The EMBracing the Ocean artist-in-resident Michael Begg will be performing with his group ‘Black Glass Ensemble’ as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 16 and 17 August at the Queens Hall, Edinburgh. The performance draws on his previous work with MASTS and People Ocean Planet, bridging to his current work on the Antarctic and climate change with EMBracing the Ocean. The Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music for the anthropocene in the margins of classical and experimental music. Combining the cream of Scotland’s chamber players with longstanding pioneers of the UK’s avant-garde electronic underground, the result of these liminal explorations is an emotionally resonant new music that challenges the senses, confounds expectations and breaks open new sonic ground. Alongside dreamy strings and soulful brass expect earthquakes, polar ice melting and the lonely call of earth-monitoring satellites.
Find out more about the poerformances here and about the EMBracing the Ocean programme here.