Counterflows / Cove Park Residency 2025

Counterflows is delighted to announce a new residency for 2025 with our friends at Cove Park this March. Cove Park is an international residency based on Scotland’s west coast for artists and creative practitioners working in all art forms and every career stage. The residency will host Saigon and Hanoi based musicians Vũ Hà Anh and Trần Uy Đức as well as Scottish artists Inge Thomson and Sholto Dobie. The residency offers time and space for all four artists to explore, share, make and rework their music both together and separately.
For Hà Anh and Đức this will be their first time in the UK and the residency takes place before new performances at Counterflows Festival in April 2025 as well as a takeover from all four artists at a Counterflows hang out. We can’t wait to share their music with you all and are incredibly grateful to the British Council for their continued support of our work in Vietnam.
Since 2023 Counterflows has worked in partnership with the British Council to provide opportunities for musicians in the Scotland and Vietnam to work in both places, our project in partnership with Hanoi based organisation Lên Ngàn in 2023 saw us deliver Thanh Cảnh (Sound and Landscape) A project that brought together Sholto Dobie,Trần Hoài Anh, Ly Mí Cường, Long Ngoc Minh, Inge Thomson and Nguyễn Trung Bảo to explore sound’s relationship to land, language and tradition.
Trần Uy Đức is a self-taught musician based in Hanoi. Active just recently since 2018, his work spans music, videos and social projects, and usually emerges from the interplay of communal exchange and self-detachment. His 2023 self-titled compilation, released on the dispari label by DJ Phuong-Dan, wrapped some of his most distinctive deconstructed club narratives to date. He’s the founder of hanoi bedroom shows, an artistic organization promoting the voice of interdisciplinary-independent art in Vietnam.
Vũ Hà Anh’s practice is characterized by its fluidity and adaptability, evolving in tandem with her expanding worldview, centered by the key principles of love-freedom-liberation. Currently residing in Saigon, Ha Anh’s work is undergoing a transformation as she delves into the themes of sexuality and the lives of women in marginalized and concealed corners of her mother’s land.
Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius, he performs with self-constructed wind instruments, using a frankenstein-like set up which has evolved over many years. An air pump is attached to a series of reeded and metal pipes from various sources – organs, bagpipes and khene – which are brought to life by an interrelated system of timer modules and valves. His performances are personal and intuitive, often coming across as delicate, evocative, and absurd.
He has recorded and performed with artists and musicians including Antonina Nowacka, Rie Nakajima, Judith Hamann, Lia Mazzari, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Marja Ahti & Niko Mahti Ahti, Malvern Brume, Lucia Nimcova and in the group Lo Escucho Lo Pinto. He is the founder and organizer of the event series Progine in Vilnius and co-organises the artist-run space Studium P in Vilnius.
Inge Thomson is a musical force like no other. Having grown up the UK’s most remote island community (Fair Isle, Shetland) Inge has been creating music for over 20 years as a composer, producer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and performer. Although best known as a long term collaborator with The Karine Polwart Trio, in her own right Inge creates large scale multi-media works, produces content for radio and film soundtrack, performs and records in solo capacity and in cross-disciplinary collaborations including projects with scientists, visual artists, animators, theatre makers and textile artists.
We acknowledge and appreciate the support of the British Council and the support of Creative Scotland through their Open Project Fund.
