Monday 10th December 2012, 7:30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

SoundFilmMusic celebrates its third year as a collaborative platform for composers, sound designers and film makers to work together producing short film projects. The goal is to explore how sound design and music can enhance the moving image and create greater resonance and meaning.

Featuring the critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra in a live concert, performed works will include music for films and video games composed by Ennio Morricone, Jian Xiong, Wojciech Kilar, Josh Sabin and J. Jensen. The orchestra is directed by Yati Durant.

FULLY BOOKED

11th & 13th December 2012, 8pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Konk Pack brings together three major figures in contemporary music, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn and Roger Turner. This is a band that stretches free improvisation, opens out an architecture in which shifting space and detail of sound can explode into zones of accelerated high volume electronica & sonic detritus.

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Saturday 8th December 2012, 8pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

notes inégales are one of the most innovative new ensembles in Britain. Described as ‘post-fusion’ they combine playing written new music with improvisation/collaboration – and playing rhythmically ‘funky’ (inégales!) as well as straight.

The ensemble have their own club in London, club inégales. At each session notes inégales play, then guests play, then a new collaboration together. The sheer range of guests - in a friendly interactive environment - constantly invites the audience to ‘hear fresh’.

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Thursday 6th December 2012, 7.30 for 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Take a trip back in time...way back in time, to the Big Bang. An immersive short history of the Universe with astrobiologist Dr Duncan Forgan, who brings us right up to date with Scottish exoplanet research. Includes a screening of the short documentary 'Into Deep Space'.

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Thursday 18th October, 2012, 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide.

It is curated in Edinburgh by Gordon Duffy, Principal of architecture practice Studio DuB. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds.

FULLY BOOKED

8th to 18th November 2012.
Festival Hub, 14 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow

Sonica is a new programme of events dedicated to world-class sonic arts, presenting emerging British talent alongside exceptional international artists in collaboration with renowned co-producers and venues.

Sonica was devised by three curators each with a strong interest in sound and art, particularly in the way artists and composers deal with sound across various mediums in today’s highly developed visual culture.

www.sonic-a.co.uk

Wednesday 28th November 2012, 7:30pm. £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

In a unique collaboration, KinoKlub present experimental films of the 1920s including work by Hans Richter, Eugene Deslaw, Walter Ruttman, Dziga Vertov and Fernand Leger.

The lab will be filled with multi-screen projections that have been orchestrated by VJ Robert Motyka, all accompanied by an original soundtrack from DJ Red Crayon Spiders.

FULLY BOOKED

Saturday 10th November 2012, 12 - 1pm. £12
York St Mary's, Castlegate, York YO1 9RN

As part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Lyndsay Mann has taken the true story of poet Pedro Garfias, briefly exiled in Scotland after the Spanish Civil War, and explores the nuances and dynamics of the obscene, in its literal meaning ‘out of the scene’.

The script is formed from interviews conducted with specialists from several fields. Engaging sculptural installation and hypnotic repetition, the film follows a conversation: silence and language, performance and rhythm, action and memory.

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Monday 26th November 2012, 6.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

As the 5th West Port Book Festival draws to a close, and the inaugural Book Week Scotland begins, we turn to a little future-gazing beyond the booze, bosoms and bespoke tailoring. What will the festival of the future look like?

Nick Barley of Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adrian Turpin of Wigtown Book Festival, Amanda Tyndall of Edinburgh International Science Festival & Lisa Dempster of Melbourne Writers Festival share their thoughts.

FULLY BOOKED

Friday 23rd November 2012, 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Taking Tea With Turing is an anthology of creative work inspired by Alan Turing, compiled and edited by the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh writer-in-residence, Viccy Adams.

Presented as an interactive iPhone/iPad app, the anthology features the work of a diverse range of writers and writing, from poems read by robots to comedy twitter-based animations.

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