Friday Lates: September
An evening activation featuring a Resonance FM takeover, Nwando Ebizie and Exotic Sin, responding to Tai Shani's The Spell or The Dream.
Booking advised. Walk-ups welcome. This is an 18+ event.
| Dates | Fri 05 Sep 2025 |
| Times | 6pm-9.30pm |
| Space | Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court |
| Price | Free |
The second event in the Friday Lates series draws on the hypnopompic hallucinatory experience as a moment of energetic awakening in search of liberatory futures.
London based non-profit community station Resonance FM challenges the DJ-based approach to radio as a medium, viewing broadcasting as an open-ended experiment. For this Friday Late, the station platforms two artist contributors from their radio community, Merlin Nova and Caius Williams, to offer live sonic responses to Shani's installation.
The evening also includes performances by multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie and the music duo Exotic Sin (Naima Nefertari and Kenichi Iwasa).
image credit: Nwando Ebizie (Rewire Festival, 2023), Stephan C Kaffa
image credit: Exotic Sin (2022), Thor Brødreskift
image credit: Merlin Nova by Sophie le Roux
image credit: Caius Williams by Santosh
Artists In Residence
Biographies
Resonance FM
Resonance is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world.
Realised by a dedicated community of volunteer engineers and programme-makers, Resonance offers over 105 creative broadcast series every week featuring local and international artists, makers and experts.
Resonance seeks to discover, encourage and support a diverse range of artistic voices through radio - from first-timers to seasoned broadcasters. Our ambition is to provide a broadcast platform through which as many people as possible can exercise “the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community and to enjoy the arts” (Article 27, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Nwando Ebizie
Nwando Ebizie is a constellation point for a spectrum of multidisciplinary works that call for RADICAL change.
A British-Nigerian polymath and unclassifiable force in contemporary culture, Ebizie crafts speculative fictions and alternate realities at the crossroads of experimental music, live art, and multi-sensory installation. Her work invites transformation—of perception, of self, of the world.
Described by The Wire as “a brilliantly original performer and composer whose music inhabits liminal and mythic spaces,” she has composed for the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Aurora Orchestra, Opera North, Mahogany Opera, Sky Arts, and Britten–Pears Arts. Her bold, theatrical voice resists categorisation, embracing the ecstatic, the disorienting, and the transcendent.
Her major ongoing project, Hildegard: Visions, reimagines medieval mysticism through a contemporary, multisensory lens—merging choral fragments, electronics, scent design, and ritual movement into an embodied mystery play.
A celebrated composer and performer, Ebizie has received an Ivor Novello Classical Award nomination, the Oram Award, PRS Composers Award, the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance, and the Steve Reid Innovation Award. Her work has toured internationally—from Tokyo’s Bonobo and Rio’s Tempo Festival to Berlin’s Chalet and the UK’s most iconic venues including the Barbican, Southbank Centre and The Hepworth.
Her visceral musical language, steeped in both the cerebral and the vernacular, has been shaped through long-term cross-genre collaborations with artists, neuroscientists, ritual practitioners and technologists including residencies at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Paco do Frevo Museum, Recife (British Council Musician in Residence) Estuary Festival and Yarmonics.
Ebizie’s compositions have been commissioned by leading avant-garde artists including Zubin Kanga, Juliet Fraser, Juice Vocal Ensemble, Laura Bowler, and The Hermes Experiment. Her acclaimed debut album, released on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records, was spotlighted by The Wire, The Quietus, Resident Advisor, and BBC Radio 3 and 4, and featured in numerous “Best of the Year” lists including on Bandcamp and BBC 6 Music.
Her solo exhibitions have toured HOME Manchester, Lighthouse, Brighton Festival, Liberty Festival, Melbourne Science Gallery, and MENTAL at Art/Science Singapore. She’s also curated expansive immersive ritual events including Your Reality is Broken (Wellcome Collection Lates), Crystal Opening (Site Gallery), and In the Black Fantastic Weekender (Southbank Centre).
Through a practice that spans orchestral commissions, immersive installations, experimental broadcasts, and ritual performance, Nwando Ebizie continues to push the boundaries of contemporary music and performance—unclassifiable, immersive, and deeply affecting.
Exotic Sin
Kenichi Iwasa and Naima Nefertari form the duo Exotic Sin. Improvisation and live
recording are at the core of their collaborative process, integrating playful contrasts and
collage-like cohesions of natural, digital and electroacoustic sound. The duo collide piano, trumpet, flutes, percussion and two of Don Cherry's "zen saxophones" (woodwinds handmade by attaching reed mouthpieces to plastic plumbing parts), with loops, live sampling, and anachronistic keyboards.
The duo first came together in 2018 for a performance celebrating the art and music of
Naima's grandparents, Moki and Don Cherry, before continuing as an independent unit
that still incorporates some of the Cherrys' instruments as well as their synergetic
integration of improvised music with visual art. The duo’s debut album was released by Blank Forms Editions in 2020 and an upcoming release of ‘Exotic Sin & Julian Sartorius - In Session’ is out in June 2025. Exotic Sin have performed at Somerset House Studios (London), Bourse de Commerce (Paris), Blank Forms (Brooklyn), Cafe Oto (London), Bergen Kunsthall, EartH (London), Lisson Gallery (London), Haus Der Kunst (Munich) and more.
Merlin Nova
Merlin has been an amazingly creative force within Resonance circles for a number of years. See her 2019 series on Resonance Extra, Strange Morals. In 2023 she contributed to a day-long live broadcast while the station occupied an enormous derelict chapel, the entire structure of which we turned into a live-broadcast space – doors, creaking stairs, pigeons and all. Since then she's performed and screened her films at multiple Resonance events including Signature Dish at Cafe Oto and All is Joy.
Caius Williams
Caius Williams is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside various solo projects, often working with improvisation.
Some projects include ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent performances or collaborations with Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O’Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Sachiko M, Mark Wastell, amongst others.
Caius has been running the GRAIN series at Avalon Cafe in Bermondsey for the last 3 years, which is focussed on programming new and adventurous music and nurturing a growing community with cross-scene and cross-generational collaboration.
Caius has just started a series live from Resonance's studios to showcase the many faces of GRAIN. Originally a fan of the station, he's now an integral part of Resonance and has already played at two sold out Resonance events.
Part of The Spell or The Dream, a major new commission by Somerset House Studios artist Tai Shani. Centered around a striking new sculpture for the Somerset House courtyard, this multifaceted work includes a 24/7 radio broadcast, live talks and performances, and an extensive family programme, inviting a host of guest contributors to collectively dream of possible futures.