Last Updated January 2020
10 January 2020, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, UK
w. Clea Friend on cello. Performance of A Moon That Lights Itself: Totality Redux.
A NGS Special Event within the NOW exhibition, featuring Katie Paterson.
Performance co-incides with lunar eclipse.
26 October 2019, Foodstory Cafe, Aberdeen, UK
Solo Show and Masterclass in Ableton Live/Max 4 Live
22 October 2019, Skylight, Edinburgh, UK
Creative Informatics Hub invited talk. I introduced the Liminal programme strand at Queen’s Hall and discuss working with data streams signalling the end of (our) time. I also present samples of improvisation sessions with the Black Glass Ensemble.
16 October 2019, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Liminal Nights Event. Performance with cellist, Clea Friend. The event also featured a set with Ben Chatwin and Pete Bradley.
6 October 2019, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Solo show, opening for Lubomyr Melnyk. My first show as associate artist in residence at Queen’s Hall.
28-30 September 2019, Sensoria Festival, Sheffield, UK
Breaking Reverie – Heather Lander’s light sculpture featuring my music is installed at Barkers Pool for the duration of the festival
27 June 2019, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Liminal Nights Event. Live performance of New Town Nocturnes with Chris Connelly. The evening also featured a solo performance by Linda Buckley.
24 May 2019, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, UK
Solo show. Opening for Erland Cooper
20 February, Glasgow School of Music, Glasgow, UK
Royal Musical Association Research Colloquia. Invited talk at which I covered border territories in music – crossing them, existing within them, dissolving them, and making tools from them.
10 December 2018, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City
Michael Begg talk “Reconciling the Divorce Between Music and Space”. Presentation and hosted discussion for sound design students at Mexico City’s Centro de Cultura Digital.
7 December 2018, CMMAS, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Michael Begg solo show concluding a 2 week composer residency at Centro Mexicano para la Musica y los Artes Sonores. Event premiered a new work; Sonámbulo: un bebedero para pájaros compuesto por dientes para la novia del viento (Sleepwalker: a birdbath composed of teeth for the bride of the wind) based on the work of painter Leonora Carrington. The residency and performance were developed as part of Seeing Hearing UK Mexico, a three-year collaboration between the UK and Mexico made possible with the support of Anglo Arts the cultural department of The Anglo Mexican Foundation A.C; British Council Mexico, CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras) and Cryptic.
October 2017, Clydebank, Scotland
Site specific installation – TITAN: A Crane Is A Bridge – for Cryptic Sonica 2017. The installation was established in the wheeelhouse and on the viewing deck of the crane, 150 ft above the rover Clyde.
TITAN went on to win the New Music Scotland award 2018 for newElectroacoustic Sound Art work.
16 October 2016, Gateshead, England
Fovea Hex performance for TUSK Festival (Here comprising Clodagh Simonds, Michael Begg, Laura Sheeran, Colin Potter, with guests Justin Grounds (violin) Gemma Kost (cello) and Gayle Roberts (viola))
30 September 2016, Cafe Oto, London, England
- 1 – Solo performance as part of the ICR 35 evening, celebrating 35 years of Colin Potter’s ICR label, studio and distribution outlet.
- 2 – Brief set supporting Clodagh Simonds performing 2 Fovea Hex songs as part of ICR 35 evening.
16 September 2016, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Michael Begg performance, with Clea Friend on cello. Premiere performance of A Moon That Lights Itself, commissioned by National Galleries Scotland.
30 July 2016, Berlin, Germany
Fovea Hex performance (here featuring Clodagh Simonds, Michael Begg, Laura Sheeran, Kate Ellis & Colin Potter, and featuring a guest collaboration with Silver Mount Zion’s Jessica Moss), Fovea Hex performance at the A L’ARME Festival
07/May/16 Münster, Germany
Fovea Hex performance (here featuring Clodagh Simonds, Michael Begg & Colin Potter) at the Geräuschwelten Festival, presented by Aufabwegen
13/July/14 Clonakilty, Ireland
Fovea Hex performance (here featuring Clodagh Simonds and Michael Begg) as guests of the Vespertine Quintet
3/Nov/2013 Count Frederick Lodge, Hebden Bridge, UK
Solo Michael Begg performance
Improvisation / Empty Ring / Weeping Bees / Untitled (World Fair)/ Improvisation / Your Little Hand As Soft As Milk
NOTES
Support from Jeff Stonehouse and Dean McPhee.
24/Aug/2013 No Silences Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
Solo Michael Begg performance, billed as “Pocket of Resistance”
Invocation (Spoken Word recitation of John Berger text) / Improvisation / Empty Ring / Weeping Bees / Omi and Naomi / Lovemaking at Grendell Hall / The Bells
NOTES
Performance was accompanied by multiple routines from Moscow’s blackSKYwhite, with whom MB was working on the production, OMEGA, running concurrently at the Edinburgh Festival
22/May/2013 Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, UK
Solo Michael Begg performance, opening for Chrysta Bell
Improvisation / Empty Ring / Kitchen Tools / Kacey improvisation / Unclear Here / Your Little Hand As Soft As milk
NOTES
Event billed as “DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS CHRYSTA BELL – VOODOO ROOMS EDINBURGH WED 22 MAY. With special guest Michael Begg (Human Greed / Fovea Hex).”
31/May/2012 Blah Blah, Torino, Italy
Combined Human Greed performance and Deryk Thomas exhibition of prints; “DeBosch” closing the Abnomalie Season organised by O.F.F Musica 90 and ABnormal Tattoo.
NOTES
Link to video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_KrjwzMXnc
26/Nov/2010 Intermediale Festival, Legnica, Poland
Teatr: Fragile Pitches. Colin Potter and Michael Begg.
NOTES
Performance featured live video mix by Krzysztof Pawlik.
26/Nov/2010 Intermediale Festival, Legnica, Poland
Invocation/In Absentia variation, Anxiety, The Green Line, Progression, An End to Death, Recipe
NOTES
Projections featuring artwork by Deryk Thomas, Alan McGowan and Laurent Maginelle.
28/Aug/2010 Dialogues: Slow Listening Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Invocation/In Absentia variation, Malagathens Hotel (improv), Third Person Tribute (improv) The Green Line, Recipe (unaccompanied reading by Michael Begg of Norman MacCaig’s poem)
NOTES
Projections featuring the artwork of Deryk Thomas, Laurent Maginelle and Alan McGowan featured in this 2am performance in the University of Edinburgh’s inspace informatics forum.
30/Dec/2009 St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
Fragile Pitches 2 x 45 minute sets
Notes: CATHEDRAL II: Fragile Pitches
Michael Begg and Colin Potter perform a new collaborative work, Fragile Pitches to a packed cathedral crowd as part of the city of Edinburgh’s official Hogmanay celebrations. The cathedral is dimly lit by hundreds of candlelit vests suspended from the cathedral ceiling placed by French street theatre company, Carabosse.
22 /Nov/ 2009 St Mary’s Cathedral, Haddington, Scotland
Fragile Pitches 40 minute improvised set
Notes: CATHEDRAL I
Michael Begg solo set, commissioned electronica for the Saltire Homecoming Event. Other performers on this most curious of engagements included the Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, Dougie MacLean, Phil Cunningham, and Karen Matheson
15/Nov/09 Ship of Fools, London , UK
Invocation of Fortress Longing (spoken word) In Absentia, Corrective and Cosmetic Surgery of the Teenage Breast, Lovemaking at Grendell Hall, American Lamb, The Kacey Organ, Invocation of the Green Line (spoken word), Fortress Longing Prelude in F# minor, Moonsuite
Notes: Tursa/Kaparte event on board a floating bar/club on the river Thames. Also playing: SonVer
12/Sep/09 GRV, Edinburgh, UK
In Absentia, Corrective and Cosmetic Surgery of the Teenage Breast, Lovemaking at Grendell Hall, American Lamb, Fortress Longing Prologue in D major, The Kacey Organ, Fortress Longing I, Moonsuite, Fortress Longing II
Notes: First UK performance. Part of the Cocoon Counter Culture Festival. Also on bill; Jesu, Cut Hands, Crippled Black Phoenix, Anni Hogan.
Performance filmed by Neil McLauchlan. No official audio recording captured.
7/Dec/08 Caryca, Krakow, Poland
In Absentia, Corrective and Cosmetic Surgery of the Teenage Breast, Lovemaking at Grendell Hall, American Lamb, Chaplins of Ms Selfridge, Pilgrim, Kacey’s Magic Pony, Moonsuite
Notes: “The Krakow Killer ”
Moonsuite visuals by Neil McLauchlan, no official audio recording made.
5/Dec/08 Plan B, Warsaw , Poland
In Absentia, Corrective and Cosmetic Surgery of the Teenage Breast, Lovemaking at Grendell Hall, American Lamb, Chaplins of Ms Selfridge, Pilgrim, Kacey’s Magic Pony, Moonsuite
Notes: Moonsuite Visuals by Neil McLauchlan. Desk Recording made of performance. HG joined on stage by BrendaLeeDVD for Moonsuite
4/Dec/08 CSW Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
In Absentia, Corrective and Cosmetic Surgery of the Teenage Breast, Lovemaking at Grendell Hall, American Lamb, Chaplins of Ms Selfridge, Pilgrim, Kacey’s Magic Pony, Moonsuite
Notes: Event introduced by Lukasz Szalankiewicz. Moonsuite Visuals by Neil McLauchlan. Desk Recording made of show’s second half
Nov/08 REC Festival, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Fovea Hex performance, headlining this annual festival. Fovea Hex were joined onstage at the Teatro Valli by a full scale female choir
30/Aug/08 Electric Picnic Stradbelly, Ireland
First Fovea Hex performance on their home soil
July/08 Monte Bondone, Italy
Fovea Hex outdoor performance on The Terrace of The Stars on the summit of Monte Bondone, Trento, Italy
Feb/08 Sala Apolo, Barcelona, Spain
Fovea Hex performance, with Pluramon/Julee Cruise
Nov/07 Club To Club Festival, Turin, Italy
Fovea Hex performance
May/07 Cartier Foundation, Paris
Fovea Hex performance at the personal invitation of David Lynch in the gardens of Fondation Cartier, an event associated with his visual art retrospective, The Air Is On fire