When: 19:30, Thursday 19 October 2023
Where: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, 14 Bristo Square EH8 9AG
UNESCO week of sound events are free, book a ticket.
What does prison sound like? This concert contains answers from detainees themselves: music and songs that reference the sounds they hear, and the sounds they miss. All the composers and songwriters featured were imprisoned and persecuted because of their identity or beliefs. As well as Yiddish songs from the Shoah, and testimony from the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, the concert also features music from former Edinburgh University lecturer Hans Gál, a Jewish refugee from the Nazi who was interned as an enemy alien in Britain in the 1940s.
This concert is part of the launch events for the research network Sonic Conditions of Detention.
Performers:
- Phil Alexander voice, piano, accordion
- Emma Cairns violin
- Fiona Hunter voice
- Serenna MacLellan flute
- Elinor Haf Roderick violin
- Valentina Montoya Martínez voice