Leith New Music, Edinburgh (2026)

Leith New Music is an unconventional locally curated series of new/contemporary music performance events in Edinburgh. The public performances showcase new music submissions from emerging artists from all music and cultural backgrounds, performed by a curating resident contemporary music ensemble appointed for each event. The artists are given the opportunity to workshop their new pieces with the

musicians prior to the performance. The evening concludes with performances by local interdisciplinary artists from wide practices including electronic music, dance, and free improvisation. We hope this creative melting pot provide platform for artists and audience from wide variety of cultural and musical backgrounds to engage, network and celebrate creativity. The committee

The committee members are responsible for programming, selection of scores, design and delivery of events, and communications. Current members are Emma Lloyd, Chris Lyons and Atzi Muramatsu. We welcome any interested parties to join in our in-person programming discussions. We are local artists putting the events on in our spare time, but we strive to be transparent and open. It's also a great way to meet and get to know each other! Write to us at [email protected]

09/11/2024

FEATURING!

BARE performs at LNM #5 TRICK or TREATISE
Sunday 10 November at Leith Depot

BARE consists of Bede Williams (trumpets), Alex South (clarinets, electronics), Robin Mason (cello), and Emma Lloyd (violin, electronics). Individually we are involved in an eclectic mix of disciplines: contemporary classical, orchestral and chamber music, conducting, baroque violin, free jazz, music/dance improvisation, and multispecies musicking. Together, we focus our performances on an open dynamics of uncertainty, exploring performer freedoms and constraints in an improvised framework.

Photography by Robin Mitchell

26/03/2024

Belatedly, THANK YOU to everyone who came to Leith New Music #3: Re-in Vent Nocturne! We are so pleased we managed to bring life to so many new works, as well as continuing to programme very exciting interdisciplinary acts. It was electrifying - well, some of us literally got electrocuted Sam Wood!

Thank you to all artists and performers -

Alistair Quietzsch
Tsvetelina Likova - Harpist
Emma Lloyd
Atzi Lipsync
Chris Lyons
Samwooddoowmas

And big thanks to Craig at Leith Depot for your continued support, Doug MacDonald for sound and Olivia Cameron for the photography.

We are compiling some of the footage, tune into our YouTube channel when they go live!

We had such a blast, and of course we are plotting the next ones. See you all again soon!

Atzi, Emma and Chris x

18/02/2024

Leith New Music presents the world premiere of 8 new works tonight, performed by Leith New Music Ensemble (Emma Lloyd, Chris Lyons, and Atzi Muramatsu). The pieces are written for a combination of violin, viola, cello, piano and electronics.

Alistair Quietsch | My World is Burning
Atzi | Synonym
Chris Lyons | Night Fragments
Craig Morrison | BEHOLD! I have brought you a string trio! | Artificial resonance of a heterogenous string quartet
Dan Abrahams | Good Things
Emma Lloyd | Orbits
Tsvetelina Likova | Samodivi

Probably the most informal new music night in the world, the Leith New Music nights showcase interdisciplinary and new works by local artists and emerging composers from any music and cultural backgrounds.

LNM #3 Re-in Vent Nocturne is on Sunday 18 February 6.30pm, at Leith Depot.

Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-in-vent-nocturne-tickets-820311231977

See more at:
www.leithnewmusic.com

mc.gonagle

17/02/2024

At Leith New Music #3, Sam Wood (aka samwooddoowmas) will perform an electronic music set using a variety of techniques including tape loops, digital processing and analogue instrumentation.

Samwooddoowmas is an eclectic musical project by Sam Wood, boasting a variety of genres between ambient, techno and beyond. He is also an exciting visual artist. Sam chose the name because he knew he wouldn’t forget his own name backwards and forwards. Sam is known for performing in unusual spaces, even a urinal, and using instruments in strange ways live, such as a bass guitar played with a bicycle.

Probably the most informal new music night in the world, the Leith New Music nights showcase interdisciplinary and new works by local artists and emerging composers from any music and cultural backgrounds.

LNM #3 Re-in Vent Nocturne is on Sunday 18 February 6.30pm, at Leith Depot.

Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-in-vent-nocturne-tickets-820311231977

See more at:
www.leithnewmusic.com

mc.gonagle

16/02/2024

At Leith New Music #3, Atzi Muramatsu and Lauren Mc Gonagle will perform free improv duet of cello and movement.

Atzi is a multi-disciplinary composer and cellist. His works encompass music for concerts, theatre, dance, poetry, exhibited arts and films. www.atzi.co.uk

Lauren is a professional contemporary dance artist and movement facilitator from Ireland currently based in Edinburgh. Lauren sees dance as art and a powerful tool to connect with others and inspire them to find their own sense of autonomy and freedom through movement.

Probably the most informal new music night in the world, the Leith New Music nights showcase interdisciplinary and new works by local artists and emerging composers from any music and cultural backgrounds.

LNM #3 Re-in Vent Nocturne is on Sunday 18 February 6.30pm, at Leith Depot.

Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-in-vent-nocturne-tickets-820311231977

See more at:
www.leithnewmusic.com

mc.gonagle

13/02/2024

‘To me, the sound of viola has always suggested that of breathing’ - Kaija Saariaho

Emma Lloyd performs Vent Nocturne (=night wind) by Saariaho, a sombre and ambitious piece for solo viola and electronics.

Probably the most informal new music night in the world, the Leith New Music nights showcase interdisciplinary and new works by local artists and emerging composers from any music and cultural backgrounds.

LNM #3 Re-in Vent Nocturne is on Sunday 18 February 6.30pm, at Leith Depot.

Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-in-vent-nocturne-tickets-820311231977

See more at:
www.leithnewmusic.com

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