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Listening Party #16: Love Stories

12th February 7:30pm

Thursday 12th February 2026 7:30-9:30pm (doors 7pm) Caper Bookshop, 74-77 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE What is it? We love discovering new music, and the best way to discover is to share. Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. You’ll discover something new, and meet other music enthusiasts. This time […]

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A Century of Sounds: Live

27th February 6:30pm

A Century of Sounds is a unique live event, bringing together the Pitt Rivers Museum’s extraordinary sound collections with 100 artists from around the world to create a new way of experiencing these incredible, diverse recordings. Tonight’s show will feature six live performances reimagining different ethnographic sounds from the Pitt Rivers sound collections, ranging from […]

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Listening Party #17: Celebrating Women

6th March 7:30pm

What is it? We love discovering new music, and the best way to discover is to share. Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. You’ll discover something new, and meet other music enthusiasts. This time we’re thrilled to bring the Listening Party format to the Workshop Cafe. How does it […]

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Past events

BOOM in Residence at St John’s College

31st January 1:30pm

We’re opening up our next BOOM gathering (artist development days) to the public. Meet our BOOM artists and join us for seminars with leading sound artists and producers covering the topics of presenting music/sound outdoors, creating shows for specific outdoor sites, and creating work with communities. These seminars will take place across Friday 30th and Saturday […]

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BOOM in Residence at St John’s College

30th January 11:00am

Upcycled Sounds + OCM present: Native Dancer’s Live Session

18th December 12:12pm

Soulful electro-fusion outfit weaving hip-hop, trip-hop and jazz with electronic pop and R&B

Native Dancer performing in Oxford's Covered Market

Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani

5th December 7:30pm

End of Year Celebration: Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani + Wone Torin Wenda + DJ Macaroni99 Big beats interlaced with found sounds and reflections on home We hope you will join OCM and YWMP (FKA Young Women’s Music Project) for this event marking a year of musical successes. YWMP’s pop-up space The Nest has been […]