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UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh
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Hosted by @edincollegeofart.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the people of Edinburgh.
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"#Gaelic stories and songs of the sea", with renowned folklorist Margaret Bennett
Image: George Washington Wilson (1823 – 1893), ‘Castlebay, Barra’. Sepia photograph of the Bay, with an oar-powered fishing boat on the left near the shore. National Galleries of Scotland, the MacKinnon Collection. Acquired jointly with the National Library of Scotland with assistance from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Scottish Government and Art Fund.
May 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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And it's a wrap for 2025! Thank you to all our colleagues @edincollegeofart.bsky.social and beyond who made this event possible, and to everyone who attended! Watch out for documentation and updates on the website over the coming weeks and months ....
February 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Tonight at the #WeekOfSound in Edinburgh: @aaronwyanski.bsky.social rethinks Schoenberg. Here he is introducing the cat, I mean the concept. @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

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February 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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THIS AFTERNOON on this, the final day of the 2025 #WeekOfSound 😢:
The Opera Experiment, featuring six new mini-operas created *this week*. Plots include supernatural beings, radio romance, awkward encounters, death, and singing about the sea....

Book here: digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...
February 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Got plans for Friday night? No? You do now.
February 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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New event! We're delighted to open up tomorrow morning's talk by composer Aaron Wyanski on his series (sic) "Schoenberg in hifi". Full details here: digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...
The composer Arnold Schoenberg sits in a mid-century swivel chair and smiles for the camera — wait what? Schoenberg smiling?
February 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Tuesday at the #WeekOfSound: It has been an inspiring day, honouring the impact and legacy of Rebecca Collins, and taking her work forward. Thanks to all our colleagues @edincollegeofart.bsky.social for making this possible.
February 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Today at the #WeekOfSound we remember our colleague Rebecca Collins, and look to the future of her work and what it inspires:
— Lecture-performance "Sonic Detection: Echoes from the Future" by Rebecca's collaborator Johanna Linsley, 5:30
— Concert, 7 pm

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February 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Programme notes for tonight's opening concert @edincollegeofart.bsky.social are now online — and there are still some tickets left.

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February 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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It's here! It's the second #WeekOfSound in #Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
And there are still some tickets left for tonight's amazing opening concert featuring @amsouth.bsky.social, Una MacGlone, humpback whales and velvet swimming crabs!
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February 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Starting tomorrow!!
February 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Here's a velvet swimming crab chilling in the green room ahead of its Edinburgh concert debut next Monday at the UNESCO #WeekOfSound.
And I'm not even joking.
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pic: Gordon Milligan on Flickr
It's a crab.
February 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Energy,

not forms,

not figures:

Hear one of Rebecca Collins' final works, a collaboration with Adam Matschulat, next Tuesday at the #WeekOfSound in #Edinburgh
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Rebecca Collins stands looking at an installation peace containing the words "Energies, not forms, not figures (chant)".
February 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A reminder: all of our events — concerts, tours, workshops — are completely free. Full programme here:
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February 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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It certainly looks a bit wavy, but how does it work? Curator Jenny Nex has the answers at this special tour of the collection at St Cecilia's Hall for the second #WeekOfSound in #Edinburgh

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A photograph of a serpent in a music instrument museum. Don't worry, it's not poisonous and it's not alive and in fact it's not even a snake. It's actually a big old weird-looking curvy wind instrument, hence the name.
February 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh 2025: WAVES
Programme online now!
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A page from a book by Ernst Chladni showing illustrations of the patterns created by material strewn on resonant surfaces as part of his experiments in acoustics. The patterns include what look like four, six, eight and fourteen-point starbursts, among other things. A humpback whale in the ocean: the side of its head is visible, its eye is open and looking in the direction of the vessel from which the photograph was taken.
January 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Our 2025 programme will be published in the next few days — watch this space.
January 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM