Giles Lamb
Ùrlar
Gaelic, the floor. In pibroch, the ground.
Live music in quadraphonic sound.Multi-screen projection. Total immersion.
Premiere · Friday 4 December 2026 · House of Toad, Glasgow
The room is blacked out, so the projections create a field of light, with people sitting or lying down. I play from behind, among the audience.
The outline is composed, but within it everything is improvised, so every performance is different. I play in response to the feel of the space and the people in it, in the moment.
The ground is the theme a piece departs from and returns to.
About
Giles Lamb is an award-winning Glasgow-based composer and sound artist with three decades of work across film, television, games, theatre and immersive spaces. He scored the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum and the Book of Kells Experience at Trinity College Dublin, and has released a variety of studio albums. Ùrlar is his first audiovisual solo live work.
- Bayeux Tapestry · British Museum
- Book of Kells Experience · Trinity College Dublin
- Experience Zephyr · Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
- Valhalla Rising · feature film
- Dead Island · announcement trailer, Cannes 2012
- The Brilliant World of Tom Gates · BAFTA Scotland
Hosting it
- Blackout
- Full blackout, or after dark.
- Room
- Character surfaces suit it best: stone, plaster, timber.
- Get-in
- Four hours before doors, two after.
- System
- Quadraphonic speakers, subwoofer, three projectors and screens, and the instruments. All of it arrives with me.
- Installation
- Freestanding. Nothing fixes to the building.
- Seating
- Seating, mats or floor cushions, from the venue.
- Running order
- Around 60 minutes, no interval, plus scope for a guest opener.
- Capacity
- 20 to 60, depending on layout.
Further dates from January 2027.