Limpe Fuchs playing a handmade steel drum beside her self-built percussion instrument.

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Limpe Fuchs playing her self-built percussion instrument which involves heavy bronze tubes hung by piano wire from large drums arrayed horizontally.

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Such a pleasure and privilege to see Limpe Fuchs for the opening performance of day 2 of the Tectonics 2023 festival in Glasgow. A mesmerising and very intimate performance from this 82 year old: 6 decades of taking sounds and instruments to their limits.

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Aki Takahashi performing works by Bunita Marcus and Peter Garland at day 2 of Tectonics 2023 in Glasgow. Just sublime.

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Other highlights that I didn’t photograph: Linda Buckley’s mesmerising and dramatic World Premiere of Mallacht, with the BBC SSO; and seeing Aki Takahashi’s sublimely focused performance of Somei Satoh’s Prelude, again with the BBC SSO.

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A couple of highlights of the first day of Tectonics 2023 in Glasgow today:

1. Carl Stone, with a blood-quickening and visceral set of his own unique sample-based music. Hard to believe he started doing this in the early 1970s at CalArts. What a journey.

2. Semay Wu, with a playful but also very intense improvised soundscape of many component parts that was just beautiful to watch. The great in the small.

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