Cryptic presents:
A Light Beyond
Alex Smoke + Finlay Mackay
Entry Requirements: Entry Requirements: Advanced booking required. When you book your Sonic Bite, you will receive an e-ticket and we will send you a dedicated viewing link 24 hours before the event.
Cryptic presents the sixth in our sensory series of audiovisual appetisers broadcast at 13.00 GMT (and available for 24 hours) on the second and fourth Thursday of every month to offer you a welcome lunchtime escape from emails and online meetings. Down tools and indulge in some digital delights to invigorate and inspire for the afternoon ahead.
Time to take your lunch break and savour a Sonic Bite… on Thu 26 November
As part of composer and musician Alex Smoke’s new world of meditative music, he brings us A Light Beyond – a collaboration based around the simple idea of light appearing out of darkness. Working with photographer Finlay Mackay, one of Scotland’s most prolific, ambitious and versatile image-makers, this calming, at times majestic work is an evocative escape – a soothing sonic spiral that circles through light and dark, day and night like the changing of the seasons.
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Alex Smoke
Alex Smoke is a musician and composer; operating in various fields of sound including electronic production, sound installation and instrumental composition. His main interest is in combining traditional forms of composition and musicianship with the more experimental approaches allowed by modern technology.
Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production under a range of monikers including Wraetlic, he has since increasingly focussed on sound for picture, psycho-acoustics and collaborations with visual artists and orchestral musicians.
Recent work has included scoring BBC science programmes, Order & Disorder and Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams, composing a score for Scottish Ballet’s Sibilo and providing music for various other film projects. He also regularly collaborates with visual artist Florence To on installation performances under the name of CØV and Nagoya-based Vokoi on the audiovisual performance project Wraetlic.