Alone Together returns to London with a new kind of live music experience
Can live music be designed to bring people closer together? Discover Alone Together, a unique event blending music, memory, and meaningful connection.
As conversations around loneliness, digital fatigue, and the decline of shared social spaces continue to grow, electronic artist and researcher Sound of Fractures is exploring a simple question: can live music events be designed to encourage genuine human connection?
On 27 June, the project’s event series, Alone Together, returns to London’s Rich Mix following a successful pilot earlier this year. Blending live music, visual installation, and audience participation, the event aims to create an environment where music, memory, and conversation intersect in meaningful ways.
The first pilot produced notable results, with 97% of attendees reporting that they spoke to someone new and 89% saying they made a meaningful connection they would not otherwise have made. Nearly half of participants attended alone, while 92% felt conversations were more meaningful than at a typical live event.
Event information
Date: Saturday 27 June 2026
Venue: Rich Mix, London
Time: 1:00pm – 10:30pm
Tickets: From £10
Schedule
Session One – 1:00pm
Featuring Nica Albertson
Session Two – 3:00pm
Featuring Yaw Evans
Headline Performance – 7:00pm
Sound of Fractures
Closing DJ Set
Thoughts On Elvis
All daytime tickets include access to the evening headline performance.
The Rich Mix edition expands the concept into a full-day experience structured across three chapters. Throughout the day, visitors will encounter ambient performances, visual installations, memory-sharing activities, and opportunities for conversation prompted by a series of carefully designed interventions.
A central feature of the event is a collective memory wall, where attendees can contribute personal stories and reflections. These contributions will then become part of the evening’s headline performance, allowing the audience to help shape the experience as it unfolds.
Joining Sound of Fractures throughout the day are several artists whose work naturally aligns with the event’s themes of memory, identity, and connection.
The first session features London-based musician and audiovisual artist Nica Albertson, whose performance Trust combines generative synthesis with childhood recordings, family archives, and recovered voicemails to create an immersive exploration of personal history and belonging.
For the second session, South London electronic musician and composer Yaw Evans brings his blend of modular synthesis, ambient textures, and rhythmic electronic compositions. His work moves between introspective listening and dancefloor energy, making him a natural fit for the day’s programme.
The evening concludes with a headline performance from Sound of Fractures, alongside a DJ set from Thoughts On Elvis, whose emotionally driven approach to electronic music provides a fitting close to the event.
Beyond the performances themselves, Alone Together offers attendees the chance to engage as much or as little as they choose. Prompt cards encourage conversations between strangers, while installations throughout the space invite reflection and participation.
The project follows the success of SCENES, Sound of Fractures’ collaborative music project built from more than 350 memories submitted by contributors around the world. The project generated over one million streams and received support from publications including Mixmag, DJ Mag, and Music Ally.
Part live show, part installation, and part social experiment, Alone Together offers an alternative approach to the live music experience, one that places equal importance on the audience, the music, and the conversations that happen in between.
For anyone interested in music, community, or simply experiencing something different, Alone Together promises a unique day built around the idea that live events can be more than performances, they can also be spaces for connection.
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