Ilan Volkov on the Tectonics festival: “curiosity is the key”

“Curiosity is really the core of this festival – without that, it can’t be done. Because there are too many unknowns. Curiosity is the key.” Conductor Ilan Volkov is talking about Tectonics, the freewheeling, no-holds-barred festival of experimental music in all its bewildering diversity that he launched in Reykjavík in 2012, and which he has been bringing to Glasgow since 2013, in collaboration with Alasdair Campbell of Glasgow’s own Counterflows event.