2025
Overview
Recommended Age Guideline 3 +
A groundbreaking music drama by Scottish New Music Awards shortlister Joanna Nicholson combining projections, voice, electronic soundscapes, clarinet and horn. Psychological time travel draws us into the inner world of Aud the Deep Minded, a real life Christian Viking and conflicted yet brilliant leader in 9th century Scotland. Inspired by fragments of unreliably documented history, and reframed in the present, we explore Aud’s transformatory journey from oppressed to oppressor to liberator. Contains swearing.
#IamAud
First performed at ROHM Theatre, Kyoto on 15 July 2023.
Creative Credits
Clíona Cassidy – soprano
Joanna Nicholson – composer, clarinet
Andy Saunders – horn
Alistair MacDonald – electronics
Kirsty Anderson – projection art
Supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, Vaughan Williams Foundation, Cockaigne Fund administered by Foundation Scotland, and Sound Festival.
Image – Fat Man Skinny Camera
On Tour
The Space Triplex
- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 August