hmmmm festival: First Edition

28 June @ 15:00 21:00

Date: Sunday 28 June 2026
Time: 3-9pm
Location: SET Lewisham, Unit 1 Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ
Admission: Tickets £10/£15/£20 (All proceeds go to Lewisham Food Bank)

Announcing the first edition of hmmmm festival at SET Lewisham.

Bringing together 14 artists and musicians, the festival is a one-day celebration of experimental music and sound. SET Lewisham’s stunning, light-filled, and reverberant project space will play host to an afternoon of live performances spanning improvisation, sound art, DIY instruments, and electronics.

Alongside the audio line-up, we’ll have home-cooked vegan soup served up by Cafe OTO’s very own Thea Jeffery Sands.

This is a completely non-profit event, with all proceeds from the day going directly to support the crucial work of Lewisham Food Bank. Come down, listen to some incredible live sound, and support a vital local cause.

This event is programmed by Regan Bowering, David Sappa, Rory Salter, and Li Song. For more information on the festival and organisers, visit: https://hmmmmm.org/

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Contributing artists

Ben Waggett

London-based musician, artist and technician Ben Victor Waggett, also known as Burhlap. Heyl Towans (2022), released on Infant Tree, was assembled around a damp and drafty cabin in the sand dunes of Hayle, West Cornwall, where he sometimes works and shows, with previous projects presented at Hweg Gallery Penzance, Lewisham Arthouse, Cornwall Community Darkroom, PINK, Van Gogh House, Spanners and The San Mei Gallery amongst others.

Instagram: @benvicwag
Bandcamp: https://burhlap.bandcamp.com/

Ben Murphy

Instagram: @wallaceplusgromit

Seán Being

Seán Being is an Irish musician working across a range of modes of composition and performance. They have collaborated widely among circles in Ireland, Portugal and London, including lately in the Irish group Princ€ss and as instigator of the riverside event series, Car Musick (Liffey, Thames, Tejo). Here they will present new songs at the edges of pop and rock music, following up on their previous solo release, FAUX WINDOW (wherethetimegoes, 2022).

Seán has performed across artist-run and institutional settings in such venues as Somerset House (UK), Spanners (UK), Douglas Hyde Gallery (IE), Plugd (IE), St Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, NYC (USA), Fluent (ES), Cosmos (PT), and Galeria Zé dos Bois (PT). Their music has been reviewed in Pitchfork, Boomkat, Crack Magazine, and The Thin Air. They have been resident on Dublin Digital Radio and a guest on NTS Radio and BBC Radio 6. They have an MA from the Dutch Art Institute (2024).

Instagram: @seanbeing
Bandcamp: https://wherethetimegoes.bandcamp.com/album/faux-window

Regan Bowering

Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album “Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces” (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves, 2024) and “Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers” (Infant Tree, 2023). Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling is set to be released January 2026 on Infant Tree.

Instagram: @reganalana
Bandcamp: https://reganbowering.bandcamp.com/

Li Song

Li Song is a London-based musician and computer programmer. He performs improvised music with his computer and composes music using electronics and acoustic instruments. His collaborative project with Zhu Wenbo, No Performance, focuses on compositions using environment sounds, acoustic instruments, computer algorithms, and random sequence. He is also a member of computer network music ensemble and research group, [ _ _ _ ], focusing on algorithmic collaboration. Recent works include Two Snare Drums (Infant Tree 2022), [ _ _ _ ] (with Jia Liu and Shuoxin Tan, SUPERPANG 2022) and Text (with Zhu Wenbo, Zoomin’ Night 2021).

Instagram: @slow.software
Bandcamp: https://lisong.bandcamp.com/album/two-snare-drums-on-a-table

David Sappa

David Sappa works between D.I.Y sound sculpture, improvisation and field recording- with a dense smudge between. Their projects emerge via site-responsive processes, exploring found and discarded things – reconfigured and animated to reveal instability and leaky thresholds between bodies, material, time and place. Recent performances include Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Moers Festival, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO and Sadie Coles HQ.

Instagram: @dalosap

Sam Andreae

Sam Andreae has been active across Europe over the last decade as a saxophonist, composer and organiser. Through improvisation and composition he explores a music of colliding sound gestures and aural detritus, built up from an intentionally fractured instrumental language and playful spontaneity. His compositions place a focus on gestural processes which in their unraveling reveal a trail of sound artefacts to be picked through.

“what Sam Andreae does is liminal music, he shows you the clicks, the noises, the breaths, the rattle and hum” – John Doran, The Quietus, 2017 on BBC 3 Late Junction.

Instagram: @samandreae
Bandcamp: https://tombedvisionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solo

Rory Salter

Rory Salter is based in London, working mostly with sound and performance, as a musician and sound technician. Recordings are available via Index Clean, TEETH, Research Laboratories, Zoomin’ Night and others. A new album ‘a sky cold as clay’ is out now on Infant Tree.

Instagram: @rorysalter__
Bandcamp: https://malvernbrume.bandcamp.com/

Feghoots

A master of wet electronic and uncanny sound collage. Contact-mic clutter and electricity fed through an encyclopaedic knowledge of foley and the hinterlands of music. Music released on Chocolate Monk; ran the Crater Lake festival in Leeds.

Instagram: @feghoots
Bandcamp: https://feghoots.bandcamp.com/

Isabelle Pead

Isabelle Pead is a London-born artist working across sculpture, sound, video and performance. Often utilising large-scale installation, her work is informed by actions of storytelling and collectivism, exploring the relationship between the voice and the sounding body. Working predominantly with metal, her two- and three-dimensional sculptural works draw on imagery from opera, choral and folk singing, churches and acoustic spaces, electronic music, synthesisers and waveform displays.

Instagram: @isabelle_pead

Luciano Maggiore

Luciano Maggiore is a Palermo-born, London-based musician whose work is characterised by the use of speakers and several analogue/digital devices (samplers, CD players, walkmans, tape recorders) as well as acoustic objects and addresses the performativity of the musical act, the perception of it, and the obscurity that emanates from it.

His main interests include mechanisms of sound diffusion, performance, repetition, endurance, non-human animal languages, dance, and folklore. With Louie Rice, he runs NO-PA/PA-ON, a project that deals with performing score-based works, both acoustic and amplified.

Instagram: @lucianomaggioree

Agata Genissel

Agata Genissel perforates sound, producing disembodied sonic environments. Working with texture, density and materiality, her practice unfolds through unresolved exploration. She is based in London.

Instagram: @agatagenissel

Willow Swan

Willow Swan (they/them) is a sound artist based in London. Their work centers on long-form composition, acoustic phenomena, and the durational possibilities of drone. Working primarily with pipe organ, field recordings, and minimal processing, Swan explores harmonic instability, resonance, and texture through restrained, process-driven structures.

Instagram: @willow___swan

Danny Pagarani

Danny Pagarani is an artist and musician based in London. Their work spans performance, sound, installation and moving-image contexts, with recent projects including Unstable Nature at Chilli Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival, Super Organic at Somers Gallery, Gradient Descent at Gossamer Fog and GUM at ASC Gallery.

Instagram: @danny_pagarani

About SET’s Associate Members Programme

The hmmmm festival is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate and participate in exhibitions, workshops, and events.

The programme supports a wide range of practices, from performance and installation to music, sound, print, and textiles, and is designed to provide space, visibility, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.

£10 – £20
Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park
London, SE13 7RZ United Kingdom