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a vibrant hub for creative research, cultural dialogue, and environmental stewardship. Founded and curated by artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp, KNOCKvologan acts as a creative instigator, sparking projects that connect local realities with global ideas.

We bring together art, literature, music, food, gardening, and encounters with nature to open fresh perspectives on the relationship between humans and the living world. Rooted in the Ross of Mull, we engage deeply with the land and culture that surrounds us, while inviting voices from elsewhere to join the conversation.

By weaving local stories with global perspectives, we build a creative community that inspires new ways of thinking, living, and coexisting with our environment.

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Sunday 7th September, 7:30-9pm
Concert Ailie Ormston 
KNOCKvologan Barn
tickets at the door £15 - cash only

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.

At Knockvologan Ailie will perform new music written for a self-contained arrangement of electric guitar and tape(s). Within limited parameters, Aillie 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.

Over the years, Ailie 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.

This concert is initiated by OVER / AT CIC a trans, non-binary, and otherwise gender-diverse music-making world.

THIS IS ENOUGH.
We are taking part in This is Enough, an ongoing project curated by Nina Pope and Karen Guthry. This project explores the natural abundance and biodiversity of Aros Walled Garden in Tobermory through mindful observation and gentle intervention.