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Summer update:
Over the next few months, I’ll be focusing on my research work at RCS and delving deeper into the new composer development programme, In Motion with Sound and Music. There is a lot of plotting and planning going on at the moment, with meetings
and new things afoot, which is very exciting. The summer is going by a little too quickly, though, so I’m trying to slow it all down a tad! Happy summer days to you all!
New 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
In late July and August, we’ll be having a planning meeting and the first rehearsal for Adventures in Captioning online. This new work explores text, music improvisation, live descriptive captioning, and AI auto-captioning. It should be fascinating!