Pete Stollery, ‘Altered images’. October 30th 2009
Pete Stollery played a number of his own compositions and his last ever performance of ‘Degrees of separation: Grandchild of Tree’ by Paul Rudy for amplified cactus and digital sound.
Aberdeenshire SOUND festival events at Left Bank. Pete Stollery, Ross Whyte, Miriama Young and Lisa O’ Brien.
Friday 13th November. 7.30pm
Fog is an audio-visual installation which explores the theme of communication breakdown. Initially inspired by the aphasia of the composer Maurice Ravel, Fog attempts to place the listener in the role of composer through the use of headphones and video.
Miriama Young, ‘Disappearing lightly, like that’
Saturday 14th November. 7.30pm
This intimate parlour concert features new music for voice. Music which explores the human voice as a vessel for conveying story and song. The voice will be diffused through a multi-channel surround sound system so that the listener is immersed in a tranquil, ambient landscape of song and narrative.
Booking is advised as there are a limited number of tickets for each performance.
Left Bank residency with Lisa O’ Brien
October 9th – 14th November
Lisa O’Brien wil be in residence at the gallery from 9th to the 14th Novemr.
More details and details of extended gallery opening hours during this week to follow.
Pete Stollery, ‘Altered Images’
Friday 30thOctober. 7.30pm
An evening of electroacoustic music consisting of journeys in sound which will take you to familiar and unfamiliar places. The evening will include Serendipities and Synchronicities and Altered Images by Pete Stollery, and will culminate in a performance of Paul Rudy’s Degrees of Separation; Grandchild of Tree for amplified cactus (echinocactus grusonii) and digital sound.
‘Wittenoom’ by Ross Whyte Friday 24th April 2009
‘Wittenoom‘
An Installation
by Ross Whyte
at Left Bank
Introduction and Performance:
Friday 24th April 2009: 7pm – 8.30pm
£4
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Saturday 25 April: 10.30am – 5pm
Sunday 26th April: 10.30am – 5pm
Free Entry
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The town of Wittenoom is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Wittenoom was officially shut down in 1966 due to major health concerns regarding the blue asbestos which was being mined nearby. It is now little more than a ghost town.
Over 1000 lives have been lost to asbestos-related diseases as a result of the Wittenoom disaster. My grandfather, who along with my grandmother, immigrated there in the early 1950s, became one of those victims.
This installation combines image, sound, and spoken word in an attempt to create a memorial of the Wittenoom disaster. Furthermore, it considers the importance of universal themes: home, working life, memory, and family.
Left Bank Gallery
5 Bridge Street
Tarland, Aboyne, AB34 4YN
Tel: 013398 81603
leftbank.tarland@googlemail.com
http://leftbankgallery.wordpress.com/
www.myspace.com/rosswhytemusic
Future events, Spring 2009
Saturday 2nd – Sunday 24th May
Exhibition of prints from ‘An Leabhar Mor’ and from Amnesty International’s ‘We are all Born Free’ as part of the WORD festival.
Preview
Saturday 2nd May
6pm – 8pm
All welcome
Friday May 8th
John Sampson and Stewart Hanratty
Eclectic wind instrument virtuoso John Sampson and song-writing, singer-guitarist Stewart Hanratty visit Tarland for a unique evening of music and bonhomie.
8pm
Tickets £7
Saturday 16th May 8pm
The Great Book Show
‘An Leabhar Mor’
with Kevin Anderson and poets Aonghas MacNeacail and Louis de Paor.
16th and 17th May
Word festival events
Saturday 16th May
An event of books rhymes, songs and movement for children up to 4 years old and their parents or carers.
11am – 11.30 am
Free
Sunday 17th May
Amnesty International Persecuted Writers
Many writers in the world risk their homes, their lives and their freedom, facing persecution for their writing. A fundamental human right is freedom of expression, yet it is one that is often denied. This event will feature the work of some of these writers read by Word Festival authors and local personalities.
With:
Esther Woolfson – One of Aberdeen’s finest – well known for her memoir about a life with birds, Corvus, she has also recently published her first novel, Piano Angel.
Claire Keegan – One of Ireland’s masters of the short story.
Helen Lynch – Helen teaches at the University of Aberdeen’s English Department and was the winner of the 2008 Bluechrome Short Story Award.
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Free
Friday May 29th
Helen Booth
Opening 6pm – 8.30pm
Sunday 31st May
3pm
Closing event for Wordfringe
Details to follow
Rumba Caliente in Tarland 13th March 2009
Rumba Caliente, Tarland, 13th March 2009
Rumba Caliente
Date – Friday March 13th
Time – 8pm
Venue – Aberdeen Arms Hotel, Tarland
Tickets from: 013398 81359/ 013398 81603
Price – £12.50 in advance / £15 on the night
All proceeds to MacRobert Hall Renovation Fund
Pete Stollery
Pete Stollery will be performing:
‘Sound and Place’
Sound Art and Electroacoustic Music…from the North-East of Scotland to Paris.
Wednesday 12th November
7.30pm
Please book in advance; limited seating.
Music, projected over a loudspeaker system, made from sounds recorded in Aberdeenshire as part of the Gordon Soundscape Project and scènes, rendez-vous made from sounds recorded in Paris and inspired by Claude Lelouch’s film C’ était un Rendez-vous, featuring a wild drive through Paris in a Mercedes.
http://www.petestollery.com/
Tickets £7 from Left Bank
Sound Festival
Tasmin Little
Tasmin Little – Naked Violin TourEvents at Left Bank Autumn 2008
The following events are included in the sound 2008 festival
Paul Anderson Sold Out
Saturday 25th October 2008
7.30pm
Paul is the musical director for a new stage production of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic book ‘Sunset Song’ and has composed music especially for the show. Following its tour to Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh Paul will play a recital of the music at Left Bank.
http://www.tarandfiddler.info/
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/archive/2008/diary/10_25@7.30pm_1.htm
Tickets £10 from Left Bank
Pete Stollery
Wednesday 12th November
7.30pm
‘Sound and Place’
Sound Art and Electroacoustic Music…from the North-East of Scotland to Paris.
Pete Stollery presents music, projected over a loudspeaker system, made from sounds recorded in Aberdeenshire as part of the Gordon Soundscape Project and scènes, rendez-vous made from sounds recorded in Paris and inspired by Claude Lelouch’s film C’ était un Rendez-vous, featuring a wild drive through Paris in a Mercedes.
Tickets £7 from Left Bank
