What we said when Ailie took part in Episode 11, 2024:

Ailie Ormston is a composer and musician from Scotland making experimental electronic music and chamber music. Ormston has received commissions from Counterflows (2018, 2021, 2024), Tectonics (2022), Cryptic (2022) and the Barbican (2024), where compositions for a mixed ensemble of harps, guitar, saxophones and strings were performed at LSO St Lukes alongside new works by Mica Levi. They have worked collaboratively with Tim Fraser on It Changes (bison; 2022) and Finlay Clark (Still House Plants) on Sunflowers Face The Sun (33-33; 2020). Ormston’s new album of compositions for electronics, electric guitar, double bass and cello, Frames that lean, pictures that roam, is forthcoming on Akashic Records; this follows their debut solo release The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. (50% PURE, 2018). Ormston is currently writing a string quartet for New York’s JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio programme, to be premiered in 2025/6.