Sunday - May 07

Old Fruitmarket & Grand Hall

Closing Concert

19:30

Closing Concert

Tectonics closes with an event in the Old Fruitmarket & Grand Hall.

Shiori Usui from scratch* (New Verison)
Tim Hodgkinson, Shelley Hirsch & Paul May in performance

Move to Grand Hall

Lawrence Dunn Ambling, waking (World Premiere)
Linda Catlin Smith Adagietto (European Premiere)
James Saunders alternate between attention and ease (BBC Commission)
Roscoe Mitchell CONVERSATIONS for orchestra (World Premiere)
Rub/Who Dat/Frenzy House/
They Rode for Them#

Shiori Usui voice*
Owen Green electronics*
Tim Hodgkinson reeds, lap steel guitar, electronics+
Parkinson Saunders voices, samples
Ken Hyder+
Gianni Trovalusci flute#
Roscoe Mitchell saxophones#
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov
conductor


Edinburgh-based composer Shiori Usui’s from scratch is a revised version of her 2007 work, based on her experience of eczema and is scored for orchestra, improvised voice/percussion and live-electronics. Following this Tim Hodgkinson, Shelley Hirsch and Paul May perform as a trio.

After the move to the Grand Hall, Lawrence Dunn’s Ambling, waking is about the everyday struggle to emerge from sleep, but also about ‘waking’, as in mourning. Linda Catlin Smith’s Adagietto pays homage to the slow movements of classical and Baroque orchestral music, their pace “allowing for more complex harmony to be heard”. James Saunders’ World Premiere is typical of his open-form compositions that explore group behaviours and decision making, in this case using memory and mental effort to determine the resulting orchestral sound. Finally, Roscoe Mitchell’s Conversations for soloists and orchestra are based upon transcriptions of works from both of his CDs of the same name.