Tickets now available for the Sonic Warehouse relaunch as part of the very special Oram 100, celebrating the amazing legacy of Daphne Oram and the future of women in electronic music.
13th of December 2025
St Vincent’s, Edinburgh
Sonic Warehouse will be presenting three concerts (with a fourth bonus concert in the morning as part of Hecate’s Sound Salon series!), a panel discussion, and a workshop. You can attend the whole day, just one concert, or drop in and out as freely as you like with a range of different tickets to suit you. Full price and concession tickets are available as well as an option to contact us for a pay-what-you-can ticket if neither of the other options work for you.
Programme
11:00 Sound Salon concert with Justyna Jablonska and Emma Lloyd
12:00 Coffee/meet the artists
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 doors open for
14:30 Concert #1 Strata and Bell Lungs
16:00 Workshop with Luci Holland in the undercroft* (free event!)
17:00 Concert #2 Aurora Engine and Vocifer
18:30 Panel Discussion in the undercroft* (free event!)
19:30 Concert #3 The Silver Field and SLY DIG
The Silver Field
2024 Oram Award-winner The Silver Field is a sound world of Derbyshire-based Rose Kindred-Boothby: voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water.
Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, she weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound that draws from folk music tradition, experimental electronics and psychedelia.
SLY DIG
SLY DIG performs electronic music across genres using synths, code, visuals and drum machines. her sound is forward thinking, interactive and fresh. she works with exciting new technology, and her shows are unpredictable and immersive. SLY DIG has played with collectives, bands and as a solo artist across Europe. This includes in a range of diverse venues from the abandoned stock exchange in Athens, to an Aircraft hangar in the North of Sweden. Her work is responsive and the spaces always inform the pieces. Her work lies in collaboration, and she has been very lucky to work with lots of different musicians across Scotland and the UK.
Justyna Jablonska
I am a cellist using improvisation and electronics to create richly layered soundscapes. In my work, I explore the juxtaposition between freedom and constraint and the realities of everyday life and nostalgia. I was born in Poland and grew up in the aftermath of the communist regime, attending a music school still in the Soviet mould. My career as a classical musician was formed by that training – and a search to escape its constraints.
Justyna Jablonska is a Polish-born cellist based in Edinburgh. During the past decade, she has carved out an exciting career at the forefront of both Western contemporary classical and fusion music. A virtuoso cellist and an improviser, Jablonska is passionate about cross-disciplinarity, and experimental performance as well as versatility, and diverse repertoire. She regularly performs at classical and world music events across the UK and Europe.
Strata is an improvisational work for violin, cello, and electronics. It mixes musical layering and cyclical narratives inspired by geological stratification, creating an auditory representation of sedimentary structures through sound. It employs layering sounds and sequences to echo the formation of sedimentary rock layers. In this piece, we use Ableton Live and FX pedals for sound processing and sound design.
Two musicians set on exploring the vast terrain of music that grows from the combination of violin and cello. Including live electronics and voice, and playing music from early classical, to traditional arrangements, and their own compositions, this is a string duo like no other. Justyna and Emma have been playing together for over ten years and their recorded material includes several single releases of their own arrangements of traditional songs, and a self-titled album of original music, with unique hand-made art work. Classically trained but experimental and fearless, their repertoire also includes the most famous repertoire for this instrumental combination including music by Ravel, Martinu, and Saariaho.
Vocifer
Vocifer is the new moniker for Emma Jane Lloyd’s solo electronic work. Emma is an international performer, improviser, composer, and artist. She performs as a soloist and in small ensembles, working often with live electronics, and collaborating regularly with composers. In addition to the modern set-up, she plays a baroque violin and performs both baroque and contemporary music written specifically for this instrument. As an improviser, Emma’s performance tends to be quiet and intimate in nature, exploring the innate timbral qualities of the violin, and discovering some of the often hidden sounds that can be found with her unique combination of technique and tools. Vocifer’s work combines live string playing and voice with processing, hand made instruments, and gestural control, playing with resonance and amplified textures in sound. (photo: Laura Meek)
Aurora Engine
Sonic artist blending voice, harp, keys and field recordings from natural industrial soundscapes.Her work Flutter – a sonic exploration of Tourette’s syndrome – has been programmed for Cryptic Nights 2006.
Bell Lungs
Scottish/Turkish experimental vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Exploring the messy contradictions and ambiguities of emotions is a key component of her creative process, which takes an electroacoustic approach to live sampling, incorporating spectral tape loops and instruments drawn from her eclectic instrument collection.