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An insightful series of Sonica Talks and Cryptic Conversations...

Sonica Glasgow, sonic art for the visually minded, produced by  Cryptic, is an award winning 11-day biennial festival, dedicated to world-class visual sonic arts, presenting exceptional international artists alongside UK talent.

Cryptic is a Glasgow based internationally-renowned producing art house, presenting today’s most imaginative, innovative artists whilst also nurturing the creative talent of tomorrow. We create memorable experiences that engage and inspire our audiences, ‘ravishing the senses’ with multi-media performances that fuse music, sonic and visual art.

Established in 1994, Cryptic is Scotland’s internationally renowned home of audiovisual art and experimentation. Founded by Cathie Boyd, and based in Glasgow but with a global reach, Cryptic presents and promotes the most dynamic talents of today and tomorrow as they explore new dimensions in live music, visual and sonic arts and performance, and the weird and wild areas where these disciplines intersect and cross over.

Black Hill Chronicles is a podcast, part rural horror, part delirium, part meditation on the form and purpose of music and art. Welcome to Black Hill.

"Ever heard a wasp scratch wood"?

Produced by Fenton Barns for OMNEMPATHY

http://www.omnempathy.com

Omnempathy is home to Michael Begg, and the Sleeping Egyptian.

The Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music for the anthropocene in the margins of classical and experimental music. Combining the cream of Scotland’s chamber players with longstanding pioneers of the UK’s avant-garde electronic underground, the result of these liminal explorations is an emotionally resonant new music that challenges the senses, confounds expectations and breaks open new sonic ground.

Black Glass was formed in 2018 by New Music Scotland award winner, and Queen’s Hall associate artist in residence, Michael Begg. The ensemble has been developed with support from Creative Scotland, HMUK and the Hope Scott Trust.

Central to Black Glass’s vision is solastalgia, the term combining solace and pain, coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2005 to articulate the sense of existential distress caused by living through environmental change. In it’s innovative use of technology, and palette of bespoke software instruments, the ensemble creatively imbues their work with the mechanisms through which the knowledge of environmental decline comes to us; sonified data streams, satellite and weather monitoring systems; low frequency atmospheric receivers; field recordings; resonance audiograms, and more.

The Black Glass Ensemble are: Michael Begg (scores, samples, data feeds, erosions); Ben Ponton (receivers, recordings, forensics); Clea Friend (cello); Aisling O’Dea (violin); Julia Lungu (violin); Neil Cuthbertson (trumpet); Jen Cuthbertson (French horn); Douglas Caskie (tuned and bespoke percussion).

NOTES
Michael Begg won the NMS Award in 2018 for his work, TITAN, a Cryptic commission for Sonica; Mexico’s CCD Radio named him “one of the most important experimental composers of our time”
Ben Ponton is a founding member of Newcastle’s :zoviet*france: who the Ambient Music Guide refer to as “the ultimate cult electronic band”
Aisling O’Dea is the principal violinist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Clea Friend is one of Scotland’s foremost cellists, and performs regularly with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Royal National Orchestra of Scotland
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Banner photograph by Mike Wilkinson
Profile Collage by 'the engineer'

JULIE ROUSSE (1979) lives and works in Paris // Sound artist, improviser performer and electroacoustic composer. Her work is diverse and expressed through many different projects : live performances, electroacoustic composition, sound installations, music scores for film, dance and video art.
Before all she is a nomad phonographer and a noise lover.
She has played in many different venues and festivals around the world - from Afghanistan to Chile.

Michael Begg is a sound artist, composer and musician based in East Lothian, Scotland.

https://linktr.ee/michaelbegg

Michael Begg is following