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Transplanted onto CD
Our recording of Changeless and the Changed by David Fennessy has been included on new music::new Ireland 3, a promotional CD produced by...
Alice Rickards
Mar 5, 20181 min read
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The Grand Finale!
The 1st of June was the grand finale of our TRANSPLANTED project with the children in p. 5 and p.6 at Carntyne Primary School. We spent...
Sonia Cromarty
Jun 2, 20163 min read
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Composers at work
We started work on 9 graphic scores today. Before our young composers put pen to paper we looked at at a beautiful long graphic score...
Alice Rickards
May 19, 20162 min read
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Week 3 @ Carntyne Primary
Another beautiful morning greeted us- we're beginning to think it is always sunny at Carntyne Primary School! The children were as...
Sonia Cromarty
May 12, 20162 min read
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Week 2 @ Carntyne Primary
Main Aims Continuing on from last week, show how composers can describe the many characteristics of plants Introduce concept of graphic...
Alice Rickards
Apr 28, 20163 min read
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TRANSPLANTED to Carntyne Primary
The beautiful sunny morning was a great way start to our first session with P6 at Carntyne Primary. As the students entered the room in...
Alice Rickards
Apr 21, 20162 min read
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TRANSPLANTED education project
We are taking TRANSPLANTED to a new audience, the music and the wild plants that inspired the project have proven to be a great education...
Alice Rickards
Apr 20, 20162 min read
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TRANSPLANTED at the Tin Hut
With the theme of native Scottish plants depicted in music, dynamic duo High Heels and Horse Hair, Alice Rickards (violin) and Sonia...
William Gilmour
Nov 26, 20144 min read
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96 AIRS FOR THE SEASONS - JAMES OSWALD
Sonia first discovered Oswald when reading Scotland’s Music by the author, playwright and composer John Purser. She was looking for...
Alice Rickards
Nov 21, 20143 min read
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Birnam & Ardkinglas
Sonia and I are both members of Plantlife and have enjoyed working with Deborah and the team at Plantlife Scotland to create...
Alice Rickards
Oct 28, 20142 min read
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RBGE & Dunfermline Arts Guild
The East coast leg of our TRANSPLANTED tour saw us perform in two very different venues. On Saturday 18th October we travelled to the...
Sonia Cromarty
Oct 20, 20141 min read
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TRANSPLANTED at the NTS
We had a wonderful weekend performing TRANSPLANTED at two of National Trust for Scotland's stunning gardens. On friday night we headed...
Alice Rickards
Oct 16, 20142 min read
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A Scot's 18th century concept transplanted to modern day
First published in The Herald on 8 October, 2014 What does sneezewort sound like? A bit slimy. Lichen? Think intertwining, symbiotic...
Kate Molleson
Oct 8, 20145 min read
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Conserving Scotland's biodiversity
Plantlife Scotland is delighted to be supporting High Heels and Horse Hair and their TRANSPLANTED project. Plants and fungi are...
Dr. Deborah Long Plantlife
Oct 6, 20143 min read
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Bogs
Bogs – the Cinderella of the natural world. Bogs really do have bad press; they bring up connotations of wasteland, emptiness, squelchy...
Davie Black
Sep 16, 20142 min read
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Waxcap
Having always had a penchant for the sinister, I was immediately attracted to the subject matter for my TRANSPLANTED miniature. Fungi...
Martin Kershaw
Sep 9, 20141 min read
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The Kingdom of fungi
As summer moves towards autumn, and grassland flowers fade, a second show of colour can be provided by fungi. Among the most colourful...
Dr. Max Coleman
Sep 1, 20142 min read
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Cladonia bellidiflora
Not in fact a plant, but a lichen. I saw some of these little beauties when I took shelter next to a damp rock on a wet, sullen winter’s...
Stuart MacRae
Aug 23, 20142 min read
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Turning the tables in the bog
A Scottish bog in summer can be a haven of calm, as imagined by David Ward in his post for this blog. All too often, however, a still day...
Dr Max Coleman RBGE Science Communicator
Aug 17, 20142 min read
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Sundew
Having not lived near the Scottish countryside for many moons, I asked Sonia and Alice to nominate a plant for my composition. I’m so...
Judith Weir
Aug 17, 20141 min read
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