Torry Sound Project: Navigations

A new Artist-in-Residency project which offers an opportunity for an emerging sound artist based in North East Scotland to engage with the local area of Torry and create a site-speciﬁc new work.

Who are the Project Artists and what is their project?

In Torry 24, North East duo Gemma Connell and Angela Main will explore a question ‘What are the rhythms that Torry reveals? How do they sound?’

What is Torry Sound Project?

Find more about this exciting new Artist-in-Residency opportunity for an emerging sound artist based in North East of Scotland.

Meet our Project Artists - North East duo Gemma Connell and Angela Main - and find more about how they explore a question ‘What are the rhythms that Torry reveals? How do they sound?’ in their project Torry 24.

sonADA members blog - how do we know Torry?

Where is Torry? What makes the area so distinctive? How did it progress through its rich history from a burgh separate from Aberdeen City to the modern-day life we see today?

Open Discussion: Nice Dream

Nice Dream is informed by the exhibition H2O, the current exhibition at The Suttie Arts Space featuring new commissioned work by artists Sam Dransfield and Hannah Imlach made in response to the Foresterhill Campus. This event features three speakers and their ideas around art as a means of way-finding from their diverse perspectives working within […]

No sinners found.

Forgive me. This is probably going to sound disjointed, but you have to understand that it may be the only way to give you an idea of what I have experienced. I have resided in the Royal Burgh of Torry for 5 days and 4 nights. I wasn’t alone; Gemma was with me as we […]

Who were you?

First of all, thank you. And no, this isn’t a personalised post – it’s a thank you to everyone we met whilst in Torry, and it’s a thank you to Torry itself. As a small place with such rich heritage and history, my mind is still buzzing with your stories. Last week, I imagined Neolithic […]

Sunday Peace in Torry

11 am Sunday morning, half way to the battery in the sunshine. Wind rustling in the grass, waves lapping on the beach below and a wader’s call in among tweets from smaller birds. I notice the hum of engines in the harbour has been there the whole time only when it is drowned out by […]

Sounds This Week

Thinking of the project I’ve been noticing my favourite sounds from Victoria Road. One slightly misty evening the sound of the electronic beacon pinging in the harbour, later the sound of the swing going backwards and forwards in the playpark and this morning at 4.30 am the sound of boat engines and seagulls disturbing the […]

One-Day Workshop in Torry!

Torry Sound Project artists Gemma Connell and Angela Main will host an one-day workshop in Torry for their performance piece Torry 24. Do come to meet the artists and inspire them with your sounds, stories and objects relating to the area of Torry. Children, adults, family, friends… everyone is welcome! Date: Saturday 1st August 2015 […]

Makeshift Masks and Mapping Moments

It’s not really been that long since I received a particular voicemail which got me jumping up and down in the passenger seat of my partner’s car, and yet already it feels like we have got completely stuck into this project. I’m a dance artist, but I work with spoken word. For the past five years […]

Today is a good day

Already I feel like we have come so far with this project, yet I have to remind myself that until we go into Torry we really can’t go anywhere. For the past week or so I have been experiencing a state. It goes something like this; Excited, I remember that I am an artist on […]

Project Artists announced!!

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer! Torry Sound Project is delighted to announce that after a competitive selection process, North East duo Gemma Connell and Angela Main have been selected as Project Artists. Their proposed project Torry 24 will explore a question ‘What are the rhythms that Torry reveals? How do they sound?’ and will […]

Ethics of Participation

When I went to Torry for the first time it was still. I couldn’t see the sea at first, I took bicycle around the headland to avoid the hills, because it was winter and dark. The first thing that struck me was the industrial spaces that dwarfed me on the road and stretched away from […]