Research from SmartSurvey analysed 50 of the UK s biggest cities to reveal the happiest places to work based on hours, salary and happiness - with Edinburgh number one.
I am Chair of Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen where I co-direct SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group) which brings together staff and students in sound art and music to examine the relationships between sound and place, via both creative and text-based outputs. Since moving to Aberdeen in 1991, I have created music for the concert hall, as well as a number of sound art installation, sound maps and sound walks, many of which involve co-creation with communities. My creative work is performed throughout the world and is published by empreintes DIGITALes in Montreal, Canada. I have had articles published in British Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music, Technology and Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory. In 2004 I helped to set up sound, a new music incubator based in NE Scotland through which I am able to work with a variety of communities, encouraging them to listen more deeply. Recent Sound Mapping and Sound Walking projects include
Yet Ewan McGregor almost failed to make the cut in Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, it has emerged. Andrew Macdonald, who produced both movies, tells tonight’s The Years That Changed Modern Scotland that casting the actor for Trainspotting had been “very controversial” at the time. “Lots of people thought Trainspotting had to be really grungy and they thought Ewan was too handsome, too attractive, too pretty,” says Macdonald. He had previously encountered friction over McGregor in Shallow Grave. Channel 4, which commissioned the film, thought the young Scot and Christopher Eccleston were not well enough known for lead roles. It was the third person in their fictional flat-sharing trio, played by Kerry Fox, who saved them, and the picture.
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Theatre
Crips Without Constraints Part 2
Harriet Walter, Mandy Colleran, Naomi Wirthner and Mat Fraser feature in six online plays written by a new generation of D/deaf and disabled artists. Filmed on Zoom, they follow the success of a quirky original series by Graeae Theatre Company that was streamed during lockdown.
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Hymn
Lolita Chakrabarti’s play about masculinity and ambition stars Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani as two men who meet at a funeral, and whose lives as fathers, sons and brothers are illuminated through music and song. Blanche McIntyre returns to the Almeida, following her directorial success with The Writer.
Rutherglen musician takes on new challenge by scoring Rapunzel pantomime for National Theatre of Scotland
The panto is available to view online as theatres are currently shut
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Amber Sylvia Edwards as Rapunzel (Image: RGR)
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