OVER/ AT Presents Ailie Ormston: KNOCKvologan Studio

Doors open: 7:00pm

Concert starts: 7:30pm

Tickets: £15 (cash at the door)

This concert is part of a tour in collaboration with OVER / AT CIC. These events are designed as intimate opportunities to experience unusual music in unusual places – from in front of the old lighthouse tower in Gairloch, to a church hall in Lochalsh, returning to an old haunt at The Glad Café in Glasgow, and here at KNOCKvologan Barn – forging new connections between performers, audiences, and place.

Ailie will present a specially commissioned set of work for this setting. The performance features music for electric guitar and tape(s), exploring the scope of this minimal set-up through small object interventions, additional speakers, spatial play between instrumental voices, and the development of motivic and static melodic lines. The result is music made with, and for, unusual spaces.

About the artist:

Ailie Ormston is a composer and musician from Aberdeen, now based in Glasgow. They create electronic music and music for ensembles, experimenting with timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage, and improvisation.

Their commissions include Counterflows (2018, 2021, 2024), Tectonics (2022), Cryptic (2022), and the Barbican (2024). Ormston has collaborated with Tim Fraser (It Changes, bison, 2022) and Finlay Clark (Sunflowers Face The Sun, 33-33, 2020), alongside two solo releases: The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo (50% PURE, 2018) and Frames that lean, pictures that roam (Akashic Records, 2025). Their work has been reviewed in The Wire and Loud & Quiet and broadcast on digital and online radio.

They are currently writing a string quartet for New York’s JACK Quartet, to be premiered in spring 2026 as part of the JACK Studio programme.

About OVER / AT CIC:

OVER / AT CIC is a music-making community for trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse artists. Since its founding, it has commissioned new works and hosted performances and workshops across Scotland and online.