Adéráyọ̀
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Adéráyọ̀ (she/her) is a Nigerian-born, Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans music, movement, moving image, and live performance. Her work explores queerness, migration, the mind, memory, and emotional healing, often combining sound, movement, and visual storytelling to create immersive interdisciplinary experiences. Adéráyọ̀ uses her voice not only for lyricism but also as an instrument in itself, incorporating whispers, fragments, and resonances. She is equally inspired by dance and intuitive movement, using improvisation and ritual-like repetition to embody states of grief, vulnerability, or release.
She is drawn to work that sits between disciplines and uses sound and the body as ways of telling stories that words alone cannot hold. Much of her inspiration comes from my lived experience as a queer Nigerian artist, navigating displacement, identity, and the longing to belong. Musically, Adéráyọ̀ is interested in layered vocals, looping, polyphonic textures, and ambient soundscapes that can blur into physical performance. She uses her voice not only for lyricism but also as an instrument in itself, exploring whispers, fragments, and resonances. Adéráyọ̀ is equally inspired by dance and intuitive movement, often using improvisation and ritual-like repetition to embody states of grief, vulnerability, or release.
Recent projects include *Dissonance*, a moving-image and live art project that explores queer embodiment, dissociation, and memory. It has been exhibited in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and will be curated as part of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival. Adéráyọ̀ also curated *Resonate* and *Ecstasy*, live multidisciplinary nights that platformed QTIBPOC artists and blurred the line between clubbing and performance art. Upcoming projects include *The Siren Room*, commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Arts, which combines sound, storytelling, and movement.
Music Space is an alternative educational programme for young people who are based in Glasgow and interested in exploring sound and music. The programme launched in 2022 and is produced by AC Projects alongside Counterflows festival. Music Space is supported by The Scottish Government’s Youth Music Initiative (YMI).
In 2025, Counterflows and Cove Park devised a new partnership residency programme for Scottish and international musicians. Taking place before the Counterflows Festival in April 2025, Cove Park hosted Saigon and Hanoi-based musicians Vũ Hà Anh and Trần Uy Đức along with Scottish artists Inge Thomson and Sholto Dobie. In 2026, this partnership continues through Music Space, an alternative educational programme for young people who are based in Glasgow and interested in exploring sound and music. Music Space is produced by AC Projects alongside Counterflows festival.
Counterflows is an internationally acclaimed Glasgow-based contemporary music festival that celebrates challenging and thought provoking work in the context of what might be called experimental music; supporting marginal music practice within a wide array of different genres and approaches to music and sound. Taking place annually, the festival features artists from Scotland, UK and around the world, and celebrates and explores culture on a local and international scale.
This programme is supported by the British Council and Creative Scotland’s Extend Fund. Music Space is supported by The Scottish Government’s Youth Music Initiative (YMI).
