Noisy Nights 12
2011-02-07 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 Monday’s Noisy Night will be 3 ‘cellos, played by Robert Irvine, Eilidh Martin and Sonia Cromarty – and new music by James Bryce, Jesse Raccio, Elisabeth Cowe, Atzi Muramatsu, Sandy Stanage, Michael Szpakowski, Gareth Brady, Patrick Smyth, Ronnie McNiven and Amble Skuse and the winner of the 10 Minute Composing Challenge will be heard for the first time.

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!

Also … bring your camera phones and video cameras. Video-maker Laurie Irvine will be recording the night for posterity, and feel free to come and take your own footage so we can add it to our “best of Noisy Nights 12” compilation.

JOHN CAGE SERIES
2011-03-10 13:10 - 14:00 | Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra
John Cage: Aria.

With mezzo-soprano Angela Tunstall.

Boyling Point - Rory Boyle at 60
2011-03-11 19:30 - 22:00 | RSAMD Concert Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Red Note is joined by the Academy’s renowned new music ensemble MusicLab in a programme devised by Boyle himself. In addition to a selection of works spanning his compositional career, there will be works by his teachers Lennox Berkeley and Frank Spedding, as well as the Octet by Boyle’s idol, Stravinsky.

Boyle: Night’s Music
Berkeley: Concertino
Boyle: Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson
Stravinsky: Octet
Spedding: All Purpose Piano Trio
Boyle: Cinderella
Boyle: Dance, MacAber!

NOISY NIGHTS 13
2011-03-21 20:00 - 22:00 | 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 Harpsichord, Baroque ‘cello and recorder. New music submitted by composers from around the world responding to our Call for Scores, a couple of very old Scottish premieres, 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!

RED NOTE with MUSICLAB at PLUG
2011-05-06 19:30 - 22:00 | RSAMD Concert Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Red Note (RSAMD Associate Contemporary Ensemble) side-by-side with the RSAMD’s ensemble MusicLab, in a programme of world premieres of music by RSAMD composers.

Noisy Nights 14
2011-06-06 20:00 - 22:00 | 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!

RED NOTE Spring Tour
2011-07-11 19:00 - 2011-07-14 23:00 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
“The Spirit was transforming into blood, understanding nothing but blood, seeing nothing but blood, tasting nothing but blood, feeling nothing but blood, thinking nothing but blood, unable to think anything but blood. And everything it did, submerged and sunk it into that very blood …”

Red Note continues on its bold path presenting rarely-heard classics of international new music alongside new work by UK composers on its regular Scottish tours. Here, Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino’s extraordinary and disturbing Infinito Nero, an “ecstasy in one act” based on the evocative visions of the early seventeenth-century mystic St Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, rides alongside a new Red Note commission by Scottish composer and viola player Carolyn Sparey, in concert with other classic works by Sciarrino and fellow Italian Luciano Berio.

The players of the Red Note Ensemble will be directed on this tour by international Scottish conducting star Garry Walker, and joined by mezzo-soprano Angela Tunstall, world-class contemporary performer and long-time artistic collaborator of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

“What a night *****” (The Herald, Plug 2010)
“Compulsive entertainment *****” (The Scotsman, Drunk Man Tour 2010)

Wednesday 11th May 2011 WOODEND BARN, Banchory 7:30pm
Burn o’ Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA
Booking: Tel 01330 825431 / www.woodendbarn.co.uk

Thursday 12th May 2011 Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh 7:30pm
Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ.
Booking: via the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (from 1st March)
Tel: 0131 668 2019 / www.thequeenshall.net

Friday 13th May 2011 RSAMD, Glasgow 7:30pm
100 Renfrew St, Glasgow EH2 3DB
Booking: 0141 332 5057 / www.rsamd.ac.uk

Saturday 14th May 2011 Tolbooth, Stirling 7:30pm
Jail Wynd, Stirling, FK8 1DE
Booking: 01786 274000 www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth

Salvatore Sciarrino: Le Voci Sottovetro
Luciano Berio: Différences
Carolyn Sparey: new work
Salvatore Sciarrino: Infinito Nero

1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
2011-09-18 20:00 - 2011-10-30 22:00 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF
Composer: Philip Glass
Script: David Henry Hwang
Original projections by: Jerome Sirlin

Red Note in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland

Directed by James Brining
Conducted by Jessica Cottis
Judith Howarth, Soprano

Colin Richmond, Designer
Simon Wilkinson, Lighting Designer
John Harris, Sound Designer

Premiered in 1988 in Vienna Airport’s Hangar No 3, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof combines a dramatic text with hypnotic music. Described by its cult American composer Philip Glass as “a science fiction music drama”, this unique production will visit the Concorde Hangar at the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, Woodend Barn in Banchory, and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

An actor plays the mysterious ‘M’ who recalls his encounters with extraterrestrial life-forms and their message to him: “It is better to forget, it is pointless to remember. No-one will believe you”. Did he really meet them? Was it a drug-induced nightmare – or the beginning of a mental breakdown?

The performance in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall will include the original 3-dimensional projections from the first production by Jerome Sirlin.

Sunday 18th September, 8pm
Lammermuir Festival
Concorde Hangar
National Museum of Flight,
East Lothian
Booking: 0131 473 2000
www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk

Friday 21st October, 7:30pm
sound Festival
Woodend Barn
Banchory
Aberdeenshire
Booking: 01330 825431
www.sound-scotland.co.uk

Sunday 30th October, 6pm
minimal
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Booking: 0131 353 8000
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW McEWEN CONCERT
2011-10-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Glasgow University Concert Hall, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Helen Grime Luna (premiere)
Edgard Varese Density 21.5
William Sweeney Life Studies (selection)
James MacMillan in angustiis..Iand in angustiis..II
Helen Grime
Saturday 15th October, 1pm
Music in the University
University of Glasgow Concert Hall
University Avenue, G12 8QQ
Admission free without ticket
Music in the University

Go Compose! Course for Young Composers
2011-10-20 - 2011-10-22 | Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, United Kingdom
Go Compose! is an intensive composition project for young composers aged 13 – 18 who are still at school. It’s a unique opportunity to work with professional composers and musicians to create an original piece of music which will be performed at Noisy Night on 22 October as part of the sound festival.

The project is for anyone aged 13 – 18 who has tried composing and who would like to learn more. We are looking for people with potential and commitment, who are enthusiastic about creating their own, original music and keen to try out new ideas.

Go Compose! will be lead by Pippa Murphy and David Fennessy (composer of Pass the Spoon).

To find out more, Visit www.soundandmusic.org/gocompose or contact Judith Robinson, judith.robinson@soundandmusic.org

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS NOW 12th OCTOBER!
20th – 22nd October, all day
with Sound and Music
at the sound Festival

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

Brian Eno: MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS LIVE
2011-10-30 20:15 - 22:00 | Glasgow Royal Concert Halls, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NY
Red Note with the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Bang on a Can is a major force in the presentation of new concert music, and has presented hundreds of musical events worldwide. It is best known for its marathon music events during which an eclectic mix of pieces are performed in succession over the course of many hours while audience members, who are encouraged to maintain a “jeans-and-t-shirt informality,” are welcome to come and go as they please. For the twentieth anniversary of their Marathon Concerts, Bang on a Can presented twenty- six hours of uninterrupted music at the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium in New York City.
Music for Airports was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent to defuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal and has enchanted audiences and musicians since its release in 1978. Eno conceived this idea while being stuck at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany in the mid 70s when he had to spend several hours there and was extremely annoyed by the uninspired sound atmosphere. The Bang on a Can composers made their own arrangement of it for live performance – come chill out in style.

www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

Pass the Spoon
2011-11-17 19:30 - 2011-11-19 23:00 | Tramway, Glasgow Tramway, Glasgow, G41 2PE, United Kingdom
By David Shrigley, David Fennessy and Nicholas Bone

Director Nicholas Bone

Conductor Garry Walker
Lighting Designer Simon Wilkinson
Sound Designer Kenny MacLeod

World premiere of a spectacular new performance from the minds of hugely popular visual artist David Shrigley, award-winning composer David Fennessy and acclaimed director Nicholas Bone, with music played by the Red Note Ensemble.

Pass the Spoon is the latest show from Magnetic North (the company behind two sell-out national tours of Walden) and is the recipient of a prestigious Creative Scotland Vital Spark award.

“Weird, funny, abject, wise, silly, savage, moral and engaging.”
The Independent on What the Hell Are You Doing? The Essential David Shrigley

What can we say about Pass the Spoon?

Well…

It’s a show with actors, music and food.

It’s a bit like an opera, but with vegetables and fruit.

It’s about cooking.

It’s possibly the only show you’ll see this year featuring a dung beetle.

Oh and someone gets eaten. Did we mention that?

Post show discussion Fri 18 November

www.tramway.org

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

Torsten Lauschmann: Inconsistent Whisper
2012-04-07 04:00 - 18:30 | The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, United Kingdom
Glasgow-based German artist Torsten Lauschmann explores the limits of communication in an experimental performance-installation in the derelict basement space of the Arches.
Taking inspiration from a variety of phenomena, from talking drums and Morse code to the game of Chinese Whispers, this absorbing work looks at the problems and the beauty of misinterpretations, misinformation and misunderstanding.
“Melancholic, romantic, yet optimistic and somehow thrillingly human, Lauschmann’s work casts unexpected light on the fundamentals.”
The Scotsman on The Coy Lover (2011)

4pm and 5.30pm (30 mins in Arches derelict space)

Pass the Spoon
2012-04-26 19:30 - 2012-05-06 23:00 | Various Venues, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh // Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 26 – 28 April

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 5 – 6 May
What can we say about Pass the Spoon, well…
It’s a show with actors, music and food.
It’s a bit like an opera, but with vegetables and fruit.
It’s about cooking.
It’s possibly the only show you’ll see this year featuring a dung beetle.
Oh, and someone gets eaten. Did we mention that?
Having debuted with three shows at Glasgow’s Tramway in November to rave reviews, this spectacular new performance by Edinburgh based theatre production company, Magnetic North, is created by Shrigley with award-winning composer David Fennessy and acclaimed director Nicholas Bone, and features live music played by Red Note!
Pass the Spoon is supported by Creative Scotland with thanks to PRS for Music Foundation and Hope Scott Trust.
www.magneticnorth.org.uk
www.southbankcentre.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…)

Think You Know the Magic Flute? Think Again...
2012-06-08 19:00 - 2012-06-10 22:00 | Bath International Music Festival, Bath, United Kingdom
Directed by Richard Williams, Mozart’s iconic music is a new adaptation for chamber ensemble and Festival Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor’s farewell performance. In the immediate vibrancy of Bath premiere venue Komedia, The Magic Flute recaptures the excitement and popularity of Mozart’s first performance in Vienna’s small Freihaus Theatre in 1791.
Set in a mythical, modern city and in a super-skyscraper, Red Note Ensemble perform with a cast of young international opera singers. The once famous but now reclusive star, The Queen of the Night, has taken refuge. Tamino, the young reporter is out to get a scoop; has Pamina been kidnapped by her father, the multi-media mogul Sarastro, and why are there trials of fire and water for Tamino and Pamina?
Originally arranged for an orchestra hidden in the pit, this chamber arrangement brings the virtuosity of Red Note’s nine brilliant players, right to the front of the stage. Apart from woodwind and strings, you’ll hear Mozart’s gorgeous music played by a sensational accordionist, capturing Wolfgang’s superb populist spirit, and Joanna MacGregor directs from a magic keyboard too!
John Harris, Director of Red Note, says, “This is going to be a lot of fun for us at Red Note. We love Joanna MacGregor, we love her virtuosity, we love the way she thinks about music and makes new things happen, and we’re incredibly excited to see how she and her team re-make Mozart’s wonderful opera for the 21st Century”
The setting moves from the dark lair of Queen of the Night, to Sarastro’s contemporary penthouse hideaway. The set spills out from the stage to the auditorium, as does the action in places, and a silver tree in the audience provides the clues to Tamino and Pamina’s last trial.
This is Mozart at its very best – sparkling, witty, and faithful to the original. Performed in English, this fast-moving, modern dress production has been acclaimed for its clarity, wit and touching sensibility. Highly recommended for all ages, this is true family entertainment with a faultless pedigree, and a delight for both newcomers and opera fans.

Tantallon! These Lands This Wall
2012-09-17 08:30 - 22:30 | Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, EH39 5PN, United Kingdom
Music William Sweeney
Words Aonghas MacNeacail
Red Note Ensemble
Culture Creative
For the third year running Lammermuir Festival presents a spectacular site-specific music event unique to East Lothian.
One of Scotland’s most spectacular historic sites, Tantallon Castle is the setting for a brilliant music and light show which will bring the building, its story and East Lothian’s extraordinary past spectacularly alive.
Hear Tantallon tell its tales of intrigue, battle, witchcraft and downfall with a powerful musical score. Marvel at unforgettable images projected on the castle’s walls using amazing, state-of-the-art technology.
“Tantallon vast;
Broad, massive, high
and stretching far,
And held impregnable in war,
On a projecting rock it rose,
And round three sides the
ocean flows.”
Sir Walter Scott
TANTALLON CASTLE – PARKING AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
Please refer to our Tickets page to book parking and transport for this event.
Monday the 17th of September is a local holiday.
Running time 50min approx
Tantallon tickets and transport must be booked in advance. Tickets will not be available on the door. Cars without a car parking ticket cannot be accommodated.
This is an outdoor promenade event. Attenders are able to move around during the event, but are asked not to disturb other audience’s enjoyment of the show.
There are no covered areas and no seating is provided on the grass area where the show is projected. Therefore you may want to bring something to sit on, be it a rug or a folding chair. Also please wrap up warmly and wear robust footwear.
We advise you bring at least one torch with your party as the site will be very dark on exit, and this will assist when leaving the castle after the event.

The Intoxicating Rose Garden
2012-11-15 - 2012-11-22 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
Music: Sally Beamish and Anoosh Jahanshahi
Text: Divan e Hafez trans. Jila Peacock
Choreographer, dancer, singer: Michael Popper
Artwork: Jila Peacock
Video: Laurie Irvine
The Intoxicating Rose Garden is a new hybrid work which takes Sally Beamish’s settings of poems by Hafez, the 14th century Persian mystic, as its starting-point. Combining music, song, dance and animated image, it explores the longing and separation, as well as the sense of belonging and completeness that are so present in Hafez’s poems: elements that somehow conflict with and complement one another in the same moment. The animated images are based on Jila Peacock’s renderings of Hafez poetry in figural calligraphy.
Red Note will be joined by the multi-faceted singer and dancer/choreographer, Michael Popper, and the outstanding young Iranian setar player Anoosh Jahanshahi, who will perform his own Songs from Hafez in traditional Persian classical style.

>> SPECIAL FAMILY CONCERT AND WORKSHOP Woodend Barn 10:30am 17 November: Red Note and Michael Popper will introduce and perform parts of The Intoxicating Rose Garden for younger audiences. Expect animals, fish and birds, playing, singing and dancing!

>> The Tolbooth Stirling 8pm 15 November
INFORMATION AND BOOKING
>> Woodend Barn Banchory 8pm 17 November
(with special Family Concert at10:30am)
INFORMATION AND BOOKING
>> Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 7:30pm 22 November
INFORMATION AND BOOKING

Hymn of Thanks (Transcendence)
2012-12-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Wellington Church, 77 Southpark Ave, Glasgow, G12 8LE, United Kingdom
Programme:
Arvo Pårt “Fratres”
Henryk Gorecki “Songs are Sung” (5th Mvmnt)
Toru Takemitsu “a way a lone”
Beethoven “Hymn of Thanks” (Op. 132 3rd Mvmnt)

Ensemble:
Vn1: Jackie Shave
Vn2: Tom Hankey
Va: Louise Williams
Vc: Robert Irvine

The End of the World (for one night only)
2012-12-21 21:00 - 23:00 | Summerhall, Summerhall Pl., Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, United Kingdom
Do you remember the moment you realised the world was going to end? Did you feel panic? Fear? Were you excited or frozen to the spot? Or maybe, just maybe, you felt hope for the possibility of a new beginning…?

This is a one-off, site-specific music-and-theatre piece about the predicted apocalypse, for an audience of 100 people only. With new work by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Oliver Emanuel, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom and Ludwig van Beethoven about beginnings and endings, time and nothingness, the things we leave behind and what we want to take into the future.

“Who can bear himself forgotten?” (WH Auden)

Director Andy Arnold
Performers Red Note Ensemble
Composers Gareth Williams, John Harris, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom, Ludwig van Beethoven
Writer Oliver Emanuel

In Partnership with Summerhall and the Traverse Theatre

www.traverse.co.uk
www.summerhall.co.uk

Framed Against the Sky
2013-06-01 - 2013-10-23 | Various Venues, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
All summer long, FREE (multiple events, many venues)
Taking new music in to the nooks and crannies of Aberdeenshire
See the Framed Against the Sky website for details of all events.
Framed Against the Sky is a collaborative project between Woodend Barn, sound festival and Red Note Ensemble which introduces people to new music in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen. Local communities will be given the opportunity to help Irish composer Brian Irvine and Scottish poet Billy Letford create a new piece of music which will be premièred at the launch of 2013 sound festival at Woodend Barn this October.
We will be performing at various festivals, shows, and other locations throughout Aberdeenshire and City over the coming months in the lead up to the 2013 sound festival. Brian and Billy will be holding workshops in schools and open workshops during events.
If you’ve taken part in one of these workshops and would like to sing in the final performance on Wednesday 23rd October at Woodend Barn (Banchory), there will be a rehearsal on Sunday 20th October.
To find out more, please visit the Framed against the Sky website

New Music at Sloan's Bar
2013-06-05 19:30 - 2014-06-05 22:00 | Sloan’s Bar, 108 Argyle St, Glasgow, G2 8BG, United Kingdom
The last concert before the summer in our series as Associate Contemporary Ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, featuring new music from RCS composers including David Fennessy, Oliver Searle, Thomas Wilson, Rory Boyle, Gordon McPherson, and Red Note’s own Embedded Composer Tom Butler.

Tickets from boxoffice.rcs.ac.uk

A New Musical. Or two...
2013-06-07 20:30 - 23:00 | Cottier’s Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland St, Glasgow, G11 5PU
Red Note re-unites with improvising musical director Brian Irvine and a cast of Scotland’s quickest-witted singing actors to make a unique evening of instant new music theatre. Audience suggestions for plot-lines will be mashed in with spontaneously-created melodies and harmonies to create a wild, unpredictable and hugely-entertaining evening.
Tickets from Ticket Source

Songbirdsongs @ the East Neuk Festival
2013-07-06 16:30 - 17:30 | Cambo Barn, Cambo Estate, Kingsbarns, Fife, KY16 8QD, United Kingdom
“Hearing Songbirdsongs by American composer John Luther Adams is very much like taking a long walk in deep woods, passing through the seasons and times of day as birdsong surrounds you. It is a magical piece with something of the fairytale about it.” Presented with atmospheric lighting in the heart of the countryside in Cambo Barn, Fife, as part of the East Neuk Festival.
Tickets from Hub Tickets

Reels to Ragas 2013: Highlands and Islands Tour
2013-07-09 19:30 - 2013-07-23 23:00
Following our original From Reels to Raga tour last year (watch the video here) to Coll, Barra, Harris and Skye, we return with acclaimed tabla player Kuljit Bhamra and more Old and New Music from around the world. A mixture of old favourites, new compositions, and old pieces played in new ways, this critically-acclaimed global musical fusion, featuring violinist Jackie Shave, viola player Tom Hankey and cellist Robert Irvine, and is a wonderfully entertaining evening for the whole family. You can also join us for free and fun Indian drumming workshops with Kuljit on Coll, Harris and at the Big Shed – see times below.
9 July 7:30pm An Cridhe, Arinagour, Isle of Coll www.ancridhe.co.uk
20 July 9:00pm Breakish Hall, Near Broadford, Skye IV49 9AB Tickets on the door
22 July 7:30pm The Missionhouse Studio, Finsbay, Harris www.missionhousestudio.blogspot.co.uk
23 July 7:30pm The Big Shed, Aberfeldy www.thebigsheds.blogspot.co.uk

Reels to Ragas 2013: FREE Drumming Workshops with Kuljit Bhamra
2013-07-18 - 2013-07-23 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
18 July Children’s Drumming Workshop, An Cridhe, Arinagour, Isle of Coll www.ancridhe.co.uk
19 July 5:00pm Adult Drumming Workshop, An Cridhe, Arinagour, Isle of Coll www.ancridhe.co.uk
22 July 5:00pm Drumming Workshop for All, The Missionhouse Studio, Finsbay, Harris www.missionhousestudio.blogspot.co.uk
23 July 5:00pm Drumming Workshop for All, The Big Shed, Aberfeldy www.thebigsheds.blogspot.co.uk
FREE and fun drumming workshops with tabla player Kuljit Bhamra introducing Indian rhythms and music to everyone. Come and join us!
