This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tectonics, Glasgow’s experimental and new music festival curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell. The weekend-long event operates under the aegis of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and is hosted at its City Halls home, though it mainly presents smaller-scale performances showcasing some of the leading figures of the international contemporary music world.
On Saturday evening, the BBCSSO took to the stage in a bold programme billed as four world premieres, including two BBC commissions. In the event, however, Somei Satoh’s advertised Prelude was substituted for one of his earlier works, On Emptiness (with no reason given).
