartet, worked on by the composers with the performers of Red Note over the preceding two days. Come and hear, with beer in hand, the musical voices of bright new talents – and even have a go at getting your own new piece played with the now- famous 10-minute Composing Challenge during the interval.
FREE but ticketed
Tickets available on the door on a first-come-first-served basis – capacity of the venue is 56

Noisy Nights Junior
2015-09-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Kings Park Secondry School, Glasgow
Over a series of four sessions, each pupil will create their own new piece of music with support and guidance from the whole team, culminating in an informal performance, by Red Note Ensemble musicians and the Kings Park music team, of new music from these emerging composers.
For information only, not a public performance.

Noisy Nights
2015-11-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Summerhall, Summerhall Pl., Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, United Kingdom
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 the musicians of Red Note.
Scottish accordionist James Crabb joins the ensemble for an evening of virtuosity and versatile musicianship in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre in Summerhall. Our 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, gives you the chance to write your own piece to be played by the ensemble after the interval.
If you’re a composer, visit http://www.rednoteensemble.com/events/category/calls-for-scores/ to find out the instrumental line-up and how to submit your scores.
Register for your free tickets here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-note-noisy-nights-tickets-18933452466?

Noisy Nights, Summerhall Edinburgh
2016-02-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Summerhall, 1 Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH
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 the musicians of Red Note. Tonight’s ensemble features Red Note’s Jackie Shave (Violin) and Ruth Morley (Flute) together with John Kenny (Trombone) in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre in Summerhall. Our 10 Minute Composer’s Challenge, gives you the chance to write your own piece to be played by the ensemble after the interval.
If you’re a composer, visit http://www.rednoteensemble.com/events/category/calls-for-scores/ to find out the instrumental line-up and how to submit your scores.”

Noisy Nights, Byre Bar, St Andrews
2016-02-26 22:30 | Byre Bar, Abbey Street, St Andrews, KY16 9LA
Noisy Nights are 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 Ensemble.
This time we are heading to St Andrews and the Byre Bar.
Red Note Ensemble Performers:
Violin tbc
Cello Robert Irvine
Clarinet Marie Lloyd
Tickets: Free

The Cottier Chamber Project Noisy Nights
2016-06-23 21:30 - 22:30 | Cottier’s Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow, G11 5PU
Noisy Nights are 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 Ensemble.
The programme for this year’s Cottier Chamber Project looks at the subject of migration and refugee movement. This Noisy Night takes place on a crucial day for Britain…will we be In or Out the next morning?
If you’re a composer, visit our CALLS FOR SCORES page to find out how to get your own musical voice heard at Noisy Nights.
Red Note Performers:
Viola Jessica Beeston
Cello Robert Irvine
Horn Andy Saunders

Noisy Nights - Glasgow
2019-11-20 20:00 - 22:30 | The Drake, 1 Lynedoch St, Glasgow, G3 6EF, United Kingdom
After a 3-year hiatus, Noisy Nights returns to Glasgow!
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 the musicians of Red Note.
Alison Beattie Morning in a City Park
Amy Stewart Between the Beats
Chris Litherland In Nomine Suites Vol. V
Gillian Walker The Gallery
Florence Anne Maunders Power Moves VI
Mauricio Cristales Armas Ælteratio
Michael Szpakowski five small pieces
Oliver Hawker Sweet Eggs
Sonia Killmann Wie Bitte?
Stefan Paparozzi As Above, So Below
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Noisy Nights go Digital - Call for Composers
2020-04-03
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we have had to cancel the next Noisy Night scheduled for the Sunday 3rdMay in Glasgow. While we hope to resume normal activity after the summer and reschedule in September, we felt we couldn’t go this long without an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices.
So we are glad to announce that Noisy Nights are going digital! We are planning not just one but four nights of brand new music with Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home.
How does it work?
If you are a composer and interested in writing a 5min long piece for a solo instrument, submit your name and contact email to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com by Thursday 26 March.
On the morning of Friday 27 March, we will get back in touch to inform you about the instrument you have been assigned to write for from the options below. Please note this will be a random allocation. On that day, you will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine Cello.

Then the challenge is on! You have 1 week to write your piece for that specific instrument. Please submit in pdf format by 5pm on Friday 3rd April to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts.
The 20 compositions selected by the players will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel on 4 separate concerts: 10 April, 17 April, 24 April and 1 May.
Challenge accepted? Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your network. Looking forward to keeping Noisy Nights alive in these times of social distancing, connecting new music lovers online.

Digital Noisy Nights for young composers
2020-05-01
Noisy Nights are adapting to these social distancing times, going digital and providing an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices. We are planning not only 1 but 4 nights of brand new music with Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home – but there’s more news: the last one of these is reserved for young composers who are still at school!

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Sasha Savaloni – Classical guitar,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Robert Irvine Cello.

Noisy Nights – 1 May, 3PM (BST)
Eliza Sinclair Kidd, To a Mouse
Fergus Butt, The Goldfish Are Relentless
Neo Korths, In The Shade Of Tangier
Isak Persson, Kvadratiska Vattenvågor
Louis Opit, Predatory Prelude
Join us from your home to ours and connect with other new music lovers online on our YouTube channel (click on the link or on BUY TICKETS and you will redirected to YouTube), as we hear some of the best examples of brand new music from the most emerging composers, the next generation in contemporary music.
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

New Digital Noisy Nights - Call for Composers!
2020-05-22
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Call for Adult Composers (18+)
(18 or younger? Check out the call for younger composers)
If you are an emerging, student (18+) or amateur composer interested in writing a 5-min long piece for a solo instrument, send your name and contact email to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com by Friday 22 May (12:00PM).
That same day, we will get back in touch to inform you about the instrument you have been assigned to write for from the options above – this will be a random allocation. You will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.
Then the challenge is on! You have 1 week to write your piece for that specific instrument. Please submit in pdf format by 5pm on Friday 29th May to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts, and consider that concerts are rehearsed and performed in a short timeframe.
The 15 compositions selected by the players will be performed on our YouTube channel on 3 separate concerts: 5th June, 12th June and 19th June.
Challenge accepted?
Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your friends and contacts.
We are looking forward to keeping music alive and new music lovers connected online.

New Digital Noisy Nights - Call for Young Composers
2020-05-27
Digital Noisy Nights provide an outlet to hear emerging new musical ideas and voices in our new social distanced reality. Every Friday at 3PM for the month of June, these five outstanding Red Note musicians will bring you the best examples of brand new music played from scratch from their homes to yours:

Ruth Morley – Flute,
Jo Nicholson – Bass Clarinet,
Tom Hunter – Percussion,
Jackie Shave – Violin,
and Duncan Strachan – Cello.

Call for Young Composers
If you are a young composer, still at high school full time and interested in writing a 2 – 5min long piece for a solo instrument, send your name, high school and contact email to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com by Wednesday 27th May (12:00PM).
That same day we will get back in touch to inform you about the instrument you have been assigned to write for (no choice – that’s part of the challenge!). You will also receive the link to a brief instrument demo filmed by each player outlining capabilities, techniques, notation, etc.
Then the challenge is on! You have 3 weeks to write your piece for that specific instrument (if you’re in touch with your school music teacher online, you can ask them for advice and help). Please submit in pdf format by 5pm on Wednesday 17th June to admin [at] rednoteensemble.com. Please note the scores should not include electronics or any pre-recorded parts, and consider that concerts are rehearsed and performed in a short timeframe.
Our players will then select 5 compositions from those submitted, to be performed on our YouTube channel on our final Digital Noisy Nights concert, 26th June.
Challenge accepted?
Please help us spread the word by sharing this call with your friends and contacts.
We are looking forward to keeping music alive and new music lovers connected online.

Noisy Nights Hybrid - 2nd Edition
2020-12-18 18:00 - 19:00
To wrap up the year, Noisy Nights come back for another hybrid edition with these outstanding musicians:

Tom Hunter – Marimba,
Greg Lawson – Violin,
Robert Irvine – Cello.

In this second Noisy Nights Hybrid we are showcasing the talent of emerging, amateur and student composers:

Colin Johnson Juxtapositions

Yaz Lancaster Firn
Florence Anna Maunders Khashab Mahtam
Dan Nolan Unstable Cycles
Gabriel Stenborg Persistensia

Tune in to the concert on our YouTube channel on Friday 18th December at 6PM and join us in waving goodbye to 2020 with some of the best new examples of contemporary classical music.

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If you enjoy this and are in a position to do so, we hope you will consider making a donation to Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund: https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation Thank you!

Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner.

Noisy Nights at Sound
2021-06-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Queen’s Cross Church, Albyn Pl, Aberdeen, AB10 1YN, United Kingdom
Noisy Nights is back! We are excited to play together again with these outstanding musicians:

Maximiliano Martin – Clarinet,
Tony Moffat – Violin,
Jessica Beeston – Viola,
Robert Irvine – Cello.

On this occasion we have partnered with sound, following the success and learnings from the Neurotribes conference, to showcase the talent of neurodiverse composers, supporting greater inclusion in contemporary classical music.
Click here to book your tickets now! Tickets are limited and must be purchased in advance.
Following our call for scores, we are looking forward to presenting 5 new compositions alongside Hason Hodgson:
Jason Hodgson Dimensional Shift (Rubic Cubes)
Joe Stollery Seely Circles
Siôn Parkinson Phantosmia
Sera Wright Sunflowers
Zoe Cutler ✨🌟 👉The👈 ⚠️Contemporary⚠️ 🐝Music🐝 🍋Lick🍋 🌟✨
Rylan Gleave cold with him

Red Note Ensemble
John Harris Conductor
Red Note and sound are PRS Foundation Talent Development Partners.

Noisy Nights At Drygate Glasgow
2026-02-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Drygate Brewery, 85 Drygate, Glasgow, G4 0UT
Shake off your winter hibernation and come thaw your ears with bold, unpredictable, and never-before-heard music. Noisy Nights champions fresh sounds and emerging voices, bringing together composers, performers, and curious listeners in an informal setting where anything can happen.
Our players, Ruth (flute), Cerys (bassoon) and Sasha (classical guitar) will perform up to 8 short new 5-minute works selected from the open call.
Got a musical idea of your own? Step up for the 10-Minute Composer Challenge. Create a quick sketch on the night, and our musicians might bring it to life before the evening’s out.
Yes, it’s a Monday night in February but it’s FREE!
Drygate, Glasgow
Monday 23rd February
7:30pm
FREE entry – booking essential
Red Note Ensemble
Ruth Morley, Flute
Cerys Ambrose Evans, Bassoon
Sasha Savaloni, Classical Guitar
John Harris, Conductor
Red Note is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL.
