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sound, North East Scotland's festival of new music, is driven by the passion to make new music more accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
An initiative of Woodend Arts Limited in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen, the festival operates largely as a network of local and some national organisations to produce a varied programme of events exploring new music.
The festival brings together a large range of different genres of music to appeal to a wide variety of tastes and encourage people to discover new sounds and widen their musical horizons.
sound 2012 : 18 October – 18 November The 2012 festival will have opera at its centre, looking at how the boundaries of opera can be pushed musically. The operas showcased will be staged in an urban flat, a lighthouse, a bothy, around a desk, in a pub, on a bus…
sound 2012 will feature new commissions from composers Gareth Williams, Pippa Murphy, John Harris, Paul Mealor, Robert Saxton, Oliver Searle, Stephen Montague and Claudia Molitor; performances by artists including Red Note Ensemble, Rolf Hind, Matthew Herbert, NYCOS and NYOS, Svara Kanti; and partnerships with Cryptic and HCMF amongst others.
For more information visit www.sound-scotland.co.uk or join sound on Facebook here.
