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!

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 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!

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!

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.

Noisy Nights 12
2011-02-07 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 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.

Noisy Words
2010-11-18 19:15 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED
Writers and composers of all stripes are invited to submit proposals for the chance to become involved in this one-off mélange of creative expression; please email john@rednoteensemble.com or Jennifer.williams@traverse.co.uk for full details and the proposal guidelines.

Proposal submission deadline: Monday 27th September

Come along on the night to hear the dramatic results of the collaborations; will our musical and wordy matchmaking result in harmonious marriages? You decide!

www.traverse.co.uk

RED NOTE AUTUMN TOUR 2010
2010-10-20 - 2010-10-22 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
Classic minimalism, in the form of John Adams’ brilliant Shaker Loops for single strings, and Gavin Bryars’ evocative Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet – paired with a new Red Note / Sound Festival commission for Gabriel Jackson, winner of the 2009 BASCA British Composer Award and composer-in-residence of the BBC Singers.

Wednesday 20th October 2010: Sound Festival Aberdeen (Opening Concert) www.sound-scotland.co.uk
Thursday 21st October 2010: RSAMD, Glasgow www.rsamd.ac.uk
Friday 22nd October 2010: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh www.traverse.co.uk

Noisy Nights 11
2010-10-11 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.

Someone in between? Noisy Nights is for you; 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 new music while having a beer. All sorts of music are welcomed – as are all sorts of listeners!

The instrumentation for Monday 11th October will be:
Oboe (doubling Cor Anglais), Accordian, Small Drumkit and Marimba
To submit a score, please visit the Calls for Scores page

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2010
2010-08-26 20:00 - 22:00 | The Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH1 2EA, United Kingdom
Tickets from www.eif.co.uk

A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE - RED NOTE TUNE UP Tour June 2010
2010-06-03 - 2010-06-09 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
“The nervous thistle’s shiverin like
A horse’s skin aneth a cleg,
Or Northern Lichts or lustres o
A soul that Daith has fastened on,
Or mornin eftir the night afore.

Shudderin thistle gie owre, gie owre….”

Commissioned by MayFest in 1992, Sweeney’s galloping, madcap setting is by turns funny and profound, employing Red Note’s multi-talented musicians, singers and narrator to sensational effect.

The ensemble for this tour is made of 9 players, including a jazz clarinettist and trombonist, 4 singers, and a famously thrawn narrator. Expect an evening of humour, inebriation, beauty, politically-charged comment and virtuoso musical and literary invention.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle will be directed by rising young conducting star Jessica Cottis, and features well-loved Scottish actor Crawford Logan in the title role.

Tour Dates and booking details:

Thursday 3rd June: Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling FK8 1DE
Tickets & Information: 01786 27 4000 / www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth

Friday 4th June: RSAMD, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow G2 3DB
Tickets & Information: 0141 332 5057 / www.rsamd.ac.uk

Saturday 5th June: Woodend Barn, Burn o’ Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA
Tickets & Information: 01330 825431 / www.woodendbarn.co.uk

Sunday 6th June: Easdale Hall. Easdale Island, By Oban, Argyll PA34 4TB
Tickets & Information: www.easdale.org/hall

Tuesday 8th June: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye IV44 8RQ
Tickets & Information: 01471 844207 / www.seall.co.uk

Wednesday 9th June: Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED
Tickets & Information: 0131 228 1404 / www.traverse.co.uk.
VISIT: www.tuneup.org.uk

NOISY NIGHTS 10
2010-05-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
Are you a composer? Visit our Calls for Scores page to see how to submit works for Noisy Nights.

RED NOTE side-by-side with MUSICLAB at the PLUG FESTIVAL
2010-04-30 19:30 - 22:00 | RSAMD Concert Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
The second Red Note in concert at PLUG, side-by-side with the RSAMD’s contemporary music ensemble MusicLab, performing the prize-winning works in the Academy’s annual Craig Armstrong Composition Prize.

RED NOTE at the PLUG FESTIVAL
2010-04-28 19:30 - 22:00 | RSAMD Concert Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Red Note in concert at PLUG, the RSAMD’s annual contemporary music festival, with new works by Oliver Searle, John de Simone, Horowitz and Richard Greer. Conducted by Jessica Cottis.

Noisy Nights 9
2010-04-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
New music written for an ensemble of saxophone, ‘cello and acoustic guitar. Free.

Noisy Nights 8
2010-02-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
The first Noisy Night of 2010 kicks off with new music written for an ensemble of Violin, Trombone and Bassoon.

RED NOTE with MUSICLAB
2010-01-27 19:30 - 22:00 | RSAMD Concert Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
A programme of music by Scottish composers, including Eddie McGuire’s recent work Carrochan, a suite inspired by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, together with music from Academy students Claire McCue and Ian Anderson, and established works by Frank Spedding and Rory Boyle. Tickets £9 / £6.

NOISY NIGHTS 7
2009-12-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom

RED NOTE AUTUMN CONCERT TOUR 2009
2009-11-19 - 2009-11-22 | Various Venues, United Kingdom
November 19th 2009:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 8pm
Part of the Traverse Theatre’s Autumn Festival
Tickets £13 / £8

November 20th 2009:
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow 7:30pm
Programme as for November 19th.
Tickets £9.

November 22nd 2009: RED NOTE AUTUMN CONCERT TOUR
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen 8pm
The closing concert of the Aberdeen Sound Festival 2009.

Noisy Nights 6
2009-11-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom

RED NOTE with MUSICLAB
2009-10-31 19:30 - 22:00 | RSAMD Concert Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3DB, United Kingdom
Part of Peter Maxwell Davies 75 and ArtMusFair 2009. Tickets £9.

Noisy Nights 6 @ ARTMUSFAIR
2009-10-30 22:30 - 2009-10-31 00:00 | Georgics Bar, Millenium Hotel, George Sq., Glasgow, G2 1DS, United Kingdom
Part of ArtMusFair 2009. Free.

Noisy Nights 5
2009-10-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED, United Kingdom
No. 5 in Red Note’s regular informal series of Noisy Nights chamber concerts showcasing fresh-off-the-page music by new, emerging and established composers (see Calls for Scores), this time for an ensemble of trumpet, viola and french horn. Free.
