If you couldn’t join us in Glasgow, the Sonica 2024 Round up video is here! 📹
Relive this year’s festival with a look back at the incredible art, performances, and experiences that filled our 11-day event.
280+ events across 16 venues, featuring 150 artists from 19 countries, Sonica 2024 was experienced by over 31,330 visitors. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made this festival such a success!
📅Save the Date- The next edition of Sonica returns to Glasgow in September 2026.
Video: @sisisisiyao
Music: Human by @grandriver.aimee
🔶 One week to go until we announce more of our Sonica Glasgow 2026 line-up! 🔶
Keep your eyes and ears peeled
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Sonica Glasgow: Thu 24 Sep - Sun 4 Oct 2026
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This Thursday 7 May, 7PM Cryptic Nights returns to 5 Florence Street (@urban_office_ ) for a double-bill.
Introducing Jules Leaño who is presenting 'Panagkamarerwa', an expanded cinema performance at 7:30PM.
'Panagkamarerwa' is an expanded cinema work inspired by Filipino traditions of remembering the dead.
Jules Leaño is a Scottish-Filipino filmmaker, artist, and visual anthropologist working across Scotland, Germany, and the Philippines. Their practice explores how visual media shapes knowledge—examining how we understand distant places and times, and the socio-political realities that emerge from these perceptions.
📅 Thursday 7 May, 19:00-21:00 (Performance at 19:30)
📍 5 Florence St, Urban Office
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲]𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔[ · 𝗦𝗛𝗛𝗘 · 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚
Artiste sonore, musicienne et productrice écossaise-portugaise basée à Dundee, en Écosse, son travail multidisciplinaire explore les thèmes de l’identité et du lien à la croisée du son, de l’espace, de l’environnement et de l’écologie. Elle présentera une nouvelle pièce utilisant la voix et un synthétiseur modulaire pour plonger le public dans un état de liminalité sonore totale.
📆 7 mai
⌚21h
📍Écuries - Pôle culturel Lorge @logre.amavada.asso
🆓 Entrée libre
SHHE is a Scottish-Portuguese sound artist, musician and producer based in Dundee, Scotland. Her multidisciplinary work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound, space, environment and ecology. SHHE will present a new body of work which utilises voice and modular synthesiser to immerse the audience in a state of complete sonic liminality.
🤝 @crypticglasgow / @sonicaglasgow
Ahead of our Cryptic Nights double bill next Thursday, we are introducing artist and composer Alexandra Bell!
Bell will present HUMMM, a multi-channel sound installation. Blending abstract sound with familiar fragments, HUMMM invites audiences on a sonic journey, with viewers moving through the installation, exploring the ways in which our perception of information subtly changes depending on how and where we listen.
Stay curious…
📅 Thursday 7 May, 19:00-21:00
📍 5 Florence St, Urban Office
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
With “the strength that comes from doubling and doubling” and “every strata adding depth,” Martin Green’s Folding Songs performs for the second time TONIGHT!
Each layer building, each voice carrying the resonance of those before it, each moment adding something new to what follows…
📅 Fri 24 + Sat 25 Apr, 19:30
📍 Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
A @sonicaglasgow commission, co-produced by @crypticglasgow and @perththeatreandconcerthall . In partnership with @lepusarts
Supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund, @creativescots and @thehinrichsenfoundation .
Martin Green (@martin_green__ ): Composer, electronics, accordion
Svetlana Spajić (@spajicsvetlana ): Voice
Graeme Stephen (@graemestephenmusic ): Guitar
Kurt d’Haeseleer (@werktankfactory ): Live visuals
Alison Brown (@alisonbrownthreads ): Costume design
Zeynep Kepekli (@zeynepkepeklistudio ): Lighting design
📷 @sandybcamera
One day to go til Folding Songs at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall!
Get to know the Folding Songs artists: Graeme Stephens
Graeme Stephens is a guitarist and composer whose work moves fluidly between jazz, folk and free improvisation. Born in Aberdeen, he has developed a distinctive voice that spans virtuosic playing and exploratory, free-form soundscapes.
As both a performer and composer, his work reflects a deep curiosity for collaboration, storytelling and the emotional possibilities of sound.
📅 Fri 24 + Sat 25 Apr, 19:30
📍 Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
A @sonicaglasgow commission, co-produced by @crypticglasgow and @perththeatreandconcerthall . In partnership with @lepusarts
Supported by the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo Fund, @creativescots and @thehinrichsenfoundation .
Get to know the Folding Songs artists: Svetlana Spajić
A leading voice in Serbian traditional music, Svetlana Spajić is a Belgrade-based singer specialising in rare microtonal vocal techniques. For over 30 years, she has travelled across the Balkans, learning directly from elder village singers and preserving deeply rooted oral traditions.
She has performed alongside renowned artists including Hronis Aidonidis, Domna Samiou, Yanka Rupkina, and Stella Chiweshe, and collaborated with figures such as Robert Wilson, Marina Abramović, Zeitkratzer, and William Basinski.
📅 Fri 24 + Sat 25 Apr, 19:30
📍 Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
A @sonicaglasgow commission, co-produced by @crypticglasgow and @perththeatreandconcerthall . In partnership with @lepusarts
Supported by the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo Fund, @creativescots , @thehinrichsenfoundation and The Leche Trust
second week / mini residency @perththeatreandconcerthall
thanks jed, paul (x2), sandra, chris
+ the rest of the PTCH team
for making me feel so welcome over these past weeks
and for the added sub !
very lucky to have this space so close to home
just over a month to @queens_hall headline
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performed live in quadraphonic
30 May 2026
join us
ticket link in bio
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+ more news tomorrow
Jules Leaño is a Scottish-Filipino filmmaker, artist, and visual anthropologist working across Scotland, Germany, and the Philippines. Their practice explores how visual media shapes knowledge—examining how we understand distant places and times, and the socio-political realities that emerge from these perceptions.
Alexandra Bell works across sonic arts to challenge entrenched ideologies and belief systems. Through sound, composition, moving image, sculpture, writing, and performance, she creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences that question perspective and foster empathy. Her work draws on the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk—‘total artworks’ that engage the full spectrum of the senses.
📅 Thursday 7 May, 19:00–21:00
📍 5 Florence St, Urban Office
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio
O que acontece quando artistas de diferentes continentes se encontram na Amazônia? 👁️
Konx-om-Pax, Sonia Killmann, Nelson D. e Renata Chebel chegaram a Belém, mergulharam nas nossas vivências a partir da residência artística e criaram juntos dois espetáculos incríveis.
Cada um com a sua linguagem, música e imagem se encontrando num único momento. 🫶🏽🔆👾
📹: @marahufilmes
———
@minc e @nubank apresentam Amazônia Imersiva 👁️ 🌳🔅
Parceria: Instituto Guimarães Rosa | @brbritish | Culta Instituto | @crypticglasgow
Apoio: Casa das 11 Janelas | SIMM | @secultpara
Concepção: @amazoniamapping
Realização: @onzeonzearte | @minc
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