{"title": "Five lines of song-smoke", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:00:00Z", "place": "Frith Street Gallery", "address": "Frith Street 60, W1D 3JJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "music/experimental"], "description": "An opening evening for the exhibition Five lines of song-smoke at Frith Street Gallery. It centres on a new five-channel sound and video installation by the artist Jaki Irvine, 28 minutes long and looped. Irvine invited musicians, including Izumi Kimura on piano and Joe O'Farrell on flute, to improvise to a moving graphic score she filmed and generated, drawing on small details of ordinary occurrences in her home environment and a 1925 song, 'Show me the Way to Go Home', which the musicians were asked to play in the shadow of rather than replicate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/five-lines-of-song-smoke-36201/", "official_url": "https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/exhibitions/256-jaki-irvine-five-lines-of-song-smoke-opening-thursday-november-19-6-8pm/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0849047e254469ebcca4c4a00592b46c8b277519f4680d4cf61ced5cd3aac5d9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:00:00Z", "place": "Frith Street Gallery", "address": "Frith Street 60, W1D 3JJ London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "Frith Street Gallery", "address": "Frith Street 60, W1D 3JJ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Mark Browne / Paul Margree / Helena Paul / Alec McGrory", "start": "2026-11-15T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£10 cash on the door", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "An afternoon of live music at Hundred Years Gallery in East London, with doors opening half an hour before the performance. It brings together four London-based improvisers: sound artist Paul Margree, who blends everyday objects with feedback systems; Helena Paul, a poet and artist long involved in theatrical and musical improvisation; Mark Browne, a saxophonist of forty years who now adds gongs and cymbals, moving between free improvisation, free jazz and electronic textures; and Alec McGrory, known as SquidCore. Expect exploratory, experimental music at the boundary of improvisation and sound art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mark-browne-paul-margree-helena-paul-alec-mcgrory-120018/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-everything-is-complicated/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4d9fe39ee8c9d50c8b9cafa918dce7e1f99a50fd4ea9e4e88dc41b85e5ee505-2000.webp"}, {"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", "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": ""}, {"title": "sounding towards - -", "start": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project turning the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. It features an installation From–To by Gaza's Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio, and a rolling programme of artist takeovers by Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan. Instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations remain available for use, misuse and re-use, and Sunday Jams run throughout the project, free, open and bookable in advance. Initiated and developed by Angelina Radaković in conversation with the artists, the project is an experiment in institutional openness, asking what kinds of collectivities can emerge through shared acts of listening and convening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sounding-towards-39449/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68829d3c6e434a350b86c77f7ae7727218519c407c92dce5dc5fb9bef628c267-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dissidences 7. Sound, voice, word", "start": "2026-11-14T16:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "Free / £5/10 donations for the artists", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Dissidences 7. Sound, voice, word is a performance gathering poets, singers and performers in a semi-circle around a music improviser, reading, reciting, singing or babbling, with spontaneity and dissidence as the rules and the basis for a collective piece. The performers are Carla Cías with sound, Ivy Tsui with dance and voice, and Montse Gallego and Charlie Folorunsho with voice and words. Ivy Tsui is a Hong Kong-born, London-based dance artist and choreographer whose practice centres on improvisation and the relationship between movement, sound, memory, language and identity. Montse Gallego, a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Hundred Years Gallery, brings her poetry to the event alongside Charlie Folorunsho, who has played on the London improv scene at venues including Boat Ting and Hundred Years Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-36576/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-saturday-14th-november-4-30/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Odda: Tara Cunningham | Fohn", "start": "2026-11-15T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:30:00Z", "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "Odda presents a live music night celebrating new releases. Guitarist Tara Cunningham, known for improvisational and experimental music and collaborations including The Sleeves, Modern Nature and Red Snapper, celebrates Warm Ground. Fohn, the project of violinist and producer Tom Connolly, also of the groups Quade and Twelfth House, celebrates his second album Porcelain, which draws inspiration from films like The Mirror and the sculptures of Anthony Gormley.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/odda-tara-cunningham-fohn-47144/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/odda-tara-cunningham-fohn", "image": "https://noky.io/images/947d6788d582e452b641ddd1563a853cb50e44ee440152c14f48999ee73310c2-600.webp"}, {"title": "ResearchWorks: Bridging Two Musical Worlds Through Improvisation", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "ResearchWorks: Bridging Two Musical Worlds Through Improvisation is a free, in-person and online event with discussion, experiment and performance exploring improvisation between jazz and classical musicians. Pianist and classical improvisation professor David Dolan and Greek jazz saxophonist Dimitrios Vassilakis improvise together while keeping their own musical languages, joined by an AI component reacting to what they play. With the audience, they ask what listening and a meaningful musical response are, where creativity and surprise arise, and who leads or follows. It is part of ResearchWorks, Guildhall School's programme sharing its research with students, staff and the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/researchworks-bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisat-80629/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/researchworks-bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ade4208292c7d1455c86180eb4d85493b7d02daf199182e4f73924cf80982f45-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine South Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "An exhibition of painting, sculpture, printmaking, sound and film arranged as an installation responsive to the gallery's architecture. It is the work of Justin Caguiat, an interdisciplinary artist born in Tokyo whose art explores architecture, spirituality and the rituals embedded in everyday urban infrastructure. The show features a new series of thermochromic paintings that change with heat and light, alongside bronze bells cast in the shapes of flowers and plant seeds that ring in continually changing sequences to a score by Lily Pickett. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Natalia Grabowska with Alexa Chow, it considers how buildings accumulate memory, ritual and acts of transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/justin-caguiat-change-ringing-38469/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e423fec8c1057434d69957eda841e3b18f4de44b3e3a03e3dd2cf14116d1958b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Whose Voices Will Announce It?", "start": "2026-11-20T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-23T16:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Park Galleries", "address": "1 Park Approach, SE16 2UA London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "'Whose Voices Will Announce It?' is an exhibition gathering the work of 17 graduating sound artists of the MA Sound Arts course at London College of Communication, shown at Dilston Gallery in Southwark Park. Curated by Hannah Kemp-Welch with Irene Revell, it takes its impetus from curator Zdenka Badovinac's essay 'Unannounced Voices' and her insistence that the voices of change come unannounced. Through installation, video and performance, the works attend to a multiplicity of 'voices' within and beyond the gallery, from ancestors to queer loves to the air and soil. The show is part of the LCC Postgraduate Shows 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/whose-voices-will-announce-it-99473/", "official_url": "https://southwarkparkgalleries.org/lcc-ma-sound-arts-postgraduate-show-2025-whose-voices-will-announce-it/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/746be768fb9662d59c7f856348745cd706b298016fc12b3c3173c5689990931d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In Concert: Exhibition in Barbican’s The Curve", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Centre (Cinema)", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "'In Concert' is a major new exhibition by Japanese artist Yuko Mohri taking over The Curve at the Barbican from October 2026. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Mohri stages dynamic installations in dialogue with spaces and their atmospheric conditions. Her multi-sensory commission features new works inviting visitors to reflect on the radical potential of permeability and repair. Shaped during a residency at the Barbican, it marks the 20th year of the venue commissioning artists for The Curve.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-concert-exhibition-in-barbicans-the-curve-37587/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1305ef5f3e5337c1db8fde0f6e46071b672c7dcd361c7d3c8677c90ae7d6d879-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Artangel and Nitin Sawhney present L'esprit d'accord", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-13T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Round Chapel", "address": "1D Glenarm Road, London, E5 0LY, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "A one-evening music performance marking the launch of 'Earth Rising: Messages from the Pale Blue Dot' Volume II. Artangel presents Nitin Sawhney, who offers a new work unlike any he has created before, staged in Hackney's Round Chapel. He performs the title piece accompanied by Aref Durvesh, Eos Counsell, Shapla Salique, Ashwin Srinivasan, YVA and a string sextet, then develops the evening with improvised spoken word and further pieces from his catalogue. Seating is unreserved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artangel-and-nitin-sawhney-present-lesprit-daccord-47046/", "official_url": "https://www.roundchapel.org/listings/nitinsawhney/artangel/fri-13-nov/round-chapel/hackney", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e9e3be08fe537926ca22ffeb9a5353317eb1e58b11075a6b66ebb0ef3ca8081-600.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise Andrew Pierre Hart", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-andrew-pi-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Turbine Hall", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tate Modern, Turbine Hall", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/electronic"], "description": "Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui is an exhibition at Tate Modern that fills the Turbine Hall with a new large-scale installation by sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui. The Lebanese-born artist works with instrument-makers, researchers, engineers and musicians, and turns the hall into a vast sonic landscape where ancient families of instruments meet electronic technologies. Wind passes through suspended bamboo pipes playing shengs and mouth organs, mechanised mallets strike Korean drums, and Uzbek karnai horns and 3D-printed horns sound alongside textiles that oscillate in the wind currents. Visitors can wander, sit or lie on stones that vibrate with sound, while custom software reworks the sampled sounds so the soundscape never repeats itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hyundai-commission-tarek-atoui-at-tate-modern-turbine-hall-70012/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf61f24374008bb4d56122f2fe6fccfde2ed0c2d0a6c80411b81f25449372188-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gigi Masin", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T23:00:00Z", "place": "EartH", "address": "Stoke Newington Road 11-17, N16 8BH London", "price": "£29.87", "price_from": "29.87", "price_to": "29.87", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/ambient"], "description": "EartH presents a live concert by Gigi Masin with special guests in the EartH Theatre. Drawing on his latest album, Movement, the Venetian artist presents a work in which rhythm becomes architecture and sound becomes motion. Through evolving electronic compositions and hypnotic repetition, Movement For investigates the physical and perceptual dimensions of listening, at the intersection of experimental and ambient sound practices and contemporary club culture. Tony Njoku is also on the lineup.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gigi-masin-35780/", "official_url": "https://earthackney.co.uk/events/gigi-masin-18th-nov-earth-london-tickets-av5x8x/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/51bb20e1380075928fb003f43c99ad847d09817960d2fa7c5ad8793243ff375d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MOPOMOSO: International Free Improvised Music – November 2026", "start": "2026-11-15T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:00:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "Standard £12 / Vortex Members £8 / Students & UC beneficiaries £8", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/free-improvisation"], "description": "An evening of international free improvised music at a Dalston jazz club, with three trios formed of musicians from Croatia and the USA, Germany and New Zealand, and the UK. The Croatia/USA group brings Boris Janje on double bass, Damir Kafka on saxophone and Tracy Lisk on drums; the Germany/New Zealand group Mitch Heinrich on vocals, Christoph Irmer on violin and David Leahy on double bass. The UK set, STARNOSEDMOLE, features Joanne Morrison on voice, movement and objects with Nick Smith on percussion. The groups are not necessarily playing in this order.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music-november-2026-40206/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music-november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5b9fb08659cf472c5b47bb3cd084d399f0573174bac5486d5f3fb4b54aa2530-2000.webp"}]}