大象传媒

Highlights from Tectonics 2019, the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra's annual festival of new and experimental music featuring music, presented by Kate Molleson.

Mauro Lanza Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (大象传媒 Co-Commission, UK Premiere)
Juliana Hodkinson All Around (大象传媒 Commission, World Premiere)
Martin Arnold The Gay Goshawk (World Premiere)

Martin Arnold (melodica)
Angharad Davies (violin)
Sharron Kraus (voice)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

also tonight:

Anahita Abbasi Intertwined Distances
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

and Julia Reidy 's Brace, brace for 12 string guitar and voice

and a report on Radiophrenia, Glasgow's pop-up radio experimental music station

Ilan Volkov leads the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra in two 大象传媒 Commissions: Juliana Hodkinson鈥檚 All Around, which aims to extend the reach of our listening into real and imaginary spaces, and Mauro Lanza鈥檚 Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. Borrowed from the 1940 film which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms, Lanza鈥檚 two-section piece is built around a short quotation from the last movement of Gustav Mahler鈥檚 Second Symphony. Composer Martin Arnold is drawn to Scottish ballads in The Gay Goshawk. In his sweeping work, the lyrics absorb and mediate weird metamorphoses of so many sound worlds, from psychedelic transmutations of late 14th century polyphony to Brill Building pop-jazz, as they tell their stories.

Brace, brace is Julia Reidy鈥檚 dread-tinged incantation of desolate strumming and slow-moving pitch sequences.

The electronic element of Anahita Abbasi鈥檚 Intertwined Distances came out of a close collaboration between Esfahani and the composer.