I’m currently working on a new album and I’m very grateful for support from the Creative Scotland Open Fund.
And many thanks to Tramway Glasgow for a Studio residency in June 2025.
More info to come – the release will be out in 2026. Sign up to the newsletter for updates.
I’m delighted to share that I’ve been selected for In Motion at Sound and Music. The programme runs for 18 months, and I’ll be making new work. More info to follow. Sign up for updates at Newsletter. Read more about In Motion and the selected composers here:
Sound and Music announces new In Motion 2025 composer cohort – Sound and Music
In Motion is supported by:
I work freelance with Sonic Bothy inclusive music/arts charity (2013-current) and occasionally post an update of our activities. Please visit Sonic Bothy’s website for detailed information about the charity’s work, team, community, and programmes. Here’s a link to donate to Sonic Bothy, if that’s of interest – to help continue its work and reach more people. www.sonicbothy.co.uk/donate
This November (2024) we were excited to perform twice – at the Glad Cafe for 1.5 Months on 14th, and at CCA Glasgow as part of GIOfest on the 30th. We premiered two new works – Public Inconvenience and Feed.Back. More updates on those on Sonic Bothy’s website and socials.
In 2023, Sonic Bothy Ensemble won the Musicians’ Union Award for New Music Performer/s at the Scottish Awards for New Music for our performance film Verbaaaaatim, which premiered at Tectonics Festival, Glasgow in 2021.
Sonic Bothy has been busy with various strands of activity – I’m delighted to have been co-facilitator on a range of Open Sessions, a Rural Project with Strathearn Arts in Crieff (2023) ; and a new Hospice Project in collaboration with The Art Room, Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, and young people in palliative care (2024).
In November 2024, I co-presented at the 5th Annual International Symposium for the Arts in Palliative Care (with Caroline Hussey) , which took place at St Columba’s Hospice in Edinburgh.
Sonic Bothy Ensemble’s debut album Fields is still available at Bandcamp in hard copy and digital formats…https://sonicbothy.bandcamp.com/album/fields
The residency at Hospitalfield was a very welcome break from my usual workspace, and I really appreciated the sea walks and open vistas. The combination of working on own projects and sharing time with the other artists-in-residence worked really well, particularly as some themes in the work resonated across our distinct practices. Everyone was very generous in many ways. I’m currently developing a film iteration of Night Vision. This focused time sparked a new direction in that work, as well as other seed ideas to carry forward in new work.
Many thanks to everyone at Hospitalfield and to all the August 2023 artists.
Night Vision is supported by Creative Scotland.
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.
Residency 5th – 9th June 2023
Night Vision has several iterations underway through 2023, including an album, a performance and a film.
I’m working on the film with cinematographer Kirstin McMahon, and the Tramway residency is a space to explore additional visual/sound materials.
Team for Residency
Director: Nichola Scrutton
Cinematographer: Kirstin McMahon
Technical / SM: Jack Wrigley
Production Manager: Nick Millar
Producer: Nichola Scrutton
Additional thanks to performers – Alison Peebles, Ian Spink, Louise Montgomery, Nerea Bello, Belle Jones, to stand-in Deen Fredericks, and to Stevie Jones for sound recording experiments.
Many thanks to Tramway for supporting Night Vision, and to the super-helpful crew.
Main image: Nichola Scrutton © Julie Broadfoot
Pleased to share that new release Interzone will come out on Nonclassical in 2023. More details to follow.
Interzone has been produced with a PRS Foundation Open Fund for Music Creators award.
Photo credit: Jim McEwan at Solas Sound Studio
COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills – University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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Sonic Bothy Ensemble produced a new digital work Verbaaaaatum for Tectonics Festival 2021. The festival was online for a month and hosted a fantastic array of digital and streamed music/sound performances. View the archive of the 2021 Tectonics Festival online at Tectonics Glasgow 2021
Hats off to all at Sonic Bothy for how everything has continued to grow and develop since the first lockdown hit in March 2020. In spite of the challenges, we’ve being actively involved in staying creatively connected to participants/musicians and producing new work, and it’s a joy.
Exciting that Sonic Bothy was shortlisted for The RCS Award for Education/Community Project at New Music Scotland. The awards were announced in an online event in July 2021 – congratulations to the winners. Read more about the category and shortlisted projects here…The RCS Award for Education/Community Project
Sonic Bothy Ensemble’s debut album Fields is still available at Bandcamp in hard copy and digital formats…
https://sonicbothy.bandcamp.com/album/fields
For more information on Sonic Bothy Ensemble, and all the charity’s activities, please visit Sonic Bothy’s website.