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15 Apr 2022

Sharon Gal

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

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9 Mar 2022

SOPHIE AGNEL

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

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20 Feb 2022

DEPARTMENT OF XENOGENESIS – DXG: OCTONIONIC CONSTELLATION

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

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19 Feb 2022

Sourdure

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

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19 Feb 2022

'ÉVOHÉ BÈGUE' - BÉGAYER

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

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19 Feb 2022

Calhau!

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

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6 Jan 2022

Robyn's Rocket WITH CHARLES HAYWARD + JEMMA FREEMAN AND THE COSMIC SOMETHING

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

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30 Nov 2021

SOOT BREATH / CORPUS INFINITUM - ARJUNA NEUMAN AND DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA (SCREENING & Q&A)

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

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30 Nov 2021

Treble Heaven

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

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28 Nov 2021

TEKLIFE, GHETTOVILLE ESKI: THE SONIC ECOLOGIES OF BLACK MUSIC IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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)

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22 Nov 2021

NEXT FESTIVAL 2021: DAVID TOOP + AVSLUTA

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

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22 Nov 2021

NEXT FESTIVAL 2021: VALENTINA MAGALETTI + ISAMA ZING

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

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10 Sep 2021

Food People - Flank

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

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14 Jul 2021

Tom Wheatley - open, fixed

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

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4 Jun 2021

ТЕПЛОТА (GRUNDIK KASYANSKY + TOM WHEATLEY)

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. 

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12 Mar 2021

Josephine Foster

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

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6 Mar 2021

Wojciech Rusin & Eden Girma

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

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22 Feb 2021

@XCRSWX & LOLINA

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.

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31 Dec 2020

Mountain Full Edition & Absolute Purity

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

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25 Dec 2020

Akira Sakata & Rie Nakajima - Christmas Message

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

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22 Dec 2020

LES ATELIERS CLAUS PRESENTS: Floris Vanhoof

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. 

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22 Dec 2020

LES ATELIERS CLAUS PRESENTS: FARIDA AMADOU

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

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22 Dec 2020

LES ATELIERS CLAUS PRESENTS: IGNATZ

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

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10 Dec 2020

Seymour Wright Solo

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

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26 Nov 2020

Áine O'Dwyer

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.  

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28 Oct 2020

Steve Noble Solo

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

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23 Apr 2020

Steve Beresford in Conversation with Robert Worby

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. 

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13 Apr 2020

Lao Dan's Auction Live Stream

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.

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12 Apr 2020

Tenniscoats Live Auction Stream

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!

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23 Mar 2020

Elaine Mitchener (solo) + Kerry Yong (solo)

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

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22 Mar 2020

YEAH YOU from the Motorway

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

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21 Mar 2020

JOHN EDWARDS & STEVE NOBLE - SOLOS AND DUO

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

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20 Mar 2020

Matt Wright / Hannah Marshall / Alexander Hawkins (trio) + Alexander Hawkins (solo)

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.

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19 Mar 2020

CHARLES HAYWARD + RIE NAKAJIMA + MERLIN NOVA + ALEXIS TAYLOR

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. 

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18 Mar 2020

Alastair Roberts Solo

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.

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17 Mar 2020

Daniel Blumberg Solo

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.

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16 Mar 2020

Steve Beresford / Thurston Moore (duo) + Crystabel Riley / Seymour Wright / Ute Kanngiesser (trio)

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

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15 Mar 2020

John Russell Solo

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.  

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20 Jun 2019

EXERCISE 3: WEAK KNEES – BAMYA

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'.

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5 Jun 2019

Plus-Minus Ensemble perform Catherine Lamb's 'Prisma Interius VIII'

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

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20 Mar 2019

Áine O'Dwyer & Graham Lambkin perform Unheimlich Schön

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

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7 Feb 2019

Tom Wheatley - Solo Bass

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

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24 Oct 2018

Anton Bruhin Spills The Beans

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

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29 Jun 2018

STARAYA DEREVNYA - 13.10.17

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. 

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18 May 2018

Daniel Blumberg - Madder / Minus

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

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23 Feb 2018

Amy Dickson - Playing in the Street

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.  

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13 Feb 2018

Xenia Pestova Performs Alvin Curran

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. 

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8 Nov 2017

Kan Mikami / Alex Neilson / John Edwards - AOSHI

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'. 

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26 Oct 2017

Kan Mikami's debut OTO show

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. 

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6 Oct 2017

Mike Cooper - Sonic Close Up

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

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2 Oct 2017

Philip Corner & Phoebe Neville 'Understanding'

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

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8 Jun 2017

Keiji Haino and Peter Brötzmann

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

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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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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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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. 

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5 Jul 2016

Pass the Distance

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." 

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1 Jul 2016

Kazuki Tomokawa

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

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30 Jun 2016

Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay

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

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20 May 2016

Adam Bohman

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

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1 May 2016

Alan Cummings on Kan Mikami

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. 

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20 Apr 2016

Paal Nilsson Love' s Large Unit at Cafe OTO

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

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1 Feb 2016

Ghédalia Tazartès in conversation with Mark Harwood

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

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29 Mar 2022

Billy Steiger

Billy Steiger plays the violin.