Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over seventeen years, become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound, alongside delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic venues.

We Are Children (We Make Sound) is a collective of composer-performers which emerged in 2011 from composition classes at London’s ICMP. The group exists as a free spirit, with an ever evolving and revolving membership, at times inactive, at times coming together again. It meets to try out compositions by members and to explore experimental composition and processes. 

Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over sixteen years, become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound, alongside delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic venues.

Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over sixteen years, become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound, alongside delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic venues.

Join us on the first of March when with the Hebridean label Lost Map we return to Kent with some welcoming wonder in the incredible space and relaxed setting of Canterbury’s Gulbenkian Art Centre as part of new grassroots festival You Are Here.

Somewhere in our sixteenth year we reach the unfathomable figures of the four hundredth edition of our series. How did that happen?

Tereza Catarov blends Romanian and Bulgarian influences with modern jazz and improvisation. CHAINES is an artist capable of both ecclesiastical beauty & creeping dread and finally Rothko Collective dedicated to changing the way Classical Music is perceived in society.

This November we present the London live debut of Nightports with guest musician Matthew Bourne - experience sounds and performance transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation.

An afternoon where sound, space and rhythmic storytelling combine to create music that resonates in your body and your mind. Each performance brings a fresh twist and spark to the idea of music making – escapism through field recording, meditative layered digital drones or improvised dancing rhythms as feet and piano hammers combine.

This Saturday we invite you to listen in to three intimate solo performances. These shared moments will appear on the surface to be simply using instruments we are familiar with such as the piano, guitar and clarinet. Yet in the hands and hearts of our performers (from across genres and the globe), we promise the music will transcend, transform and thrill us within the space.

The new term finds us in an introspective mood, as we greet and welcome a new generation of music makers from far and wide. Expect a collage of analogue sounds, slow songs, digital sensations and delicate tender moments.

This July we once again join forces with the Lost Map label to present our regular summer showcase of marvellous music makers. A trio of artists will present beautiful, bewildering and bewitching sounds as well as storytelling for all the senses.

For this special afternoon we are inviting artists and audiences to leave their mark on the afternoon. Everyone who comes into the space will be invited to join in various activities: drawing or making alongside contemplating the music.

A Midsummer Celebration of the Sun with The Memory Band (Liza Bec, Olie Brice, Hannah Caughlin and Stephen Cracknell), Lisa Knapp + Lucine Musaelian

Space in this Place: join us for a soul inspiring spring afternoon where we focus on hearing new sounds, new instruments and ideas resonating within the space. Listen in with us this May to the different musical landscapes the musicians will present. We invite you to enter these different worlds of wonder in this unique journey in sound.

For Piano Day 2025 we’ll be placing the piano in the round and invite musicians old and new to join us and bring us closer to the merry march of dancing keys and hammers - it would be lovely to see you once again around the piano on the 88th day of 2025.

Composer Ed Bennett presents a new incarnation of his renowned Decibel ensemble to premiere a new commission ‘All Earth Once Drowned’ with texts by NI poet Cherry Smyth. Through a combination of music and spoken word, this work will address some of the most pertinent environmental issues of our time in a collective call for action.

Anything but boring and predictable, the label’s guiding voice Pictish Trail will debut new songs and stories alongside the Scottish Album of the Year nominees Afterlands. We will also introduce you to a new voice and member of the label - producer and songwriter Flo-Lines.

Anything but boring and predictable, the label’s guiding voice Pictish Trail will debut new songs and stories alongside the Scottish Album of the Year nominees Afterlands. We will also introduce you to a new voice and member of the label - producer and songwriter Flo-Lines.

As the temperature falls and the light begins to flicker and fade, we send this invitation for you and your kin to come to The Hot Tin to mark the end of the year together. It’ll be a winter gathering involving musical merriment, crisp improvisation, African percussion, sonic storytelling and the odd mince pie.

Join us for an afternoon of songs, sounds and melodies indebted to history, community, spirits and storytelling. There will be an ocean of ideas with Ireland’s Choice Music Prize winner Adrian Crowley. Haymanot Tesfa fearless singing is inspired landscape of her Ethiopian roots, and lastly we dig deep into the cultural roots and rhythms of Indian Classical music with tabla player Dhanraj Persaud Pandey.

Christmas time is nearly here –but we’ve been saving one very special musical gift for you!

Goldsmiths Music present three eclectic, post-genre sets that celebrate the spaces in between Jazz, Electronic, Noise, Ecology, Experimental and Contemporary Classical, with original compositions and improvisations with Goldsmiths Improviser Collective, Katy Neve (Fahaka), Tom Pardoe-Matthews (SlowWormHole) and Mathew Follis.

We collaborate again with fellow birthday organisation, the boutique Berlin based record label Sonic Pieces. Founder Monique Recknagel has been quietly curating and hand-crafting each release (now numbering fifty) creating a small but strong community of artists, whose ideas explore the border between contemporary classical and avant-garde.

We collaborate again with fellow birthday organisation, the boutique Berlin based record label Sonic Pieces. Founder Monique Recknagel has been quietly curating and hand-crafting each release (now numbering fifty) creating a small but strong community of artists, whose ideas explore the border between contemporary classical and avant-garde.

Hackoustic invite us this October on another extra-ordinary adventure - an afternoon of play, performance and the connecting and sharing of new sound and ideas within the space with KOGG, Frazer Merrick and Hackoustic Orchestra.

We follow the space waves to imagined utopian vistas, dip and dive into oceanic soundscapes and blast off into the boundless infinity of space with extended sets in Faversham from ISAN and Xenia Pestova Bennett.

We follow the space waves to imagined utopian vistas, dip and dive into oceanic soundscapes and blast off into the boundless infinity of space with ISAN, Xenia Pestova Bennett + Robyn Rocket.

Music, melodies, sunshine and folk tales invite you imagine and dream landscapes old and new. We bring a blast of melancholic joy to Margate this October with The Gentle Good, Liz Ikamba and Alice Boyd.

Daylight queerings: A collaborative event series curated by composer/performer Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser and Daylight Music - they will share exciting new music and sound art that explores queerness in art making, gender expression and alternative ways of being.