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Saimh Sound

[founder, director]Lismore // Glasgow

       


         



Sàimh Sound is an audio-visual arts collective based in Scotland. The project creates meditative works observing Scotland’s cultural and natural heritage through the lens of atmospheric imagery and spatialised textural sound and music.





Focussed on exploring the cultural and natural heritage of Scotland through sound, photography, film and ambient music. Inspired by nature writers like Nan Sheperd and Robert MacFarlane, Sàimh Sound intends to create  meditations on the solace that is to be found in Scottish wildness and relay stories and legends that have been lost or neglected by history, with particular focus on historical decolonisation. The project also focuses on the delicate nature of Scottish eco-systems and draw  from the perpetual angst felt by its founders around the growing threat from climate change.




   

Summer Camp: Audiotalaia

 [residency]El Polell: Catalonia



               



               



               
Residency in the Catalan hills, run by Edu Comelles, Audiotalaia

“Audiotalaia Summer Camp is a workshop, a residency, and a collective experience centered around creativity, sound, and technology. The meeting looks after shaping a creative practice focused on sound and driven by a collective workflow.”







Live set written across the residency, performed at the exhibition afterparty:











8mm Movies: Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh

[composer, live score]Edinburgh
Commissioned to compose and perform a live score for Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh, in association with Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute.






The score was for 8mm Movies, a collection of silent family videos by photographer Deng Nan-Guang. The films are drenched in memory and nostalgia, showing the every day lives of Taiwanese people in the 30s and 40s.





       

Fragment Found

[composer, experimental sound]Glasgow
        Commissioned to sound design/compose a score for performance piece.






[release coming soon]


‘Established in October 2021, Fragment Found is an ever-growing online archive of printed pottery sherds. It invites the public to submit their finds and crowdsources information about their history and identity via the ‘comments’ section beneath each sherd. The website is a digital museum of lost, broken, unwanted and discarded artefacts, rediscovered centuries later in fields, on beaches, in rivers, etc. The archive connects people, places, craft, local heritage and the natural environment. The aim is to build a community which centres around the joy of collecting, identifying and sharing mysterious pieces of history, which would otherwise remain undocumented. Selected fragments will become part of a series of ceramic artworks called ‘Imaginary Artefacts.’





Leabhar-Latha: Cromarty Arts Trust

[residency]Cromarty[in Drooping Cave, near Cromarty]
“Leabhar-latha is a sprawling emergence from my time in Cromarty. Inspired by historic texts, local people and the surrounding area, the project draws from folktales, locations, states of mind I experienced, and attempts to translate elements of my own concepts through ambient sound and electronic music. Taking its name from the Gaelic word for diary, or directly translated as “day-book” the name felt appropriate as the songs are often culminations of how I spent a specific day, or was inspired by a passage from a book, usually Hugh Miller’s Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland (1835). For those interested, the picture behind is of me taking a recording in Drooping Cave, on the shore of the South Sutor.”



The residency, undertaken alongside composer and singer Rylan Gleave, culminated in the musical works above, and a performance for Cromarty Arts Trust.

eco collab: anam creative

[collaborative commission]Glasgow
‘anam creative: eco collab is a two part project that commissioned 12 emerging musicians and artists based in Glasgow to create work inspired by the Scottish environment‘

Discover anam creative

‘Rory Green's 'Silt Memory' is a synaesthetic response to Dawn Kelso's found objects, translating touch into auditory experiences. Green explores the tactile textures through sound, delving into how sounds convey sensations like dryness, wetness, sharpness, warmth, and coldness. Embracing the concept of "qualia," (a term used to describe the nature, or content, of our subjective experiences) Green links auditory stimuli to our senses. Additionally, Green incorporates emotional qualities tied to sound, evoking pleasure, pain, nostalgia, fear, and more. 'Silt Memory' offers a nuanced, multi-sensory journey, inviting viewers to interpret the visual realm through the intricate interplay of auditory and emotional stimuli.‘

Forest Museum: Scene Stirling

[collaborative commission]Stirling: Scotland // Delta State: Nigeria

Visual EP


         


         


Video/poetry/sound






Collaborative work with Taiye Ojo, Sean Hall, Kate Clayton and David Sherry as a part of Scene Stirling’s Climate Change Cohort.


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