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Source to Sea workshops
Sharing music from WATER MUSIC source to sea with Scottish primary schools has been a major element of our project. Through music we...
sequoiaduo
Apr 23, 20234 min read
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Growing wilder
Between June and September we have had the most enjoyable couple of days working with high school students and exploring gardens. With...
Alice Rickards
Oct 22, 20191 min read
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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...
Sonia Cromarty
Jun 2, 20163 min read
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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...
Alice Rickards
May 19, 20162 min read
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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...
Sonia Cromarty
May 12, 20162 min read
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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...
Alice Rickards
Apr 28, 20163 min read
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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...
Alice Rickards
Apr 21, 20162 min read
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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...
Alice Rickards
Apr 20, 20162 min read
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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...
Martin Suckling
Oct 29, 20152 min read
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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...
Judith Weir
Jun 11, 20152 min read
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Commissioning Judith Weir
Last year we were fortunate enough to receive funding to commission Judith Weir’s ‘Sundew’ a short miniature duo written as part of...
Alice Rickards
Apr 1, 20152 min read
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Waxcap
Having always had a penchant for the sinister, I was immediately attracted to the subject matter for my TRANSPLANTED miniature. Fungi...
Martin Kershaw
Sep 9, 20141 min read
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Cladonia bellidiflora
Not in fact a plant, but a lichen. I saw some of these little beauties when I took shelter next to a damp rock on a wet, sullen winter’s...
Stuart MacRae
Aug 23, 20142 min read
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Sundew
Having not lived near the Scottish countryside for many moons, I asked Sonia and Alice to nominate a plant for my composition. I’m so...
Judith Weir
Aug 17, 20141 min read
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Clover
My favourite place is the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. My mind and eyes are refreshed after a visit to the flowers and plants there. No...
Eddie McGuire
Aug 5, 20141 min read
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