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Edinburgh Art Festival installation uses Auld Lang Syne to encourage friendship post-Brexit


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Nigerian-born artist Emeka Ogboh
These have been edited, programmed and sequenced to produce what is described as “a complex and constantly shifting soundscape”.
The installation will see the individual renditions of the song played, in concert, from seven speakers at the Burns Monument, while a recording in Scottish Gaelic will also be played.
The Song Of The Union artwork was inspired by MEPs singing Auld Lang Syne in farewell to the UK as it departed the EU in January 2020. The idea of singing the song in Brussels came from German MEP Terry Reintke, who was part of an EU-UK Friendship Group in the European Parliament. ....

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