OCM is delighted to announce the appointment of Noel Lobley as its new Director.  Noel will join the senior management team: Jo Ross (Associate Director) and Victoria Larkin (Deputy Director) to lead OCM into the next stage of its evolution in supporting, developing and presenting groundbreaking artists, new music and sound based work and in bringing […]

A Century of Sounds: Live took place on Friday 27th February 2026. A Century of Sounds is a unique project bringing together the Pitt Rivers Museum’s extraordinary sound collections with 100 artists from around the world to create a new way of experiencing these incredible, diverse recordings. It is a partnership between Cities and Memory […]

We launched the Sound and the Outdoors programme with the one-day Site and Sound Symposium and the three-day Base Frequencies Lab. Presented by 101 Outdoor Arts and The Centre for Performance, Technology and Equity (PTEQ) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, in partnership with Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM). Find out more: Site […]

Moth x Human by composer-violinist Ellie Wilson is a sonic journey into the world as it comes alive after dark. This film captures a performance at the Southbank Centre, London, for the New Music Biennial 2025 in July 2025. Moth data collected by scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has been sonified […]

Moth x Human (live) by composer-violinist Ellie Wilson is released on NMC Recordings, 25 July 2025 Pre-save link https://nmcrecs.lnk.to/MothxHuman Learn more about the Moth x Human project: https://ocmevents.org/project/new-music-biennial/ Moth x Human was commissioned for PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial, and supported by UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Artwork by Northern School of Art. Full […]

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has a made a special video about the making of Ellie Wilson’s Moth x Human for International Day of Biodiversity, 22nd May. Moth x Human is an immersive audio-visual composition by classically trained violinist Ellie Wilson. Produced by Oxford Contemporary Music, this unique project brings together musicians, electronics, […]

Ellie Wilson’s first blog about the Moth X Human project

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