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August update:
I’m focusing on my research work at RCS and delving deeper into the new composer development programme, In Motion with Sound and Music, at the moment. There is a lot of plotting and planning going on, too, with meetings and new things afoot,
which is exciting.
Later this month, I’m travelling to Keele University with Sonic Bothy to do some workshops in inclusive music making for the CoMA summer school. This is a fantastic opportunity to bring the Bothy approach to musicians and composers from different parts of the UK.
Also, this month, there will be the first rehearsal for Adventures in Captioning, which will take place online. This new work explores text, music improvisation, live descriptive captioning, and AI auto-captioning. It should be fascinating!
Current Project
Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund
I am one of the awardees of the Chamber Music Scotland EDI fund 2025, which promotes diversity and inclusion in Scotland’s classical music sector. With this project, I am exploring the application of descriptive live captioning in music and bringing this to a broader audience of musicians and other interested folks. This month, I’m meeting with musicians Ali Robertson and Nichola Scrutton, and captioner Eluned Charnley to plan an online workshop that will bring live descriptive captioning to a wider audience. Watch out for a date for this soon.
PERFORMANCE
Click to watch a performance of new Illuminate commissioned work The Goddess of Ballachulish which took place at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow in December 2024. A new work commissioned by Illuminate Women’s Music 2024/25 and performed by soprano Stephanie Lamprea and cellist Jessica Kerr. A 2,500-year-old five-foot tall wooden effigy of a woman was dug up in the 1880s by Loch Leven in Scotland. This work imagines her reawakening.
I also wrote a blog about this commission which you can read by clicking here.
coming up
Sonic Bothy ensemble rehearsals begin again in September, and we are working towards a performance at Sound Festival in October. I also have a short pre-recorded talk at the DARCI conference.