A taster film – Zoë Strachan and I working in the Edwin Morgan Trust Archive in Special Collections at University of Glasgow, as part of our Second Life Award project Lying Over Under Another – a new radio art performance inspired by Morgan’s scrapbooks.
Category: Audio/Video Clips
Bandcamp New Releases
I now have a Bandcamp page. I set it up during lockdown and am just coming back to it now. I’m looking forward to adding new sounds soon. Here’s a link to follow and be notified about releases – many thanks.
Protected: Night Vision Work-in-Progress
Wave Shift June 2024
Wave Shift is an immersive soundscape composition. Source materials for the work include a selection of field recordings, captured during an artist residency with UZ Arts at Sura Medura in Sri Lanka in 2015, and layers of vocal sound recordings. The piece was originally conceived as a long-form soundscape as part of a collaborative installation with artist Natasha Russell, and then subsequently re-worked into a shorter studio composition.
Dwelling/Encounters audio
Audio clip from a live performance of Dwelling/Encounters from the triptych The Dwelling Series.
Sonic Bothy Ensemble Album Launch
Sonic Bothy inclusive new music ensemble I work with launched its debut album Fields with a performance at Mono in Glasgow on 28th February 2019. The album was recorded near the end of 2017 at Riverside Studios. Read more at Lost Art Agency and at Glasgow City Music Tours…The album is available at Bandcamp.
More Information
For more information on Sonic Bothy Ensemble, and all the charity’s activities, please visit Sonic Bothy’s website.
The Mark of the Beast Excerpts
Video Jam Colombo Art Biennale Clip
Video Jam at Colombo Art Biennale
Watch Video Jam clip
Here’s a short clip from the Video Jam at the opening night of the Colombo Art Biennale. The link takes you straight through to the Facebook page of Decibel.lk – a Sri Lankan online news, reviews and events site…just click the image to play…
Thanks to Decibel for that. And big thanks to Shereen Perera for inviting me to score for Video Jam.
Good Days Bad Days Excerpt
Good Days Bad Days was a 5-month research and development collaborative project with writer Martin O’Connor , Glasgow’s North East Recovery Community commissioned by Platform-to-Health and GRAND (Getting Real About Alchohol N Drugs). Participants were engaged in conversations focused on remembering their first and last alcoholic drink, to open up bigger discussions of childhood and family life, living conditions and wider society in Glasgow, and the impact of addiction and recovery on individuals and communities.
These conversations formed the basis of a composed, immersive sound installation, originally staged at Platform Glasgow, and then as a headphone installation at Outskirts Festival in 2016.
Subsequently, I re-designed that material as interactive sound track for Martin’s solo performance Mark of the Beast in 2018 ( “An exceptional piece of work” ***** The Herald ).
Teine Èiginn/Need Fire Excerpts
Songs for a Stranger clip
A short clip of a performance of Songs for a Stranger movement (v) In the Midst. Performed by Nichola Scrutton and Celine Hanni.
Guarida | Phoenix Dance Theatre
Guarida was created during the Choreographers and Composers Lab with Phoenix Dance Theatre.
Choreographer/composer team: Sandrine Monin and Nichola Scrutton
Dancer: Lisard Tranis
Musician: Hara Alonso.
KPC Sound Mix/GI Festival of Visual Art
KPC Sound Mix is a sound artwork commissioned by Kinning Park Complex and Open Jar Collective for Broth Mix – a food-based project that will run in KPC for two weeks during Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art from 7th – 14th April 2014.
The sound artwork is a collage of field recordings, interviews, and music clips that presents a snapshot of KPC. The piece will be available on MP3 players with headphones at KPC during the two-week period and can be downloaded here at KPC Sound Mix.
Many thanks indeed to all the contributors!
Interviews and field recordings
Ammy Jay, Amrik Kanr, Anne Davidson, Catherine Weir, Chris, Clem Sandison, Helen Kyle, Kinning Park Complex, Lindsay Keenan, Nicole’s dance class, Reuben Chesters – Locovore, Women’s cooking/gardening group
Music Clips
Death Rattle/Tricky
Erin Scrutton, Nichola Scrutton, Kirsty Ewing, Barbara Chalmers, Michelle Drumm
Luskentyre and Stevie Jones
Martin Douglas (tuba)
Sokobauno Puppet and Object Theatre
Shane Connolly (composer; reading; performance – accordian, percussion), Stevie Jones (recording), Alasdair Roberts (guitar), Georgie McGeown (flute)
Lifeguard Trailer/National Theatre of Scotland
Adrian Howell’s Lifeguard at Govanhill Baths.
HumDrum film
A short film about HumDrum.
All We’re Skilled In | Plantation Productions
All We’re Skilled In was a film, sound art and heritage project run in partnership with Plantation Productions, Glasgow Film Theatre and Scottish Screen Archive. Erin Scrutton and I worked with young carers in Glasgow to create atmospheric sound tracks for silent film clips using original historical footage of the Govan shipyards and the people who worked there. The film below, made by Jamie Dempster, is a short documentary of the project itself. The film has had several screenings, including the Glasgow International Film Festival.
Hooks + Bites/Glow Co-Create Film
A film about Hooks + Bites – a Glow Co-Create project for the Curriculum for Excellence. The project worked in partnership with Perth Concert Hall, Perth and Kinross Council, Learning and Teaching Scotland and Creative Scotland.
Hold Your Breath audio
Hold Your Breath was a large-scale visual/sound art project set up to improve the entrances/exits to the Clyde Tunnel, with the participation of the Whiteinch and Linthouse communities at each end of the tunnel. I composed the various contributions of source sound and music into one large 40-minute work, which was to be projected by radio into the cars traveling through the Clyde Tunnel. More info at Hold Your Breath
Move Mood | Sarah Tripp
I composed electroacoustic music for Move Mood, an observational documentary film by writer and artist Sarah Tripp. Screenings at X-Ray at the Persevence, London, Diversions Film Festival, Edinburgh Filmhouse, Artists Film & Video at the BBC Glasgow (in association with the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art). Here’s an excerpt from the film.