SITE :: http://michaelbegg.omnempathy.comBIO ::UPDATE - Michael won the New Music Scotland 2018 Award for Best New Electroacoustic Sound Art work for his piece TITAN: A Cryptic commission for the Sonica Festival.Michael is a BBC INTRODUCING featured artist, on BBC Radio 3, Late Junction.Michael Begg is an award winning sound artist and musi... Read More

SITE :: http://michaelbegg.omnempathy.comBIO ::UPDATE - Michael won the New Music Scotland 2018 Award for Best New Electroacoustic Sound Art work for his piece TITAN: A Cryptic commission for the Sonica Festival.Michael is a BBC INTRODUCING featured artist, on BBC Radio 3, Late Junction.Michael Begg is an award winning sound artist and musician based in East Lothian, Scotland. Acclaimed as a stalwart of the European Avant-garde (Glasgow Herald) Begg, following a number of significant commissions in 2016, is gathering a public awareness to match the positive critical reception accorded internationally to his work. His work has come to occupy a unique space straddling electronic erosion, ambient, field recording, concrète, and contemporary chamber composition and arrangement. Begg’s work is characterised by strong narrative and speculative discourse. His writing on sound and music has appeared in Sound On Sound, Audio Media International, The Scottish National Galleries Blog, and The Quietus. Several works were translated, in 2014, into Polish by the Polish Soundscape Institute and published as Sound And Territory. He is a peer reviewer for Creative Scotland, and is included within the folio of professional artist educators at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.Begg’s ability to fuse formal musical composition with innovative processing and soundscaping skills, drawing on field recording, sound design and electronics enable him to straddle composer and sound design roles within screen media and theatre contexts.Recent Commissions | Media | Theatre • Artichoke / The Space / BBC4 London 1666 “The Burn”: 30 minutes of original composition and sound design for broadcast and streaming coverage of event commemorating the Great Fire of London, comprising the setting alight of David Best’s 150 metre long model of London on the river Thames • National Galleries Scotland A Moon That Lights Itself: 50 minutes of original composition to market and ignite audience engagement for major summer exhibition “Inspiring Impressionism”. Commission also resulted in live performance at the Royal Scottish Academy, and a CD release • blackSKYwhite Theatre Company, Moscow OMEGA: full soundscape, sound design, composition and mixing for major theatre production. Subsequent to runs at Glastonbury Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, the show continues to travel internationally, and the soundtrack was released on CD Read Less