Resonance104.4fm presents a night of kick-ass sound-art superstars brought together to raise funds for what The Guardian calls “the best radio station in London.” All this week it's Resonance's annual fund-raising drive – via live events, an on-line auction and of course on air.

Special guest DJs from the Resonance rostra, a product stall of rare records, and a rapidfire auction of something very desirable are also part of this gala evening.

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JANEK SCHAEFER

Janek Schaefer makes a rare appearance in the capital – in fact this is his OTO debut – deploying his unique brand of extended turntable techniques and an uncanny sense of time and space to move the listener effortlessly between moods of bittersweet joy and turbulent melancholy. A multi-award winning, globally-acclaimed artist, Janek ranges freely across forms and has recently been working in both prestigious gallery installations and children's discos – always with a real sense of fun, a marked degree of wit, and an ergonomic sense of proportion articulated in sounds at once monumental and fugitive.

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YURI SUZUKI

Yuri Suzuki is a Japanese artist, sound designer extraordinaire (for Yamaha, The Design Museum, LOKA etc) and part of “Teenage Engineering.” He works in vinyl (sometimes hand cast!), radio, robotics, graphics and installation. Recent works include Garden of Russolo for the V&A museum, Looks Like Music (a miniature robot that translates drawing into sound), and Ishin-Den-Shin for Disney Research (a microphone that can record sounds and transmit them through touch). Mind-bogglingly smart, humorous but with an eye on functionality, deeply musical and yet working firmly with a Pop sensibility, Suzuki is in constant demand – so we are privileged to stop him in his tracks and let him surprise us at this special concert.

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OSCILLATORIAL BINNAGE

Oscillatorial Binnage is the quartet comprised of Fari Bradley, Toby Clarkson, Chris Weaver (BASCA Composer of the Year in Sonic Arts) and Dan Wilson, offering extreme improvised noise and hardcore conceptual art in glorious equilibrium. A post-electronic research group, the Binnage investigates the frequencies of everyday objects – kitchen appliances, debris, fence posts, paperback books – and combine these with hacked electronics to reveal “miraculous agitations” - audio art that refers back as far as Sir Francis Bacon and as far forward as the most visionary of sci-fi seers. “A joy to anyone who has ever strummed the wires of a kitchen egg slicer and dreamed of greater things.” Louise Gray enthused in The Wire after OB's gig using gigantic Victorian pressure engines at London's Merge Festival.

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RIE NAKAJIMA

Rie Nakajima is an artist working with installations and performances that produce sound. She recently won the prestigious Arts Foundation Award for Experimental Music. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of audio materials and found objects.

The works created for the purposes of "playing" the sounds she has in mind are often placed matter-of-factly on the floor or take the form of assembled objects that serve as sound makers, 
giving rise to inorganic spaces. Listening to the works in such finely honed environments brings to the surface in a pure way people's imagination, memories, and deepest thoughts. 



Nakajima graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and received a BA in Sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and an MA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Since then Nakajima has exhibited and performed widely both in the UK and overseas.

"Diverse objects such as marbles, whistles, nails, toys, ping-pong balls, paper cups and glass bottles were casually yet deftly moved around the surface of one of the cabaret tables. Random sounds resulted from their chance confrontations, her quiet concentration induced a spellbound gaze from surrounding spectators, simply awaiting the next sound." - Virginia Whiles