Pete has been collaborating with Stephen Deazley's projects since 2002, as a drum kit player, percussionist, workshop leader & creative collaborator on many exciting, challenging & cutting edge community music, education & performance projects.
The Songbook of Unsingable Songs, Usher Hall Edinburgh 2009
Thrie Heeds 2007
Rock n Roll Swindle in Glasgow Fruitmarket Gallery, Perth Concert Hall & Saint Magnus Festival, Orkney (2007-2009)
Life’s Hard with Do Theatre Company Glasgow Tramway One - Sold Out 5 Star Run of 5 shows
Young Scot Production - North Edinburgh Arts
Laboratory Music Project - Stirling, Edinburgh
Drummer for the Brewhouse! (Tramway, Glasgow 2003)
Thrie Heids - Glasgow, The Old Fruitmarket 2007
Thrie Heids is a 20 minute work for large 10 piece amplified ensemble and chorus of laptops. The first performance was given in November 2006 by five young disabled adults from Braidburn Special School in Edinburgh alongside professional musicians, at The Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow as part of the international music education showcase Music and the New Musicians.
7 weeks of workshops creating samples and bespoke instruments and way of enabling performance and improvisation at Braidburn School Edinburgh resulted in performances with the Brewhouse Band. North Edinburgh Arts and The Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow 2009
Stephen Deazley: Composer and animator
Martin Parker Composer, sound designer, animator.
Peter Vilk: Drummer, sound designer and animator
These photos show an insight into the process of workshops, rehearsals and gigs.....
The Songbook of Unsingable Songs - 2009
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall & Edinburgh Usher Hall
Premiered by 220 primary school singers in 2009 at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, The Songbook of Unsingable Songs is the first collaboration between Stephen Deazley and poet Matt Harvey. Children form Edinburgh and Glasgow schools came together with the support of both city's education teams to participate in this extraordinary massed singing event.
Rock n Roll Swindle
Pete has played drum kit and collaborated with various local bands as part of the Rock n Roll Swindle projects from 2005-2009. Here are some of the photos and audio samples from these innovative music projects which saw performances in Orkney, Glasgow, Perth and Edinburgh