Hailing from the wild coast of Normandy, French composer Félicia Atkinson performs a newly commissioned radio work titled ‘Wilhelmina, Glaciers Chasms’ - an electro-acoustic piece for voice, field recordings, fender rhodes and electronics, inspired by the paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, especially ‘Glacier Chasm’ from 1951. Transparencies, blue and grey, super-positions, free forms, resonance and sustains will infuse in this new electro-acoustic piece dedicated to the XXth century female Scottish painter.
Glasgow based sound artist Matt Robin performs a new live piece built from the resonance of bells, sampled, fragmented and transformed into continuous sound. Reverberations multiply into waves, rising, falling and rising again.
A bell functions as both signal and passage — a peal, a knell, a call, a marker of time. Here, its punctuation dissolves, focusing on the threshold between strike and silence. Its resonance becomes fluid, like water gathering into a river. Endless droplets swell into larger currents. From the tiniest particle of sound, vast textures and layers emerge.
Rhythms arise through repetition and flow. Past and present intermingle. Time circles back onto itself as memory decays and renews — merging, evaporating, evolving.
This work traces the transformation of a single sound source into multiple voices and shifting textures, where stillness and motion exist in a dynamic balance.