Nordic Music Journeys 2025: Sweden and Scotland
6 October
Civic House, Glasgow
The Nordic Music Journeys events came from friendships and partnerships that formed during the planning of Nordic Music Days 2024, which was hosted by Scotland. The aim is to explore relationships and links between the two cultural scenes, to exchange and experience work, and to learn from and be inspired by each other.
For Nordic Music Journeys 2024, Gothenburg-based Gagego! and Scotland’s Hebrides Ensemble played 15 works across 3 concerts, with 4 amibsonic works also programmed.
Once again held in collaboration with the Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (Swedish Society of Composers) and supported by STIM (the Swedish Performing Rights Society), Nordic Music Journeys 2025 included 2 showcase concerts, one from the Scottish Ensemble and one of Sound Art, and coincided with a Composer Expo Day.
The programme for the concerts was selected from a Call for Works for works or excerpts of longer pieces that last a maximum of 6 minutes and are either for strings and optional electronics or for 4 channel electronics.
The 2025 event was planned in partnership with the Scottish Music Centre, New Music Scotland, and The Night With… who presented Stockholm Chamber Brass in a programme of music by Jenny Hettne, Matthew Whiteside, Piers Hellawell, and Eino Tamberg.
35 composers were able to share scores and recordings with each other and invited curators, funders, publishers, performers, and other industry professionals.
Find out more about the Composer Expo Day here.
Considerate.digital set up 15 media players with sound art works (with binaural mixes for headphones) and talked to composers about the creative technologies that they work with.
Tove Kättström - Brassica oleracea
Seyoung Oh - The platform vividly echoes
Gabriel Stenborg – Chanson
Emily Doolittle – Gardenscape
Lina Nyberg - Ascension in Colour
Ida Lundén – Skymlot
Drew Hammond - Water and Slate
Victor Lisinkski - Resonant Shadows
Download programme notes here
Kim Hedås – Tir
Tom Macfadyen – Thread
Mats O Hansson - Within
Pete Stollery - Cullykhan Water
Vera V Almgren - This Is Where I Found Your Shell
Nichola Scrutton - Wave Shift
Viktor Sandström – Patchwork
Download programme notes here
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