How science can inform and inspire the creation of art works, with Tim Murray-Brown, Navid Navab and journalist, Colm McAuliffe.

Tim Murray Browne works with code, sound, graphics and interactive technology to create immersive spaces for installations that change in response to the behaviour of their audience. Navid Navab is a media alchemist, multidisciplinary composer, audiovisual sculptor, phono-menologist, perSonifier, gestureBender, and interdisciplinary artist-researcher. Interested in the poetics of schizophonia, gesture, materiality, and embodiment, his work investigates the transmutation of matter and the enrichment of its inherent performative qualities.

Sonica Talk: Science As Art

Can nature and art intersect to create a response to climate change and its impact upon the environment?

Artists Kathy Hinde and Kian McEvoy create works at the intersection of art, nature and technology. Kathy Hinde invites a heightened awareness of the world around us and Kian McEvoy's series of videos documents a still-vibrant ecosystem. Yulia Kovanova explores the environmental factors and interactions between human and non-human animal, offering an opportunity to get closer to the intricate balance of natural forces upon which life is built.

Sonica Talk: Art & Environment

Money as a physical entity, the rise of alternative and complementary currencies, the informal ‘black’ economy, the currency market’s speculative volatility, intelligent machines and AI – what does this mean for society and democracy? Artists Michela Pelusio and Nicolas Varchausky discuss their work and invite us to imagine the alternatives with journalist Colm McAuliffe.

Sonica Talk: Man & Technology

Travel may be restricted, but inspiration is not... enjoy a long-distance listen to Artistic Director, Cathie Boyd's podcast from Barcelona where she lives and breathes all the Llum BCN festival has to offer, exploring many landmarks along the way and accompanied by digital artist, MAOTIK & Director of Eufònic, Vicent Fibla.

BARCELONA

Cathie Boyd visits Llum BCN, Barcelona

Created for Cryptic's night-time nautical extravaganza on the River Clyde, Sound to Sea as part of the XX Commonwealth Games.

Sound to Sea featured over 140 performers, live music, aerial dance, fireworks and spectacular visuals on the dynamic and inspiring waters of the Clyde’s Canting Basin. Boats and ships doubled as stages embracing a diverse range of musical styles, spanning  the genres of folk, rock, traditional, techno, bhangra-pop, classical, opera and choral.

Presented in partnership with Glasgow Science Centre and in association with the Royal Navy.

Supported by Creative Scotland, Arts & Business Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Glasgow City Council, The Craignish Trust, The Hugh Fraser Foundation, Hope Scott, The James T. Howatt Charitable Trust, The Hub and Inner Ear Ltd.

Cryptic's Commonwealth Games

Preview: Cathie Boyd visits Llum BCN, Barcelona

What do your dreams sound like? Sonic Dreams is a fantastic sound world with the power to transport you from New York to the jungle, from the mind of a purring cat to an Italian opera house. Anything is possible on this 3D sound journey where the only limit is your imagination!

Commissioned by Edinburgh’s International Science Festival created by Cryptic and ARUP. Developed with support from the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. Supported by Digital Design Studio.

Sonic Dreams

A radiophonic adaptation of Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers, which dramatises her experience of a black girl’s adoption by a white Scottish couple. It presents three narrative voices, daughter, adoptive mother and birth mother, each in a different typeface. At times these are separate monologues, at others, skillfully interwoven creating a polyphonic symphony. The cumulative effect is of more than three voices.

A 24+1 (Rescue Kit for Radio), the pilot project for the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) led by Belgian artist Ward Weis.

Composer & Sound Designer: Anthea Haddow
Performers: Veronica Leer, Louise Ludgate & Michelle Rodley
Text: Jackie Kay
Director: Cathie Boyd
Recorded and Produced by: Ward Weiss

The Adoption Papers - Jackie Kay

Artist Katie Anderson discusses Sound Horn, her curious cluster of six outdoor copper and aluminium sound sculptures inspired by gramophone speakers. Each of the six emits one part of a field-recorded composition that she made during a Cryptic Cove Park Residency. From choral notes, spoken word parts and a bassline hum, listeners can experience each element in isolation before they combine into one deeply resonant whole sounding from all six speakers at once.

Sound Horn

One year on from the festival, Pär Carlsson takes you on a first-hand tour of Sonica Glasgow 2019 in this retrospective special for Resonance FM. Highlights include: Jorge Crowe's chiming electronic soundscape, Ludotecnia; Luke Fowler's subtle deep-listening experience, Gourd Composition #2; Navid Navab & Michael Montanaro’s fantastical liquification of the ways we communicate, Aquaphoneia; the lithe, skittering, glitchy electronica of Line Katcho's Immortelle, and the digital-choral drone of ASUNA's 100 Keyboards.

Sonica Glasgow 2019: A Retrospective

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.

Sonica Talks & Cryptic Conversations

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