BBC SSO Tectonics Glasgow 2019 - Saturday 4th May

** Both Day Passes and Festival Passes can be purchased at checkout **

BBC SSO Tectonics Glasgow 2019

Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May 2019

Saturday 4 May

Recital Room from 3.30pm

INSTALLATION Makeup Scores: Environmental Music

Throughout the weekend, Lucie Vítková’s live performance installation will take place in the Recital Room. Featuring scores drawn with old or expired make-up, audience members can choose a score to be performed by Lucie, Maya Verlaak, Suze Whites and Jorge Boehringer, and have the option to join the performance through music, poetry or dance.

The Old Fruitmarket 4.00pm–c.4.30pm

Genevieve Murphy

Brighde Chaimbeul pipes

Ilan Volkov conductor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Written specifically for The Old Fruitmarket, Genevieve Murphy opens the festival with a new work inspired by how fear can materialise through not understanding someone or something. Fellow Scot and 2016 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award-Winner Brighde Chaimbeul features in this World Premiere on pipes and is joined by brass and percussion from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

(standing and unreserved seating, open to Festival Pass holders + Saturday Pass holders)

Grand Hall c.5.00pm-c.5.45pm

Chamber Concert Featuring Mahan Esfahani

George Lewis Timelike Weave (UK Premiere)

Anahita Abbasi Intertwined Distances

Miroslav Srnka Triggering

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Put aside any assumptions about what a harpsichord sounds like. All 3 pieces were written for the virtuosic Mahan Esfahani, an artist who knows no boundaries. Timelike Weave is inspired by the logic of Afrodiasporic quilting aesthetics and the notion of the closed timelike curve in quantum physics resulting in an electronic sound that is part Milton Babbitt, part McCoy Tyner and part Evan Parker. The electronic element of Anahita Abbasi’s Intertwined Distances came out of a close collaboration between Esfahani and the composer and provides a “confrontational  backdrop to the equally explosive live element” (The Guardian). Complemented by Miroslav Srnka’s humorous Triggering, the composer sets out to discover all of the in-between sounds of the harpsichord, breakdown our presumptions of what a harpsichord sounds like.

(unreserved seating, open to Festival Pass holders + Saturday Pass holders)

The Old Fruitmarket c.6.00pm-c.6.30pm

Andrew Paine feat. Kevin McCarvel: The Domestique Tunings

Glasgow-based Andrew Paine’s work ranges from solo voice, through layered howling guitars, short wave radio(s), tape(s), electronics, and whatever he likes in between. This improvised performance features Kevin McCarvel.

(standing event – with limited unreserved seating spaces, open to Festival Pass holders + Saturday Pass holders)

Scottish Music Centre c.6.30pm-c.7.00pm

Meet the Artists 1

Your chance to meet and hear some of the artists involved in Day 1 of Tectonics.

(open to Festival Pass holders + Saturday pass holders, but please note limited seating availability – first-come, first-served)

Grand Hall c.7.30pm-c.8.45pm

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Christian Wolff Old Shoe, New Shoe* (BBC Commission, World Premiere)

Jennifer Walshe The Site Of An Investigation (UK Premiere)

Andrew Hamilton c (UK Premiere)

Joey Baron jazz drums*

Robyn Schulkowsky percussion*

Ilan Volkov conductor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

The BBC SSO takes the stage for the World Premiere of Christian Wolff’s BBC Commission Old Shoe, New Shoe and the UK Premieres of composer-performer Jennifer Walshe’s The Site of An Investigation and Andrew Hamilton’s c. Written backwards, Hamilton’s c wonders “What does it matter? All is grace”.

(unreserved seating, open to Festival Pass holders + Saturday Pass holders)

The Old Fruitmarket c.9.00pm-c.9.45pm

Mahan Esfahani & Drew McDowall

Luc Ferrari Programme commun pour clavecin amplifé et bande magnétique*

Drew McDowall The live re-interpretation of Time Machines

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord*

Drew McDowall electronic instruments

(standing event – with limited unreserved seating spaces, open to Festival Pass holders + Saturday Pass holders)

Tectonics Festival Pass (Saturday + Sunday) - £28

Tectonics Day Pass (Saturday or Sunday) - £18

(£1 transaction fee for online bookings and £1.50 for phone bookings).

Tectonics Festival Pass £20; Tectonics Day Pass £14 - available to Students/School Pupils, Unemployed, Registered Disabled.

Tectonics Festival Passes are limited and only available to buy until Friday 26 April 2019. No refunds for partial or one day use of Festival Passes.

Tectonics Festival Pass permits access over both Saturday and Sunday.

Tectonics Day Pass allows access to all events in the Grand Hall/Old Fruitmarket on either the Saturday or Sunday. 

Please note that it is NOT possible to book for individual events during the Festival. 

All concerts/events over both days are either standing or unreserved seating.

Scottish Music Centre capacity is limited so access on first come first served basis.

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