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 (born 1992, UK) is an artist and performer living in Brussels. She works in and on the live context and its leaky social, spatial, and temporal boundaries, utilising different media ranging from spoken word performance, poetry, installation, music, and self-publishing. Her work is inherently collaborative and humorous, as it takes place within the “slapstick of ordinary relation”, defined by Lauren Berlant as a way of “trying to stay in the same enough conversation in order to build something together that neither of us could build by ourselves." She is currently a PhD candidate and teacher at LUCA School of Arts in Gent, where she is researching the role played by embarrassment in performance frameworks.
https://francescahawker.net/
Guitar playing by Tim Fraser, a collaborator with Ailie (It Changes), who is also behind projects like Edinburgh Leisure, and more recently Kitchen Island.
New music, including covers of themes from Heat and Brideshead Revisited.
