ONe_Orchestra New at The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London.

Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Venue

The Vortex Jazz Club

11 Gillett Square,
London N16 8AZ

More details

We have received the following information regarding this event;

As you know, ONe_Orchestra New is devoted to exploring that most difficult of practices, LARGE-GROUP FREE IMPROVISATION!

Additionally, we approach our free improvisation as outsiders: transmasc and transfem people, non-binary people, and all kinds of women.

Ask yourselves how much music written by and featuring instrumentalists/ composers who are NOT cis men – people whose life experience is other because of having BEEN othered – you have listened to in your life; try and assess what the gender balance of performers and creators is, if you take all the “commercial”, “high art”, “improvised”, or “experimental” music you’ve ever heard into account. The vast majority of these kinds of music that has come down to us, and is available around us, is made or/ and controlled by cis men. Even when people who are “other” than this make music, very often their acceptance depends on mimicking the genres, concepts, structures, and sounds that have evolved in a heavily cis-male-dominated music culture.

ONe_Orchestra New is laying extensive groundwork for large-group free improvisation that deliberately avoids those tropes and assumptions, and attempts to discover and create completely free improvisations that liberate our voices and flow into new ways of playing/ listening.

We are SO proud to SOUND DIFFERENTLY!

Confirmed for Tuesday:
Ana Chora, electric guitar
Kamila Wielebska, voice
Iris Casling, double bass
Cath Roberts, saxes
Sue Lynch tenor sax/ flute/clarinet
Katherine Farnden, oboes
Dee Byrne, alto sax
Caroline Kraabel alto sax/voice
Jane Perrot, voice
Rosa Theodora, synth/piano
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, voice/objects
Shama Rahma, sitar
Saori Miraku, piano/synth
Kirsty Ferguson Lewis, voice
Lisa Elde, voice
Megan Steinberg, turntables

Booking possible here:
https://www.universe.com/events/one_orchestra-new-tickets-402TFV?ref=website

Come and share this with us – because it’s great, and because we need you: to listen, react, and let us know what you think!