Live Music
Alongside its exhibitions, ArtMoorHouse presents a programme of live music at Moor House. Lunchtime concerts in the reception of the building offer those who work in and pass through it a moment to pause and listen.
Live at ArtMoorHouse
A site-responsive sound project by ArtMoorHouse in collaboration with Antimo Magnotta
Live at ArtMoorHouse extends the programme into the field of listening. Originally conceived by pianist and composer Antimo Magnotta and developed collaboratively with ArtMoorHouse, the project approaches music not as a traditional concert format but as a site-responsive artistic practice. Presented through a series of live lunchtime performances in the lobby, the piano becomes both instrument and listening device, responding in real time to the acoustic, architectural and social life of the building.
Here, space and community act as active participants. The presence of those who work in and pass through the building — colleagues, visitors, conversations and daily movements — shapes each performance, influencing not only the sounds recorded but also the rhythm, pacing and improvisation of the pianist.
Each session is captured live, without overdubs or post-production. Ambient elements — footsteps, voices, security radios, distant sirens and the continuous pulse of the city beyond the glass façades — are treated as compositional material rather than background, forming a sonic portrait of a specific place and moment. Architecture functions as collaborator as much as setting: its resonance, materials and rhythms inform the unfolding of each piece. No two performances are identical.
The resulting recordings form both an album and a living sound document of Moor House, with the potential to evolve into an ongoing ambient soundscape for the building itself.
More than a series of concerts, Live at ArtMoorHouse reflects ArtMoorHouse's wider commitment to interdisciplinary, site-responsive practices, where art does not simply occupy space, but reveals and reimagines it.
— Elisa Martinelli, founder and curator, ArtMoorHouse
Lunchtime concerts at Moor House
Moor House reception, 120 London Wall, London EC2Y 5ET · 13:30–14:30
- November 2026 — Antimo Magnotta, piano
Wednesdays 4, 11, 18 and 25 November - February 2026 — Antimo Magnotta, piano
5, 12, 19 and 20 February - January 2026 — Antimo Magnotta, piano
15, 16, 22, 29 and 30 January - December 2025 — Barber String Quartet
16 December, 13:00–15:00 · Christmas performance - December 2025 — Antimo Magnotta, piano
3, 10, 17 and 18 December - March 2025 — Antimo Magnotta, piano · DeePiano, the first series
6, 13, 20, 27 and 28 March
The concerts are open by appointment only. If you would like to take part, please message us at info@artmoorhouse.com and we will confirm your place.
Antimo Magnotta
Antimo Magnotta is an Italian pianist and composer based in the United Kingdom. Drawing on a background in classical, jazz, pop and electronic music, he writes ambient, atmospheric piano compositions. His project DeePiano offers an immersive experience of live piano music, conceived as a meditative, regenerative journey. He is also the author of How Music Saved My Life. antimomagnotta.com
Music in the exhibitions
- A Hidden Order — May 2024
A collaboration between visual art and music, bringing together traditional Islamic pattern and contemporary Western composition. - Chromasoul — May – August 2019
Maria Inés Aguirre (MIA) — the painted Steinway Model D. The St. Botolph Building. ArtMoorHouse Projects. - The Music of Colour — 11 November 2011 – 6 January 2012
Maria Inés Aguirre (MIA).
Visits
ArtMoorHouse
Moor House, 120 London Wall
London EC2Y 5ET, United Kingdom
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