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The Fruitmarket arts venue in Edinburgh has announced Irish composer Jennifer Walshe<\/a> as the curator of the 2026 Deep Time Festival of New\u00a0Music.<\/span><\/p>\n As part of the festival, Walshe will present a new work in collaboration with Berlin-based soprano Nina Guo<\/a>, alongside commissions, performances, film screenings and talks by invited\u00a0artists.<\/span><\/p>\n Taking the theme of \u2018Ground Truth\u2019 \u2013 a\u00a0term for the data used to train a model in machine learning \u2013<\/span>\u00a0Deep Time will explore overlapping ideas of truth in a post-digital world.<\/span> Commenting on the announcement, Fruitmarket Curator Sam Woods\u00a0said:<\/span><\/p>\n At a time when the ethics of AI<\/span> and its impact on art, literature and music are being discussed alongside questions around AI<\/span>\u2019s role in everything from medical and climate change research, to the technologies of war and surveillance, this feels an urgent moment to turn to artists like Jennifer to help us think about these technologies and what \u2018truth\u2019 means\u00a0today. <\/span><\/p>\n Jennifer is a brilliant collaborator with many longstanding and newly emerging collaborations, so we look forward to the group of artists from across the new music, experimental music, electronic music and art worlds that she will bring together here in the Warehouse for performances, conversations, screenings, and\u00a0more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The festival will run in Fruitmarket Warehouse from 26 to 28\u00a0November.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In 2025, Walshe premiered her opera MARS<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>which will receive its first international performance next January at the Op\u00e9ra de Lille. Her recent recordings include URSONATE<\/span>%24<\/a><\/em> and, with the late Tony Conrad,\u00a0In the Merry Month of May<\/a><\/em>. She is Professor of Composition at the University of\u00a0Oxford.<\/span><\/p>\n
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