Designs on Performance | Jo Ganter and Raymond MacDonald

The exhibition is the culmination of an intensive Youth Music Initiative (YMI) project in schools throughout the region. It has been produced and delivered by Limelight Music, Scotland's leading employer of musicians with impairments, through a series of video-led virtual sessions shared in the context of the national lockdown and ongoing pandemic. 

The collaboration of the musical education outreach to local schools was also designed by and featured Limelight Music's musicians complemented by the visual scores of the artist and printmaker Jo Ganter RSA and her work with primary school children in West Lothian.  Children participated from P4 classes of Bellsquarry, Dedridge, Howden St Andrews and Winchburgh, Primary schools.

Jo Ganter has worked with the musician Raymond MacDonald since 2014 to produce graphic scores: visual works of art that direct music. The scores have been performed by world-leading musicians in Europe, the USA and China as the potential of visual art to direct music becomes internationally recognised.

This YMI project and exhibition are co-funded by Creative Scotland, Youth Music Initiative (YMI) and West Lothian Council's - Community Arts service.

Image:  Running Under Bridges by Jo Ganter & Raymond MacDonald

Virtual tour of the exhibition

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