The principal aim of the Sonic Fusion Festival is to bring together a diverse array of the NEW from international contemporary music, on a world-wide basis. It will consist of concert performances, electronic audio, and audio-visual installations as well as many educational events (including performance, composition and workshop activities for children; and masterclasses, demonstrations and informal pre-concert talks being of more general public interest). It will consistently seek to challenge preconceptions, whilst at the same time guaranteeing the delivery of world-class musical art.
I am pleased to be able to announce the first details of the Sonic Fusion Festival 2008.
It will run from the 18th to the 28th of September 2008. The specific details of the events will be announced at the festival’s launch on August 22nd 2008.
Amongst the landmarks that will be marked is the 100th birthday of Elliott Carter; the 100th anniversary of the birth of Messiaen; the 80th anniversary of the birth of Karlheinz Sotckhausen; the 60th ‘birthday’ of Musique Concrète andthe 50th birthday of the GRM studios; the 60th birthday of Nigel Osborne.
The visiting artists currently include:
• The German composer Gerhard Stäbler
• The Korean composer Kunsu Shim
• The Scotland-based organist Kevin Bowyer
• Brake Drum Percussion Ensemble from Italy
• Jean-Phillipe Wurtz from Strasbourg
• Birute Vainiunaite and Skaidra Jancaite from Vilnius, Lithuania
• Research Ensemble
It is with deep commitment that we work towards the realisation of the Sonic Fusion Festival. It is our firm belief that it offers something very special to the cultural calendar of Scotland, and to which there is currently nothing comparable, either by way of its breadth of international vision, its depth of public-spirited pedagogical conviction or its drive to put Scotland well and truly on the world circuit of contemporary music festivals.
The Sonic Fusion Festival team hope that you enjoy the 2008 programme of events.
