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Update Counterflows 2025 — 31 October 2024

Counterflows Festival 2025. April 3-6, Glasgow. Tickets on sale now

After a year off Counterflows – Scotland’s longest running experimental music festival – is back. After a busy 2024, which welcomed a London showcase at Café Oto, the launch of Still House Plants latest album and a collaboration with our pals at Arika for their Episode 11, we are relieved and buzzing to be deep […]

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Arika & Counterflows present Chuquimamani-Condori | Rashad Becker | Sunik Kim | Nat Raha and Ailie Ormston
17 November 2024, 18:30

Very pleased that we will be collaborating with our friends at Arika as part of their upcoming festival: Episode 11 – To End The World As We Know It For the event will be welcoming performances from Chuquimamani-Condori, Rashad Becker, Sunik Kim and a new collaboration with Nat Raha & Ailie Ormston. Episode 11 brings […]

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Counterflows at Cafe OTO

Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental music, Counterflows, lands in London’s cauldron of creativity that is Café Oto for 3 days of exciting performances. Featuring Scottish and Scottish-based artists either in solo or in collaboration, the mini festival gives a snapshot of the wide-range of innovative music being made today from the land of haggis, […]

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Still House Plants album launch show + Ailie Ormston + Tom Mudd
19 April 2024, 19:00

There might be no Counterflows Festival this year, but we’re super pleased to announce this special show for one of our long-term Counterflows friends: the mighty Still House Plants! Opening for them on the night will be Ailie Ormston, who will be presenting new work for guitar, cello, electronics and double bass. And Tom Mudd, […]

Update — 23 October 2023

A Change for Counterflows Festival 2024

Hello from Counterflows HQ! After 13 years of Counterflows we feel it is time to secure our future and embrace a new model that allows us the finances and resources we need to do what we do and do it better. With that in mind, we have decided to apply for transitional funding in 2024, which will […]

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Thanh Cảnh (Sound & Landscape)

At the start of this year we partnered with Hanoi based organisation Lên Ngàn to deliver an exciting new project titled Thanh Cảnh (Sound & Landscape). Thanh Cảnh brought together artists from Scotland and Vietnam to explore sound’s relationship to land, language and tradition. As part of a two phase project in Vietnam, we invited […]

Artists
Inge Thomson
Sholto Dobie
Nguyễn Bảo Trung (Trung Bảo)
Lương Minh (Lương Ngọc Minh)
Ly Mí Cường
Trần Hoài Anh
Ha Giang mountains by Lên Ngàn
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Ghost Tunes

In 2021 Counterflows Festival commissioned musicians and writers from across Scotland and Australia to explore the intersections between language, landscape and culture through music. The resulting collaboration has brought about a publication, conceptual album, exhibition, two part podcast series and a residency at the Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia.

Artists
Theresa Sainty
Madeleine Flynn + Tim Humphrey
Cass Ezeji
Cass Lynch
Mei Swan Lim
Josie Vallely
Manning Park, Fremantle WA credit - Emmie McLuskey