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Experimental events in London this week. Updated daily.
Experimental Events This Week · London

RAAANDY, Rickinzi, Gaia & Lisa


Bassel Hariri, Sha3by Chic

Prayer Tech, Evening Vic, BossOla

Adam Bohman, Crystabel Efemena Riley, Sue Lynch, Catford to Khartoum


Logan Fisher, Andrew Nicholls, Russell Penn, Marc Hasler

Nkisi


Aya

Joseph Marlow, In Time Jam


Guido Spannocchi, Freddie Waxman

Natural Information Society, Coby Sey

Riley Stone-Lonergan


Anja Ngozi

Natural Information Society, Evan Parker

My New Band Believe, Sorrel
Sound profile
An underground, raw sound.
Experimental music emerged from early 20th-century avant-garde movements like futurism and later electronic musique concrète, prioritizing radical innovation over conventional song structures. It utilizes an expansive palette of instrumentation ranging from classical tools played with extended techniques to found objects, modular synthesizers, and complex digital signal processing. Rhythmic frameworks are frequently irregular, polyrhythmic, or entirely absent, reflecting a mood that shifts between cerebral meditation and abrasive, challenging chaos. As a conceptual stylistic bridge, it occupies a liminal space between academic sound art and niche popular subcultures, often serving as a primary laboratory for sonic techniques that are eventually integrated into mainstream electronic and rock productions.
Also known as: Experimental music, Experimentalism
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