January New Music Weekend II

Name: January New Music Weekend II
Start: 2025-01-16T21:30:00+0000
End: 2025-01-19T21:30:00+0000

Presented in association with DANSOX

16 January 2025 21:30

Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

Weekend pass £15 - £45

Following the immense success of our first January New Music Weekend last year, we are proud to present a festival of improvised work bringing together jazz (Zoe Rahman), free improvisation (Oxford Improvisers), experimental music (Red Lipstick), electronic music (Zack de Lelio and Jonathan Packham) and contemporary dance (Martha Tribe).

There is an event listing for each event - click the 'more information' link on each title below for more details:

Thursday 16 January, 5.30pm
Contemporary Dance
Martha Tribe: a discussion of choreographic practice
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Friday 17 January, 6pm
Dance Encounters I
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Friday 17 January, 8pm
Oxford Improvisers
is thin ice is nice
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Saturday 18 January, 1pm-10pm
Radio JdP
a day of LIVE radio performance
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Sunday 19 January, 11.30am
Electronic Music
Jonathan Packham: ghost (world premiere)
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Sunday 19 January, 2pm
Jazz: Zoe Rahman Masterclass
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Sunday 19 January, 7pm
Jazz: Zoe Rahman solo piano recital
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<speaks> | Tomomi Adachi

26 October 2026

Adachi will talk about his wide-ranging practice spanning music, poetry and visual art. Topics will include human voice, composition, improvisation, performance technique (and its absence), site-specific work, technology and artificial intelligence. The talk may also include a short performance designed for the online format.

Brother Tree Sound

27 October 2026

A journey through British folk music.

The Chamber Concerts: Beethoven with the Neruda Quartet I

28 October 2026

2026 Tillett Debut Artists the Neruda Quartet perform string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven.

Phantom Melodies and Tangerine Trees: A voyage through the psychedelic musical experience

28 October 2026

Using musical illusions, perceptual experiments and examples from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tchaikovsky, Steve Reich and beyond, Prof. Milton Mermikides explores how music can evoke altered perceptions of time and self, the blending of senses and moments of transcendence, and why music relies on the very same perceptual mechanisms for its extraordinary power.

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

29 October 2026

From Photos to Forensics: Borders and Fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea

Book launch - ‘The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval Court Cultures’

29 October 2026

Presentations by editor Karl Kügle and authors Jane Gilbert, Christophe Masson, and Helen Swift