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Bill Dixon 101
October 5th 2026, 7pm
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL
Over the last year, we have celebrated the life and legacy of trumpeter, composer, artist, educator, and political activist, Bill Dixon, in his centenary year. The event marks both 101 years since Dixon’s birth, and it brings to a close a year of events celebrating his centenary year.
Resolutely determined to stay true to his artistic philosophy, resisting standard definitions of composition, timbre, and jazz, Bill Dixon left an indelible mark on those who received his message, especially his students at Bennington College, Vermont. In 1964, he co-organised New York's landmark avant-garde festival, October Revolution in Jazz, with equal emphasis on political panel discussion and live music. In 1967, he released his first album as leader, the seminal Intents and Purposes. Throughout the 1980s and onwards, Dixon toured extensively through Europe, recording some of his most important albums, such as In Italy, and later with Tony Oxley, William Parker, and Barry Guy, Vade Mecum. Dixon continued to create and inspire until his passing in 2010.
The night will begin with a discussion between Kevin Le Gendre and Stephen Haynes. Le Gendre interviewed Dixon for the BBC in 2004; Haynes, making his UK debut, collaborated with Dixon for over 35 years.
The first live set will be freely improvising dectet, featuring Stephen Haynes, Sam Eastmond, Will Glaser, Alexander Hawkins, Moss Freed, Charlotte Keeffe, Evan Parker, Fergus Quill, Artur Majewski and Al Bonney.
The night will close with a performance of Index, a composition Dixon considered one of his most significant works, performed by the Index Orchestra and conducted by Sam Eastmond.
Index Orchestra:
Conducted by Sam Eastmond; Winds: Chris Williams, George Garford, Evan Parker, Alex Wardill, Harvey Parkin-Christie, Gerardo Gozzi, Bess Shooter; Trumpets/Cornets: Al Bonney, Stephen Haynes, Artur Majewski, Noel Langley, Carmen Llena, Charlotte Keeffe, Mike Soper; Flugabone: Steve Miller; Trombones: Jess Bull Anderson, Joel Knee, Benjamin Krauss, Vij Prakash; Euphonium: Cameron Scott; Tuba: Annie Morris, Tom Briers, Jack Marks, Guitar; Moss Freed, Will Lakin; Piano: Alexander Hawkins; Bass: Fergus Quill, Ozzy Moysey, Theo Malka-Wishart; Drums/Percussion: Will Glaser
False Locust is supported by the Early Career Promoter Fund which is managed by PRS Foundation and funded by Arts Council England using Supporting Grassroots Music funding from DCMS.
Poster by Karina Sletten.
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Bill Dixon 100
September 17th 2026, 7pm
The Attic, 3 Sheaf Street, Leeds, LS10 1HD
Bill Dixon 100 celebrates the life and legacy of trumpeter, composer, artist, educator, and political activist, Bill Dixon, in his centenary year. Resolutely determined to stay true to his artistic philosophy, resisting standard definitions of composition, timbre, and jazz, he left an indelible mark on those who received his message, especially his students at Bennington College, Vermont. In 1964, Dixon co-organised New York's landmark avant-garde festival, October Revolution in Jazz, with equal emphasis on political panel discussion and live music. In 1967, he released his first album as leader, Intents and Purposes, "one of the classic all-time jazz albums" (Kevin Le Gendre). Dixon continued to create and inspire until his death in 2010.Part I will be a free improvised set featuring Sam Eastmond, Noam Solomons-Wise, Fergus Quill, and Al Bonney.
Part II will be a performance of Index, a composition Dixon considered one of his most significant works, performed by the Index Orchestra, conducted by Sam Eastmond.
False Locust is supported by the Early Career Promoter Fund which is managed by PRS Foundation and funded by Arts Council England using Supporting Grassroots Music funding from DCMS.
Poster by Karina Sletten.
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Bill Dixon 100 Meets Free Range Canterbury
Fruitworks Coworking
1-2 Jewry Ln, Canterbury CT1 2NP
Thursday June 18th, 19:00
For our first ever gig outside of London, we host the next event in our Bill Dixon 100 series, in collaboration with Canterbury’s Free Range Orchestra.
Bill Dixon 100 celebrates the life and legacy of trumpeter, composer, artist, educator, and political activist, Bill Dixon, in his centenary year. Resolutely determined to stay true to his artistic philosophy, resisting standard definitions of composition, timbre, and jazz, he left an indelible mark on those who received his message, especially his students at Bennington College, Vermont. In 1964, Dixon co-organised New York’s landmark avant-garde festival, October Revolution in Jazz, with equal emphasis on political panel discussion and live music. In 1967, he released his first album as leader, Intents and Purposes, “one of the classic all-time jazz albums” (Kevin Le Gendre). Dixon continued to create and inspire until his death in 2010.
Part I will be a free improvised set featuring Sam Eastmond (trumpet), Noam Solomons-Wise (drums), Fergus Quill (bass), and Evan Parker (saxophones), who collaborated with Dixon. Part II will be a performance of Index, a composition Dixon considered one of his most significant works, performed by the Free Range Orchestra, conducted by Sam Eastmond.
Poster by Karina Sletten.
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Elvin Brandhi + Sara Persico, Assyouti, Colombian Drone Mafia, dj burrower
MOT, Unit 18, Orion Business Centre, Surrey Canal Rd, SE14 5RT
Saturday June 6th, 19:00
Our first show at the iconic MOT, featuring five international artists.
Elvin Brandhi and Sara Persico combine their distinct yet complementary practices in a duo that engages with layered, intricate vocal textures. Voice, rhythm, and abstraction interact continuously, oscillating between intimate whisper and industrial exhale. Elvin Brandhi, a global nomad originally from Wales, blends distorted beats with her improvised stream-of-consciousness lyrics, creating a volatile soundscape that is both chaotic and captivating. Her extensive collaboration history and participation in international festivals highlight her dynamic artistry and commitment to innovative music. Sara Persico, a Berlin-based artist from Naples, merges her powerful vocals with analog electronics, field recordings, and samples. Her music, featured at renowned festivals and venues, navigates abstract electronic sounds, bass-heavy club music, noise, and vocal experiments, reflecting her versatile and fearless approach. The duo constructs a precarious, semi-liquid soundscape in which splintered pulses, sparred voices, and interwoven peaks itch along the edges of perception to explore the intimate margins of the self. Their performances unfold as evolving, mutating sonic structures, constantly evolving and resonating with audiences worldwide.
Born and raised in Egypt’s crowded and disordered capital Cairo, Assyouti is among his generation’s most distinct and unapologetic voices. Juggling hypermodern bass mutations, warped dancefloor snaps and percussive club experiments, he draws energy from the chaotic stimulus he grew up engulfed by. As a DJ, he balances his love of the hardcore continuum with sounds from the world’s furthest recesses, moving fluidly between supercharged, frenetic feverisms and moments of introspective emotional hypnosis, usually weaving (in and out of) both creating high-pressure dancefloor narratives fueled by a sense of theatrical disorientation. Since relocating to Berlin, Assyouti has become a regular on the European club circuit, appearing at venues such as Tresor, The White Hotel, Garage Noord, La Station, OHM and Ankali, as well as renowned festivals including Unsound, Berlin Atonal, CTM and Uganda’s Nyege Nyege. In 2024 he founded No_Stone alongside Barcelona-based DJ and selector Jehia, an event series and cultural platform reflecting his commitment to expansive, cross-pollinated adventurous music. His debut EP, Shakhrama, was released in 2022 on High Digital, showcasing his wide-eyed, borderless musical interests. Followed by a stronger second EP on Shepard Tone, exploring his own take on jungle and breakbeat mayhem, alongside releases on labels such as DAWN, Hundebiss, Paradoxe Club, PAYNOMINDTOUS and a slew of other imprints. Noisy and at times aggressive, his productions melt visceral but challenging rhythms with distorted vocal and drum samples, processed beyond recognition into buzzsaw post-punk sonics rich with detailed sound design yet still hitting with the blunt force of a sledgehammer.
Colombian Drone Mafia is a cabalistic odyssey through shrouded realms of sound. CTM: "The alias of a shadowy composer whose craft bends the primal forces of synthesis and the raw immediacy of field recordings, CDM forges spaces where the experimental and the archaic coalesce. In live ritual, immersive drones slither like specters through tangled jungles, while furtive ambiences prowl, unseen but felt, threading through the undergrowth with predatory patience. The air hangs thick with sonic tension, a relentless intertwining of memory and dream, where the echoes of an ancient continent’s sprawling landscapes are reborn in sound. This is no mere music but an invocation—a descent into melodic primordialism that feels both intimate and immeasurable. Rhythms rise and fall like the breath of the forest, while the unseen vibrates with a spectral presence, leaving the listener ensnared in a web of half-forgotten reveries. This is a spell cast in sound, a communion with the unyielding spirit of the land." Philip Sherburne: “Colombian Drone Mafia is a music of tensions that refused to resolve, of frictions that throw off sparks that blossom like the flowers of their latest album’s title. It’s in that tension, that resistance, that dreams take root”.
digging (for) the underground music scene in Cyprus for the better part of the last decade, dj burrower has been facilitating inner and outer motions on dancefloors, basements, seasides and forests, with some cult following, supragenre sets.
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Heith + METATERME (Emiddio Vasquez + Elvin Brandhi) + Ansuman Biswas + Karina Sletten (DJ)
The Bath House
80 Eastway, E9 5JH
Friday May 29th, 19:00
Four artists explore
relations between the analogue and the digital, the organic and the synthetic,
at The Bath House on May 29th.Heith's music exists where organic and digital elements clash, merge, and transform, evoking both reminiscence and curiosity, the familiar and the alien. His latest album, Escape Lounge (PAN), is a lush, dreamlike work inspired by contemporary digital spirituality and post-informational folklore. The founder of Haunter Records, Heith has collaborated with Puce Mary, Visio, and Kareem Lotfy. On May 5th, Stroom will release Duori, a "5th world music" collaboration with Tarawangsawelas.
Elvin Brandhi + Emiddio Vasquez = METATERME, a project redefining the sacred in the tempo of the NOW. In their quasi-nomadic practise of creative displacement, they deterritorialise circuits of interference, intersections of influence, and cultural awareness. They make space for nightmares: conditions for the space to dream, unfreezing the limbs of resilience. At the 2024 Venice Biennale’s Cyprus Pavilion, with Poncili Creacion, they held an exorcism performance, exploring sensory extremes of the sauna. This inspired “curse reverse”: group healing through intimacy, empathy, and catharsis, attending to the extremes of the psyche.
Ansuman Biswas has an international practice encompassing music, film, live art, installation, writing and theatre. His music spans free improvisation, pop, jazz, and classical musics from around the world. Underpinning his work is the core discipline of Vipassana, which has informed his commitment to the primacy of listening, and the fluidity of identity.
From the Norwegian West coast, Karina Sletten’s DJ sets express her associations with other artists on the bill, showcasing pathways and interests that intertwine a plethora of genres and histories. Her work spans sound art, performance, installation, and relational public practices.
Poster by Matej Siska.
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Zancudo Berraco + aircode + ex.sses + King Monolith
Cu, Dalston
574-576 Kingsland Rd, E8 4AH
Thursday May 21st, 19:00
Excited to present four artists found in the darkest, most thrilling corners of experimental electronic music.
Zancudo Berraco is the explosive experimental techno alias of Portuguese multi-instrumentalist Henrique Apolinário. A dedicated sonic explorer, he crafts loud, full-spectrum, and fast-paced live sets designed for pure dance-floor catharsis.
aircode is a Swedish producer based in London whose music is typified by dubwise dynamics, sonic capaciousness, and permutable elements of percussion, voice and piano. They have performed across Europe, and put out records on the labels TT (formerly Tobago Tracks), Takuroko, Alien Jams, Gin&Platonic and NHS along with a number of self-released Bandcamp drops.
ex.sses (she/they) is an experimental producer and DJ. ex.sses fuses heavy bass, broken drums and textural sounds, from her resident shows on Balamii and Netil to her guest mixes for NTS, Kiosk Radio she has built a bass led palette of sounds, unconfined by genre. ex.sses’ ties to experimental sound and club culture have since manifested in releases on TT, BAIT, Traverse, glint, Earful of Wax, Cherche Encore and Hard Return and has premiered on DJ Mag, Mixmag and Bad Tips. These releases have gained attention over the years, resulting in dark, club focused DJ sets across the UK and Europe. Her live electronic performances expand on ex.sses’ exploration of noise, textural sounds, poetry and the gendered body.
King Monolith blends noise, dub and reckless sampling to form a chaotic style of dance music; constantly on the edge of collapse into full blown noise.
Poster by Matej Siska.
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Viv Corringham + Stephen Shiell, Pentu + Joanna Ward, Ansuman Biswas
Tuesday March 24th, doors 19:00
The Horse Hospital,
Colonnade,
WC1N 1JD
Ansuman Biswas has an interdisciplinary practice encompassing music, film, live art, installation, writing and theatre. He has worked as a composer and musician in a wide range of contexts from jazz to Indian Classical music, pop songs to industrial noise. He has been commissioned by the Sonic Arts Network, the National Theatre, the Royal Ballet, the English National Opera and Guangdong Modern Dance Company in China. He has worked with the BBC, Channel Four, MTV, Royal Opera House and The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has shown visual art at Tate Modern, The South London Gallery, The Whitechapel Gallery, and the ICA.
Viv Corringham is a US based British vocalist and sound artist working with voice, electronics and field recordings. She has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3) and “a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (Louise Gray, The Wire). She makes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. Her practice explores relations between voice, place and walking, responding with sung improvisations to both natural and urban soundscapes. Corringham has received international recognition and awards including two McKnight Composer Fellowships through the American Composers Forum. She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having played and studied with composer Pauline Oliveros. In 2024 this practice took her to Mexico, Spain, Germany and the Listening Academy in Hong Kong. Notable live performances have occurred in festivals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York and Tempo Reale Florence. Her recent album “Soundwalkscapes” (January to June) on Flaming Pines label has been well received and was named in Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings of 2024. The Wire wrote that “Corringham voices the depth of place.” Her definitive contribution to sound art practice is the 20 year ongoing “Shadow-walks”, which create layers of time and space, combining recordings from shared and solo walks along the same path with her improvised sung response. They have occurred in 18 countries, are taught in many sound art classes and have been the focus of articles in books and publications. www.vivcorringham.org
Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, improviser, composer and field recordist working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive practice. His recorded works, live performances, sound walks, and workshops explore listening, gathering and performing as social, ecological and political acts, engaging with sound as a means of understanding place and environment. Drawing on field recordings, found and self-built instruments, electromagnetic sound and live electronics, he creates immersive works spanning solo and collaborative performance, radio and participatory projects. He is currently artist-in-residence on 'A Slice of Reality’, and co-curates the monthly Forest Gate Improvisation evening. He is a certified Deep Listening practitioner and one half of the duo Blanc Sceol. He works collaboratively through Surge Cooperative on listening-based projects along the Channelsea River in East London, as part of the UK River Rights network. www.stephenshiell.co.uk
Joanna Ward is a composer and performer from Newcastle upon Tyne, based in London. Her practice revolves around experimental score-making methodologies, and exploring what happens when improvisation is situated alongside simple, repetitious musical ideas. She likes to work closely with other artists on her projects which often layer live sound with recorded sound, video, and/or other media. As a vocalist and performer, Joanna mostly performs contemporary, experimental, and improvised musics. She regularly performs with Musarc experimental choir, and has duo projects with fellow composer-performers Omri Kochavi and Pentu.
Recent projects have included creating works for: LCMF 2025, working with her sister, Laurie Ward, on an experimental performance piece; Figure Ensemble, premiere at Stone Nest, January 2025; Marian Consort, Aldeburgh Festival 2024; live saxophone and video, in collaboration with Lucy Havelock; Slide Action's album on NMC Recordings; the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Tectonics Festival 2022; the Aldeburgh Festival 2022, for which she created an experimental documentary; and EXAUDI at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Her work is regularly performed in the UK, Europe, and the US. Joanna graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Music in 2019, and with an MA in Composition from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2021, learning with Amber Priestley. She was a Junior Fellow at Guildhall School in 2021-22, and a Britten Pears Young Artist in 2021-22. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds, supported by a Stanley Burton Fellowship.
Pentu is a London based producer, sound designer and guitarist, exploring experimental and ambient soundscapes, focusing on sounds that mirror the splintered reality of living in an online world. Pentu has performed at various venues throughout London including Spanners, Iklectik, Avalon Cafe,
Set Space, HQI, Matchstick Piehouse and the ICA, had releases through Mappa (SK), Surf (PT) and Daddypower (HU) and had works played on NTS, BBC, Kiosk and Threads Radio. As a sound designer, Pentu has worked with clients such as
Muji, On Running and Nike.
‘Feels like slipping into a delirious state of digital fatigue’ -- AQNB
‘A choppy collage of deranged synths, weightless melodies, machine errors, corroded vocals and guitar experiments, Pentu's latest is beautifully puzzling -
the hyperactive ode to digital depression we've been waiting for’ -- Boomkat
‘Music for the endlessly scrolling modern mind’ -- Tristan Bath
Poster by Matej Siska.
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Lope: Amias Hanley, Iván Muela, Henry Prince (12 guitars)
March 4th, doors 19:30
The Horse Hospital,
Colonnade, WC1N 1JD
Three artists working in the fields of ambient, drone, and experimental composition, each in their own ways inviting patient, open listening. Lope /ˈloʊp/. Verb. Lopes; loped; loping: to run in a relaxed way with long strides.
Amias Hanley is an artist working at the intersection of sound, technology, and ecology. Their live performances use electromagnetics, found objects, and field recordings to explore listening and attend to the material conditions through which sound emerges. Elsewhere, their auditory-led research extends through multichannel works, installation, and sound sculpture.
Iván Muela is a composer and sound artist based in London. His work often blends traditional instrumentation with electronic live processing, creating soundscapes that resemble ever-evolving sonic paintings. He has been releasing music under his name for the last 10 years in the ambient, experimental and neo-classical scene. He has performed his music extensively in a variety of settings around Europe, ranging from intimate piano concerts, to drone festivals or performances with classical ensembles.
Henry Prince is a composer and improviser from Nice and based in London. He composes for solo and guitar ensembles using ebows, as well as brass and wind players, occasionally using live sound processing and playing with pure / impure harmony. Recently, Henry has mixed experimental, classical and minimalist music, releasing "Masses of swirling thought disappear." composed for saxophone and trombone quartet and electric guitar quartet. He is currently composing for ensembles of acoustic guitars with ebows, playing with the power of extreme quiet and stillness in performance contexts. He released "Against The Earth" in 2025 featuring two pieces for 12 acoustic guitars and ebows.
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Elvin Brandhi + Kenichi Iwasa + Boy Lucid + aloisius (DJ)
Friday February 20th, doors 19:00
The Horse Hospital,
Colonnade, WC1N 1JD
Delighted to make a last-minute, impromptu return to THE Horse Hospital, featuring some of our favourite artists in the world.
Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales making auto-tune blast beats from field recordings, tapes, instruments and voice. Live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness.
Kenichi Iwasa is a London based improviser and multidisciplinary artist from Japan. Also known for his legendary event Krautrock Karaoke night, he has collaborated with visual artists and musicians such as Beatrice Dillon, Maxwell Sterling and Linder Sterling.
aloisius is an improvisation based artist, dj, curator & founder of the gesamtkunstwerk 'life is beautiful'.
Boy Lucid is a composer from Ireland based in London. Interweaving field recordings with digital instrumentals, unknown voices and song, they form mythical landscapes of loss, longing and connection. They currently explore vocal improvisation and are part of the collective Roca, organising outdoor events in parks when it's warm.
Bowering + Salter (duo), Marshall, Steiger
The Mews Coachworks
27 Mortimer Road, NW10 5QR
January 25th, 2026, doors 7:00
Billy Steiger was born in Howth on the 16th December, 1986. Now he plays the violin.
Hannah Marshall works & plays in music & sound, performance, audio-visual and teaching. A 'Cellist involved in free-improvisation and experimental music since the noughties, Hannah's playing carves pathways into noise and micro-tonality, as well as standard harmonic aspects of the 'Cello, where melody, texture, rhythm & tonality blur.
Rory Salter is based in London, working mostly with sound and performance, as a musician and sound technician. He is interested in relationships to environment, work/labour, improvisation & the social spaces of music. Recordings are available via Index Clean, TEETH, Research Laboratories, Zoomin' Night & others. His latest album, 'a sky cold as clay', was released on his label Infant Tree.
Regan Bowering is a percussionist and improviser based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album “Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces” was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake. She is currently doing a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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