Orams & Outlands Tour 2026
The Oram Awards & Outlands Network join forces again in Autumn 2026, touring artist commissions created as part of the oram/100 program throughout Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Here is a list of live performance dates, workshop dates and links to book tickets.
For further information about the tour, read on.
Thursday 3 September 2026
Handmade Music, at Accidental Theatre, Belfast.
with live performances from Niknak, afromerm and abi asisa, and Viva Dean.
From 8pm
£6 entry
Friday 4 September 2026
Build your own analogue synth workshop with Synthesize_her
at Accidental Theatre, Belfast
10am until 2pm
£5 + booking fee to join
Thursday 1 October 2026
Sonica Festival, Tramway, Glasgow
panOrama: Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde
8.45pm
£16 general, £8 concession.
Sonica Pass holders get 25% off tickets.
Friday 2 October 2026
Vocal improvisation workshop with Dali de Saint Paul
as part of Sonica Festival
2pm until 4pm
More information to come
Friday 6 November 2026
Orams & Nawr festival workshop, Swansea
More information to come
Friday 7 November 2027
NAWR festival, Tŷ Tawe, Swansea
live performance from NikNak
More information to come
Launched to celebrate Daphne Oram’s centenary in 2025, the oram/100 project commissioned new works based around a new digital sample pack drawn from Daphne Oram's archives. These exciting new works have been performed at venues up and down the country, signalling a new era of creative collaborations inspired by Daphne's extraordinary life in sound created by artists celebrated for their unusual, unique and unfiltered creative practices by the Oram Awards.
With the support of the PRS Foundation Beyond Borders, the Orams and Outlands tour will build audiences and strengthen connections between home countries through collaboration with leading organisations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland that celebrate innovative and diverse artistic practices.
Presented with leading arts organisations: Moving on Music (Northern Ireland), Tŷ Cerdd (Wales) and Cryptic (Scotland), alongside artist workshops and a collaboration with Synthesize_her (Northern Ireland).
Artist Commissions
Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde - PanOrama
In the spirit of Daphne Oram, the trio craft new piece "PanOrama" guided by experimental techniques, blending improvisation, synthesis, and transmission technologies. Aiming to bridge past and present, "PanOrama" follows Daphne’s own words on its compositional process, combining archival materials - both samples and test scores - with the artists contemporary sound practices.
Selecting short extracts from ‘An Individual Note’ (1972), the trio use text and graphic scores to devise their improvisational collaborative performance. Oram’s writings will serve as both structural and conceptual inspiration, shaping the form and atmosphere of the piece.
To add an additional layer to the sonic performance, they work directly with materials from Tower Folly (Oram’s studio) to generate 16mm film through camera-less film making processes such as photogram and frottage. This will be incorporated as both a visual projection and a further sonic layer generated by the optical soundtrack of the film, referencing Oram’s Oramics machine she used to translate visual gestures into sound.
afromerm and abi asisa - 1966 interrupted
1966 Interrupted is composed entirely of electronically manipulated cello and voice, using two surviving waveform slides (1966) from the Oramics machine, composited into a graphic score. Our approach to interpreting the score developed over a series of sessions where we played through it, abi asisa on the electric cello and I (afromerm) on a mixer, controlling the parameters of various audio processing, obscuring the cello’s timbre in real time to the curvature of the waveform slides. We experimented with playing the same score in unison and also with playing opposite composite scores, where the two slides were in the inverse order, to create a disjunction between our interpretations. We interspersed the version we were most drawn to with vocal (afromerm) and cello (abi asisa) 'interruptions' – often informed by zoomed-in moments/contours in the graphic score – which were scattered collage-style throughout the piece; a kind of intergenerational, transtemporal sonic conversation with Daphne Oram.
NikNak - Origin
An improvised turntable performance honouring Daphne Oram. For this special live performance on turntables, NikNak will create an improvisational piece using Daphne's unique sounds, responding to them in real-time and manipulating them using effects and experimental scratch techniques to create strange, new textures from the Oram archives.
"Daphne's work is arguably one of the most important and pivotal contributions to electronic music, especially by a woman. Being a part of her legacy as an Oram Award winner, she and my comrades continually inspire me to make the musical worlds I want to create, unabashedly and as authentically as possible." NikNak
About Outlands
Outlands is an open membership network that supports organisations, venues, and artists working in performance-led, interdisciplinary sound and music practices. Founded in 2018, it brings together a national community of over 60 members to commission and present ambitious work, with a focus on collaboration, diversity, and expanding audiences for experimental work beyond major cultural centres.
A key strand of its activity is its touring commissions, through which Outlands develops and presents new works by leading and emerging artists across partner venues nationwide, as well as internationally. Recent commissions include: Penumbra with Dali de Saint Paul, Maxwell Sterling, Rebecca Salvadori and Charlie Hope; Available Light with Morgan Quaintance, Oram/100 with The Oram Awards, and Hand To Mouth To with Keeley Forsyth, Matthew Bourne, Resina, and Jean Baptiste del Amo.
Alongside this, Outlands also runs an annual Network Exchange programme designed to foster collaboration across its membership. These micro-commissions enable partners to co-create performances, events, broadcasts, and other experimental projects across different regions, strengthening peer-to-peer connections and regional activity.
Outlands also plays a sector support role, offering professional development opportunities and a platform for knowledge exchange. Through initiatives such as its annual gathering The Joyous Thing it helps sustain the wider experimental music/interdisciplinary arts ecology, supporting members at different stages while advocating for greater visibility and resources for non-mainstream art and music in the UK.
Outlands Network is funded by Arts Council England as part of its National Portfolio.
Visit https://outlands.network/ for further information and events.
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