@nicholascrutton
Composer, artist, performer, working across a range of media and processes. Dr Nic. Also @nic_scrutton at IG. nicholascrutton.co.uk Pre-order new album - https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-blue News: http://eepurl.com/gihZh9
Composer, performer: Nichola Scrutton
All sounds, field recordings, vocals recorded by: Nichola Scrutton
Except piano/voice, recorded & mixed by: Stevie Jones at Chem19 Studios
Album mixed by: Nichola Scrutton
Mastered by: Jim McEwan, BarkBarkDogStudios
Cover design: Pascal Blua
Artwork: Nichola
Scenes from the Blue combines field recordings with voice, instruments, and amplified objects. The album unfolds as a cinematic sound landscape across eight tracks and explores a surreal, ephemeral, dream-like encounter and an idea of liminal experience through shades of blue. 🙏Creative Scotland
CD and cover with abstract landscape artwork in shades of blue.
I’m delighted to release Scenes from the Blue into the world today! The album is available to listen to and buy in CD and Digital Download formats! 😊
Today is #bandcampfriday - a great time to support artists.
#bandcamp #newrelease #album #soundart
nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes...
Nichola, bushy light hair, dressed in black, standing in front of a white wall with some framed images, and Featured Artist Nichola Scrutton text on the wall in the top left corner.
A wee posey pic before the preview this evening! Thanks so much to Glasgow Print Studio 😊🙏 Exhibition runs from 6th - 28th March.
#exhibition #printmaking #visualart #preview
Hi! 😊 A gentle note to say Scenes from the Blue drops this Friday 6th March! 🙌 Here’s the link.
Loving the cover designed by Pascal Blua with my artwork.🙏❤️
Thanks to Creative Scotland. 🙏
nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes...
#newrelease #album #sound #art #bandcampfriday #bandcamp
Excited to share - I have a Featured Artist Exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio.😊
A Kind of Scoring
PV 5th March 6-8pm - all welcome.😊
Exhibition runs 6 - 28 March.
More info shop.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/exhibitions/...
#printmaking #notes #scoring #drawing #listening #sound #exhibition #art
Have loved the past couple of nights collaborating with @radiophrenia.bsky.social - listening to wonderful live performances from @nicholascrutton.bsky.social and Johanna Linsley ✨
Tree, black and white, with a bit of sunlight shining through
A hand (Nichola’s) making marks on paper.
A black and white wavy abstract photo of light/shadow
No pics yet so adding a few details from my film. 😊
Radiophrenia Lost in Transmission poster, two tone blue with lines and shapes.
Delighted to perform at @radiophrenia.bsky.social and @radioatlas.bsky.social special event last night. #radiophrenia #radioatlas #performance #voice #radioart #soundart #film Wonderful prog of screened subtitled works from Radio Atlas archive, and all round lovely evening GMAC Film. Many thanks!…
Forget the time
Bliss
Synth module and coloured cables. Text: Sonic Imperfections 10pm UTC, 23/2/26. Resonance FM logo.
Join us at 10pm tomorrow on @resonancefm.bsky.social for our February show - an hour of the finest new experimental/unusual music including Matilde Meireles, Zone Null & KMRU. stream.resonance.fm/resonance, 104.4FM in Central London, DAB Greater London & nationally on Radioplayer.
youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ea... an interview with Karl Ove Knausgård where he talks about how trust in the world and in people can disappear as the result of traumatic experiences and that art, writing can be not only a way to confront the world but also to hide from it
First of the year, native plumb.
#photography #nature #EastCoastKin
Sketchbook page with sea and sky images partly covered by a bushy sprig of dried seaweed.
When you’re going through an old sketchbook and find a beautiful sprig of dried seaweed gathered on a beach walk. #journal #soetchbook #beach #beachwalk #residency #coastal #notes
Figure in lines, orangey coloured drawing.
Memory/dream detail, wip. #wip #drawing #printmaking #memory #dream #figuredrawing #art
Hello, & apologies for being a bit full on with album news - just to say - while Bandcamp is the preference (6th March), Scenes from the Blue will stream on platforms from 20th March - here are pre-save options, if that’s of interest. Best wishes, N😊https://ffm.to/nicholascrutton-scenesfromtheblue
Thanks very much John! 😊
Bluey-green coloured album cover with track list.
Track list, Scenes from the Blue - a cinematic sonic journey through shades of blue.😊
Releases 6th March. Pre-orders live w single Scene 7 Cyan. Available as CD & Digital Download.
Thanks Pascal Blua for ace cover design with my artwork 😊
nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes...
#bandcamp
Yay!! Congrats Becca! 🙌 x
Black and white monoprint of flower heads
Sketchbook snippet. Warm Sunday wishes to all.😊 #drawing #sketchbook #monoprint #daisies
A view of the ocean with surf and water spraying up in the air.
![An announcement with the following text
Resonance fm
The Ambrosia Rasputin Show
Freewheeling music series with Ivor Kallin.
Sunday 15th Feb at 12noon GMT
This week's show features some highlights from a recent gig at the Royal Albert (not the Hall, but a wee room at the back of the pub).
You'll hear the Dave Craught Five (Adam and Jonathan Bohman and Romuald Wadych) plus a trio of Stephen Shiell, Richard Wilson and Ian Thompson.
Plus, new releases from the MK Ensemble and from Nichola Scrutton. Even Stanley Baxter makes a brief, albeit posthumous, appearance. For more episodes visit The Ambrosia Rasputin Show
on Mixcloud. [Repeats Friday 1am.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pggcygwfosw7hzecuncucihf/bafkreigfojv47ruqr4i2y2ffjayjrwarfzqckhdwbzt7gky2gm367q7464@jpeg)
An announcement with the following text Resonance fm The Ambrosia Rasputin Show Freewheeling music series with Ivor Kallin. Sunday 15th Feb at 12noon GMT This week's show features some highlights from a recent gig at the Royal Albert (not the Hall, but a wee room at the back of the pub). You'll hear the Dave Craught Five (Adam and Jonathan Bohman and Romuald Wadych) plus a trio of Stephen Shiell, Richard Wilson and Ian Thompson. Plus, new releases from the MK Ensemble and from Nichola Scrutton. Even Stanley Baxter makes a brief, albeit posthumous, appearance. For more episodes visit The Ambrosia Rasputin Show on Mixcloud. [Repeats Friday 1am.]
Hi!😊 Saturday greetings, and a note - Sun 15 Feb at 12noon GMT - many thanks Ivor Kallin for featuring Scenes from the Blue on his Ambrosia Rasputin radio show @resonancefm.bsky.social 🙏😊 Listen at:
www.resonancefm.com & 104.4fm London area. Scenes from the Blue pre-order link in bio. #radio #sound
A photograph of two books piled diagonally on top of each other on a red background. Two hardback books, the lower one has a hand embroidered Otter head front cover and the top one has a hand embroidered white older male portrait cover.
I have two books about my hand embroidered artworks. A wildlife one and a portrait themed one.
www.emilytull.co.uk/store/c10/Bo...
#ArtBook #embroidery #UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM
A pile of CDs - the CD has a bluey-green cover with solid white line that contains the text Nichola Scrutton Scenes from the Blue.
I’m delighted to share that Scenes from the Blue will be released on 6th March 2026.
Pre-orders are live on Bandcamp, w instant access to the single Scene 7 Cyan. Available as CD and Digital Download.
nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes...
Cover design: Pascal Blua🙏😊 Cover art: me
#bandcamp
Woodpecker looking over its shoulder. White face with pink tones and bright red cap. Wings and body black-and-white bars a bit like a nice warm sweater. ©️DTL 2026
Red-bellied woodpecker showing off the sweater 🪶
A bit more on The Story of Documentary Film.
Took 4 years to make this, so glad it's coming out.
povmagazine.com/the-story-of...
Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros - live at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY, October 5, 2008
vimeo.com/193425308
Some news! There’ll be a London launch for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK⚡️
On 21 April, I’ll be at @hatchards.bsky.social with @sophiehaydock.bsky.social to talk all things Spark. Please come if you can! Tell a friend!
Tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nine-l...
A screenshot from instagram announcing that I have been awarded a scholarship by artist Frances Bell and Workshops in Yorkshire. 😃
A completely unexpected piece of news! I’m overwhelmed and enormously excited. Such a privilege and I’m so very grateful to astonishing artist Frances Bell & www.workshopsinyorkshire.com for giving me such an extraordinary opportunity.
Brilliant news! Congratulations! 🥳