Saturday 28th August 2010, 10pm-7am. £10 | £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Our tenth and final Dialogues concert of the 09|10 season at Inspace is designed to offer some respite from the hectic babble of the Edinburgh Festivals. Come in late and relax until the early morning with drones and deep listening from some of most interesting and unusal creators of ambience working today.

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Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Friday 21st May 2010, 8pm.

Our ninth Dialogues concert features the inimitable improvising guitarist Fred Frith. We are also delighted to be hosting the Edinburgh leg of Norwegian ensemble The Geordie Approach's summer tour. Fred will work with students on the MSc in Digital Composition and Performance and Sound Design over the weekend and there will be a second performance on Sunday night informally showing the fruits of their work together.

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Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Thursday 6th May 2010, 7.30pm

Our eighth Dialogues concert takes a transdisciplinary sidestep into work of several artists who conspicuously use space and place to produce sound.

Jacob Kirkegaard will make his Scottish debut with Sabulation, an audio-visual work based on the so-called 'singing sands' in the deserts of Oman. Matt Rogalsky's performance will activate different spaces in the room using sounds recorded live from inside and outside the building. Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo will present a work which uses difference and repetition to explore the performance space.

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Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Friday 26th March 2010, 8pm.

Our seventh Dialogues concert features drum and trumpet duo Knuckle Biter and host of very new projects developed by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh.

Here is what Knuckle Biter have to say about themselves...

"Our music is improvised and has been compared to Efterklang, Ornette Coleman, Morton Feldman, Deerhoof, Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, and Evan Parker. These eclectic comparisons sit well with the duet we have both have played a wide variety of different music, with different ensembles around the world. We both use laptops to set up textural layers to improvise alongside our instrumental playing."

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The work 'factory' by cellist and composer Peter Gregson was commissioned to mark the 10th birthday of New Media Scotland. The work was premiered at the CCA Glasgow as part of the Alt-win.ning event on Thursday July 2nd 2009.

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Bupp!! (2009) is a new work commissioned by New Media Scotland. Created by Sound Designer and Composer Jules Rawlinson around themes of emergence, repetition and difference, Bupp!! scatters cropped and chopped vocal fragments onto a grid-based playspace.

Through generative and interventionist gesture, in an act of co-creativity the listener becomes conductor, composer and performer of the piece.

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Ask For It Ask For It was narrated by Mark Joyce and recorded on Sunday 5th February 2006 at Thorncliffe Football Club, in High Green, Sheffield. The project was funded by CI Arts and Site Gallery, Sheffield.

Thanks to Lucy Head, David Barrett, the Thorncliffe Juniors Under 11's football team, Robin Klassnik, Mr. Hennessy and Mr. Terry. Special thanks to Carolyn Thompson. Jordan Baseman is represented by Matt's Gallery, London.

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Voice and delay unit. Recorded live to minidisc at home, Edina, Feb 2009.

Wounded Knee is Drew Wright, an Edinburgh-based experimental musician who has been releasing and performing music since 2004 and has developed a distinct, vocal oriented sound built from simple repeating live loops. He is a happy amateur. He doesn’t want to kill anybody.

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On a red vinyl 12 inch record, amidst music influenced by dub reggae and Lancastrian post-punk, a sprite called Lucy endlessly repeats stories about Lancashire she has been told by the evil and shadowy figure of ‘Alan’. She cheerfully relates, partly in Lancashire dialect, many twisted tales about the pivotal role that the English county of Lancashire has played in the plans of Satan.

Sound work, 16 minutes, originally released as the ‘B’ side of a 45rpm 12” red vinyl record. The 'A' side of the record was blank. Released by Sue Mi Records, Berlin. SueMi 15. 2006-2007.

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DIAL-A-DIVA is a 24 hour global telephonic concert that has taken place twice, in Glasgow 2005 and in Stavanger 2007. The performers were broadcast using the telephone while listeners could tune in live by phoning a freephone number or going to the stream online. The programme of performance went from New Zealand and the date line through Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas arriving back at the date line 24 hours later. This medley gives a taster of DIAL-A-DIVA bringing together samples from the phonecast and behind the scenes recordings.

In order of appearance: Semuin - Germany; Aisling Docherty - N. Ireland; Paola del Rio - Australia; Sty-Lo - Ivory Coast; Security Guard - Burundi; Barmmy Boy - Sierra Leone; Berglind Agustsdottir - Iceland; MC Boikutt - Palestine; FS Blumm - Germany; Miles Lang - UK; Razvigore - Serbia

With thanks to Creative Scotland 2004, Stavanger 2007 & the DIAL-A-DIVA team.