{"title": "Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres: Guillaume Gargaud, Neil Metcalfe, Dominic Lash & Pascal Marzan", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£10 cash door", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "An evening of free improvised music titled \"Bismillah, c'est les ténèbres\" at Hundred Years Gallery. Four improvisers perform: Pascal Marzan on microtonal guitar, Guillaume Gargaud on guitar, Dominic Lash on double bass and Neil Metcalfe on flute. Marzan, a London-based classically trained improviser, is known for prepared-guitar sounds and flamenco technique; Gargaud is a French composer-guitarist who has played on some twenty albums; Lash runs the label Spoonhunt; Metcalfe is a ubiquitous figure on the London scene, having played with groups such as the Evan Parker Octet.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bismillah-cest-les-tenebres-guillaume-gargaud-neil-metcalfe-36566/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-bismillah-cest-les-tenebres/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20d3170595e47d6e1cba0d492e289639309681f7cf60af700fcd0c1a3fc6d813-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Rachel Musson, Magda Drozd, Iris Casling & Douglas Benford", "start": "2026-11-08T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£10 cash entry", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "An afternoon of live quartet improvisation at Hundred Years Gallery. Saxophonist Rachel Musson, violinist Magda Drozd, double bassist Iris Casling and Douglas Benford on recorders and objects each bring their own backgrounds in improvised and experimental music to the session. Doors open at 15:30, with the music starting at 16:00. Entry is £10 in cash.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rachel-musson-magda-drozd-iris-casling-douglas-benford-36573/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-musson-drozd-casling-benford/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b5b1abce7bfbe52ac937d40dffd4bc89f45bbd472a2d6e5e7f87aeb5d2aecc5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Julian Faultless / Martin Hackett / Julian Woods", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A music event at Hundred Years Gallery bringing together three performers: Julian Faultless, Martin Hackett and Julian Woods. Martin Hackett, a member of Oxford Improvisers and the Muzzix collective in Lille, has spent the past thirty years exploring the Korg MS10 synthesiser. Julian Woods is a guitarist, bassist, arranger and composer whose recent work includes microtonality, free improvisation and polystylism. Julian Faultless, a horn player trained at the Royal Academy of Music who has played with London orchestras, is also active in Oxford Improvisers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/julian-faultless-martin-hackett-julian-woods-36568/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-martin-hackett-julian-faultless-julian-woods/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47fefa1a10eb11a63df94fde8dc34e3ba3bb01fac4bdf123457daae325b7c982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mark Wastell : Duo Intern – with Charlotte Keeffe", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "Free event", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/book-launch-thank-you-for-everything/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "A free music event at Hundred Years Gallery where percussionist Mark Wastell performs a duo with a guest artist while the gallery carries on its normal activity. This month's guest is Charlotte Keeffe, who plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Each month Wastell invites a different performer to create something unique between 4.30 and 5.30pm. Spectators are welcome, with doors opening at 4pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mark-wastell-duo-intern-with-charlotte-keeffe-36567/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/residency-mark-wastell-duo-intern-with-charlotte-keeffe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17330e63687e1f8a6c7690e07511aeb96015b7002d241f7d691a2d716ad7361d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "London Ambient Orchestra Presents: An Evening of Improvised Music and Sonic Exploration", "start": "2026-11-03T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "General Admission £17.50", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london-ambient-orchestra-tickets-2002421727290?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/contemporary-classical"], "description": "London Ambient Orchestra Presents: An Evening of Improvised Music and Sonic Exploration is a large-ensemble concert of orchestral improvisation rooted in stillness and sound exploration. The London Ambient Orchestra brings together conservatoire-trained contemporary classical players and avant-garde improvisers from diverse backgrounds, creating an improvisational language that defies traditional thinking of what an orchestra can be. The fourteen musicians perform dreamy sound worlds reminiscent of ambient pioneers like Brian Eno, alongside Pauline Oliveros-like sound meditations, minimalism and raucous free improvisation. The lineup spans flutes, harp, clarinets, saxophone, trombone, strings, live effects processing, piano, double bass and percussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-ambient-orchestra-presents-an-evening-of-improvised-m-40188/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/london-ambient-orchestra-presents-an-evening-of-improvised-music-and-sonic-exploration/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ff7dd774fd07f9a912ce91247bf9524b4484602c6148fafde9574c4ea80816a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Colin Webster / Matthew Grigg / Caius Williams / Fabian Neubauer", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T20:15:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12.50 / Vortex Members £6.25 / Students & UC beneficiaries £5", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "12.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer-downstairs-tickets-N3TZM8?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "An improvised music concert at the Vortex Jazz Club, a mixed seated and standing venue on Gillett Square, with one set of music. The line-up is a brand new quartet of highly regarded British and European improvisors: Colin Webster on alto saxophone, Matthew Grigg on guitar, Caius Williams on double bass and Fabian Neubauer on drum kit. Webster and Williams are two of London's most prolific improvisors, working with many key figures in experimental music, while Grigg is an exciting guitarist from Bristol creating his own language and style, and Neubauer, a Wuppertal-based multi-instrumentalist, combines electronics and acoustic drums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer-40194/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6981c06e2c5e869ac1cae7886b55daf889765921362ceb6171a92df1b13f1d65-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Steve Noble with Alex Bonney", "start": "2026-11-01T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£10 cash", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "An afternoon of improvised music at Hundred Years Gallery, given in two sets. The first features Steve Noble on percussion alone; in the second he is joined by Alex Bonney on electronics. Noble is described as London's leading drummer, a fearless and inventive improviser who has played with musicians including Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp and Joe McPhee. Bonney is a London-based trumpeter, electronic musician and producer who performs solo with electronics and in groups such as Splice and Leverton Fox.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/steve-noble-with-alex-bonney-36569/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-steve-noble-with-alex-bonney/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Un/stable: Seijiro Murayama / Ross Lambert | Rosa Theodora", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£8-12", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1231", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "An evening of improvised music in the Un/stable series. Rosa Theodora, a London-based musician and composer, performs solo, playing piano, synth and voice across experimental improvisation, spiritual jazz and electronic music. She is followed by a duet from percussionist Seijiro Murayama, who has performed improvised music since 1972 and works with silence, space and the energy of the audience, and London-based guitarist and 'magnetic and vibrating sources' player Ross Lambert.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unstable-seijiro-murayama-ross-lambert-rosa-theodora-39368/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/un/stable-9", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f38c08a2f3edc9e4fa7bcc8229ed8d23ba34f08c37b64a0d07a3416ff0e41333-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Bigger Mouth", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/books-vi-festival-de-cultura-queer-en-espanol-en-londres-1/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "A Bigger Mouth is a live music evening by a six-piece band playing freely improvised sets. It is led by saxophonist and synthesiser player Mike Walter, who began the group after years with the original MOUTH duo with Lol Coxhill. The sextet brings together percussion, bass, guitar, keyboard, trombone, saxophone and synthesiser, drawing on jazz, middle eastern, pop, rock, improvisation, classical and Latin music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-bigger-mouth-36574/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-a-bigger-mouth-nov/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1073678e85bc4bb905cfff026f36a5ccc37ce5b74cf96a052b3a401927287f4c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ONe_Orchestra New", "start": "2026-11-10T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £15 / Vortex Members £7.5 / Students & UC beneficiaries £6.25", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.universe.com/events/one_orchestra-new-tickets-402TFV?ref=website", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "ONe_Orchestra New is an improvising large-group orchestra performing two sets of improvised music at the Vortex Jazz Club. The ensemble brings together seventeen musicians on saxophones, oboes, flutes, voice, sitar, piano, keyboards, turntables, electric guitar, double bass and electronics. Their work in large-group improvisation seeks to free themselves and their listeners from default assumptions built up through the centuries-long predominance of cis men in music. The shared experiences and sense of safety among the members allow them to explore boldly, uncovering new ways of hearing and new things to hear.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one_orchestra-new-40198/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/one_orchestra-new-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49a8501487574f9aabaac254fef30705494efa9f794a2cdfd32c4113324453d4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hear it Live!", "start": "2026-11-12T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horniman Museum", "address": "London Road 100, SE23 3PQ London", "price": "Free, drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/members-musical-instruments-declassified/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world"], "description": "Hear it Live! is a free, drop-in series of performances and talks at the Horniman Museum, drawing on its musical instrument collection and often featuring its historical keyboard instruments. On 12 November it features Saied Silbak, a London-based Palestinian composer and oud player born in the lower Galilee, performing at Gallery Square. Trained in both classical piano and the oud, he blends Arabic, Turkish, Indian, jazz, and Western classical influences, and has contributed to projects including Ken Loach's film The Old Oak. The series is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which helped restore instruments including a 1668 Neapolitan virginals, an 1777 square piano, and an 1772 Kirckman harpsichord.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hear-it-live-78806/", "official_url": "https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/hear-it-live/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab40356bba28a958581acf045c015a5270efcfcc3ab00ffb3b674c4bfbd2df4a-2000.webp"}]}