Time Based: Sonic Interventions — Performances & Installations
– A festival of experimental music, sound art and cross-cultural collaborations between Ukrainian and UK artists.
Five new projects have been commissioned for the festival, and will be presented across indoor venues and outdoor locations in Glasgow. Key works include a world premiere duo performance by Genevieve Murphy (UK) & alice haspyd (UA) at Civic House on 11 June, an installation presented as a ‘sonic object’ by Photinus Studio (UA) & Zoë Irvine (UK) at David Dale Gallery on 13 - 14 June, a sound walk with Anna Khvyl, developed with Piotr Armianovski (UA) on 14 June, a solo performance by lauded composer Alla Zahaikevych (UA) at Glasgow Women's Library on 14 June, and two new works for improvising chamber ensemble by Yuriy Seredin (UA) & Raymond MacDonald (UK) at Civic House on 15 June.
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Genevieve Murphy & alice haspyd
Premiere of a new collaboration by Scottish composer-performer Genevieve Murphy, known for her collaborations with Turner Prize-winning visual artist Martin Creed and Scottish piper Brighde Chaimbeul, and Ukrainian composer-performer alice haspyd, whose work deconstructs visual and musical influences into minimal noise.
Wednesday 11 June 2025, 7.00pm – 8.00pm, Civic House, 26 Civic St, Glasgow G4 9RH
£10 full price, £5 concession: booking via Eventbrite
Genevieve Murphy combines performance art and visual art with contemporary classical music. Frequently exploring psychology and disability, and often creating a domestic setting, she addresses the everyday — speaking to the individual through sound, text, physical performance and imagery. Her works — “Something In This Universe” (2018), “I Don’t Want To Be An Individual All On My Own” (2020) and “At The Spot Where I Find Myself” (2022) — give insight into her world and her perspective on empathy, obsessive compulsive disorder and indecision. Genevieve collaborates with visual artists, free improvisers, choreographers and producers, and has toured internationally with Turner Prize winning visual artist Martin Creed. Her innovative compositions and often durational performance pieces have been performed in concert halls and art galleries across Europe.
alice haspyd is an experimental audiovisual artist from Odesa, Ukraine. Her musical practice is focused on combining deconstructed visual and music influences, coupled with academic techniques. Her works have been showcased at Berlin’s CTM Festival, Paris’s cultural centre La Gaîté Lyrique, Tbilisi as as part of the Mutant Radio & SHAPE collaboration, and Kyiv’s Concert Hall during the STDEV Showcase.
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Installation by Zoë Irvine & Photinus Studio
Ukrainian new media artist group Photinus Studio will work with Scottish sound artist Zoë Irvine to create a sound installation bridging the sonic landscapes of Ukraine and Scotland. Dedicated to the sounds of non-human life, the installation explores the contrasts and connections between the two environments and will be presented as a ‘sonic object’ simultaneously in Glasgow and Kyiv.
Saturday 12 June – Saturday 14 June 2025, 11.00am – 5.00pm, David Dale Gallery, 161 Broad St, Glasgow G40 2QR
Presented in collaboration with David Dale Gallery & Studios.
Zoë Irvine is an artist primarily working with sound, exploring voice, conversation, sound recording and the relationship between sound, image and text. Her artworks range from carefully crafted individual pieces for broadcast and installation, to participative events. Zoë also is a sound designer specialising in artist film, experimental documentaries and radio works, and lectures in Sound for Film at Edinburgh Napier/ Screen Academy Scotland. She lives and works in Edinburgh.
Photinus Studio is a Kyiv-based new media art collective founded in 2012 by artists and musicians Max Robotov, Liera Polianskova, Ivan Svitlychnyi and Georgiy Potopalskiy. The studio has grown into a community of artists and specialises in creating interactive light and sound installations, multimedia shows and working with virtual reality and digital technologies. Their work has been featured in international contexts, including the Venice Biennale, Transmediale Vorspiel Festival in Berlin, Digital Cultures in Warsaw, etc. In 2022, they adapted to wartime conditions, with members becoming defenders, fighters, and volunteers, while some continued their artistic endeavours abroad to support Ukraine.
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Sound Walk with Anna Khvyl & Piotr Armianovski
Ukrainian composer and sound artist Anna Khvyl, in collaboration with dramaturg Piotr Armianovski, will devise and lead a sound walk, where participants in Glasgow and online audiences around the world can engage in a shared, synchronised sonic happening. This experience aims to enhance a collective sense of interconnectedness and collective belonging, turning participants into part of a temporary nomadic acoustic community. The sound walk uses a unique delivery method — a network of online radio stations — to create a shared space within the sonic environment without referring to a specific territory.
This sound walk will be followed by an artist talk at the Glasgow Women’s Library.
11:00am — 12:30pm, Sound Walk (starting location TBA — end location Glasgow Women’s Library)
1.00pm — 2.00pm, Artist Talk, Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy St, Glasgow G40 1BP
Free: booking essential via Glasgow Women’s Library website
Presented in collaboration with Glasgow Women’s Library.
Anna Khvyl — With a background in cultural studies and anthropology, Anna Khvyl is a sound artist, composer, DJ, educator and researcher. Her work explores the relationship between sound and commemoration, focusing on how music creates spaces for social bonding and self-discovery. Working across sound installations, audiovisual compositions, multichannel live performances, audio walks, radio and podcasts, film and theatre, and sound design, Anna also leads workshops for adults and teenagers on electronic music, DJ-ing and acoustic ecology that are designed to help those who have suffered from the trauma of war and loss.
Piotr Armianovski is a Ukrainian artist, performer, director and co-founder of the ‘Pic Pic’ art group. His practice spans documentaries, theatre, and visual practices and addresses themes of memory, loss, and the ‘symbolic and social constructs of everyday life’. His works have been presented at the Venice Biennale 2019, the Topical Play Week, Manifesta 14, and the Kharkiv Biennale of Young Art (2019). Since 2021 he has been an industry expert for the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and in 2020 was the recipient of the 2020 Gaude Polonia scholarship.
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Alla Zahaikevych
Celebrated Ukrainian electroacoustic composer Alla Zahaikevych makes her UK debut at the Glasgow Women’s Library with a solo performance, built around field recordings of bells of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, St. Sophia Cathedral and other churches in Kyiv.
Saturday 14 June 2025, 2.30pm – 3.30pm, Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy St, Glasgow G40 1BP
FREE: booking essential via Glasgow Women’s Library website
Presented in collaboration with Glasgow Women’s Library.
Alla Zahaikevych is a Ukrainian composer and performance artist with an international practice that spans music for dance, theatre and film, symphonic and chamber music, chamber opera, as well as electroacoustic and multimedia installation works. Her work has been presented in contemporary music festivals in Ukraine, France, Sweden, Japan, China, Czechia, Lithuania, Canada, Germany and Poland. Alla is the curator of several international electroacoustic projects including ‘Electroacoustics Ensemble’ and ‘EM-vision’, is head of the Association of Electroacoustic Music at the Union of Composers of Ukraine (Kyiv branch) and was a member of the band ‘Drevo’ led by Yevhen Yefremov.
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Yuriy Seredin & Raymond MacDonald
with Improvising Chamber Ensemble
Yuriy Seredin & Raymond MacDonald with Improvising Chamber Ensemble: Negotiating unchartered musical waters in the spirit of international solidarity, composer-pianist Yuriy Seredin, a leading figure in Ukraine’s improvised scene and prominent Scottish composer-saxophonist Raymond MacDonald will create new works that explore the shimmering hinterland that exists between composition and improvisation. The concert will feature a spellbinding genre busting supergroup group of musicians, including Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle), Signy Jakobsdottir (drums/perc), Una McGlone (double bass), Danielle Price (tuba), Chris Greive (trombone), Robert Henderson (trumpet), and Diljeet K Bhachu (flute, electronics).
Sunday 15 June 2025, 5.00pm – 6.30pm, Civic House, 26 Civic St, Glasgow G4 9RH
£10 full price, £5 concession: booking via Eventbrite
Yuriy Seredin — pianist, composer and producer Yuriy Seredin is one of the leading lights of the Ukrainian jazz scene. His deeply personal approach to composition often references lived experience and people in his life, his work is cinematic and combines contemporary jazz, minimalism and polyphonic forms, constantly moving on the edge of human drama and meditation. He has recorded and played with many of the world’s foremost experimental musicians including Nasheet Waits, Ben van Gelder, Seamus Blake and Satoko Fuji. He is a fellow of the Italian Ministry of Culture (Teatro Massimo, Palermo), the German Music Council (Babylon Orchestra) and the Berlin Senate.
Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist, composer and psychologist with an extensive career in music, cross-disciplinary arts and academia. Much of his work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition. He has released over 80 CDs, toured and broadcast worldwide and has composed music for film, television, theatre, radio and art installations. Raymond is a founding member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO) and his repertoire includes many collaborative projects that span the spectrum of international contemporary experimental music, with artists including David Byrne, Jim O’Rourke, Evan Parker and Nurse with Wound.