CONTACT
PO Box 68518,
Newton,
Auckland,
NZ
Email: admin@audiofoundation.org.nz
0272068103
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PEOPLE
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Mission Statement:
To support, promote and preserve innovative audio culture in NZ.
The Audio Foundation is primarily concerned with creating opportunities and resources that will benefit and foster the community it serves.
The Audio Foundation encourages the production of new work and critical debate; providing audiences and practitioners with a cultural context for sound art, noise and outsider music.
AF is a forum for the exhibition and critical discussion of artist's work, and is responsible for a number of national initiatives including Alt.Music that actively promote the diverse range of activities and philosophies informing contemporary audio culture
ALT.MUSIC FESTIVAL
Founded in 2001 by Artspace, Alt.Music is a very successful sound art festival. Due to Alt.Music outliving its original role as a temporary part of the Artspace programme, the Festival is now organised by an independent committee under the auspices of the Audio Foundation while still maintaining ties with Artspace. The Festival now has major partnerships including the NZ international Film Festival, AUT and St Pauls St Gallery, The Edge, Creative New Zealand and Fulbright New Zealand.
Alt.Music is a vital injection of contemporary sound art dialogue for New Zealand. It provides local practitioners and audiences for cutting-edge audio culture with direct access to, interaction with and experience of the latest currents in sound making. As well as helping develop New Zealand's ties with the international sound community, previous year's festivals have had a noticeable effect in strengthening local culture by creating opportunities for meeting contemporaries. We see Alt.Music as an important means of generating future initiatives and cross-cultural collaborations.
http://www.myspace.com/altmusicfestival
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
AF is undertaking a comprehensive project to record interviews with NZ Sound Artists who although are held in high regard internationally, are relatively unknown in NZ.
While the influence and relevance of these artists work can be found easily in the larger international community, we believe they need the kind of attention in New Zealand their influence warrants.
AF believes that it is imperative to have a record of the unique insights and historical accounting of these artists. These interviews will serve to not only provide a historical understanding of some of the most pioneering artists in NZ, but will also provide inspiration to emerging practitioners and increase an understanding of the practice through this.
MP3 LIBRARY
AF is in the process of creating and cataloging an MP3 Library of NZ sound art. This MP3 Library will be available for the general public to have access to a wide range of audio work and is also under the framework of the Audio Foundation Heritage Initiative.
The library is a digitised version of donated CD Library and enables many recordings that havent been deposited in Libraries or collections to be digitally preserved.
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Facilitator and Co-ordinator
Zoe Drayton
Charitable Trust Board
Jon Bywater
Philip Dadson
Glenda Keam
Andrew Clifford
Zita Joyce
Andrew McMillan
Zoe Drayton
Consulting members:
Bruce Russell
Rosy Parlane
Sam Hamilton
Richard Francis
Alt.Music Committee
Nigel Wright
Rosy Parlane
Tim Coster
Zoe Drayton
Oral History Team
Sally McKintyre
Zita Joyce
Andrew Clifford
Zoe Drayton
Stefan Neville
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