Day two of a two day showcase for Michael Begg's Black Glass Ensemble, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of the Made In Scotland Showcase, supported by Creative Scotland and the Scottish Music Centre.

Award-winning experimental composer Michael Begg’s groundbreaking Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music from the borderlands of classical and experimental music. Combining the cream of Scotland’s classical players with longstanding pioneers of the UK’s experimental underground, Black Glass present work – on and off the stage – that challenges the senses, confounds expectations and breaks open new sonic ground. Alongside dreamy strings and soulful brass expect earthquakes, polar ice melting and the lonely call of earth-monitoring satellites.

“Black Glass In Pieces is an intimate musical journey - but at scale… The musicians and the audience journey together into the unknown… [for] a proper immersive collective experience. It is very exciting musically. Showcasing the strength of music making in Scotland that is unencumbered by form… Really brave, really experimental.”
Jean Cameron, Executive Producer, Edinburgh International Culture Summit.

Black Glass In Pieces marked as one to see in The List:
“Music of uncanny beauty, where environmental sounds and mysterious electro-acoustic timbres fold into glacial strings and warm brass”
Stewart Smith, The List

‘Somewhere between the blurred orchestral washes of Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking of the Titanic, and the sublime mysteries of John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean’
The Wire