Ailie Ormston is a composer and musician from Scotland making electronic music and chamber music that experiments with timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage and improvisation. Ormston has received commissions from Counterflows, Tectonics and the Barbican.
They have worked collaboratively with Tim Fraser on It Changes (2022) and Finlay Clark on Sunflowers Face The Sun (2020), as well as two solo releases; The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. (2018) and Frames that lean, pictures that roam (2025). They are currently writing a string quartet for New York’s JACK Quartet, and new solo work for Scotland’s OVER/AT project.
Seed Award 2025 winner
Read Ailie’s Seed Award 2025 Q&A
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