Sunday 26 April 2026, 2–4pm, Secret Location
Please note, this event will take place in a secret offsite location, two minutes walking distance from OTO. Please arrive at the venue before 14:30pm and we will walk to the event space together.
Join us for an afternoon with 3 solo sets in a special location close to OTO
Programme:
Zhao Ziyi (solo) (Beijing)
Luciano Maggiore (solo)
Ciaran Mackle (solo)
Please Message jackson@cafeoto.co.uk if you have any accesibility needs or general questions
Zhao Ziyi was born in Beijing in 2007. He possesses a simple sound and a difficult-to-use body. In 2025, he released his debut solo CD album Sorry (Sub Jam). Also in the same year, his duo project "Nichijo" with Yang Kuku (from Ghostmass) released the double-cassette album One, Two (Sub Jam) and the full-length album The cheapest Japanese cuisine in the World (Zoomin’ Night).
Beginning in 2023, he has organized the annual You and Me Festival in Beijing every summer. In 2024, he co-founded the venue xiaozu, an exceptionally small, multifaceted space located in central Beijing.
These creations are solitary, simple, and self-harming.
Luciano Maggiore is a Palermo-born, London-based musician whose work is characterised by the use of speakers and several analogue/digital devices (samplers, CD players, walkmans, tape recorders) as well as acoustic objects and addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it.
His main interests include mechanisms of sound diffusion, performance, repetition, endurance, non-human animal languages, dance, and folklore.
http://lucianomaggiore.blogspot.com/
https://edizioniluma.bandcamp.com/
https://lucianomaggiore.bandcamp.com
Ciaran Mackle is an Irish musician based in London since 2012. His practice spans improvisation, electroacoustics, and song, often navigating the intersections between traditional forms and experimental sound. His work is grounded in a tactile engagement with texture, phrasing, and the performative possibilities of sound.
Long-term collaborations include the micro feral concrète of Ashcircle (active since 2014), and Breathing Heavy, a saxophone and sampler duo with Sam Andreae. From 2019 to 2023, he curated the Cliff-Edge series at Hundred Years Gallery, fostering a space for avant-garde and improvised music in East London.
Recent work has drawn heavily from Irish and English folk traditions, exploring melodic phrasing within abstract structures. His debut solo album, sitting still for a living, released under his own name, reimagines traditional song through a lens of experimental performance and long-form sampler composition.
