Monday 30 November 2026, 7.30pm
Delighted to welcome back Jennifer Walshe & Tomomi Adachi for their first duo show at OTO since 2012!
Adachi and Walshe having been performing together since meeting in New York in 2010, focussing on the combination of their voices with electronics, objects and instruments.
"The instruments buzz, pop and whoop like a synthetic menagerie, Adachi processes his own voice and Walshe reacts with dextrous attention and humour at the constructive interface of their reciprocal extroversion." – The WIRE
“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times) and “Wild girl of Darmstadt” (Frankfurter Rundschau), composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She has been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt and Akademie Schloss Solitude among others. Many of Walshe’s recent projects focus on the planet Mars, using it as a lens to think through the most pressing issues of our time. Notable projects from this series include MARS I, for Klangforum Wien and Some Notes on Martian Sonic Aesthetics 2034-51 for Ensemble Modern, culminating in MARS (2025) for Irish National Opera. Another recent project is the music-theatre work The Alonetimes, written with Philip Venables, which premiered at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in April 2026. Walshe has worked with AI for over a decade, and her book 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music was published by Unsound in 2024. A Spanish translation was published by Alpha Decay (Barcelona) in 2025. Recent albums include In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks, 2024), Walshe’s duo album with Tony Conrad, which was chosen as an album of the year by The Wire, The Vinyl Factory and KLOF Magazine. Walshe’s double album An Gléacht/Dordán (Diatribe, 2024) received the Académie Charles Cros Coup de Cœur for Experimental Music. Walshe is Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. Her work has been profiled in many publications including The New Yorker.
Tomomi Adachi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed his own voice and electronics pieces, sound poetry, improvised music and contemporary music, also presented site-specific compositions, compositions for classical ensembles, choir pieces for untrained musicians in all over the world including Tate Modern, Maerzmusik, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Centre Pompidou, Poesiefestival Berlin and Walker Art Center. He has been working with a wide range of materials; self-made physical interfaces and instruments, artificial intelligence, brainwave, artificial satellite, twitter texts, fracture and even paranormal phenomena. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD for 2012. He received the Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica 2019. He composed the world's first opera which adopted a libretto written by an artificial intelligence, for which he won the Keizo Saji Prize in 2022. He has been the director of the Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival since 2024.
Jackson Burton was born in Scotland, lives in London and works with scores, text pieces and action-based performances that deal with issues of class, labour practices and community. Recent live output has included performances at Cafe OTO, The Fruit Market Edinburgh, YDP Gallery London and You and Me Festival Beijing. He usually performs in solo or duo combinations and has performed pieces with Graham Lambkin, Aine O’Dwyer, Yan Jun and Rory Salter. Recently he’s released on Infant Tree in 2023, with Adam Bohman, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Sue Lynch and a live solo LP on OTORoku in 2025.
