Beauty of the Bassline (Livestream)

The use of basslines within popular music governs listener delight: maintaining a song’s rhythmic heartbeat, providing an authoritative pace and rewarding listener anticipation following ‘the drop’.

Basslines are synonymous with the work of singer-songwriter-musicians Mark King (of Level 42) and Omar. 

In a unique evening of discussion and demonstration, Mark and Omar will share the beauty of the bassline’s influence on them as young music fans and on us as recipients of their respective talents.

This event is one of a series held in advance of the opening of V&A East Museum, the V&A’s newest member of our family of sites, which opens in Spring 2026 with the exhibition, The Music is Black: A British Story.

This event will be streamed on Zoom and all ticketholders will receive a link to view the morning of the event. It will also be recorded for those not able to join live.