The award-winning biennial festival of world-class visual sonic arts, Sonica, is to return to Glasgow later this month for its fifth edition.
Staged from 31 October to 10 November, the city-wide festival will host four world premieres, 13 UK premieres and seven Scottish premieres, with over half the events free to experience.
There is a total of over180 events to look forward to, with Sonica 2019 set to 'showcase more Scottish talent than ever before', while also staging performances by international artists from places such as Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Slovenia, Italy and Sweden.
Musician, scientist and producer Max Cooper, in collaboration with design collective Architecture Social Club, will open Sonica 2019 in spectacular style with Aether – a mind-blowing one-off event that will illuminate Tramway on the south side of the city.
Other highlights include the world premiere of Scottish musician Ela Orleans' Night Voyager, inspired by her research into NASA’s film archives and a special one-off collaboration between Barcelona-based creative coder Alba G. Corral, France’s Alex Augier and Glasgow's Lo Kindre.
The festival will also see the walls of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland turn into a free outdoor big screen for a playful street art opera by Edinburgh-based composer Brian Irvine alongside the installation of six giant upturned gramophones in the gardens of Pollok House as part of a performance by young Dumfries and Galloway composer Katie J Anderson.
Some of the other venues which will play host to events during the festival include The Engine Works in Maryhill, Hamilton Mausoleum, the GFT and CCA and the Lighthouse.
The full festival listings are available to look at here
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