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Open Residencies — Cryptic

Cryptic’s artist residency programme provides professional development time and support for musicians and digital artists to focus upon their own practice, whilst engaging with other artists and receiving peer-to-peer learning. The emphasis of Cryptic’s residency programme is on research and the development of existing or new work and is not geared towards a final presentation.

Since 2012, Cryptic has curated this annual artist residency programme at Cove Park focusing on music, sound and multi-media, with over 78 artists benefitting.

Cryptic’s residency programme is supported by British Council, Creative Scotland, PRSF Foundation, KulturLX, Diaphonique, UK/UA Creative Partnerships and the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands.

Rory Middleton, Cryptic Resident, 2011 (courtesy of the artist).

Residencies


Alex Smoke

Alex Smoke is a musician and composer; operating in various fields of sound including electronic production, sound installation and instrumental composition. His main interest is in combining traditional forms of composition and musicianship with the more experimental approaches allowed by modern technology.  Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production under […]

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SHHE (Sue Shaw)

SHHE is the alias of Scottish-Portuguese artist, musician and producer Su Shaw.  Influenced by environment and ecology, her artistic practice explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection between sound, space and liminal states. SHHE’s eponymous debut album was released by One Little Independent Records and was shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year 2020. […]

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Laura Mannelli

An architect by training, Laura Mannelli is a Luxembourg XR artist and director who divides her life between Paris, Luxembourg and her networks. She likes to explore the digital universe by developing a practice at the crossroads of visual arts, virtual realities, video games and architecture. Co-founder of the Atopic Festival, one of the first European […]

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Georgina Penstkart (Sharon Graham)

Georgina Penstkart is a visual artist based in Glasgow who uses analogue video techniques to combine light and colour withsound in organic and evolving live performance. Georgina has collaborated on music videos with Umberto, Elisabeth Elektra, Timothy J Fairplay, Nightwave and Hausfrau and provided visual pieces for showcase events organised by Glasgow School of Art […]

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Harry Górski-Brown

Glasgow-based multiinstrumentalist Harry Górski-Brown studied violin performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He often includes elements of electroacoustic and traditional music in his work. Recent ventures include; I.Been a badboy:- cut me loose_ – a short audiovisual film made after winning the Craig Armstrong Prize for RCS composer graduates and FISHER PRICE PIPES – a mix […]

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Alba Garcia Corral

Alba G. Corral is a visual artist and creative coder based in Barcelona. With a background in computer engineering, she has been creating generative art using software and coding for the past decade. Her practice spans live performance, video, digital media and installation, exploring abstract narratives and expressing sensitivity and taste for colour. By combining […]

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Andrey Chugunov

Andrey Chugunov is a conceptual artist working at the turn of digital and analogue electronic media. He combines sound art, light installation, generative graphics, technological sculpture, media performances, and readymade in his practice. He researches topics of mortality, temporality, autonomy, and memory decay in his artworks from the perspective of meditative media.  Andrey received the […]

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Zwel Mun Wint (Heft)

Heft is an independent solo artist from Yangon, Myanmar. He composes, designs sounds, produces and manages his unique brand of electronic music all from a bedroom studio. Most of all, he is known for his geeky sound design and the melodic pieces on the cinematic ambient beats. Beside technical skill sets, his music is a […]

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Kseniia Shcherbakova

Kseniia is a textile and costume designer, sound artist, performance artist, musician and hair designer. Born in Kyiv, between 2017 and 2019, Kseniia studied at the Igor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Resource Conservation for Renewable Energy Sources. From 2020-2022, she was part of the Odessa community of resident artists, OSRZ-2, based […]

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No Plexus

No Plexus is a genre-queer electronic duo comprising Bec Plexus and No Compliments (Allison Wright). Guided only by their creative intuitions, No Plexus are the ultimate misfits; appreciating many genres and communities whilst belonging to none. No Plexus creates and performs experimental electronic music that is conceptual, through-composed and genre-queer. They empower art-school misfits, unapologetically […]

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Samm Anga

A graduate from the London College of Communication MA Sound Arts programme, Samm Anga’s work equips a sonic flirtation with mythology and storytelling, re-contextualising themes of identity and the Self within audiovisual displays. Based in Aberdeen, he has been expanding his musical background and honing his specialism in all things sound-related over the last few […]

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Lene de Montaigu

Lene is a French/American artist based in Glasgow. She is a recent graduate in Interaction Design from the GSA. Her work and interest interweaves code and digital technology as a medium for art, playing and conversating between analog and digital media. A lot of her works are sketches, explorations, and experiments that research and investigate […]

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Lucy Duncombe

As an artist & composer, Lucy Duncombe is interested in exploring the socio-technical legacy of voice-based technologies. Formerly a self–taught experimental vocalist, new work (2019-2022) draws on practices of extended vocal technique via technological augmentation, voice cloning and virtual singing. Recent projects include; The Rapture of Cellular Accretion and 3rd Remove from the Real.  She […]

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Ghada Eissa

“Most things die, except ideas.” Ghada Eissa is an audiovisual artist who seeks all means to support self-expression and create raw experiences through  her experimentation with different media. What drives her  work is an aspiration to create a work of art that provokes a certain idea/ emotion/ question/ connection with someone, so that even if […]

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Nik Rawlings

Nik is a Counter Tenor vocalist, composer, artist and DJ. They make work that considers experiences of networked presence, polymorphous bodies and vocal transformation. Situated between song, collective performance and dance, their practice explores the complex relational quality of sound in space, while creating spaces of shared connection, confrontation and joy.  Nik is a permanent […]

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Becky Šik

Becky Šik is an artist filmmaker based in Glasgow and whose work spans moving image, installation, sound, music, writing and publishing. Becky’s recent moving image work explores the echo, electromagnetic phenomena and technologies as way of understanding the body’s relationship to constructs of time and state. Sound and experimental music are central to the work […]

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Alex Smoke

Alex Smoke is a musician and composer; operating in various fields of sound including electronic production, sound installation and instrumental composition. His main interest is in combining traditional forms of composition and musicianship with the more experimental approaches allowed by modern technology.  Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production […]

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Ferronia Wennborg

Ferronia is an artist and musician working across performance, installation, sound and digital media. Her work explores the relational and reimaginative possibilities embedded in listening and sound. Through processes of recording and digital transformation, her work captures traces of intimacy and friendship. Collaboration with others runs through and nourishes her practice. Recent projects include A WARMTH […]

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Yair Lopez

Cove Park is pleased to host a Cryptic Residency this autmnn for the Mexican artist Yair López. Yair Lopez studied Geophysics, Communications and Multimedia Engineering and uses his scientific background to combine technological errors and seismic data with poetry to create audio-visual works. Yair has exhibited in Mexico, Spain, Japan, USA, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Portugal, Holland, Italy, […]

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Josh Amstrong

Josh Armstrong was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Scotland in 2006. He is an interdisciplinary Director, characterised by bold design, visual composition and artistic collaboration. Josh studied Experimental Theater at New York University and Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has worked with Cryptic since 2009, becoming the first […]

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Stuart Macpherson

Stuart Macpherson is a freelance bassist and composer based in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.  A keen collaborator, Stuart enjoys working with artists from different disciplines, drawing on his experience within the workshop environment as well as his skills as an improviser to bring about innovative responses to creative questions. He has been involved in […]

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Robbie Thomson

Robbie Thomson is a Glasgow-based artist and theatre maker who works with kinetic sculpture, music, lighting design and technology. His latest work, XFRMR (developed from Ecstatic Arc presented at the Edinburgh Festival at Summerhall in 2013), had recent performances including Sonica, London; EXIT Festival at Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil, Paris; […]

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Charlie Knox & Euan McKenzie

Based in Glasgow, Trudat Sound & Light is Charlie Knox and Euan McKenzie. Their work explores themes of perspective and the relative nature of detail and draws inspiration from sculptural, natural and architectural sources as well as from contemporary club culture and various strains of electronic and electroacoustic music. Through the construction of immersive multichannel audio-visual […]

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Kathy Hinde

Kathy Hinde’s work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Drawing on inspiration from behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, she creates work that is generative and can be different each time it is experienced. Kathy frequently works in […]

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Eduardo VC

Eduardo VC was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico in 1986 and followed his passion for music initially through private piano lessons. After graduating with a BA Music (Cum Laude) from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla (2009), he travelled to the UK to continue his studies. He completed his MA in Composition for Film & TV […]

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Tuwis Yasinta (Uncle Twis)

Uncletwis is a young Indonesian artist, whose work is focussed on using low technology and analogue systems characterised by the imagery of a red rambutan. He lives and works in Surabaya, Indonesia, a city that is well-known for its industry, trading history and technology. His work involves the playful modification, deconstruction and re-construction of objects.  […]

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Gail Priest

Gail Priest is a sound artist from Sydney, Australia making experimental sound and electronic music that explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the machinic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal.  Her practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. She has performed and exhibited nationally […]

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Rob Bentall

Rob Bentall (b. 1989) is a sonic artist based in the UK. His main output thus far has been works for multi-channel sound. He is interested in aspects of genre hybridity in electronic music, remix culture, surround-sound techniques and improvisation. Bentall gained a MusB (Hons.) from the University of Manchester, graduating in 2010 with the […]

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Heather Lander

Heather Lander graduated from the MFA in 2015 with a distinction (1st class) and the Bram Stoker Medal awarded by the Director of the Art School to one graduating artist. During 2016 she showed video installations with Cryptic Nights at the CCA, Glasgow International with Simon Harlow at The Briggait, and as an invited artist […]

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Josh Armstrong

Josh Armstrong was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Scotland in 2006. He is an interdisciplinary artist and his work is characterised by bold design, visual composition and artistic collaboration. Armstrong has worked with Cryptic since 2009, becoming the first Cryptic Associate Director in 2011. Cryptic Commissions include: The Little Match Girl Passion (2011), […]

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Robbie Thomson

Robbie Thomson is a Glasgow based artist and theatre maker with interests in kinetic sculpture, music, lighting design and technology. Recent works include: The New Alps – an installation commissioned for Sonica 2015, inspired by post-industrial landscapes and XFRMR (2015) – an AV performance for musical Tesla coil and synths. In 2011 Thomson was a […]

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Tom Weightman

Tom Weightman has a background in software development as well as photography. He developed websites for several years, before studying Software Engineering at Durham University, where he specialised in mobile apps. From 2012 to 2015 he worked at Touchpress, where he contributed to the development of The Orchestra and Disney Animated, and was lead engineer […]

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Alan Martyn (Wintour's Leap)

Alan Martyn is one half of Wintour’s Leap,  a small collective focused on creating large-scale experiences. Their work aims to make fundamental concepts and principles in the world around us intuitive. In doing so they attempt to augment their audience’s perception of things that might otherwise be unnoticed. Together they share backgrounds in music composition […]

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Timothy Cooper

Timothy Cooper is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. He currently lectures in music technology and sound recording at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and creative music technology at Edinburgh College. He also works with Edit-Point, Scotland’s only regularly performing group dedicated to electroacoustic music. Recent projects include composing works with poet Samuel Tongue, […]

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Mark Lyken

Mark Lyken (1973) is an artist, composer and filmmaker based in rural Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. He creates musical and sound pieces, film, paintings and installations. Lyken’s work is inspired by the relationship between nature, culture and technology. He is interested in revealing the musicality of the environment and capturing beauty in the ordinary. Recent […]

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Heather Lander

Heather Lander was born in Portland, Maine, US, and came to Glasgow in 1997 to study drawing and painting at the GSA. After receiving her BA (Hons) she remained in Glasgow and helped to co-found an independent artist studio & exhibition and music venue, the Chateau. During this time period she was mainly painting. It […]

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Josh Armstrong, Robbie Thomson, Sven Werner

During March 2015, Cove Park will host three residencies organised by Cryptic, the Glasgow-based internationally renowned producing art house. The Cryptic Associates taking part in this programme are: performing artist Josh Armstrong, visual artist Robbie Thomson and artist and filmmaker Sven Werner. Cryptic Associates was established in 2011 to nurture and develop the next generation […]

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Rory Middleton

Edinburgh-based visual artist Rory Middleton returns to Cove Park for a second residency. During this time he will be developing his site-specific installation ‘The View‘, produced by CRYPTIC. The work will be presented at Cove Park on 29 and 30 March.

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Rory Middleton

In association with Cryptic Nights, Cove Park has created a two-week residency for the Scottish visual artist Rory Middleton. This residency will enable the artist to develop ‘The View’, a work devised and presented during a residency at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, in 2010. Responding to the specific context of Cove Park, ‘The View’ […]

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Cathie Boyd

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Diane Labrosse

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Duncan MacAskil

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Damien Smith

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Lucy Borthwick

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Cathie Boyd

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Claire Findlay

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Donal Gillan

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Anthea Haddow

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Adrian J McDowall

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Steve Morris

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Joern Utkilen

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Cathie Boyd

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Anthea Haddow

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Cathie Boyd

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