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First held in 2005 and reaching venues beyond Aberdeen, Sound Festival brings the best of contemporary music to the North East of Scotland. Filling some 27 venues, there's new music everywhere you listen during the festival's three weeks.

The 2011 Sound Festival brings together 124 artists in 73 events from Red Note Ensemble and National Theatre of Scotland's production of Philip Glass' 1000 Airplanes on the Roof at Woodend Barn, Banchory to a vocal final day, with a workshops with EXAUDI and performances of Fredrik Sixten's Requiem and Con Anima Chamber Choir's conjuction of Rennaisance and contemporary madrigals.

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