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Collaborations, London, UK
2025
EPs, Improvised music
Centres on the I Ching as both compositional framework and philosophical anchor. Working from Felix’s underground studio in Islington, they tossed coins, interpreted hexagrams, and responded instinctively with sound and image. The resulting works are equal parts composition, chaos, and cosmic joke. The process itself, messy, playful and intuitive is folded back into the films and tracks, creating a feedback loop between chance and authorship.
These Two pieces Feng and Tai emerged from the sessions. Both began with the toss of coins; Track 2 features drums by Mike Skelton, originally recorded for Film of Changes: How to Play the Biangu
Individual work, UK
2022-2024
Documentary, Experimental Art
Medium: Generative art / Systematic / Audio-visual art
This film short investigates the aesthetics, philosophy and ethics of a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy - I Ching, or book of changes. By writing bespoke coding language and combining this tool with traditional media landscapes like film and creative arts, and related hybrid forms to subvert I Ching’s predominant uses. This generative design audio-visual work encourages the unforeseen in the filming process, which is breaking the filmmaking rules, and relinquishing control from the filmmaker's decision. The outcomes are based on the speculation that there is a hunch in the film industry that a systematic approach to cinematic notation is possible but has yet to be developed. As such, filmmakers could use a system of symbols to build a story, just like the staves and notations used by musicians.
Hundred Years Gallery London UK, Sep 2025
Live Performance, freely improvised music
Vortex Jazz Club in London UK, March 2025
Live Performance, freely improvised music
Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised music!
On March 16, 2025, I performed as part of the Matriarchal March concert at the Vortex Jazz Club, one of London’s most respected venues for experimental and improvised music. The event was curated by Mopomoso, the UK’s longest running free improvisation series.
I appeared as a performer within the featured ensemble Noisy Women Presents — a feminist improvisation collective founded by Faradena Afifi and supported by a Serpentine fellowship. Our contribution to this special International Women’s Day programme celebrated women and gender-diverse performers across the free improvisation scene.
Since 2025, I have been actively collaborating with Noisy Women Present - a UK-based collective that champions experimental music, inclusive improvisation, and feminist sonic practice. I am featured as one of the collective’s artists on their official website, where my profile introduces my interdisciplinary work in sound, film, movement, and performance.
Alongside performance, I also contribute to the collective’s live events by crafting visuals and digital content, helping to extend the aesthetic language of their shows across media.
Leigh-on-Sea, UK
May, 2025
Live Performance, freely improvised music
Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised music!
In May 2025, I was invited to perform as part of Konsztrukting Soundz 15, curated by Levente
Dudas (Lev) of N|O|E|W|A Creative Music, at Fishermen’s Chapel in Leigh-on-Sea. I appeared as a featured artist under the collective Noisy Women Presents, an experimental sound and performance group led by Faradena Afifi, which has recently been awarded a fellowship by the Serpentine Gallery under its Support Structures for Support Structures programme.
London, UK
Nov, 2024
Live Performance, freely improvised music
Gardyloo Spew‘s Spewniverse INC. presents an evening of four small group improvisations from the undergrowth of London’s bristling free music scene.
On 9th November 2024, I performed at Hundred Years Gallery in London as part of the event
'Spewniverse presents Four Small Groups,' curated by Gardyloo Spew. The evening featured a series of small group improvisations showcasing emerging and experimental voices in the UK free music scene.
I performed in the opening set alongside Iris Colomb, Anthony Osbourne, and Gardyloo Spew. Our group presented a unique, spontaneous audio performance combining voice, live sound processing, movement, and interaction, contributing to a dynamic and unpredictable sonic landscape.
London, UK
Aug, 2025
Live Performance, Poem, Game-show and Play
Co-Created by Rhianna Ilube with 81 local people, Creative Direction by Dani Parr and Stephanie Bain
Highbury Fields. Islington. A day in August 2025. 8.13pm.
60 strangers gather in a park at sunset. They don’t know why they are here, or who invited them, but here they are.
Here you are, too.
They arrive, and they settle into a rhythm. A woman lies alone on the grass. Three old friends catch each other’s eye. A tai-chi teacher sets up shop.
Each of these people are grappling with something big. A turning point, a sliding door, a question without an answer. And tonight they are all going to take their next big step. You’re welcome to join. In fact, we’d love for you to join.
Part poem, part game-show and part play, with original music by Alev Lenz, 81 (Life) is the second instalment of the Almeida’s ‘Islington Trilogy’, following 24 (Day) in 2023. Co-created by playwright Rhianna Ilube, in collaboration with associate artists Darragh O’Leary, Francesca Beard, Ella Zgorska, Jordana Golbourn and over 80 people from three community groups, 81 (Life) is an epic and heartfelt investigation into what it means to be human.
Golden Goose Theatre, London, UK
July, 2025
Live Performance, freely improvised music
In June 2025, I performed at the Golden Goose Theatre in London as part of the live programme Unbound 3. I appeared as one-third of the Etudes Study Group, alongside Jo Morrison and Felix X Tigersonic. Our trio is dedicated to exploring and performing works based on the Etudes performance cards created by acclaimed sound artist Sharon Gal.
Our piece for Unbound 3 was fully inspired by Sharon’s Etudes, and developed through a series of improvisational rehearsals. The performance blended voice, electronics, movement, and intuitive interaction, pushing the boundaries between composed and improvised sound. The event was curated to showcase experimental artists working across performance, sound, and interdisciplinary practices.
Cafe Oto, London UK
April, 2025
Film Screening
On Saturday 5 April 2025, I was invited by Noisy Women Presents to contribute original video works to Steve Beresford’s belated birthday event at Café OTO, one of the UK’s most prominent venues for experimental and improvised music. The event was originally to feature Steve Beresford and Faradena Afifi performing live. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, they prepared a 40-minute video of four duo performances — filmed by me specifically for this event.
These short films were officially programmed and screened between live sets on the night. The videos captured an intimate, improvised musical exchange between two leading figures in experimental sound, with my visual language providing the framing and atmosphere for their collaboration. This video-based contribution extended my role as a transmedia artist and aligned with my practice of audiovisual improvisation and documentation.