As con­cerns around lone­li­ness, dig­i­tal fatigue and the decline of shared social spaces con­tin­ue to grow, elec­tron­ic music artist and researcher Jamie Red­ding­ton (Sound of Frac­tures) is explor­ing a sim­ple ques­tion: can live music events be bet­ter  designed for human connection?

On Sat­ur­day 27 June, his project Alone Togeth­er returns to Lon­don fol­low­ing a pilot in which 97% of atten­dees spoke to some­one new and 89% report­ed mak­ing a mean­ing­ful con­nec­tion. The live exper­i­ment explores whether music, mem­o­ry and phys­i­cal space can be inten­tion­al­ly designed to help strangers con­nect in an increas­ing­ly dis­con­nect­ed world.

Part exhi­bi­tion, part live per­for­mance and part social exper­i­ment, Alone Togeth­er trans­forms a sin­gle room over the course of a day. Audi­ences move through a series of expe­ri­ences com­bin­ing ambi­ent per­for­mances, visu­al instal­la­tions, mem­o­ry-shar­ing exer­cis­es and a head­line live show.

The Rich Mix edi­tion expands the orig­i­nal con­cept into a full-day expe­ri­ence. Struc­tured across three chap­ters, audi­ences are invit­ed to engage with music not sim­ply as enter­tain­ment, but as a trig­ger for mem­o­ry, reflec­tion and shared experience.

Through­out the day, the space evolves: ambi­ent per­for­mances unfold across the after­noon, prompt cards invite con­ver­sa­tions between strangers, and a col­lec­tive mem­o­ry wall grows as atten­dees con­tribute their own sto­ries. Those mem­o­ries then become part of the evening’s head­line per­for­mance, turn­ing the audi­ence into active par­tic­i­pants in the work itself.

Alone Togeth­er
Sat­ur­day 27 June 2026, 1pm-10:30pm
Rich Mix, 35–47 Beth­nal Green Rd, Lon­don E1 6LA, UK