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sound is a #newmusic incubator based in NE Scotland encouraging new music creation and discovery 🎧🎶
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🎵 Calling all UK-based artists! Applications for Essentials Fund Round Three are now open! 🎉

💷 Apply for £300–£600 to support your practice including equipment, software, recording or other essential costs.

📆 Deadline: Monday 08 Dec 2025
🔗 Apply: bit.ly/EssentialsFu...
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It’s been just over a week since soundfestival 2025 came to a close, and what an incredible celebration it was!

If you’re having festival blues, we still have plenty of events and workshops coming up!

Find out more: sound-scotland.co.uk/whats-on

#newmusic #composers #livemusic #workshops
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Heading up to Aberdeen tomorrow for the premiere of my new work for Zubin Kanga

ON THE WAY OUT

For piano, electronics and video ,
Including Genki ring, excerpt here

Great programme, hugely looking forward to this! link via my bio

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October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Tomorrow evening, Red Note Ensemble will present a richly immersive programme exploring sound, ecology, and imagination.

📆 Thu 30 Oct, 6–7pm
📍 King’s Pavilion, University of Aberdeen

🎟️ Tickets: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/red-no...

#soundfest25 #newmusic #livemusic #ensemble
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today we went BTS with Zubin Kanga and Andreas Borregaard, as they collaborate with award-winning interdisciplinary artist Kathy Hinde.

📆 Wed 29 Oct, 7.30–8.30pm
📍 Phoenix Centre, Newton Dee Village, Aberdeen

🎟️ Tickets: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/collab...

#soundfest25 #soundart #newmusic
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Polar soundings by Karen Power premieres at @soundscotland.bsky.social tomorrow and Saturday in Aberdeen. 3 performances each day. Come and hear it - it's quite incredible.
October 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Come explore the magic of lost Scots nature words, peasebogle, tweavlet & dreich with Roarie Bumlers!

📅 Fri 24 Oct, 10.30–11am & 2–2.30pm
📍 Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen
🎟️ £4 per child (adults free)

Tickets here: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/roarie-bumlers

#aberdeenevents #familyfriendly #soundfest25
October 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Stephanie Lamprea and Jessica Kerr will perform Angela Elizabeth Slater’s ‘My skin’ at the Sound Festival in Aberdeenshire on Saturday
@angelascomposer.bsky.social @slampreasoprano.bsky.social @soundscotland.bsky.social @illumwomensmusic.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Oliver Searle’s ‘Sequenza for Clarinet’ will be performed at Sound in Aberdeen on Saturday
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October 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Join us tonight at 7pm, Aberdeen Science Centre for a screening of Sisters With Transistors, the remarkable untold story of the women who revolutionised electronic music.

Followed by a Q&A with composer and researcher on the film Caro C.

🎟️ Tickets: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/sou...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🎧 Listen now: Composer Brian Irvine on his new work ‘A Call to Arms’ ahead of Stone Drawn Circles’ performance this Thu 23 Oct (7–8pm, King’s Pavilion, UOA).

🔗 Listen here: www.cmc.ie/amplify/epis...
🎟️ Tickets: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/stone-...

#soundfest25 #newmusic #aberdeenevents #ensemble
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A deeper dive into the music of polar soundings by Karen Power, which I'll be premiering at Sound festival in Aberdeen next weekend. nordicviola.com/2025/10/18/t... Ticket link in comments. @soundscotland.bsky.social @newmusicscotland.bsky.social @creativescots.bsky.social
The Sound of Ice: Interpreting Polar Soundings by Karen Power
Last week I left you at the point where I was finding the sounds I need for the viola part of polar soundings, getting used to using an aural part in my ear and generally getting to know Karen Powe…
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October 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What an inspiring 3 days at Go Compose!🎶

Led by the brilliant Electra Perivolaris, James B. Wilson, and Erin Thomson, our young composers spent three days exploring the art of composition with support from Red Note Ensemble musicians.

#newmusic #composers #youngpeople #aberdeen
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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📢 We’re hiring! 📢

New Music Scotland is looking for a Part-time Digital Officer to help connect, support, and champion our community of composers, musicians, sound artists and promoters.

📅 Apply by: Friday 24 October 2025, 5pm

Full details & how to apply: newmusicscotland.co.uk/about/vacanc...
October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Come explore the magic of lost Scots nature words, peasebogle, tweavlet & dreich with Roarie Bumlers!

📅 Fri 24 Oct, 10.30–11am & 2–2.30pm
📍 Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen
🎟️ £4 per child (adults free)

Tickets here: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/roarie-bumlers

#aberdeenevents #familyfriendly #soundfest25
October 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We’re thrilled that soundfestival was featured in The Herald’s article on five exciting composers including Electra Perivolaris, whose new work ISOLA and accompanying exhibition by Dr John Perivolaris premiere at this year’s festival.

Read more: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

#newmusic
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We’re thrilled to team up with The Belmont Community Cinema to present Sisters with Transistors, Lisa Rovner’s documentary on the visionary women who shaped electronic music.

📆 Wed 22 Oct, 7–9pm
📍Aberdeen Science Centre

Tickets: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/film-s...

#womeninmusic #aberdeenevents
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Music Finland spotlights Finnish composer Asta Hyvärinen, whose new work She, Miracle premieres at soundfestival in Aberdeen on 1 November. Performed by soprano Stephanie Lamprea, it was commissioned through the Northern Connection project.

Read more: musicfinland.com/en/news/comp...

#newmusic
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Have you got your tickets yet?👀

As we return to fuller programming post-COVID, this year’s soundfestival stretches once again across two long weekends, a celebration of adventurous listening, community spirit, and new discoveries.

Full programme available here: sound-scotland.co.uk

#soundfest25
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Last chance to apply!⏰

CALL: Workshop – Performative works for accordion with Andreas Borregaard

📆Deadline: Friday 19 September 2025
👉 Apply here: sound-scotland.co.uk/news/call-wo...

#callforentries #composers #newworks #accordion #applynow
CALL: Workshop – Performative works for accordion with Andreas Borregaard - Sound Scotland
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September 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Join Emory Southwick (Music Sales & Catalogue Manager for CoMA), as they share tips on how to write engaging, collaborative & high quality music for amateur & community musicians.

📅 Thursday, 18th September at 6:00 PM
📍Zoom, Online

To find out more & register: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/openso...
September 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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hcmf// 2025 is on sale now

📅 21–30 Nov
✨ 50+ premieres
👤 Composer in Residence: Sarah Hennies (@sarahhennies.bsky.social )

🎟 Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/

Image © Henry Seeley (www.henryseeley.design)
September 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
At sound, we’re proud to be reimagining how festivals can thrive sustainably. Grateful to Rebecca Franks for highlighting our journey towards greener music-making and creative connections over the last few years.

Read the article here: www.classical-music.uk/features/art...
A sound idea: Aberdeenshire’s SoundFestival
Travelling to an international festival would usually necessitate endless flights and massive carbon emissions, but performers at Aberdeen’s soundfestival have bypassed this in favour of more eco-frie...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We still have a few slots left for tomorrow!

Whether you’re looking for general advice, compositional support, funding/budgets, project ideas, building partnerships, or confidential wellbeing support, we’re here to listen and support you.

To register: sound-scotland.co.uk/event/compos...
September 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM