Scottish, culture and heritage organisations have received a £91,000 investment of National Lottery funding for digital technologies in a third round of funding from AmbITion Scotland's Make:IT:Happen fund.
Following the first award of £85,000 in October 2012, and the second of £89,000 in February 2013, supporting 13 and 14 organisations respectively, this latest cycle of funding will help 15 organisations across Scotland to digitally develop several initiatives.
These include an in-house "geek" at a cultural hub on Eigg, developing video content for Edinburgh International Science Festival events, and using digitised archived sound recordings for traditional culture workshops.
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The next exhibition in the National Trust for Scotland's programme of contemporary art will be a solo show by Calum Colvin. This compilation of Colvin's art will run from June 7 to September 15 at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, near Ayr. His work is held in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
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The renowned Rothko chapel in Houston, Texas, is hosting new work by the Scottish artist Ross Birrell. Marking the 65th anniversary of the formation of the Israeli State, Duet features recitals of Birrell's composition Lift Me Up For I Am Dying, inspired by poet John Keats's last words, performed by a Palestinian and an Israeli viola player in the Spiegelsaal of the Clärchens Ballhaus in Berlin.
Standing in the same position, each musician performed separately and at their own pace resulting in renditions of differing tempo and duration.
When the recitals are played back together a tension is produced in the displaced harmonies and mirrored dissonance of the resulting "duet", mirroring the shared geography but dissonant history of Israel and Palestine.
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Public Service Broadcasting, the band who re-purpose (as the jargon has it) old propaganda films and soundtrack them with archive audio samples, pulsing electronica and post-rock guitar welly, went down a storm at Glasgow's O2 ABC last week after taking their music on a tour of the Highlands and Islands. They will be back for this year's Wickerman Festival and it has now been announced they will be back north to play Rock Ness (June 7-9). More new names are revealed on the festival's website.
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