One of the world’s largest celebrations of visual sonic art, Cryptic’s renowned biennial festival Sonica will showcase a groundbreaking international programme of 200 events by over 85 artists from 10 countries.
Live highlights include composer and musician Alex Smoke live in Paisley Abbey, Gavin Bryars conducting the RSNO with live visualsfrom Alba G. Corral, Roly Porter and MFO collaborating with celebrated Gaelic singer Anne Martin, Argentina’s Jorge Crow exploring the legacy of the cassette in Kinemancia, a live played video game through doomed digital environs in InLAND, a double-bill fromEla Orleans and British-Rwandan sound artist Auclair, an interactive experiment in taste and sound in Unusual Ingredients and Maotik’s Erratic Weather turning live weather data into an onstage hurricane with cello accompaniment.
Free installations include Sing the Gloaming, a series of sound sculptures in the beautiful Hidden Gardens, featuring some of Scotland’s most renowned vocalists, including Aidan Moffat, Emily Scott and Hanna Tuuliki; an invitation to explore an interactive digital garden in Maotik’s Bloom; Kathy Hinde’s re-imaging of Antoine Brumel’s ‘Earthquake’ Mass as a hymn to modern seismic shifts; Mellon Charles’s January King, a meditation of Scotland’s history and its possible destiny and Quebecois artist LP Rondeau inviting audiences to turn themselves into light and sound or an endless funhouse of collages in Lux æterna and Liminal (all installations running 10 – 20 March 2022).
Sonica’s Next Gen will showcase Scotland’s best young audiovisual artists under 25, including Samm Anga, Emily Brooks-Millar and Harry Gorski-Brown utilising everything from space race-inspired animation to Nigerian storytelling traditions.
You can find the full programme here.
