BBC SSO: Tectonics Glasgow 2025
- Tickets
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£22 (day pass), £32 (weekend festival pass)
- Box office telephone
- Dates and times
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Sunday 4th May 2025
2:00pm
- Age
- Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
Tectonics Glasgow 2025
Presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 3 May 2025
Sunday 4 May 2025
Weekend Festival Pass: £32 / £26 concession
Saturday Pass £22 / £16 concession
Sunday Pass £22/ £16 concession
A limited number of advance passes are available for the Festival. They allow entry to all events across the two days and are the best way to save money. Passes are only available to buy until Friday 25 April 2025 and subject to availability. No refunds are available for partial use and passes are not transferrable.
Concessions are available to students, unemployed and registered disabled. Proof of status is required.
13.30 Doors open at Candleriggs main entrance
14.00 Introduction and workshops at 14.20, 15.20, 16.30, 18.00 & 18.20
Recital Room Installation
BAUDOUIN OOSTERLYNCK
Baudouin Oosterlynck transforms the Recital Room into a sanctuary for deep listening. Ticket reservation is required on the day for Listening Instruments.
c.15.00
Old Fruitmarket
JENNIFER TORRENCE
Hanna Hartman Message from the Lighthouse (2009/2016)
Walter Zimmermann Riuti: Rodungen und Wüstungen (1981)
Gloria Coates Ecology 2 (1978) UK Premiere
US-born Jennifer Torrence is a percussionist, composer and artistic researcher based in Oslo, Norway. Storytelling, erasure, and place unite the three works in her programme. Deserted places, sites facing erasure, and their abstracted and fragmented memories receive quiet recognition. Message from the Lighthouse by Hanna Hartman combines field recordings and electronic sound with percussion and found objects, calling for a precision in listening that is wholly unique to Hartman’s music. Riuti from Walter Zimmerman’s cycle, Lokale Muzik, sets a disappearing one-woman marching band into motion as she roll-calls deserted German villages. And Ecology 2 by Gloria Coates is a work for voice, objects, and electronics where children’s fairy tales warn us about the loss of ecosystems. At its premiere in Berlin in 1978, Coates removed the spoken text and retitled the work Between, arguably due to pressure from the coal industry and the government that protected it. Torrence presents the work in its original version: “May the resistance be heard”, she asserts.
c.16.00
Main Hall
NEW STRING COLLECTIVE & CLÍONA CASSIDY
Comprising some of Scotland’s most radical string players, improvisation is at the heart of the New String Collective’s process and practice. Founded in 2023, the group has established a reputation for its mesmerising performances of new graphic scores and instruction-based pieces. Unbound by the hegemony of notation, they’re free to interrogate sound and form, mining the rich sonic landscapes of violin, viola, cello and double bass. For this set, the New String Collective are joined by soprano, composer and experimental vocalist Clíona Cassidy (a regular performer with Scottish Opera and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra) to perform her anti-song cycle Hiatus, alongside new works devised by members of the Collective.
c.17.00
Old Fruitmarket
JØRGEN TRÆEN & KJETIL MØSTER
Kjetil Møster - saxophone, clarinet, electronics, amplifier
Jørgen Træen - modular synthesizer, sampler, electronics
Producer, musician and mastering engineer Jørgen Træen has collaborated on music and art projects with jazz musician Kjetil Møster for over 20 years. With roots in Bergen’s vibrant music scene and Norway’s rich jazz tradition, they both operate in a cluster of musical directions from popular music genres via contemporary electronic and noise to freely improvised music and jazz. Performing as a duo, they create electroacoustic sets blending improvisation and composed elements, drawing on decades of shared artistic exploration.
This performance will be immediately followed by Bénédicte Davin and Baudouin Oosterlynck.
c.17.40
Old Fruitmarket
BÉNÉDICTE DAVIN & BAUDOUIN OOSTERLYNCK
Vocalist and visual artist Bénédicte Davin reimagines two meditative works by Belgian sound artist Baudouin Oosterlynck, blending soundtrack and live voice. In Ronron (1976), Davin’s voice intertwines delicately with eerie, resonant tones created with rattan sliding over piano strings. In Résonances (1978), Oosterlynck originally improvised vocal responses to the reverberations of a gymnasium with a resonance similar to a Romanesque church. Davin’s performance engages these echoes, alternating between counterpoint and harmony, creating an intimate and immersive listening experience.
18.45-19.15
Scottish Music Centre
MEET THE ARTISTS – DAY 2
Your chance to meet and hear about some of the artists and music performed in Day 2 of Tectonics, hosted by BBC Radio 3 presenter and writer Kate Molleson.
c.19.30
Main Hall
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2
Hilda Dianda Ludus 1 UK Premiere
Sylvia Lim Moss that holds World Premiere
Micheline Coulombe
Saint-Marcoux Luminance UK Premiere
interval break
Eleanor Cully Boehringer New work for orchestra World Premiere
Barbara Monk Feldman The Northern Shore World Premiere
Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov presents an ear-opening smorgasbord of orchestral music exploring themes including space, nature, resilience, innovation and humour. The world premiere of Sylvia Lim's composition draws inspiration from the quiet strength of moss and the Japanese art of Kintsugi (mending broken pottery with gold), offering a meditation on healing and renewal. Eleanor Cully Boehringer’s world premiere weaves poetic text, fragments of song and imagined sound, turning small details into expansive musical gestures. Argentine composer Hilda Dianda (born 100 years ago this April) explores playful avant-garde textures, while ‘Luminance’ by Canadian composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux contrasts live instruments with electronic timbres to create illuminating soundscapes. In her orchestral version of ‘The Northern Shore’, fellow countrywoman Barbara Monk Feldman evokes the landscape and atmosphere of the northern shores of Canada – a reflection on its vast and desolate beauty.
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Fulfilment Fee - £1.95
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Restoration fund
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Accessible toilets
There are accessible toilets on level 2 next to the Gents toilet, adjacent to the Candleriggs Bar and on Level 5 next to the Club Room.
Assistance dogs
Guide and assistance dogs are welcome.
Wheelchair access
Lift access to all areas.
There are designated spaces for wheelchair users. Wheelchairs are left with the patron. A companion may sit with you. Companions sit next to you.
There is a wheelchair to borrow. To borrow a wheelchair,please ask a member of staff.
Baby changing
There are baby changing facilities next to the cloakroom on level 2. One in the ladies toilet and an adjacent additional area in our first aid room.
Baby feeding
Available on request
Cloakroom
The cloakroom is located on the 1st floor next to the toilets. There is a £2 charge - card payment only. The cloakroom is only open for events or where a client has requested the facility.
Parking
On street, metered parking and nearby multi-storey.
Photography and video recording
At times, Glasgow Life will be on the premises to film and take photos.
The public are only permitted to record and take photos where explicit permission has been granted in advance.
Free wifi
There is free public Wifi access. To connect, visitors have to register with City Halls Public Wifi which should pop up on their browser. After that visitors will only need their password for future uses.
Location Map
The meeting rooms and conference spaces within the complex are suitable for hosting from 15 – 400 delegates. Visit the City Halls' venue hire web page to find out more.