Deborah Shaw
Performer (individual)
Aurora Engine / Deborah Shaw is a composer, songwriter harpist and pianist living and working in Scotland. He EP ‘The Road to Mordor its on general release and she recently received funding from CREATIVE SCOTLAND to record and release an album due in 2022. Live performances bring harps, loops, effect pedals, vocals and synths, woven together to create ethereal sounds. Lyrics can be heartfelt or comic, music can be multi-layered or simply a voice and a harp.
Combining acoustic instruments with electronic manipulation has developed into a trademark sound of Aurora Engine. Her new album explores this sound further marrying it with story and song, introducing a range of troubled narrators, and delivered in Shaw’s ‘Pit Yacker’ North-Eastern dialect. As a producer she will also take lead role in the production of the new work.
A recent exciting collaboration with Chris Watson Sound Engineer took a road into field recordings, capturing harp sounds in the wild, sounds which will on the the new album.
Working as a film composer, Shaw has written 3 film scores over the last 2 years, ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’ (Available on Amazon Prime) for SPIRAL OUT PICTURES with and two other productions due for release in 2022 HOT ACHES PRODUCTIONS and CINETOPIA
Funded by FILMHUB SCOTLAND in partnership with CINETOPIA Shaw developed ‘Electric Muses’ a live scoring event celebrating women using technology as part of their creative practise, live scoring a 1920’s film by female Surrealist director Germaine Dulac. This screening will tour UK cinemas in 2022.
Shaw’s work explores dark themes of grief, loss, and reflects on her journey into single motherhood, and the loss of creative voice .
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Works
Title | Year composed | Instrumentation Genre |
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It's In The Trees | -2 | Solo instrument |
Events
Date | Title | Venue |
8 Aug 2022, 4 p.m. | 'It's In The Trees' | The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
9 Aug 2022, 4 p.m. | 'It's In The Trees' | The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
11 Aug 2022, 4 p.m. | 'It's In The Trees' | The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
12 Aug 2022, 4 p.m. | 'It's In The Trees' | The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
15 Aug 2022, 4 p.m. | 'It's In The Trees' | The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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Works
- The Salmon Crossing, by Joe Stollery
- Expanse, by Erin Thomson
- New works by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland students, by None The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Events
Projects
- Unusual Music Exchange w/ Ailie Ormston
- Elsewhere, Elsewhen - CD and Digital Album from Nordic Viola
- On a Wing and a Prayer
Opportunities
- Something Different: Two-Day Workshop
- Development Opportunity for Scottish Composers
- Red Note is looking for board members!