13.6.24 - The Relentless Approach of Better Times - Summerhall, Edinburgh An intensely personal work, it uses news headlines, recordings and photos from Emma Smith’s work for Musicians Without Borders in Palestine and El Salvador to reflect on the effects of trauma and invites you to experience how music is fundamental to our survival. She uses echos of early 20th Century classical music to create a sense of paranoia, folk music to tell stories, filtered electronics to express dissociation, and free improvising to address the audience directly. This show takes you on a journey from anxiety to hope. This is not escapism. It is a defiant leap into the darkness.