Field recording compositions - Timothy Cooper
This was an interesting project for me, part composition, part field recording. So it was probably the closest combination of my work as...
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sequoiaduo
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
the ebb - Stuart MacRae
Paradoxically for a piece about the sea, the first ideas for the ebb came into my mind while I was walking through a forest! But what I...
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sequoiaduo
- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
Lochbroom - Mairearad Green
I was so delighted when Sonia and Alice from Sequoia asked me to write a piece for Water Music source to sea. ‘A sonic imagining of the...
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sequoiaduo
- Nov 17, 2021
- 5 min
Whale, Bow, Echo - Alex South
Whale, Bow, Echo for Violin, Cello and Fixed Media, Humpback Whale recorded off Mo’orea 25.09.2019 Whale, Bow, Echo (2021) is the most...
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sequoiaduo
- Oct 30, 2021
- 3 min
Clōta’s Song - Lisa Robertson
The initial stimulus for this piece occurred when I came across the origins of the River Clyde’s name. It is thought to have derived from...
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Alice Rickards
- Oct 22, 2019
- 1 min
Growing wilder
Between June and September we have had the most enjoyable couple of days working with high school students and exploring gardens. With...
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Alice Rickards
- Mar 5, 2018
- 1 min
Transplanted onto CD
Our recording of Changeless and the Changed by David Fennessy has been included on new music::new Ireland 3, a promotional CD produced by...
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Sonia Cromarty
- Jun 2, 2016
- 3 min
The Grand Finale!
The 1st of June was the grand finale of our TRANSPLANTED project with the children in p. 5 and p.6 at Carntyne Primary School. We spent...
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Alice Rickards
- May 19, 2016
- 2 min
Composers at work
We started work on 9 graphic scores today. Before our young composers put pen to paper we looked at at a beautiful long graphic score...
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Sonia Cromarty
- May 12, 2016
- 2 min
Week 3 @ Carntyne Primary
Another beautiful morning greeted us- we're beginning to think it is always sunny at Carntyne Primary School! The children were as...
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Alice Rickards
- Apr 28, 2016
- 3 min
Week 2 @ Carntyne Primary
Main Aims Continuing on from last week, show how composers can describe the many characteristics of plants Introduce concept of graphic...
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Alice Rickards
- Apr 21, 2016
- 2 min
TRANSPLANTED to Carntyne Primary
The beautiful sunny morning was a great way start to our first session with P6 at Carntyne Primary. As the students entered the room in...
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Alice Rickards
- Apr 20, 2016
- 2 min
TRANSPLANTED education project
We are taking TRANSPLANTED to a new audience, the music and the wild plants that inspired the project have proven to be a great education...
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Kate Molleson
- Nov 4, 2015
- 2 min
Review - Nocturnal
First published in The Herald on 4 November, 2015 Classical music is generally yonks behind other performance arts when it comes to the...
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Judith Weir
- Nov 3, 2015
- 2 min
Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow
Cottiers Theatre is what I used to know as Dowanhill Parish Church. It’s one of many imposingly large churches in the West End which,...
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Martin Suckling
- Oct 29, 2015
- 2 min
What hath Night to do with Sleep?
I see a lot of the night. I get up early; it’s good to write before the household has woken, though my daughter is yet to fully grasp the...
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Sonia Cromarty
- Oct 28, 2015
- 2 min
Playing in the dark
One performance experience in particular stands out from my time as a student at the (then) RSAMD- playing Claude Vivier's Piece pour...
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Sonia Cromarty
- Oct 18, 2015
- 1 min
Space to create
The tagline "space to create" couldn't be more apt for Crear-as soon as you leave the A83 and wind along the single-track road past...
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Judith Weir
- Jun 19, 2015
- 2 min
The Big Shed, Tombreck, Scotland
Preparing to go and workshop some new material with Scottish violin-cello duo High Heels and Horse Hair, the first advice they sent was,...
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Judith Weir
- Jun 11, 2015
- 2 min
12 short studies
In advance of our residency at the Big Shed on Tombreck Farm Judith has written to us about the sketches she has created. One of the...
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