Sunday 21 December 2025: Members of ONe_Orchestra New are part of a 12-hour free improvisation at The Horse Hospital! Life-changing beauty.
Sunday 14 September 2025: ONe_Orchestra New will be improvising at Cafe Oto, drawing on their in-depth monthly explorations and investigations of identities in life, society, and improvisation… using materials (sonic, object, structure, bodies) that are othered… thinking about desire and its complement (or opposite), pleasure, in improvised music and dance… attempting non-binary or fluid structures, communications, and sounds in improvisation. Trying to get beyond standard forms and interactions as well as standard sounds.
Featuring improvisers Khabat Abas, Dee Byrne, Teresa Hackel, Caroline Kraabel, Olga Ksendzovska, Sue Lynch, Kate Mellors, Rosa Theodora … and many more – watch this space.
Saturday 6 September 2025: ONe_Orchestra New will be improvising at Ad Lib, Open Ealing, from 19h30!
19 July 2025: ONe_Orchestra New improvising in vocal and instrumental music, and dance, for SEVEN hours nonstop as part of TRACES art biennial, in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (Mile End tube). Approximate location on what3words: translated.home.light
14 December 2024: Release of ONe_Orchestra New Live at The Vortex July 2024! A live recording of the two sets ONe_Orchestra New played at Dalston’s Vortex Jazz Club on 10 July 2024. Beautifully recorded and mixed by Bella Unwin.
Photo by Tom Ward
Personnel:
Sofia Vaisman Maturana, cello
Julia Brüssel, violin
Lisa Elde, voice
Sharon Gal, voice
Rosa Theodora, keys
Olga Ksendzovska, keys
Shima Kobayashi, chromatic harmonica
Maureen Wolloshin, oboes
Dee Byrne, alto sax
Caroline Kraabel, alto sax
Sue Lynch, tenor sax, flute, clarinet
Cath Roberts, baritone sax
Barbara Mukoda, flute
Damsel Elysium, violin, double bass
Shama Rahman, sitar
Kirke Gross, cello
Lu Greco, dance
Paula Riofrio, dance
Sunday 6 October 2024, 15h30-19h00
The next performance by ONe_Orchestra New will be at Jazz Rumours, 12 Pine Grove, Finsbury Park, London, N4 3LL.
(Provisional and partial line-up for 6 October.)
An opportunity for ONe_Orchestra New to play completely freely and for longer than is usual in performance, stepping away from the aids of conducted and devised pieces to put into practice our Improvisation Lab work on large-group free improvisation – based on equality, respect, courage, originality. There will be snacks.
Wednesday 10 July 2024, 19h45
ONe_Orchestra New at The Vortex, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ, on Wednesday 10 July 2024.
Tickets £15 /£12.50 (members) /£10 (students and Universal Credit)
New members Barbara Mukoda (flutes), Paula Riofrio (dance), and Julia Brüssels (violin) will be joining us, along with many original and more recent members!
8 March 2024, 19h00-21h15
ONe_Orchestra New will be performing risky, inspiring, original large-group improvised music at the Chapel, Kings College London, Strand campus.
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/strand-campus
Admission £10, £5 concessions. No tickets on the door, please buy via Eventbrite (link coming soon)
Music that was lost, damaged or never made/heard.
Since distinctions between people are too often used to justify unequal treatment, and as subjects of this unequal treatment ourselves, the source and foundation of our music is rooted in the belief that our equality springs from our shared humanity. We assert that all instruments, all musical education/cultures, and all sounds are different, but fundamentally of equal worth. We believe it’s possible to challenge roles, hierarchies, rules, and conventional trajectories through our collective musical practice.
How can we make the most of our differences — in how we pay attention, in our ways of listening and uttering? How far can we go into difference? Our improvising together is what transmutes our histories and sounds into music.
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The next performance by ONe_Orchestra New will be at London’s Cafe Oto on 6 July 2023.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/one_orchestra-new/
ONe exciting thing about improvising as a person who is not a cis-gendered white man is working to find a new musical language, freeing oneself from the default assumptions built up over millennia… this may produce musics and processes that sound strange in some ways, or to some ears, but if we can conceive of them and allow ourselves to explore them it opens up novel, important and unfamiliar sound-worlds.
Improvising is also a way for us to be together safely in sound, life and communication while we search for these new languages through: mutual respect; listening, uttering; knowing when we can be trusted NOT to listen; learning to listen in new ways… every time ONe plays there are new ways of hearing, as well as new things to hear.
Improvisation is also, by necessity, a big part of just being, and surviving as, ‘other’ … conversely, otherness – that everyone has in their heart, in some tiny or huge place – is a big part of where improvisation comes from.
We don’t want to be granted the special privileges from which we’re currently excluded, but to re-make music and the world so all can be heard!
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