Name: TECTONICS: Lauren Sarah Hayes
Start: 2025-05-03T16:00:00
Location: City Halls & Old Fruitmarket

Lauren Sarah Hayes

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Steve Reich’s music is made of movement. Patterns shift, collide, and reform. The smallest rhythm grows into something vast. A single chord can shimmer like glass.

In Three Movements, the music constantly moves and turns. Repeating figures stretch and ripple until you lose track of where the downbeat lands. Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards is a kaleidoscope of colour. Chords slide past one another, glowing one moment, dissolving the next.

Electric Counterpoint, written for both pre-recorded and live guitars, turns repetition into a trance. With Bryce Dessner at its heart, expect a sound both mechanical and deeply human. Then The Four Sections pulls the whole orchestra into Reich’s pulsing universe – strings, winds, brass and percussion stacked into layers that vibrate with raw power.

Steve Reich at 90: The Four Sections

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

“Intrepid Scottish improvisor” (The Herald) Lauren Sarah Hayes explores instability, ephemerality and unpredictability through playful and tactile explorations of her hybrid analogue-digital live electronics instrument, which comprises self-built software, voice processing, analogue synths, drum machines and repurposed controllers. Influenced by experimental pop, techno, noise and free improvisation, her 2016 album MANIPULATION was praised by The Wire for its “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”. She has toured extensively across Europe and North America, including as part of the BBC’s New Radiophonic Workshop, where she explored innovative approaches to sound and music.