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30 Jan 2017

Sun Ra by Gerald Jenkins

Gerald Jenkins has been photographing the Sun Ra Arkestra at Cafe OTO since they began performing here. Dig in to some of his archive here. 

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26 Jan 2017

Grimm Grimm on Film

Watch Grimm Grimm perform "Kazega Fuitara Sayonara" with live visuals from Daisy Dickinson ahead of his return to OTO tonight. 

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25 Jan 2017

Accident Du Travail "Txwo"

Filmmaker Arthur Le Fol captures delicate moments from Accident Du Travail's set here in December. 

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25 Jan 2017

Tiago Sousa on 'Um Piano nas Barricada'

Filmmaker Gianmarco Del Re interviews Portuguese composer Tiago Sousa about his conceptual links to Thoreau, the difficulty of finding 'new' ground with the piano, and his new album ''Um Piano nas Barricada''. 

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18 Jan 2017

Rie Nakajima's Sonic Close Up

Gianmarco Del Re interviews Rie Nakijama in the Project Space after her collaborative performance with Keiko Yamamoto as O Yama O. 

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20 Dec 2016

Stream East Warsaw Ensemble

The East Warsaw Ensemble perform some of the most original music from Polish, Ukrainian and Russian traditions: archaic scales, harvest chants, old carols, polyphonic lyrical songs, as well as instrumental music. The perfect festive toaster. 

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24 Nov 2016

Blood Music in the Project Space

Simon Pomery spent seven chilly days in the Project Space developing his on-going audio/visual investigation into Performance Writing - SPEED READING. He managed to stay warm by drumming - so much so that he's made a new mixtape which you can stream here. Thanks Pom. 

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22 Nov 2016

The Ex by Pavel Legonkov

Photographer Pavel Legonkov captures The Ex's live energy and with double exposures at their show here back in April. 

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16 Nov 2016

Stream Tetuzi Akiyama

Chugging, dark, spacey blues - Akiyama's solo guitar is focused "on the tone and wildness of the instrument." Stream the closing solo from the last night of Akiyama's residency here in 2010. 

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1 Nov 2016

AMM All-stars with Jair-Rohm Parker Wells

Normally we write "listen to the whole show here", but Watson mixed down our 17 track recording to fifty minutes, maintaining that "improvisation shouldn’t cease at any point in musical production." Whatever was heard on the night was most definitely not this...

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25 Oct 2016

Senyawa in conversation with Clive Bell

Jogjakarta’s Senyawa go deep on previous projects, traditional Indonesian music, man vs nature and how to go into a trance.

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21 Oct 2016

Rie Nakajima & David Toop - Sculpture

Gorgeous photos, videos and sound from Rie Nakajima and David Toop's event series 'Sculpture'.

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22 Sep 2016

Jennifer Allum Solo

Sharing the bill with John Chantler and Eli Kezler, Jennifer Allum played a short solo set, resolutely free of flourish and mannerism. 

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16 Sep 2016

Evan Parker solo

Evan Parker performs a rare solo piece as part of a fundraiser concert for Project Fukushima. 

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6 Sep 2016

Black Top, William Parker & Hamid Drake in conversation with Stewart Smith

Black Top join Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker to chat first instruments, film, playing with Don Cherry and why bending genres is always best. 

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30 Aug 2016

Tender Interval - Paul Abbott

Paul Abbott's 'Tender Interval' was a series of monthly solo performances in our Project Space. Each performance formed part of an ongoing investigation into questions of politics and aesthetics through rhythms, sounds and words -- and each is documented in depth here.