Scribbling Scores concert
About this Event
Join us for a relaxed concert where we will showcase existing pieces and new work developed across a series of creative sessions exploring text as a prompt for musical creativity with composer and improviser Hannah Siddiqui!
Because these pieces are often highly inclusive and open to interpretation you are also invited to join in! Bring an instrument with you if you would like to try this out, and we will provide a few ourselves if you can't take your own.
A little primer on text scores:
"Traditionally, western art music is notated on scores, through various symbols, dots and lines – a weird kind of language that sometimes, isn’t actually helpful for music-making and performance. But what if you could read a score without that hassle of dots and lines? You can. In fact, you’re doing it right now. In a sense, I’m in the middle of writing a text score. You’re in the middle of reading it! A text score is any piece of text that can be interpreted and performed, by anybody, not just musicians."
Biographies
Hannah is a composer, improviser, and poet based in north-west England, who studied at The University of Oxford (Worcester College) and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her practice spans contemporary, improvised, folk, classical, and electroacoustic soundworlds, drawing on concepts like womanhood, interculturality, and human-nature relationships. Collaborations include a project with Chamber Music Scotland’s 2022-4 Ensemble in Residence, Dopey Monkey, in which northern industrial folk music hybridised with Hindustani Classical Music and contemporary composition and improvisation; a chamber piece based on PhD research on women’s writings about exile and multilingualism; a vocal quartet for The Carice Singers as part of the 2025 Cheltenham Music Festival; as well as several theatre, dance, and film projects. Hannah has also co-directed a grassroots opera in a disused shop and regularly performs in interdisciplinary free improvisation ensembles.
CoMA Glasgow has been an active branch of Contemporary Music for All since November 2019, running creative projects rooted in creative and participatory group music making. Through centring experimental, interpretive and flexible practices CoMA Glasgow works to programme cutting edge new work while letting everybody engage in creativity on any instrument with or without formal training in western musical styles.
Access and accessibility
There is only on-street parking at the venue.
The Gardens are fully wheelchair accessible at both entrances from Pollokshaws Road and through Tramway. There are wide stone paths around The Gardens, and ramps to take you into the Medicinal Courtyard and Boilerhouse.
Assistance dogs only allowed.
The nearest train station, Pollokshields East, does not currently have wheelchair access.
At present there are no plans for a sign language interpreter or live captioner.
If you have any further specific access needs please reach out to [email protected] and we will do our best to make sure that you can enjoy our event!
Where is it happening?
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