A new commission for the world's biggest arts festival will feature music from members of rock, folk, and electronic bands as well as cutting-edge animation.
The radical move by the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) into staging more contemporary music, under new artistic director Fergus Linehan, will include the new commission led by Martin Green from the Scottish band Lau.
In the new multi-media work, he will be "exploring new ways to combine and stage live music and animated film."
The unnamed piece, to be premiered live at the EIF in 2016, will feature collaborations with songwriters
Anaïs Mitchell and Karine Polwart as well as musicians Dominic Aitchison, from the Scottish rock band Mogwai, Adrian Utley from Portishead, and Becky Unthank from The Unthanks.
The work will also be recorded, and has received £14,000 in the latest round of funding from the national arts body, Creative Scotland.
The project, being developed with the Barbican Centre in London and Sage Gateshead, will also involve the award-winning Scottish animators White Robot, who are Bafta-winning writer/directors Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson.
Mr Linehan, in his debut year leading the EIF, has made an instant mark on the programme, with gigs by Sparks, King Creosote, Sufjan Stevens, and Franz Ferdinand and a new amplified music venue at the festival's Hub this year.
He is attempting to expand the festival's focus to include contemporary and modern music as well as its entrenched genres of orchestral and chamber music, opera, ballet and theatre.
He views the move as an addition to the mix of culture on show, not as a replacement for more traditional forms of festival productions.
"I have always said 'in addition to, not instead'," he said.
"We are not just saying: well, it's easier to put four guys on stage [than an orchestra]. But you can do this as an addition."
The funding from the Creative Scotland is one of 99 projects in its latest round of Open Funding.
Others backed include a year-long series of literary salons, contemporary dance and music, film and animation projects.
The awards are worth between £1,500 and £100,000 and were made to artists, organisations and companies in February and March this year.
Edinburgh based Neu! Reekie! will curate, produce and present 'This Is Scotland' - a year-long programme of "literary salons" showcasing writers and poets accompanied by new animation, music, dance and art.
Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson, co-directors of Neu! Reekie! said in a statement: "Our new year-long project intends to raise the bar, with our most diverse programme to date.
"We're spreading our wings to every corner of Scotland and beyond - with unique Neu! Reekie! shows planned from Thurso to Tokyo, and with a batch of new event commissions.
"Creative Scotland's belief in, and support for, this project has been a huge boost for us, has opened up new creative possibilities and collaborations, and will be a solid foundation for us to build on."
Major awards have gone to music, including Sound: Scotland's Festival of New Music 2015, which received £130,000, Mr McFall's Chamber, £80,000, the Scottish Music Industry Association, £75,000 and AC Projects £79,000.
Funding has been awarded to 19 festivals across the country including Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, Edinburgh Mela, Bloody Scotland: Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival, the Lammermuir Festival, the Merchant City Festival of Glasgow, Africa in Motion: Scotland's African Film Festival and an eight month long Festival of Architecture from March to October 2016.
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