https://saimhsound.cargo.site Sàimh Sound Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:48:36 +0000 https://saimhsound.cargo.site en https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Front-page Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:57:17 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Front-page Sàimh Sound “Sàimh” - Gaelic /ʃɛv/ pron. “sife” adj. – 1. Quiet, still 2. Calm, pleasant More&nbsp;&nbsp;Sàimh Sound is an audio-visual arts collective based in Scotland. The project creates meditative works observing Scotland’s cultural and natural heritage through the lens of atmospheric imagery and spatialised textural sound and music. https://saimhsound.cargo.site/About Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:57:17 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/About Sàimh SoundMembersProjects About Sàimh Sound, (pronounced “sife sound,”) is a sonic and visual arts collective, focussed on exploring the cultural and natural heritage of Scotland through sound, photography, film and ambient music. Inspired by nature writers like Nan Sheperd and Robert MacFarlane, Sàimh Sound intends to create powerful meditations on the solace that is to be found in Scottish wildness and relay stories and legends that have been lost or neglected by the history books, with particular focus on historical decolonisation. The project will also focus on the delicate nature of Scottish eco-systems and draw&nbsp; from the perpetual angst felt by its founders around the growing threat from climate change. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/249326e004aea7256caef99aaee53bc1696b1480e70648b2ef9c3b6310ab4557/DSCF0617.JPG" data-mid="121212170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/249326e004aea7256caef99aaee53bc1696b1480e70648b2ef9c3b6310ab4557/DSCF0617.JPG" /> <img width="1196" height="894" width_o="1196" height_o="894" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4aafd3363d59ddbff74a06266c371769d68cc9cbbdfec79ca78ddba9ddc715d/Screenshot-2020-12-09-at-15.58.33.png" data-mid="91582812" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4aafd3363d59ddbff74a06266c371769d68cc9cbbdfec79ca78ddba9ddc715d/Screenshot-2020-12-09-at-15.58.33.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" 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height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b31dfae01190f3364ead49f9164d379fd1054597c133874d0b3371ceb9dd795/DSCF0468.JPG" data-mid="121212209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b31dfae01190f3364ead49f9164d379fd1054597c133874d0b3371ceb9dd795/DSCF0468.JPG" /> Front Page Contents https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Eilean Fri, 01 Oct 2021 18:02:47 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Eilean Sàimh Sound Members Projects Eilean &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="300" height="333" width_o="300" height_o="333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afb6ea13be3c9a78bef7af737a360308cd9903dde9599da11eb134ecb9936232/CHARTS-logo-large.jpeg" data-mid="146399445" border="0" data-scale="8" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/afb6ea13be3c9a78bef7af737a360308cd9903dde9599da11eb134ecb9936232/CHARTS-logo-large.jpeg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="496" height="326" width_o="496" height_o="326" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f449225936b79a754ec8092b6510a9266b6707ff8c05491d6db445c098c6d0a6/creative_scotland_bwweb.jpg" data-mid="146399446" border="0" data-scale="13" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/496/i/f449225936b79a754ec8092b6510a9266b6707ff8c05491d6db445c098c6d0a6/creative_scotland_bwweb.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="225" height="225" width_o="225" height_o="225" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aec548706414a4371421f8aa80b51dc3f7dc9145bca59aecc0a77b48d696bab2/a-b-council.jpg" data-mid="146399447" border="0" data-scale="9" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/225/i/aec548706414a4371421f8aa80b51dc3f7dc9145bca59aecc0a77b48d696bab2/a-b-council.jpg" /> WorksTràigh Bearna Abrade IdolUamhan Eilean a’ dol Abstract In August 2021, we (Rory &amp; Colin) travelled to Colin’s home island of Lismore to spend a week camping and creating a series of works reflecting on the island’s geology, flora, fauna, folklore and history.Our days were spent wandering the island recording, filming, producing, writing, drawing and setting up mini-installations to be documented.We would like to say a huge thank you to CHARTS, https://www.chartsargyllandisles.org/ as well as the Glasgow School of Art Students Association for making this possible, and also Norma &amp; Gilleasbuig Black for all the electricity. The works (left) will be uploaded fortnightly. We hope you enjoy them. We hope to use these works to encourage “slow tourism,” a set of ideals for travel that prioritise sustainability, respect for the environment and highland exploration that benefits rural communities and grassroots art.If you would like more information about the island, how to get there, where you can stay, and the best ways to explore responsibly please reach out on instagram:https://www.instagram.com/saimhsound/or send an email to:saimhsound@gmail.comLinks to some places on Lismore worth looking into:https://www.lismoregaelicheritagecentre.org/ https://independenthostels.co.uk/members/lismorebunkhouse/ https://isleoflismore.com/ Front Page Contents https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Members Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:52:11 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Members Sàimh SoundBackProjects Members Colin Black - FounderColin is a music producer, DJ, photographer and videographer from the Inner-hebridean Isle of Lismore, off the West Coast of Scotland. Currently living and studying in Glasgow, Colin is looking to expand his creative horizons, and develop projects that connect to his heritage and his love for the natural world.Having spent the past several years running successful club nights in Glasgow, Colin’s goals are to express the fondness he feels for the natural environments he grew up in, and explore Scotland’s cultural heritage by creating works inspired by or telling the stories of Scotland’s history, with a focus on stories that seem to slip by the general Scottish knowledge.Colin’s unique blend of somber sound design and digital &amp; analog synthesis give his works an alluring melancholic, and sometimes foreboding tone. <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2a0bc9d3edd109765ad5ac3ded2f8ddaeb7e2532ed0d455a85308112411c1b0/Screenshot-2020-12-09-at-15.03.16.png" data-mid="91574026" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2a0bc9d3edd109765ad5ac3ded2f8ddaeb7e2532ed0d455a85308112411c1b0/Screenshot-2020-12-09-at-15.03.16.png" /> Rory Green - FounderRory is a multidisciplinary digital artist and music producer from the Campsie Fells, currently living in Glasgow. He is studying at the Glasgow School of Art, and has released numerous musical works under the moniker Manuka.Rory integrates synthesis hardware and digital sound production methods into cathartic works, which at times draw inspiration directly from the Scottish wilderness. His ambient record Palisades focussed on Corrour in the Scottish Highlands, capturing the peaceful and sometimes harsh nature of the landscape. Available to listen/watch/buy hereIn 2019, Rory took part in Audiotalaia’s annual sound arts residency in the Catalan mountains, near Barcelona. Drawing influence from his surroundings and collaborating with artists from around the world, Rory created a series of pieces and a public installation. Available to listen/buy hereRory’s intentions with Sàimh Sound are to explore Scotland’s natural history through the lense of ambient music and sound creation, and shine a light on Scotland’s profound natural beauty, its blissful yet sometimes harsh atmosphere, and the threats it faces with the onset of climate change.Rylan Gleave - Composer, ContributorRylan Gleave is a Leith-based composer and vocalist whose musical practice involves mending the unfeigned gaps in his classical voice study with the healings of imaginative neuro-/gender-divergent kinship. Re-emerging as a composer/performer, his recent work has explored the instrumental qualities of his late-breaking trans-masc voice through queer autoethnography, and autistic-specific notation. His compositions have been praised as ‘haunting’ by The Herald, and ‘rapturous’ by The Scotsman, who named him ‘One to Watch’ 2021, describing him as ‘one of the brightest lights in Scotland’s new music scene’. Recent commissions include pieces for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Composer Programme / Presteigne Festival, Sound and Music / New Voices, Crossing Borders Music / Momenta Dance Company, Shadwell Opera, newEar Chamber Ensemble / KC No Divide, and Red Note Ensemble. His recent projects have included new notes; better days, working with Cox's Bazar Rohingya Refugee Musicians in Bangladesh, after receiving a British Council Unlimited Micro Award: and KITH, nominated for Forecast Edition 6, Berlin, where he was mentored by composer/performer Sofia Jernberg. Currently he is working with cellist and improviser Simone Seales with Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM) on their residency, BOOM. <img width="852" height="852" width_o="852" height_o="852" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb77ee2bdc602583ade7978a28886e51f68f964503bb6060054023c9e92b174b/Japan-Lanterns.jpg" data-mid="91573338" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/852/i/cb77ee2bdc602583ade7978a28886e51f68f964503bb6060054023c9e92b174b/Japan-Lanterns.jpg" /><img width="1020" height="862" width_o="1020" height_o="862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ed28f20f238f3cca0a127408e1c0e5f70d5f0c981e92eb94abc45051a3041e8/Screenshot-2022-01-06-at-15.40.18.png" data-mid="129235329" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ed28f20f238f3cca0a127408e1c0e5f70d5f0c981e92eb94abc45051a3041e8/Screenshot-2022-01-06-at-15.40.18.png" /> Front Page https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Projects Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:41:20 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Projects Sàimh SoundAboutMembersProjects Eilean &nbsp;She Shape Eiocha Cromarty Arts Trust - Graduate Residency Prize Front Page https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Eiocha Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:53:11 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Eiocha Sàimh SoundAboutProjectsEiocha Instrument: Danu System Drawing its name from the Celtic mother-goddess, Danu System was designed for allegorical reproductions of biological forces and natural phenomena, creating sonic environments that tell stories about the natural world, its people, and their interpretations of nature. Fractal sequencing, granular textures, physical modelling synthesis and deep modulation matrixes sonify our principles and breathe organismic behaviour into imagined microcosms. Piece: Eiocha “Once upon a time, there was no time and that was when there also was no gods and no man walked the surface of the land. But there was the sea, and where the sea met the land, a mare was born, white and made of sea-foam. And her name was Eiocha.” - Scott A. Leonard (2004) "Myth and Knowing" Eiocha is an ambient performance on modular synth, where modulation interactions recreate what an ancient Celt may have felt whilst observing the shoreline, considering the invisible and unknown forces at play. Patch: The modulation centre represents the force of the moon on the tide, which breathes motion into its surroundings. The modules built by Glasgow-based Instruo take their names from Gaelic words. The filter module's name Tràigh&nbsp;means “the rise and fall of the sea.” The sea is represented by three oscillators, whose suffocated tones depict&nbsp; submerged movement beneath the waves.&nbsp;Bloom, a fractal sequencer designed around plant growth and permutation, represents the diversity of aquatic life beneath. Chance procedures cause continual generative evolution characterising the Celtic subjects' unknowing of the deep. The piece is polyphonically quantised in a traditional Celtic scale, and a physical modelling synthesis module excites an amorphous corpus that shifts between illusory sounds based on traditional iron age instruments and working practices. Textural synthesis contributes to the aural field, tied tightly to the lunar modulation network. Information on the system can be found here: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1471997 Front Page Contents https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Cromarty-Arts-Trust-Graduate-Residency-Prize Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:48:36 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Cromarty-Arts-Trust-Graduate-Residency-Prize Sàimh SoundAboutProjectsCromarty Arts Trust Graduate Residency Prize In November 2021, Cromarty Arts Trust selected two graduates to take part in a month-long residency making work in Cromarty, Ross-shire. You can find out more about the Arts Trust&nbsp;here Rory Green- Leabhar-latha Rylan Gleave -Lawn Crypt Front Page Contents https://saimhsound.cargo.site/She-Shape Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:45:40 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/She-Shape Sàimh SoundAboutProjectsShe Shape She makes me think of all the agitated patterns that the sea leaves in the sand the augmenting trail-trees dragged west from the shore She makes me remember the panoramic riverbed macrocosmic landscape where I’d watch cavorting sticklebacks submerged and undisturbed She makes me feel like I’m lying in the undergrowth the sky’s sighs fluctuate the rhubarb-roof vast leaf eyelids nictitating sun scintillating, glancing through She makes me wish for an oar disturbed surface where ripple lily tapestries sway and reassemble halcyon reform And she makes me recall the lattices of winter the crystal carpet settles and the water marbleises and I succumb to glaciation Front Page Contents https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Traigh Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:10:23 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Traigh Sàimh SoundAboutEileanTràigh Tràigh is a live audio performance recorded on a beach on Lismore. The encroaching tide served as a time constraint, one take to film and record the audio before we got wet, removing the opportunity for a retake. The outcome contains all of our impulses, inclinations and imperfections. We chose to reflect on tidal cycles, and the shoreline next to our camp where we cooked, washed and built fires in the evenings. Tràigh was created using various small hardware synthesizers, (OP-1, Volca FM, Monotron delay,) chained into a foley recorder that served as an audio interface. Ableton was manipulated using MIDI controllers. There is an island there is no goingto but in a small boat the waythe saints went, travelling the galleryof the frightened faces ofthe long-drowned, munching the gravelof its beaches.“Pilgrimages” - R.S. Thomas Front Page Contents https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Bearna Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:06:53 +0000 Sàimh Sound https://saimhsound.cargo.site/Bearna Sàimh SoundAboutEileanBearna For Bearna we considered Lismore’s unique geology. Lismore, (Lios Mòr,) translates directly as “great garden,” due to its rich floral diversity and fertile land, which occurs due to the limestone makeup of the island. We also thought about how rocks and stones contain echoes of prehistoric islanders. The first picture below (left) is of a “cup marks stone.” The marks were likely left by neolithic people from around 4000-6000 years ago. Theories about the purpose of these marks range from smithing, rituals or art - such as maps pf the stars. Nobody is sure. The second picture below (right) is a stone from an ancient burial mound. Lismore has an incredibly rich history, with various sites that you can easily explore. Get in touch if any of this interests you and we can point you in the right direction. A wonderful source for Lismore’s history is local historian Robert Hay’s “Lismore: The Great Garden.” <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fcd8e60e34400fa2d553b861ec4da2e16fc0e9b756c40601b27e6f83f7318c2/DSCF0602.JPG" data-mid="121519774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fcd8e60e34400fa2d553b861ec4da2e16fc0e9b756c40601b27e6f83f7318c2/DSCF0602.JPG" /> From the top of Cnoc Aingeal, the fire cairn of Lismore, you look northwards into the jaws of an Earth movement of unimaginable scale and age.“Lismore: The Great Garden” - Robert Hay <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a81a218d8df25d49e62dc99638e15987a3abe34dddf51ca746bd015b9f5a720a/DSCF0594.JPG" data-mid="121519775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a81a218d8df25d49e62dc99638e15987a3abe34dddf51ca746bd015b9f5a720a/DSCF0594.JPG" /> Front Page Contents