{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T15:30:00Z", "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", "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": "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, "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": "EFG London Jazz Festival presents: GEORGE CROWLEY / RUTH GOLLER / WILL GLASER (Matinée Show)", "start": "2026-11-14T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Green Note", "address": "Parkway 106, NW1 7AN London", "price": "£ 15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "A matinee jazz concert at Green Note, part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. It brings together three musicians from alternative jazz and improvised music: George Crowley, Ruth Goller and Will Glaser. The trio combines intuitive group improvisation with Crowley's lyrical and melodic compositions. Other-worldly electronic sounds and textures add to their colourful and hypnotic musical universe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/efg-london-jazz-festival-presents-george-crowley-ruth-goller-76559/", "official_url": "https://www.greennote.co.uk/production/efg-london-jazz-festival-presents-george-crowley-ruth-goller-will-glaser-matinee-show/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ae850b81a3fd1797e608fc88edf132daa5d24bf287c7c948b8ab5a25bb427e0-2000.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"}, {"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": "Tania Giannouli & Nils Petter Molvaer", "start": "2026-11-20T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£39.50, £34.50, £29.50", "price_from": "29.50", "price_to": "39.50", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "An evening concert at Cadogan Hall featuring the duo Tania Giannouli & Nils Petter Molvaer, with support from Elliot Galvin & Laura Jurd. Greek pianist Tania Giannouli and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer meet in a surprisingly organic improvised dialogue that blurs the boundaries between genres. Both push the limits of their instruments: Giannouli ventures inside her piano with various objects, while Molvaer manipulates his trumpet sounds with electronics or blows directly into the piano. Their shared journey opens up an intense soundscape where rawness and poetry continuously merge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tania-giannouli-nils-petter-molvaer-49020/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/ljf26-tania-giannouli-and-nils-petter-molvaer/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ecf8f6cc3670bbfaf5312f2cb53753d7264a9ee5f7e1adf7be047a43a4ddaf52-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Adrian Northover", "start": "2026-11-14T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Adrian Northover and Ansuman Biswas perform at Hundred Years Gallery, a venue on Pearson Street in London. The listing names the two artists as the performers, but says nothing more about what the music or performance will be.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/adrian-northover-61871/", "official_url": "", "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", "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": "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": "Greg Surmacz", "start": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Upstairs @ Ronnie's", "address": "47 Frith St, W1D 4HT London", "price": "£25.00–£35.00", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "35.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/fusion"], "description": "Greg Surmacz performs live at Upstairs @ Ronnie's, blending jazz, post-rock and electronic music built from woodwind, analogue synth melodies, pulsating sub-bass and intricate rhythms. What began as a solo production project is now a full live band with some of the UK's finest musicians. His music has drawn support from Gilles Peterson, Jamie Cullum and others, and his band features players from acts including The Cinematic Orchestra and Nubiyan Twist. The evening draws on his fifth album Building Beyond The Sky and the EP Voices Through The Wall, with vocalists including Ruby Wood, Daudi Matsiko and Open Mike Eagle.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/greg-surmacz-61514/", "official_url": "https://halibuts.com/events/eventdetail/158732-353301-greg_surmacz-ronnie_scotts_jazz_club-7-Nov-2026-9.00pm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe58931b54303d46bbfe903ca5b1341dcc2c7f4642032a81037de3b7e50b3a94-600.webp"}]}