A hobbyist messin' about with acoustic guitar & voice, or whatever cheap/free software I find.

poet, writer, translator, language learner

Sandra Alland is a writer, performer, filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist and curator. San has published three books of poetry, and stories and poems in heaps of anthologies, chapbooks, zines, magazines and journals. They are also co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, 2017), and were recently Guest Editor at Disability Arts Online (April 2020: https://soundcloud.com/san_alland_dao.

Other projects have included curating the Scottish cabaret & visual arts projects Cachín Cachán Cachunga! & SEEP, and directing short films about queer & trans deaf & disabled artists. San has received short stories commissions from Comma Press (Manchester), British Council and elsewhere. Their chapbook of short stories Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real was published by Proper Tales Press in 2019; its audiobook version can be found on this channel (funded by Canada Council), and film-stories on San's YouTube.

Matthew Whiteside, the List Hot 100 2019, is a composer, collaborator, sound designer and concert producer based in Glasgow, named ‘One to Watch’ in the Herald’s Culture Awards 2017 and winner of the Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award for his work Entangled with Marisa Zanotti. His music has been described as “Effective and Unsettling” by BBC Music Magazine and “post-minimalist bold sparseness” by the Herald.

Recent work has included a short opera Little Black Lies commissioned by Scottish Opera Connect, with libretto by Helene Grøn; Night Thoughtsi, commissioned by Crash Ensemble for première at New Music Dublin 2020; Rama, commissioned by The Night With… for Ensemble Offspring; Entangled, commissioned by the Institute of Physics for the 2018 NI Science Festival; and working with filmmaker/chorographer Marisa Zanotti creating collaborative work with Magnetic North.

He has received international performances by ensembles and performers such as the RTÉ NSO, Red Note Ensemble, the Aurea Quartet, Pauline Kim Harris and Diagenesis Duo at venues such as New York University, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, Glasgow City Halls, Salem Artworks in New York and the Belfast International Festival at Queen’s. He has been commissioned by Cottiers Chamber Project and Lorimer Productions for Cappella Nova and co-commissioned by sound festival and R-Space gallery to collaborate with Dominika Mayovich to create an interactive sound/art installation which resulted in Exhibiton Music.

Matthew Whiteside is a classically trained composer and orchestrator based in Glasgow. This account features his commercial music work for film and tv. If you want to hear his concert music or music for gallery installations go to www.soundcloud.com/matthew-whiteside

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