Thursday 2 July 2026, 7.30pm
Ailie Ormston is a Scottish composer and musician making electronic music and music for ensembles. Ormston’s work often explores timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage and improvisation. In 2025, Ormston produced new works for prepared electric guitar and various speakers as part of a commission from OVER/AT, which toured across the highlands of North West Scotland and was subsequently released as an album, Impressions on and of guitar. Over the years, Ormston has performed at KRAAK, Counterflows, Tectonics and LSO Saint Lukes. They have worked collaboratively with Tim Fraser on It Changes (bison; 2022) and Finlay Clark on Sunflowers Face The Sun (33-33; 2020), and released a solo album of works for tape, guitar, cello and double bass, Frames that lean, pictures that roam (Akashic Records; 2025). Earlier in 2026, Ormston premiered new work for string quartet and tape, written for and performed by New York’s JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio programme.
We’re very happy to have been working with Ailie to present three nights of music comprising solo performances, works for ensembles and new collaborations.
Guests is the home recording project of Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine.
Francesca Hawker is a London-based artist, formerly and still frequently in Brussels. Her work takes the the form of performances, poems, installations, music, self-published materials and comedy. In 2022, she led a caterwauling open mic night in a former notebook factory as part of Q-O2’s annual Oscillation Festival, an event which cemented her reputation amongst Brussels’ dilettantes of the oft-maligned open-mic format. The themes of her work (‘failure, friendship, and the maintenance of communal fantasies’) wash through her ‘21Tracks’ selection, which succeeds in combining moments of pathos-ridden bedroom production, tracks by friends and heroes, songs about transcendence and songs about getting by.
https://glean.art/21-tracks-for-the-21st-century/francesca-hawker
