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Interdisciplinary artist, performer, vocalist and composer Sharon Gal returns to OTO for a special solo set opening for Senyawa.

Sophie Agnel opens her two day residency with an antonishing solo set. 

The discussion and listening session around the writing of Octavia Butler with Rasheedah Phillips, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism. 

Sourdure's set, drawing inspiration from the traditional repertoire of the Massif Central, singing in French and Occitan

French songs, noises, rumors of distant and early musics, short and cruel poems, handcrafted instruments, radio-amplifiers, circuit bending and other wasted electronic devices - see the recent recording 'ÉVOHÉ BÈGUE' - BÉGAYER

Calhau!'s sparse electronics blended with mystic vocal-ism  — think Ghédalia Tazartes on the coffee by Diamanda Galás.

Climb aboard a homemade spaceship womaned by Robyn Rocket space trumpeter, performing alongside Charles Hayward, plus Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something.

CCA Glasgow and Ignota host James Goodwin, Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva for a screening and discussion of film Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum

An encounter between poetry and music by poet Nisha Ramayya and sonic dramaturg MJ Harding

Dhanveer Singh Brar, Edward George and Steve Goodman (Kode9) discuss Teklife, Ghettoville Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century, (Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press)

David Toop and Avsluta's imrovised performance as part of the NEXT Festival opening events in London.

Valentina Magaletti and Isama Zing collaborate for the opening of the NEXT Festival 2021. 

Food People share a new video for 'Flank' - out now as part of their album 'Votive' on Takuroku. 

Bassist Tom Wheatley performs 'open, fixed' - a composition and improvised performance for double bass and physically modelled strings, in three parts.

Rewatch a special show from ТЕПЛОТА, aka the London-based pairing of Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley, whose excellent debut, HEAT/WORK, was released on our in-house TakuRoku label earlier this year. 

A special streamed performance from Josephine Foster, recorded in her Colorado home and drawing on her masterful self-honed songbook.

Wojciech Rusin joins us for a special live stream, alongside Eden Girma - a multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer. 

A new video collaboration between @xcrswx and Lolina folded together, up, and over a series of exchanges of recordings, footage, pleats and frames from empty music spaces.

Footage of road movies and studio works from Japan's Mountain / Full Edition collective and Chinese band Absolute Purity.

A special dispatch from Akira Sakata, Rie Nakajima and some water fleas.

Filmmaker, musician, instrument builder, performer and visual artist Floris Vanhoof performs with his homemade circuits after a beer and a sit down chat with Les Ateliers Claus. 

An interview and performance from bass player Farida Amadou, recorded at Les Ateliers Claus.

Bluesman Bram Devens aka Ignatz treats us to a special set as part of our Live from Ateliers Claus evening. 

Our first live stream after lockdown - Seymour Wright rattling windows with 3 saxophones and a lot of feedback.

Rewatch a special livestream show from Áine O'Dwyer, presenting a selection of work from the Tracker Action Mimes series in collaboration with Cafe OTO staff and camera crew.  

Filmed in a covid empty Cafe OTO, Steve Noble performs a special improvised percussion set as part of his residency with SHAPE 2020.

As part of his 70th birthday celebrations Steve Beresford chats to broadcaster, writer and sound artist Robert Worby about wet cardboard, Misha Mengleberg, the Melody Four and searching for sounds. 

We were very lucky to have flutist and saxophonist Lao Dan perform live from a cave tunnel in China as part of our fundraiser auction - watch it back here.

We were delighted to connect with old friends Tenniscoats in Tokyo and join them for a very early set in aid of our fundraising auction!

A week of live streams comes to a close with the wonderful Elaine Mitchener and a very special Messiaen performance from Kerry Yong. 

Yeah You's Sunday night Wild Pop performances from the motorway - a refreshing Tango Ice Blast from the M1. 

Heartstopping solo sets from bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble before they rip up a top flight duo. 

Fantastic improvising trio of composer and sound artist Matt Wright, cellist Hannah Marshall and pianist Alexander Hawkins preceeded by a customarily hypnotic solo set from Alex.

And on the fourth night the lord said 'bring us four solo sets from local London artists!' Merlin Nova, Charles Haywood, Rie Nakajima and Alexis Taylor each perform solo to an empty OTO. 

Very lucky to find Alastair Roberts in town on Wednesday, and really happy to welcome him to an empty Cafe OTO to deliver a gorgeous solo set.

For day two of our fundraising week, we were really pleased to have Daniel perform a very special pair of solo piano and guitar sets, joined up by drawing.

Watch our first live stream back in full - and look out for a special guest! 

A very special matinee performance from the great improvising guitarist John Russell, in support of John Edwards', Mark Sanders' and John Butcher's album release show, in very strange times.  

As part of Still House Plants' residency in February, the band invited good friends Bamya to play on the Sunday. We recovered a tiny bit of footage of a surpirse reading of 'henmcjonny'.

Plus-Minus Ensemble perform the eighth work in Lamb's 'Interius' series.

O'Dwyer & Lambkin perform Luc Ferrari's one sentence composition 'Unheimlich Schön (Very Beautiful, 1971)' as part of our Ferrari festival, 'Stereo Spasms'. 

Following his freshly self-produced solo record, Tom Wheatley continues his dissection of the double bass.

Watch the whole evening of music, language and mouth-harp from Swiss artist, poet and musician Anton Bruhin.

Russian / Israeli collective Staraya Derevnya project live animation behind their fusion of objects, percussion, homemade instruments, live animation and vocals - making for incomparable listening and an immersive psychedelic film. 

Daniel Blumberg, Billy Steiger and Tom Wheatley play material from their new record - Minus - joined by cellist and close collaborator Ute Kanngiesser.

Beautiful footage of Amy Dickson's performance as part of In House - an evening drawing a connection between practice, performer and OTO as a performance space.  

Xenia Pestova performs Alvin Curran's Inner Cities 2 as part of her LOOPS, DRONES AND LANDSCAPES series focusing on meditative and transformative works for piano and toy piano. 

Watch Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami perform 'Aoshi' with John Edwards and Alex Neilson. Part of the trio's new release on our own OTOROKU - "Live at Cafe OTO'. 

Kan Mikami played his first shows at OTO back in September 2008, and filmaker Gianmarco Del Re was here to capture his visceral sound on film. 

Film-maker Gianmarco Del Re talks to Cooper about his lap steel and live environmental recordings for the recently re-issued '99 record Kiribati.  

Watch composer and Fluxus founder Philip Corner and his wife Phoebe Neville improvise a piece called 'Understanding' as part of their debut OTO show. 

Beautiful footage of Tokyo legend Keiji Haino and Peter Brötzmann from back in 2011.

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

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

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''. 

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

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. 

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. 

Simon Finn chats to Gianmarco Del Re about the making of his seminal 1969 album Pass the Distance, travelling North America in the 70's and how he got onto organic farming. "Such is life." 

Tomokawa Kazuki performing 'Waltz' from his debut OTO show in 2012. 

South Korean cellist, improviser, and composer meets artist Christian Marclay, and were caught on camera by film-maker Helen Petts. 

Gianmarco Del Re presents a documentary about the collagist and musician Adam Bohman. 

Back in 2008, Japanese underground aficiondo Alan Cummings introduced Kan Mikami's first show at OTO. We recorded it, and Alan tracked down the images we couldn't show on the evening. Now it's a delighfully detailed illustrated talk. 

Polish filmmaker Bart Dzidowski captures the huge ensemble's last visit to OTO.

Ghédalia Tazartès and Penultimate Press' bossman Mark Harwood talk about not making music, Michel Chion, fathers, the Sex Pistols and more. 

Billy Steiger plays the violin.