This new series is available to view on her flickr page here.

Conceptual photography by Russian Photographer Vlad Mitrichev.

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What:
Longplayer is the longest non-repeating piece of music ever composed. It is a one thousand year-long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31 December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

Longplayer grew out of a conceptual concern with problems of representing and understanding the fluidity and expansiveness of time. More than a piece of music, Longplayer is a social organism and it will exist as a community of listeners spanning over centuries to come.

On 12 September 2009, Longplayer had its first-ever live performance, at the Roundhouse, London (photo above). This historic 17-hour event spanned 1000 minutes of Longplayer’s 1000-year duration, from 08:00 on the morning of the 12th until 00:40 on the morning of the 13th.

Why we like it:
Longplayer is composed in such a way that the character of its music changes from day to day. It works in a way somewhat akin to a system of planets, which are aligned only once every thousand years, and whose orbits meanwhile move in and out of phase with each other in constantly shifting configurations.

The original Longplayer installation, running continuously since 31 December 1999, is situated inside the 19th century lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Longplayer can also be heard at several public listening posts around the world, as well as via an online live stream.

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What:
Away with the Birds is a project exploring the mimesis of birds in Gaelic song by Glasgow based sound and visual artist, Hanna Tuulikki.

BBC Alba filmed Tuulikki’s vocal group rehearsing Guth an Eòin | Voice of the Bird and chatted to Hanna Tuulikki ahead of the performance at Tectonics.

Why we like it:
The site is regularly updated with performance reviews, photos, videos, soundworks and more. Reading just some of the reviews on Tuulikki’s performances will make you wish you had been there. As a close alternative, you can sit back and enjoy Tuulikki’s ethereal compositions on Soundcloud here.

Don’t miss:
25 May – 2 July 2013  - Hanna’s visual score for ‘Guth an Eòin | Voice of the Bird’ will be shown at the RSA exhibition ‘Between the Late and Early’. More information here.

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Blank Canvas by Glasgow based photographer, Francis Smith whose colourful compositions caught our eye.

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Down and Out in Berlin with Otto Dix by Bristol based painter, Mark Hollis. Hollis works mostly with acrylics and has a keen interest in colour and composition.

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lostinsounds is John Lemke is a composer & sound designer from Berlin, currently based in Scotland. This piece was the trailer theme from Edinburgh’s Africa In Motion Film Festival 2011.

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The resulting collaboration will produce two short experimental films exploring themes of collective identity and historical perspective.

In this special event, the screening of the films will be accompanied by a panel presentation charting the projects evolution.

The screening will be followed by networking drinks.

Please note that this event is free but ticketed, the best way to book a space is through the Festival box office, either in person or over the phone on 0131 623 8030. Also note that these tickets cannot be booked online.

Join us at Inspace to meet, discuss and experience Roderick Buchanan & Fear Wasabi’s collaborative piece.

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If you are attending the festival during the day and have a delegate pass pop in and see us at our Hub situated at the Novotel, 80 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DE. Have a cuppa, chat to the Censta team, upload, unwind or just say hello.

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To find out more about the project and get the latest news on the production of the films, read this blog or have a look at the Roderick Buchanan Soundtrack Group

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Image by Roderick Buchanan

buses.

disappearing. breaking.

cars.

high speed chasing.

the small orange metro glow of underground glasgow.

a walk to the studio in the right direction.

horses galloping.

children running.

coffee shaking.

around the worlds with pictures meeting sounds and

around the words with ideas and positions and intense tiny movements confined in spaces between one wednesday and the next.

this is time travelling

bouncing back between here and there

and forth between cuts and locks and edits and changes and the

time is stretching

shared equally among friends and pulled tight to accomodate the right amount of bounce for free falling ideas from all the directions around.

what amazing places to go

the studio is max

its the tardis- all lovely on the inside and we are surrounded by the people and things which help you hear what you are trying to say.

its 5.1 (a new 5th horseman)- we are all there and the sub bass is underneath us.

all the frequencies

it all went click clack compacted, and then WE broke free and made the sounds we didnt know we wanted to make.

and then it was time to go

return

back on the bus

backsides on the back seats.

back to dundee

back to thinking about the future

and how we are going to fit

everything into the time

stretching from here to then.

thanks to roddy and giles

The guys are beavering away as we speak – refining their ideas and trying some more stuff out with a view to spending the day on wednesday in our foley/recording studio to explore all our sound props, sfx library and record some old fashioned playing of musical instruments.  with a mix of video artist, sound artist and classically trained musicians, we are confident of something that will work with Roddy’s film.  Onwards