Saturday 10th June 2023, 7:30 for 8pm. £15 RSVP
Lauriston Castle, 2 Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD

We're delighted to be back at Lauriston Castle after our sell-out run of Atmosphere events from 'Carry on Screaming' to 'Gosford Park'. The writer of the latter, Julian Fellows returns with his award-winning creation, the continuing historical drama of the aristocratic Crawley family and staff.

It’s 1928, and with family away in France, a film production company uses their home as the location for a silent film ‘The Gambler’, right at the dawn of the talkies. Come dressed for your close up, Hollywood or Riviera, as there's champagne to win. Ticket includes a complimentary glass.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Lindsey Carr
lindseycarrart.com

4th July to 2nd September 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Originally developed as a tool for the creation of a series of lithographs based on Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Kunstformen Der Natur’ - the tool has now been reformatted for premiere at the Music Hall. Organisms on screen are generated by machine learning and animated using latent space interpolation to calculate the best trajectory between each.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Luci Holland
luciholland.com

31st Oct 2023 to 6th January 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Generative animation by Aberdeen-born composer and conductor Luci Holland representing the phases of activity our brain's experience during sleep, created in partnership with neuroscience researcher Narelle Freeman, who is also a musician. Neurological and diary data become a liquid dreamscape, visualising the five stages of human sleep.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Bright Side Studios
brightsidestudios.co.uk

9th Jan to 30th March 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

German scientist Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) was a pioneer of experimental acoustics. One of his inventions was a technique to study the motions of vibrating metal plates. In this exploration of 'Cymatics', the science of visualising audio frequencies, Bright Side Studios will reveal the visual patterns of audio by experimenting with a Chlandi Plate.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Andrey Chugunov
andreychugunov.com

5th Sept to 28th Oct 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

This project explores the coastal areas of Scotland where industrial and natural structures have become interwoven. These areas, where life began the evolutionary journey from ocean to land, are at risk due to rising water levels. This anthropogenic impact on the coast is highlighted by the artist via photogrammetry of the emerging assemblages.

Production Awards

• Andrey Chugunov
  a space for encapsulation
• Bright Side Studios
  The Shape of Sound
• KMG
  Moving On
• Luci Holland
  Dream Visualiser


Exhibition Awards

• Lindsey Carr
  Living Lithograph

Production Awards

• Donna Leishman
  Magna Marina
• Frances Priest with Sam Healy
  Imbrication
• Nina Stanger
  Merge
• Robert Powell with Louise Wild
  Chronoscope
• Theodore Koterwas
  ...in place of what is here and endures.

For details of our next Atmosphere click here.

Atmosphere is our most popular research and event programme. First premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, it re-imagines the concept of Atmospheric movie theaters from the 1920s and 30s.

Each expanded screening uses a team of guest artists and creatives to work with technology old and new, multi-sensory interactives and live elements too. Expect some smoke and mirrors, before the bells and whistles.