A curated evening of spatial composition and acousmatic presence, What the Air Remembers invites listeners into an environment where sound seeks to tell the stories.

_VOID Nomadic Gallery will install a multi-channel sound system in the Dissection Room and create a field of sonic diffusion for artists to experiment with. elseFly, Cindy Islam, and Yoga Fanzine will present three live compositions, conceived specifically for this format.

The performances revolve around the idea of sonic traces - sounds that murmur, dissolve, and shift around the listener.

Raydale Dower is a Glasgow-based artist whose practice gravitates around multiple creative disciplines, including sound, performance, sculpture, event and installation. A key element of his practice is an interest in the treatment of space through the lens of cultural, sonic and social signifiers. Dower’s new project, Yoga Fanzine, explores the sculptural potential of sound. Dower currently creates work under the alias Yoga Fanzine, a name that refers to both the contemplative nature of yoga as a moving meditation and the anything-goes bricolage of the fanzine form, which brings together disparate genres and techniques.

Yoga Fanzine - 'Ready Made (Bicycle Spokes)'
Sonic delineation of three dimensions, residual traces / echos / reverberations shift the listening perspective and exist within both the physical performance space and the audience's internal psychological space. A simple melodic theme or sound source will be performed first in real time, then repeated and progressed through feedback loop(s) and electronic processing. Spatialised elements will combine with live sound to create movement and shift in perception of time. As the listening ‘space’ evolves and develops, audience attention will shift from the physical performance space towards the projected acousmatic space, and this oscillation between past and present acoustic events will inform the performance.

Cindy Islam is a sound artist and arts organiser. 
Their practice is an exploration of sounding body-memory and voicing language as mechanisms to move air and shift space.
They layer synthesised sounds in the hope of creating something that isn't bound by verbal language.
"What can I tell you about sound in words that you don't already know?
I am not interested in the words used to describe this.
I am interested in what this sound creates for each of us.
That is the definition of my practice, I am listening with you."

Cindy Islam - 'Ethan'
Layered, looped frequencies - combined with the artist's mother tongue, Arabic - alter the vibration within the room, sonically rendering the unseen resonances that bind our personal and collective experiences. Using synthesised sound and Arabic prayers, the performance positions sound-making not merely as an aesthetic endeavour, but as an open invitation to engage with the intimate and unifying aspects of belief, culture, and perception.

Oscar Prentice-Middleton, aka elseFly, is a Glasgow-based sound artist interested in methods of deceit, misdirection and trickery; wrong-footing the promise of objective observation as a way to define and find meaning.

elseFly - 'Untitled'
A multichannel study of the components that comprise the human voice, exploring how it forms meaning through symbolic language and prosody. Referencing my archive of recorded shock-jockey talk show hosts to survey the different lingual methods they employ to generate an ostensible sense of authority and knowing.