Wake // Harnessing the Highlands

Wake is a sound installation by multi-media artist Aga Paulina Młyńczak that transforms rainfall into an ever-shifting sonic landscape.

Blending field recordings with onomatopoeic vocal fragments captured around Eastern Europe and across the UK, Młyńczak creates a four-speaker composition that surrounds listeners in a storm that is ever changing. Inspired by the parallels between hearing unfamiliar languages and listening to rain, Wake reflects on themes of migration, refuge and the search for meaning within patterns of sound.

Wake will be exhibited in the gallery space, from Friday 10 October - Fri 17 October, open Tue-Sat 11am-6pm.

Harnessing the Highlands is a film installation by multi-disciplinary artist Fraser Mullen.

The film explores how hydroelectric power shaped post-war Scotland, tracing the transformation of the Highlands from a quiet rural landscape into a centre of industrial innovation. Set to a soundtrack of field recordings, acoustic music and electronic sound, the work captures both the promise of renewable energy and the profound changes it brought to local communities and the environment. Drawing on archival and contemporary material, it connects these past debates to today’s urgent questions of energy, land and sustainability.