Dates

• 28 Sep 2021, 7 p.m., Civic House, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, None
• 28 Sep 2021, 8:15 p.m., Civic House, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, None

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Repertoire A/am/ams (come ashore; turn over), by Rufus Isabel Elliot

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Description

“When a met e, tha sgith was blue…”

 

Rufus Isabel Elliot's new work is the story of two characters, A/am/ams and E/e/e, walking forever down an eternal beach, spiralling down and down and down. There’s a Beckettian mystery – who are these characters, and what happened between them? 

 

The music features Scots traditional singer Josie Vallely, a.k.a. Quinie. There's a small supporting cast of instruments with their own characters, who each also "speak" in their own way, played by three other musicians whose work spans traditional, experimental, and classical modes – Stevie Jones (Sound of Yell), Harry Gorski-Brown,  and Andrew Herrington (Awkward Family Portraits). 

 

The work also features a new text by Rufus, which imagines a new mouthful-of-sand  future-language of the North West, spanning Older Scots and Middle English, which is presented alongside a new Gaelic interpretation of the text, by Cass Ezeji.

 

Please note: this event will have a small, physically distanced audience.

 

Run time is approx. 45 minutes

 

The 2021 OVER / AT season has been developed as part of Sound and Music’s Composer-Curator project, in partnership with Supersonic Festival, which is funded by Arts Council England and PRSF. ATLAS Arts have acted as a partner organisation in developing the context of A/am/ams in Skye, and our workshops and performances in Elgol. 

 

A/am/ams was initially developed with singer Lea Shaw and with support from Magnetic North during the 2020 Lockdown.

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Performers Over / At

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Promoter Over / At

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Submitted by Rufus Isabel Elliot