Some types of space for (experimental) music in London

I’ve been in staying London for a few months and there have been almost too many chances to go to sound and performances events here – I just checked my photo library and counted that already this year I’ve been to around 62 events (and that’s counting multi-day events as a single event, like artist Xu Shaoyang’s under45db micro-fest that took place in January)! It’s been pretty intense.

Given my ongoing research into the spaces for experimental music in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, I thought now would be a good moment to expand that research geographically, and review the kinds of spaces I’ve been going to in London, as well as think about similarities and differences between spaces used by such artists in the two areas.