A host of musicians will gather in Edinburgh in May for the inaugural Sonic Fusion Festival.
The festival, which will run from May 12-21, is being organised from the Ian Tomlin School of Music, Napier University, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, the Goethe Institute, the French Cultural Institute and the cross-arts independent journal The Drouth and will celebrate and bring together a diverse range of new international contemporary music from around the world.
Performances will take place in venues throughout Edinburgh, including Napier’s Craighouse Campus, St Giles’ Cathedral, St. John’s, Old St. Paul’s Greyfriar’s Kirk and the French Cultural Institute.
One of the highlights of the festival will be the inaugural performance of the Research Ensemble – consisting of Scotland-based musicians – which will considerably augment the music research infrastructure of Napier’s School of Music through mutual association. Another intriguing event will include the first public demonstration of Professor Eduardo Miranda’s Electronic Music Improvisation Brain – a device that enables people to improvise music through their brain waves.
Dr Stephen Davismoon, Reader, Ian Tomlin School of Music, who is the festival’s Artistic Director said: “It is our hope that the Sonic Fusion Festival will become a key event and provide a vital professional platform for contemporary music, it is our firm belief that it will give something special to the cultural calendar of Edinburgh and Scotland, and strengthen international collaborative possibilities.
“It will bring together a diverse array of the new from international contemporary music, truly on a worldwide basis from lands as far apart as Armenia, Argentina, Egypt, Iraq, Australia, Brazil and Russia and many others along the way.
“The Festival will consist of concert performances, electronic audio and audio-visual installations as well as many educational events including performance, composition and workshop activities for children as well as masterclasses, demonstrations and informal pre-concert talks for more general public interest. It will consistently seek to challenge preconceptions, whilst at the same time guaranteeing the delivery of world-class musical art.”
Artists from Scotland and around the world who will be featuring in the festival include: Roberto Fabbriciani, Markus Stockhausen and Kevin Bowyer.
For further information on the festival, which launches at Napier’s Craighouse Campus on May 12, and for details of performances, pre-concert talks and workshops, please visit www.sonicfusionfestival.com
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