Ten years on from the first festival, Tectonics Glasgow is back. And curators Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell continue to bring unique voices from around the world to the city and demonstrate that new orchestral music is as varied and risk-taking as any other contemporary artform.
This year’s line-up includes the Colombian musician Lucrecia Dalt, the ‘king of sampling’ Carl Stone, and pianists Aki Takahashi and Cory Smythe. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will give world premieres of compositions by Somei Satoh, Linda Buckley, Rufus Isabel Elliot, Ian Power, Scott McLaughlin and William Dougherty which were inspired by topics as varied as pagan rituals, Julia Kristeva, quantum physics, and an antique wax cylinder recording of Home Sweet Home. There’s also the UK premiere of works by Ingrid Laubrock and the late Dutch composer Margriet Hoenderdos.
European avant-garde legends Limpe Fuchs and Jérôme Noetinger rub shoulders with Scottish and UK-based artists such as Inge Thomson and Calum MacIntyre. And Japanese-Korean artist Ryoko Akama takes up residence in the City Halls Recital Room.
