Curated by Oxford Contemporary Music

Thursday 22nd October
7-10pm

The Nest, OX1 2HU

  ‘Loomeweight II’ is a new performance project for one loom and two singers, devised collaboratively by Hestor Dart and Patricia Auchterlonie, unfolding over 45 minutes of weaving and sound. loomeweight is a ritual of remembering the un-rememberable, a gathering of voices and threads, a story told in increments, unravelling and finding itself through its sharing.

Patricia Auchterlonie is a performer, composer and maker who moves fluidly between contemporary music, opera, and experimental music. She has premiered major works, including Oliver Leith’s Last Days (Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre), and Lucia II in Beat Furrer's new opera Der grosse Feuer (Zurich Opera House). She brings a highly visual, object-focused perspective to our work, informed by her fascination with the meeting point of historical and experimental forms of making.

Hestor Dart is a singer, musician, and maker whose work is driven by an interest in expansive and unconventional sound, traditional crafts, and collaborative practice. Their approach is deeply interdisciplinary, incorporating improvisation, folk traditions, experimental vocal and instrumental techniques. Their creative framework is shaped by queer, anarchist philosophies, informing both the themes they explore and the collaborative, process-led nature of their practice.

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Sound artist, beatboxer and composer Jason Singh and Saxophonist, flautist and producer Tamar Osborn explore the meeting point between plants, humans, electronics and acoustic instruments, creating a living conversation between craft, technology and the natural world. Their performance brings together bio-sonification, instrumental textures and electronic processes, inviting us to listen differently—to plants, to each other, and to the spaces in between. Part improvisation, part sonic exploration, the work asks what can emerge when human and non-human voices, live instrumentation and digital technologies are brought into intimate dialogue.
Jason Singh is a multifaceted sound artist, nature beatboxer, producer, DJ, curator, facilitator, and performer. His life and work are deeply rooted in the art of listening. He embraces a multi-sensory and cross-species approach to sound and music, constantly exploring the relationships between humans, wildlife, and the environment through audio expression.

 Jason’s creative output is a rich exploration of the natural world, club culture, the human voice, public engagement and an extensive range of music technologies. His diverse body of work includes live performances, immersive sound installations, studio recordings, remixes, compositions for film and theatre, deep listening and well-being experiences, sound walks, radio broadcasts, music workshops, podcasts, curated playlists, and immersive DJ sets.

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Saxophonist Tamar Osborn is a composer, bandleader, band member and session musician. This versatile and prolific artist is also a solo artist making powerful left-of-centre music across multiple genres.  Her band Collocutor released three albums with On The Corner Records and she has toured or recorded with Kelis, dance maestro Akram Khan, and Spiritualized. 

Since 2009, she’s been a member of Dele Sosimi’s Afrobeat Orchestra and performed in Fela! The Musical. She took part in the London, Marseilles and Roskilde editions of Africa Express.

Ensembles include Flock, Unknown to Known and Tryp Tych Tryo, alongside collaborations with Sarathy Korwar, Tommaso Cappellato, Camilla George, Momoko, Ill Considered, Rosa Brunello and Cape Town’s Asher Gamedze.

In 2024 award-winning Moments Notice launched their record label with Osborn’s improvised trio performance. She has a monthly show on Soho Radio. Tamar Osborn brings variety, experience, and commitment to music and connection.

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Curated by Kate Mahony

Friday 23rd October
7-10pm

The Nest, OX1 2HU

Liv Fontaine is a visual & performance artist whose practice focuses on deconstructing and redefining gendered stereotypes, sickness & status. She is based in Newcastle. Over the past 10 years she has exhibited and performed in numerous group shows and solo presentations. This has included at Lambeth County Court, London, Glasgow International Festival, Elephant West, London; David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; Celine, Glasgow; SuperNormal Festival, Oxfordshire; Raven Row, London; CCA, Glasgow; Matthew Gallery, New York; BLOC Projects Sheffield; ICA, London; Caustic Coastal, Salford; Austrian Cultural Forum, London; and Academy of Art, Vienna.

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Rainham Sheds present all-female maximum art-core no-wave on a primitive tip. Both incomparable and conceptual, the five Shedwomen divest themselves of all cultivated musical norms and graces to most efficiently deliver crude skronk with cloven hooves. Brainchild and performance artist Kate Mahony ruminates on subjects including French philosophy, sex with furniture and in damp flats and the nuclear threat.

Featuring members of bands including Shake Chain, Flat Soufflé, The Chop and Sassyhiya among others, you are never far from a Shed and upon watching, we are reminded that we are all a little part Shed.

Rainham Sheds have built a reputation through appearances at acclaimed DIY venues and festivals across the UK and Europe, including HATCH Tramlines Fringe (Sheffield), LUFF Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jaguar Shoes (London), The Green Door Store (Brighton), Supernormal Festival (Oxfordshire), EartH Kitchen (London), Cafe OTO (London), and Sounds From The Other City (Salford, Greater Manchester).

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Lene Vollhardt is a German-American choreographer based in London, working between guttural voice, live performance, and moving image. She trained in classical ballet and Butoh, and the two haven't stopped arguing in her work since. Recent pieces include the lecture-performance Market Mouth, the film Swirls of Fortune (2025), and Venus Devourer. She has performed in productions by Sasha Waltz and Liz Magic Laser, presented work at the Royal Academy of Arts, Sharjah Art Foundation, and Berlin Art Week. is a Research Fellow at the Law & Theory Lab, University of Westminster, where she researches protocol as a choreographic and para-legal concept.

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Curated by The Sonic Art Research Unit

Saturday 24th October
7-10pm

The Nest, OX1 2HU




Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic equipment, samples and found objects also add to their semi-improvised pieces, which are spun from grounded ideas.

Rose and Dan Linn-Pearl draw from their foundation in folk and classical training in addition to post-rock, minimalism and sound art to weave experimental music that is anchored in the Welsh landscape.

For this Audiograft performance they will perform pieces from their recent critically acclaimed album PLANT and as well as tracks from DYCHWELYD, a record which awarded them The Guardian’s ‘Folk Album of the month’.

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Thorn Wych is a musician based in Lancashire, who crafts her own instruments from native UK tree branches.
Her pieces feature bowed string instruments, flutes and percussion, which she manipulates through pitch-bending glitches and delay pedals to create strange atavistic hymns that evoke memories of a world existing beyond the boundaries of the material realm.

"Distorted drones undulate beneath entrancing incantations as though primeval spells are being conjured and future pathways moulded." Foxy Digitalis

"Sounds and song that pull post-industrial and traditional music into a ghostly, mesmerising fog that's wholly unique " World of Echo

Image by Domenique Browers

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Li-Chin Li is a Taiwanese sheng soloist, composer, and interdisciplinary performer based in Paris. She works across contemporary music, improvisation, and experimental performance. Her practice combines virtuosic sheng performance, improvised composition, and physical movement, using site-responsive approaches to expand the expressive possibilities of the instrument.

In recent years, her work has been featured in international professional media, including Germany’s neue musikzeitung (nmz), Tagesspiegel, the classical and jazz magazine RONDO, Digital in Berlin, Italy’s Il Resto del Carlino and Gazzetta di Modena, and Radio France Internationale (RFI). In 2026, Cadence Magazine – The Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music, a U.S. publication dedicated to creative and improvised music, also published a review of her performance, highlighting her work in the field of improvisation.

She has also been invited to participate in international artistic residencies and research programs at institutions including the Royaumont Foundation, IRCAM – Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, GMEM – Centre National de Création Musicale, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, the French National Centre for Dance (CN D), Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Sweden, and the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) in New York.

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Zhuo Mengting (b. Guangzhou, China, 1990) searches for liveness through what comes between. Across live art, participatory installations, concerts and relational curation, she composes situations where distance, silence and partial access become conditions for encounter.

With a background in literature, critical theory and indie music, she works as much with language as with what remains unspoken. She studied Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is now based, and has presented work across the UK, Europe and East Asia, including Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Cafe OTO, Tai Kwun Contemporary, BY ART MATTERS, MAO Torino and the Prague Quadrennial.
Working from their shared interest in space as a performative medium, Zhuo Mengting and Li-Chin Li develop a live system shaped by breath, airflow and relational movement.

A suspended system of strings and lightweight elements set up by Zhuo becomes both instrument and architecture, sensitive to the performers' presence yet never fully predictable. As Li moves through the space with the Sheng, invisible currents of air and vibration produce shifting relationships between body, object and sound.

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