LOOK / LISTEN! Sonica Surge is coming... 29/30 September at Tramway!⚡
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Video by Siyao Li.
50 years of Scottish-German cultural and relations.... 🇩🇪🏴
Celebrating 50 years of German-Scottish culture relations, we are excited to present Robert Henke, one of the pioneering brains behind Abelton Live, with a brand-new iteration of his CBM 8032 AV project. Moritz Simon Geist makes dance music with robots in Hard Times – Rough Sounds! with visuals by Dominic Keissling and one of ambient music’s most exciting talents KMRU investigates the invisible and usually unheard network of electromagnetic signals in As Nature, with visuals by Markus Heckman.
“We feel delighted to be part of this special edition of the event which showcases such wonderful talents as Robert Henke, Moritz Simon Geist, and Joseph KMRU, among many others. We could not feel happier and prouder for our friends at Cryptic and hope for many more decades to come.” Hanna Dede, Director of Goethe-Institut Glasgow
Image credits: Jakub Dolezal, Quentin Chevrier and Marco Krueger.
Three new Cryptic Commissions✨
In our first of three Sonica AV Triple Bills, we’re excited to share with you three new works!
Sonia Killmann performs live on saxophone and synthesisers with AI created visuals in Digital Skies. Developed at IMAL Brussels and ArtHouse Jersey.
Image credit: Max Burnett.
Lucy Duncombe and Feronia Wennborg address the potential for voice-based technologies in musical composition in assembling.air. Developed at Cove Park with support from Embassy of Sweden, London and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Image credit: Anton Frohling.
muto major perform Waxen Figures. Created by Samm Anga with visuals by Veronica Petukhov and Sophia West, Waxen Figures explores how Scotland’s folkloric past interacts with the now. Developed at Cove Park and ArtHouse, Jersey.
Image credit: Max Burnett.
Sonica now has its own Instagram. Follow us at @sonicaglasgow now!
Some other audiovisual delights include...
Two screen-based works exhibiting at Tramway over the weekend. Egyptian artist Ahmed el Shaer investigates the territory where machine meets human faith in AI Heaven and Ukrainian artist Ujif_notfound (George Potopalsky) presents TER.RAIN, making us question our notions of borders, territories and jurisdictions, and what remains ‘real’ amid the disinformation of war.
Watch Berlin based composer Tatsuru Arai’s algorithmically dense digital flowers bloom and blossom, twist and disintegrate in the dark with Re-Solarization. See yourself as you never have before in SCANAUDIENCE by SCHNITT and Gianluca Sibaldi, supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh.
More birthdays! Celebrating 20 years of the Hidden Gardens...
We join the Hidden Gardens 20 years celebrations with an eclectic mix of musical performances scattered around the gardens for you to discover. There’s playful tuba and euphonium duo Dopey Monkey, formed of Danielle Price and Martin Lee Price; an acoustic set from winner of the 2022 Sound of Young Scotland Award Berta Kennedy and finishing with a joyful set from high energy Glasgow’s African Balafon Orchestra (GABO).
Image Credits: Megan Anderson, Benjamin Farnam.
Congratulations to Dr Kathy Hinde! 🎓
We would like to congratulate Cryptic Artist Kathy Hinde, who has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Bath Spa University!
Sonica Surge needs Volunteers! 🙋
Interested in music and audiovisual work and want to see first-hand how a festival is delivered? Look no further! We are on the lookout for reliable and enthusiastic volunteers who are keen to work alongside the Cryptic team to deliver Sonica Surge!
More information and application form here.
Image credit: Siyao Li.
Cryptic now has a brand-new website! Filled with colour, spectacular visuals and fantastic design. A massive thank you to the brilliant Jamhot team for designing it and Infinite Eye for the build. Check it out here!
Team Cryptic travels… 🌍
In July, Cryptic’s Project Manager Fiona Haggerty travelled to Lublin in Poland to attend the Different Sounds festival and then met with artists in Warsaw as part of a British Council scoping grant. She was delighted to be able to take part in Keychange sessions at the festival and see some incredible acts from Poland and beyond. Next Cathie Boyd travels to MUTEK Festival in Montreal later this month.
Cryptic Artists on the road📍
Sonia Killmann is performing at the Edinburgh Fringe for the second year in a row! She performs her new audiovisual show Là-haut every night from the 25-29 of August.
Also at the Fringe is Heather Lander. She has built a new multimedia/FX structure for Weathervanes, an immersive multimedia exhibit and ritual dance theatre experience, open throughout August at Summerhall.
Kathy Hinde’s installation Piano Migrations is exhibiting at the Museum of Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw Poland until the 24th of September.
Cryptic Recommends
Radiophrenia
We're delighted to see the return of Radiophrenia to the CCA from 21 August - 3 September. Full programme announcements incoming… look out for Su Shaw’s (aka SHHE ) When Water No Longer Flows, recently made during her British Council residency in Iraq.
L.E.V Festival Madrid has announced its stellar line-up which takes place from the 21-24 September. Their line-up includes innovative Glasgow based audiovisual artist Konx-om-Pax.
Arts Electronica returns to POSTCITY in Linz from the 6-10 September. As Europe’s largest festival for art, technology and society, they pose the question, “Who Owns the Truth?”.
