Location: Grand Hall, Glasgow City Halls
The 大象传媒 SSO鈥檚 first concert opens with Kristine Tj酶gersen鈥檚 exploration of nature and the interconnections between birds, animals, plants, fungus and humans: an excursion which gives the audience a feeling not of observing a forest, but being inside it.
Amber Priestley鈥檚 new work is inspired by conversations she had with the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell one of the discoverers of pulsars (or neutron stars). For it, Priestley 鈥榠magined -through the filter of an orchestra - radio interference together with the
regularity of the rhythm given off by a pulsar. My translation of this phenomenon is just one way that it can be heard鈥�.
Pascale Criton鈥檚 music first appeared at Tectonics Glasgow in 2018 and she returns with a work specially written for the festival. Written during the pandemic, Alter plays on the idea of otherness, as well as alteration and transformation. The reference points are unstable, driven by minute reciprocal influences, bordering on acoustic phenomena such as beats and resulting sounds. Its text is a variation on this shifting world expressed in French, English and Arabic, with words written during the confinement by its soprano soloist, Juliet Fraser.
