WITH SCHOOLS: THE RHYTHM OF THE RAIN
In the 2023–2024 season, we visited Additional Support Needs schools across Scotland with a music-and-literacy project centered around the children’s book ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’, by Grahame Baker-Smith. We worked with kind, dedicated, fun-loving students and educators in a series of inclusive workshops rooted in creative play and multi-sensory engagement.
Recorded in April 2024, our EP of the same name grew out of this project. It explores themes of water cycle, exploration, and human-environment interaction in a suite of new arrangements and original music. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
We’re grateful to have received funding from Creative Scotland, Youth Music Initiative, Scottish Book Trust, and Paisley Book Festival to make this project happen.
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND ARRANGEMENTS
We love writing new tunes and re-working old ones. Over the past few years, we’ve played our own music all over the place: in concert society performances, in workshops with Wigmore Hall and Edinburgh International Festival, and at the 2024 Celtic Connections festival.
We look forward to recording a full-length album of our work, generously funded by the Hope Scott Trust, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Make it Happen Fund, and our wonderful audiences.
WITH COMPOSERS: CHAMPIONING NEW WORK
In addition to writing our own music, we’re committed to performing works by living composers. We work with creatives in many genres, from classical to folk to hip hop.
Our programme PREMIERE(ISH) explored contemporary works by Shelley Washington and Tom Irvine, celebrating the living folk tradition and the unique soundworld of the string quartet.
In the coming season, we look forward to premiering Spindrift, a quartet by Glasgow-based composer Aileen Sweeney.
WITH ARTS ORGANISATIONS ACROSS THE U.K.
We're proud to work with arts organisations across the country.
Recently, we've enjoyed collaborations with Wigmore Hall's Chamber Tots programme, where we played John Adams for 5-year-olds, improvised wildly, and facilitated moments of intergenerational connection; and Live Music Now Scotland, with whom we tour community spaces across Scotland.
