Orkney-based accordionist Karen Tweed and Edinburgh-based quantum physicist and pianist Erika Andersson present a performance of music inspired by quantum physics. They share a passion and fascination for music, art, textiles and science and explore topics from entanglement to quantum computers. In each case the music expresses the essence of the concept.
Arctic voyages searching for whales, and for lost ships – these form a collaboration between two musicians and a poet, in a blend of sound from traditional Shetland fiddle music to creative improvisation with instruments, electronics and voice. The music develops from the complex songs of the great whales, and the men who hunted them in hostile Greenland seas – and Captain Francis McClintock’s voyage in the yacht Fox to seek traces of the lost Franklin expedition.
After the concert, Twa Folk (Irene Watt and Graham White) welcome you with music and song from the North-East of Scotland. There are songs of land and sea, and their instruments include harp, bouzouki, harmonica and bodhran.
