SCOTTISH Gaelic burial rite songs are to be performed live to immersive audiovisual artwork in a UK premiere.
The unique collaboration between celebrated Isle of Skye Gaelic singer Anne Martin and pioneering musician Roly Porter and band MFO will open this year’s Sonica Festival in Glasgow.
It will mark the 10th anniversary edition of Sonica, one of the world’s largest celebrations of sonic art. Produced by Glasgow-based Cryptic, the festival will showcase 200 events, installations, screenings and talks from more than 85 artists from 10 countries, at venues across the city and beyond from March 10-20.
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Porter, who visited Martin on Skye to adapt his work to Scottish Gaelic, said the landscape had a “profound and powerful” effect: “The landscape was a constant surprise; in some ways similar to places I knew well or felt familiar, but of another scale or a different time. The wind and the sea are a constant soundtrack and reminder of peoples’ lives over many centuries.”
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