OVER / AT Presents: Ailie Ormston at the Gairloch Museum

In September of this year, OVER / AT CIC will embark on its most ambitious tour to date with artist-composer Ailie Ormston. A new composition will be performed live across intimate venues in the North West Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

To kick off the tour, on the 4th of September we'll be premiering Ormston's new work with support by RÓ (Ró Ó hEadhra) at the Gairloch Museum. The Gairloch Museum was an Art Fund Museum of the Year in 2020 and it houses a collection showcasing more than 7000 years of local history. We are incredibly lucky to be hosting Ormston in the Lighthouse Room, so we will have the privilege to share the space with lenses from the Rubh Re lighthouse. Doors open at 19:30, with RÓ opening from 20:00 and Ormstan performing from 21:00. Tickets are £15.00 or contact us for PWYC. If you're able to rideshare, please do!

These events will be intimate opportunities to hear unusual music being played in unusual places – in front of the old lighthouse tower in Gairloch, in a barn on Mull, a church hall in Lochalsh, and finishing at an old haunt, The Glad Cafe in Glasgow. We hope to bring about new connections between performers, audiences, and places.

Tour Dates

4th September 2025 — Gairloch Museum (supported by RÓ)

5th September 2025 — Kirkton Hall, Lochalsh

7th September 2025 — KNOCKvologan Studies, Isle of Mull

8th September 2025 — The Glad Cafe, Glasgow (supported by UZGANC Choir)

Photo by Jordan Young

Commissioned Work

During the tour, Ormston will present a new set of work specifically commissioned for this setting.

Ormston will perform new music written for a self-contained arrangement of electric guitar and tape(s). Within limited parameters, Ormston has devised routes to explore the scope of this minimal set up by playing with small object interventions, additional speakers, spatiality within the instrumental voices, as well as developing motivic and static melodic lines of music.

This all serves the goal of making music specifically for unusual spaces.

Photo by Jordan Young

About OVER / AT

OVER / AT CIC is a trans, non-binary, and otherwise gender-diverse music-making world. Since then, we have commissioned new work, and hosted performances and workshops both online and around Scotland.

Photo by Bradford Bailey

About Ailie Ormston

Ailie Ormston is a composer and musician from Aberdeen who makes electronic music as well as music for ensembles that experiments with timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage and improvisation. They now reside in Glasgow.

Over the years, Ormston has received commissions from Counterflows (2018, 2021, 2024), Tectonics (2022), Cryptic (2022) and the Barbican (2024). They have worked collaboratively with Tim Fraser on It Changes (bison; 2022) and Finlay Clark on Sunflowers Face The Sun (33-33; 2020), as well as two solo releases; The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. (50% PURE; 2018) and most recently Frames that lean, pictures that roam (Akashic Records; 2025). Ormston’s work has been featured and reviewed in publications such as The Wire and Loud & Quiet with broadcasts across online and digital radios.

They are currently writing a string quartet for New York’s JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio programme to be premiered in Spring 2026.

About RÓ

Ró Ó hEadhra (pron. O Hara) (they/them) is a young creative practitioner working in music, visual art, acting, and writing.

Ró was invited to be part of 'Hit the Road', a touring project for young Scottish performers.

They have participated in the North Atlantic Song Convention in Edinburgh, April 2025, and spoke as a panelist on Songwriting and Tradition.

Currently, they are one of four Young Makars (national Poets) for Scotland, writing mainly in Scottish Gaelic.

Their second single, 'Patience,' was recorded, produced, and released independently in June of 2025.

Poster adapted from photography by Olly Geary

Funding

This tour has been made possible by funding from Creative Scotland's National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations and support from the Hinrichsen Foundation.