abel selaocoe
abel selaocoe
📅 Date: 17 October 2025
🕰️ Time: doors open 7pm
📍 Location: The King’s Centre (OX2 0ES)
62% funded
Genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe presents a rare solo show, performing his own compositions and arrangements live at noisenight226.
timings
7pm: doors open
8pm: recommended latest arrival
8:30pm: abel selaocoe's set starts
10pm: estimated finish time
noisenights
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abel selaocoe
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe is redefining the parameters of the cello. He moves seamlessly across genres and styles and combines virtuosic performance with improvisation, singing, and body percussion.
For this performance, Abel will present a rare solo show: a sonically immersive exploration of the musical works which inspire and drive him, using extended techniques and loops to build a layered soundworld of cello and vocals.
Abel is devoted to composing works and curating programmes that highlight the links between Western and non-Western musical traditions, broadening the horizons of classical music to reach a more diverse audience.
Since Abel’s first show with through the noise at only the third ever noisenight, he has regularly performed as part of his trio Chesaba and his quartet The Bantu Ensemble, as well as alongside a 15-piece chamber orchestra. This performance sees Abel return to the solo format for the first time since his debut show with through the noise back in 2021.
the king's centre
Formerly the home of Oxford Instruments, who developed and built the first superconducting MRI magnet at the site, The King's Centre is a sprawling warehouse complex just a 10-minute canalside walk away from Oxford railway station.
After Oxford Instruments moved out in 2002, the venue was purchased by Oxfordshire Community Churches and has since been run as a not for profit organisation, with all surplus re-invested back into local community projects by their trustees.
tickets
Rewards: standing tickets to noisenight226 at 8.30pm on Friday 17 October 2025 at The King’s Centre, Oxford. First-come, first-served for the best views.
In order to qualify for a concession ticket, you must be in receipt of Universal or Pension Credit, in full-time education, a Blue Badge holder, or under 25. There are a strictly limited number of concession tickets available for each event. These are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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