00:00So I'm Marnie White, I'm one of the curators of Synthesis and we're currently in French
00:25Street Studios where Synthesis is going on right now.
00:28It's a one night only event which is collaborating music and art and it's just a, we've created
00:34an environment where art and music are held as one and it's an immersive experience for
00:38both us and the viewers.
00:41We are exhibiting 41 artists and 6 DJs, each artist varies from sculpture to painting to
00:49projection, so it's a mixture of all.
00:51So I hope that everyone comes in, enjoys themselves, obviously, hopefully a little bit of dance
00:56but I hope they kind of walk around and experience, immerse in the art and the music, see what
01:01happens and yeah, hopefully a little bit of dancing at the end.
01:05I'm Ayla Nicholson and I'm a painting and printmaking student at the Glasgow School
01:08of Art.
01:09It's a collaboration with me and my friend Marnie.
01:11We just thought our work would work quite well together so we wanted to create a show
01:15with like-minded people and in a space where art and music was combined.
01:19A really big space which is great because it allowed us to include more people, it's
01:24pretty central and it was also feasible for us to be able to work in this space and we
01:29also just like the feel of this space, it's somewhere we've worked before.
01:32It's a great space to exhibit in because of the brick and the woods and it's just a really
01:36interesting place to display art.
01:39I think it's somewhere where people who like music can see a bit of art and people who
01:43like art can see a bit of music.
01:44It's somewhere where we can combine the two and it's stress-free and it's enjoyable for
01:48everyone and yeah, I think the main aim is just that we want everyone to have a nice
01:52time.
01:53We picked the DJs based off of tracks that they'd sent us and we enjoyed the tracks and
01:57I think as well as art it's just a place that you can be free and enjoy it and have a bit
02:03of fun with it so we're happy for them to do their thing, we picked them because we
02:06think they're good.
02:07We're enjoying all types of music, I think right now everyone's just having a little
02:10bit of a bop and that's fine.
02:12I'm Rufus, I'm doing a live set where I've got a couple of synthesizers and the decks,
02:18I've got like a sample is almost, so yeah, a short little live set, it should be fun.
02:25My set is going to be fairly experimental, it's something quite unusual which you know
02:31in an open exhibition space I think suits it quite well, yeah it's not something I would
02:37normally do so it's a good chance for me to kind of expand.
02:41I just hope for everyone to enjoy the space, enjoy the exhibition, enjoy the music, you
02:47know it's really nice to see everyone together, chatting away, having a nice time.
02:52So I'm Eloise Hodgkinson, I'm studying at Glasgow School of Art, I'm doing communications
02:57and I'm in my fourth year now.
02:58It means a lot to get involved in things like this, I really like working with visual and
03:02sound as well so my piece is an animation piece, it's stop motion, so it's about a minute
03:08long and it's done just frame by frame, hand drawn, so working with sound as well, working
03:14with the audio piece and yeah, overall it's about 720 frames so it's taken me a long time
03:20to complete the piece and it's nice to get it seen somewhere alongside so many great
03:25artists as well.
03:26This piece that I've done as well, it's for Alistair Gray's 90th birthday so it's going
03:31to be shown there tomorrow night as well so it's quite an exciting opportunity to be involved
03:35with that as well with the Alistair Gray Archive.
03:37It's definitely nice to be involved in a group show for sure because everyone's got such
03:40great, there's such a great range of work here, it's nice to see all different things
03:45being put together as well as the DJs and things like that so it's nice to see photography
03:50and prints and then my moving image work as well, it's lovely to see everything come together
03:54like that.
03:55My name is Lucy and I'm a DJ, it's quite a unique experience to do it in an exhibition,
04:01I'm also an art student and I also have work shown here so it's kind of a bit of a, it's
04:06quite surreal, not only just to show, well I've shown work obviously everywhere but to
04:10play for an exhibition and play to a bigger crowd.
04:13This is the biggest crowd that I've actually played in front of and it's almost like a
04:17little bit like, ah, jarring but it's really exciting and I'm very proud of myself and
04:21yeah, and I hope to do it much more again in the future.
04:24It's such a unique idea and it's curated really well and Marnie and Isla have honestly done
04:31such an amazing job curating everybody's work and you've got to give it to them, it's honestly
04:36five stars.
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