Orams x Tŷ Cerdd at Llais
Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th October
Orams x Tŷ Cerdd at Llais Festival present…
Oramic Waves
Bringing together Welsh, UK and International communities, the Oram Awards is proudly collaborating with Tŷ Cerdd | Music Wales across the Llais festival programme & grassroots venue Paradise Garden during the weekend of October 9th-11th in Cardiff.
Two organisations that passionately support women and gender-diverse artists exploring the expansive tides of sound come together to celebrate the unusual, the unique, and the unfiltered creative worlds they champion.
Arriving in Cardiff on Thursday 8th October, this year’s Oram Award winners join the Tŷ Cerdd & Llais community to experience the Welsh experimental music scene.
From socials, workshops to live performances, there are plenty of opportunities for the wider public to get involved and attend events under the Oramic Waves umbrella.
Oramic Waves Events
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All events are only £5 each to attend.
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These are smaller capacity events where booking is strongly recommended to avoid disappointment.
Saturday 10th October
Oramic Waves @ Llais Festival presents…
Sample Pack Party with Natalie Roe
Event type: Workshop
Open to: Women and gender diverse artists of any level
Capacity: Max. 15 participants
Venue: Llais Festival, Rehearsal room 3, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Pl, Cardiff CF10 5AL
Time: 1 - 4 pm
Cost: £5
Ticket link: www.wmc.org.uk/...
Join 2023 Oram Award winning artist, Natalie Roe for a 3 hour exploratory workshop aimed at introducing or developing participants' experience of using sampling in music. Throughout the session we will work to build a bank of noises and short clips of music created with the voice and electronic instruments. Led by Natalie Roe, this will be a playful session in developing a Sample pack together, which participants will then be able to take away and use to create with.
Outline of the session:
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Welcome and intros
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Short performance of modular synth and voice
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Sharing of Natalie and the vocalist’s creative process
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Demonstration of tech - particularly modular synth
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Exploration time, attendees in groups, pairs or individually creating vocal and electronic sounds
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Recording of samples throughout exploration time
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Sharing of experience, sounds and final thoughts.
Saturday 10th October
Oramic Waves @ Paradise Garden
Feat: Orams DJs, Warm Leveret, Outsider, Eye Measure
Event type: Live event
Open to: all
Venue: Paradise Garden, 213 City Rd, Cardiff, CF24 3JD
Time: 9.30 pm - 1 am
Open to all and free admission!
Celebrating women and gender-diverse voices of the experimental underground. With DJ sets and live performances from this year's Oram Award winners and Tŷ Cerdd artists.
Featuring:
Orams DJs: the people behind the scenes moving behind the decks to carry us between sets with a multi-genre sonic expedition...
Warm Leveret: Emma Daman Thomas makes electronic music in the hills of Radnorshire under the name Warm Leveret. The setup is restricted to voice, harp and birdsong. She samples and loops her voice, pushes her unpolished harp through fuzz and delay, building a songless and meditative sound world that she calls soft noise.
Outsider: 2026 Oram Award winner bringing you a DJ set traversing the worlds of queer club music and deep eclecticism.
Eye Measure: closing the night out is a live performance from another 2026 Oram Award winner. Expect weird, dark yet high energy computer music with live coding.
Sunday 11th October
Oramic Waves @ Llais Festival presents…
Oramic Waves social
Event type: Social, food & live performances
Open to: All
Venue: Llais Festival, Cabaret space, Wales Millennium Centre
Time: 1 - 5pm
Cost: £5
Ticket link: https://www.wmc.org.uk/ ...
A community event, in collaboration with the Oram Awards & Tŷ Cerdd | Music Wales, aimed at experimental and explorative artists, audience, and grassroots organisers alike, to connect, share experiences and enjoy some food and excellent music!
Welcoming all kinds of ways to engage with community, there will be space to get fully involved in conversation and quiet space options away from the bustle and headphone listening stations set up around the space. The social & food (all diets catered for) will form the first part of the event, then we will move into performances from:
Rachel Devorah Rome & Pam Rose Cott - A first time live improvisation between two artists deep rooted in experimental practices.
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May Swoon / Neo Ukandu - Wales' very own disabled experimental pop and indie-electronica maverick.
Rachel Devorah Rome - 2026 Oram Award winner
Rachel Devorah Rome is a Northern Ireland-based electronic musician who values machines for their patience and capacity to remember. Interested in the parallels between the physical properties & social meanings of spaces. Rachel produces live collaborative improvised music with multi-genre artists.
Pam Rose Cott - Tŷ Cerdd artist
Pam Rose Cott is a vocalist based in Cardiff her work exists mainly in the realms of spectacle, performance and improvised sound, now branching out into her first official release ‘Nosegay’ (a small posey of flowers carried by women in front of their face for protection from foul odours and disease). She performs in pursuit of rage, endurance, vulnerability and connection.
May Swoon / Neo Ukandu - 2026 Oram Award winner
The figurehead of two innovative projects, May Swoon & Friends Are Evul, Neo finds solace in messing with the DIY and unpredictable. Using noise, glitch effects, hardware samplers and self-created synth patches to create tracks. Neo is on a mission to share experimental electronic music creation with their disabled peers through release and resistance.
