Strangeness of Jazz with Edward George Wednesday 19 June 2024

Wed 19 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Part listening session, part audio essay, Edward George’s now legendary series explores the strangeness of jazz, drawing on critical theory, social history, and a deep and a wide cross-genre musical selection. A feast for the ears and the brain.


Thursday 20 June 2024:
Unpredictable series presents: Papermaking Music: Gino Robair 'Radical Divination Thursday 20 June 2024

Thu 20 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Unpredictable series presents "Papermaking Music’ conducted by Gino Robair featuring two sets where a small orchestra with Steve Beresford, Poulomi Desai, BeibeiWang, Charlotte Keeffe, Khabat Abbas, Gina Southgate, and Blanca Regina perform Robair’s genuine scores.
Gino Robair’s Radical Divination (2023) explores performance as a form of augury. During the event, two papermakers interact throu

Sunday 23 June 2024:
Rafael Toral Sunday 23 June 2024

Sun 23 Jun 2024, 14:00 - Café Oto, London
Rafael Toral has been deeply involved with rock, ambient, contemporary, electronic, and free jazz music in different periods of his life. In the last 15 years he’s been thinking and practicing an understanding of silence as "space", with a clear function in music creation but also as a metaphor for social relationships and a statement on information and sensory overload. The resulting music, "melo
Toshimaru Nakamura / Kjell Bjorgeengen (duo) + Rory Salter (solo) Sunday 23 June 2024

Sun 23 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Toshimaru Nakamura and Kjell Bjorgeengen have each pioneered distinctive methods in music and video making.
Toshimaru Nakamura´s instrument is the no-input mixing board, which describes a way of using a standard mixing board as an electronic music instrument, producing sound without any external audio input. The use of the mixing board in this manner is not only innovative in the sounds it can

Monday 24 June 2024:
John Butcher / Sharon Gal / John Edwards Monday 24 June 2024

Mon 24 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Solo, Duo & Trio brings together three unique performers and master players, for a night of experimental, collaborative and exhilarating new music, exploring order and chaos, free improvisation, deep listening and shamanic incantations.
John Butcher: Saxophones
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Sharon Gal: Voice, electronics, bells, objects & John Edwards: Double Bass
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John Butcher / Sharon Gal / John Edward...

Tuesday 25 June 2024:
CoH + John Macedo / Phil Julian (duo) + Blanc Sceol Tuesday 25 June 2024

Tue 25 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Ivan Pavlov aka CoH characterizes his latest solo work, Radiant Faults, as "the recording of a dialogue," rather than a set of compositions. Crafted using a rare new synthesizer, the Silhouette Eins, Pavlov’s first encounter with the instrument across a long, late night session resulted in a continuous set of textures, patterns, and subliminal melodies. At some point during the process, he realize

Wednesday 26 June 2024:
BLACK TOP: PAT THOMAS & ORPHY ROBINSON WITH SPECIAL GUEST ELAINE MITCHENER Wednesday 26 June 2024

Wed 26 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Black Top, the duo of multi-instrumentalist Orphy Robinson and pianist Pat Thomas, is a shape-shifting unit dedicated to exploring the intersection between live instruments and lo-fi technology. Their virtuoso, freely improvised performances combine twisted loops, samples and dub-effects, which draw on their Afro-Caribbean roots, with a spontaneity and daring rooted in experimental free-jazz.


Thursday 27 June 2024:
life is beautiful + special guests Thursday 27 June 2024

Thu 27 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
put on shows at venues such as ormside projects & spanners, and release music via small-run physical

Saturday 29 June 2024:
Chuquimamani-Condori + Sunik Kim Saturday 29 June 2024

Sat 29 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Chuquimamani-Condori is a multidisciplinary artist & musician belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people.
Chuquimamani-Condori blends traditional drum & ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, full of harsh, colorful synths & noise, said to "recreate the cacophony of the first aurora, the call of chuqi chinchay", described by listeners as "astonishing in its unabashed emotional

Sunday 30 June 2024:
Plus-Minus + Apsara: Shlomowitz, Stiegler, Ustvolskaya Sunday 30 June 2024

Sun 30 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Programme:
- Thomas Stiegler . Inferner Park
- Matthew Shlomowitz . Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders, Volume 2
- Galina Ustvolskaya . Sonata for Violin and Piano
Stiegler grapples with memory phenomena and instrumental corporeality in 16½ descriptions of drawings by Paul Klee. Ustvolskaya’s 1952 sonata tests both instruments and performers with its expressive






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