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Watch online at bbc.co.uk/tectonics
Listen LIVE on 大象传媒 Radio 3 and 大象传媒 Sounds

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Welcome to Tectonics 2021. The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s annual festival of new and experimental music returns with a line-up featuring many of the artists scheduled for 2020. Tectonics Glasgow once again sees international, UK, and Glasgow-based artists come together to blur musical boundaries and question what music can be.

大象传媒 SSO Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov

This eighth incarnation of the festival is made up of unique, specially-recorded audio and video performances streamed on this site; but each day will also climax in live broadcasts on 大象传媒 Radio 3 and 大象传媒 Sounds from Glasgow’s City Halls, from 10pm to 12 midnight.

The 大象传媒 SSO remains at the core of Tectonics Glasgow and will give the world premieres of a new 大象传媒 Commission by and a new work for the festival by , along with works by , , and . The orchestra will also record works by and , while violin virtuoso premieres works for solo violin by and commissioned by the .

Also performing live at City Halls will be and (aka Adam Linson and Matthew Wright), both of whom also contribute pre-recorded work. and the duo of & Rebecca Wilcox take to stage on Sunday, both sets live on 大象传媒 Radio 3 and 大象传媒 Sounds.

Composer Yu Kuwabara

There will be unique recorded performances from US composer and performer pianist , brass ensemble with , and Scotland’s inclusive new music ensemble . Multimedia composer/performers and will bring their own sound worlds to the festival along with the unique musical instruments of . ’s Street Music will explore the sounds of Berlin’s traffic, while ’s Skip Ad critiques the world of online advertising.

contributes a new tape piece while and perform works by and as well as two of their own pieces. ’s Untitled School will be performed by, aptly, four students from the Freiburg Musikhochschule and a number of artists will come together to perform ’s MusicArt Ideal.

All performances are available on this site for 30 days, with the two live broadcasts available on 大象传媒 Sounds for the same period. The festival is completely free to access.