Saturday 5 September 2026, 7.30pm
Earworm joins forces with Outsider Art to bring its next event at OTO as a label showcase - the label has been a stalwart and multifarious member of the UK noise world for many years and has helped shape and influence the work of many, with many previous Earworm events platforming the label and its alumni in some way.
Misha Phillips (Smoking Room) is a multi-instrumentalist who has released around a dozen albums under various pseudonyms, and is the live drummer for noise-punk duo Lambrini Girls. Radically genre-fluid, Misha's work under her own name is emotionally charged and explores a stark juxtaposition of drone, minimalism and piercing feedback, using extended guitar techniques, sampling, tape loops, blown out drums and no-input mixing. Misha is a founding member of experimental rock duo Mullholland, and has released music with/as Smoking Room, Air Balloon, Pascagoula, Hooded Jumper and others.
Founded in 2013 on the south coast of England by Dean Lloyd Robinson, Knifedoutofexistence makes emotionally charged soundscapes using a mixture of cassette tapes, guitars, synths, vocals, microphones and feedback, with themes most recently focusing on grief, hauntology and the physical and mental spaces occupied by these ideas. Firmly committed to the live performance, the project has played across the UK, Europe, Canada and the United States.
Pale World is the alias of Joe Parkes with releases on labels such as Outsider Art, Venalism, Trust Collective, Abhorrent AD and Brachliegen Tapes.
Pale World creates intense and overwhelming Harsh Noise compiled together with manipulated field recordings, loops, effects, oscillation and contact mic’ed objects. An accumulation of minimal and restrained sculptures of sound transitioning into raw overwhelmed states and vague frail ambience.
Viimeinen is the alias of multidisciplinary percussionist Alastair Fyffe from Poole, Dorset.
Combining contact mic’ed acoustic percussion sound sources with worn out tape loops, Viimeinen gradually weaves an abrasive, blown out tapestry of ballardian landscapes, only to leave it to disintegrate and be dragged towards an inexorable analogue demise.
SKIN is Heather Ross’ exercise in improvisation and faith, ephemerality and engagement, patience and practice, and the communal experience between artist and listener. Through fragile cassettes, fogged out drones, one-off lyrics, no mic vocals and field recordings, SKIN is focused on making the fleeting physical. “We are all experiencing this moment in this room, and we will never experience it again.” Power ambient tape worship from Montreal, since 2015.
https://skinnoise.bandcamp.com/track/it-all-feels-the-same-tesselation-undone
