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| 0 | GLASGOW: CCA |
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| P | Friday 28th October, 2011 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Tracer Trails celebrates the 60th anniversary of the School of Scottish Studies Archives with new performances from Aileen Campbell, Alasdair Roberts and Wounded Knee.
Earlier this year, three of Scotland's most intriguing young contemprary musicians - Aileen Campbell, Alasdair Roberts and Wounded Knee - enjoyed 12 weeks' unlimited access to the School of Scottish Studies' extraordinary ethnographic sound Archive.
The result is the first ever new music commission from Glasgow-based independent music promoters Tracer Trails - and in October 2011 we'll be touring the project around Scotland.
Join us to witness Alasdair Roberts's eerie reworking of the mummers' play Galoshins, intertwined with the bizarre initiation rites of the Secret Society of Horsemen! Alasdair has been collaborating with puppeteer and drummer Shane Connolly to elaborate these curious ritual dialogues into a new drama and song cycle - a really exciting departure that we're thrilled to have facilitated.
Meanwhile, Aileen Campbell has created a new video work based on her research into mouth music, waulking song and the process of song learning, while experimental vocalist and raconteur Wounded Knee invites us to follow his own Archive Trail to the darker corners of the catalogue, through brass bands, folk clubs, and the language and lore of east coast fisheries.
To learn more about the project, visit us at www.archivetrails.com, where you'll find blog entries from the artists and sounds and images from the Archives.
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Founded in 1951 to gather, document, and preserve the oral traditions of Scotland, The School of Scottish Studies played a key role in the Folk Revival of the 1950s and 60s. Fieldworkers including Hamish Henderson, Calum Maclean and Alan Lomax conducted landmark research at the School, and their field recordings are now held – on open reels, cassettes, discs and even wax cylinders – as part of the School’s massive Archive of traditional songs, tales, oral history, ethnographic photography and video.
This project is supported by Creative Scotland, the University of Edinburgh Knowledge Exchange Grant and the University of Edinburgh Campaign.
