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Partnership — Counterflows/Cove Park Residency

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).

Inge Thomson at Cove Park, April 2025

Residencies


Adéráyọ̀

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 […]

Music Space Residency

Gem Kinley

Gem Kinley (she/her) is a recent graduate of BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice from the RCS as part of the Transitions Programme, which looks to bring down barriers that may prevent people from accessing the arts. During her studies, she devised work that combined contemporary performance, music, writing, voice, and community. Gem is a vocalist, […]

Music Space Residency

Dirar Kalash

Dirar Kalash is a Palestinian musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. He is mostly known for his politically driven soundscape / electro-acoustic project “The Sonic Front”, and the compositions ‘we can’t breathe (for eric garner, george floyd, […]

Counterflows Residency

Trần Uy Đức

Trần Uy Đức is a self-taught musician based in Hanoi. Active 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. […]

Counterflows/Cove Park Residency

Vũ Hà Anh

Vũ Hà Anh’s practice is characterised by its fluidity and adaptability, evolving in tandem with her expanding worldview, centred 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 marginalised and concealed corners of […]

Counterflows/Cove Park Residency

Sholto Dobie

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 […]

Counterflows/Cove Park Residency

Inge Thomson

Inge Thomson is a musical force like no other. Having grown up in 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 […]

Counterflows/Cove Park Residency