News & Events

Orchestra of Spheres (WEL) / Grunge Xenakis

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:26:40 -0800

11pm Start

Silencio Ensemble – Mekhane

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:33 -0800

The central feature of Silencio Ensemble's Mekhane is a revolving mechanical apparatus with a six meter boom from which a microphone is suspended. The live 12 piece ensemble sits in a circular fashion facing outwards in fleeting contact with various amplifications. The music making revolves around various interactions with the device and the structures found within it.

SIGN OF THE HAG [WEL], ISAAC VS DRUM MACHINE, MOS IOCOSS, BABA ROSSA, JEMI HEMI MANDALA AND ZYE SOCELES QUARTET

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:32:51 -0800

9pm start

Jane Austen, Mela, With Moths

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:09:31 -0800

And Nothing Stirred

thomas.murphy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:08:19 -0800

A multi-room, interactive sound and light installation, including...

A finely tuned nothing, with a series of sound beams self canceling unless someone enters the installation, when their body interfere with the wave fronts and create new soundscape as a physical reaction.

a multi-stage video delay room where the only exhibition will be people's perception of the exhibition and their reaction to their reaction to their reaction...

An optical synthesiser built out of fans and lights.

water cymatics.

GRUNGE GENOCIDE DRUM PENTAGRAM + ADAM WILLETTS + OLIVER OF THE SKY

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:10:24 -0800

VELVET HOUR, IRD, SLIT THE THROAT OF THE ASSISTANT, JACK HOOKER

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:08:20 -0800

Songs Album Release tour w/ Surf City

jeffhburch — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:27:50 -0800

To celebrate the New Zealand release of their S/T album

26/02 Whammy Bar, Auckland w/ Surf City, Popstrangers & Deerpark
27/02 Mighty Mighty, Wellington w/ Surf City & Zorba the Mastiff (Marineville)

THE GREAT WALL OF NOISE ISLAND

PPFLO — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:36:31 -0800

FLYER COMING SOON

THE GREAT WALL OF NOISE ISLAND

Alleluia Cafe, St Kevins Arcade
Karangahape Rd, Auckland
Thursday 28 January 2010
20:00 - 22:30 $8

NOMEX [UK]
RICHARD FRANCIS & CLINTON WATKINS
BEARD & TUMOUR
DUNCAN BRUCE

Advice: Bring a wheelchair to this event.

RETURN TO THE CONQUEST OF BREAKCORE ISLAND II

PPFLO — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:33:04 -0800

FLYER COMING SOON

RETURN TO THE CONQUEST OF BREAKCORE ISLAND II

The Brothel,
268 Karangahape Rd, Auckland
Fridayday 12 February 2010
22:00 - 03:30 $5

REALICIDE [USA]
NOMEX [UK]
EARTH DEMISE
N.U.T.E
THE INCREDIBLE HEXADECIBELS W/ CREASSAULT

Advice: Same Party / Different City

Realicide the socio-political DIY gabber punk collective from the US, on its first tour of Australia and New Zealand, represented by founding member Robert Inhuman.

RETURN TO THE CONQUEST OF BREAKCORE ISLAND

PPFLO — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:27:22 -0800

FLYER COMING SOON

RETURN TO THE CONQUEST OF BREAKCORE ISLAND

The Brothel,
268 Karangahape Rd, Auckland
Fridayday 12 February 2010
22:00 - 03:30 $5

REALICIDE [USA]
USA KINGS [HU]
NOMEX [UK]
N.U.T.E
INVASION OF THE MUTANT SPACE BATS OF DOOM
THE INCREDIBLE HEXADECIBELS W/ CREASSAULT
K5K

Advice: B.Y.O Police Repellent.

Escape the Bowels of Noise Island

PPFLO — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:23:29 -0800

FLYER COMING SOON

ESCAPE THE BOWELS OF NOISE ISLAND

The Wine Cellar, St Kevins Arcade
Karangahape Rd, Auckland
Thrusday 11 February 2010
20:00 - 10:30
$8

REALICIDE [USA]
NOMEX [UK]
?RECUERDE?
PETER VARG

Advice: Ear plugs.

Realicide the socio-political DIY gabber punk collective from the US, on its first tour of Australia and New Zealand, represented by founding member Robert Inhuman will perform a singular noise piece for this discerning event.

The Curse of Breakcore Island

PPFLO — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:18:02 -0800

FLYER COMING SOON

THE CURSE OF BREAKCORE ISLAND

Area26, St Kevins Arcade
Karangahape Rd, Auckland
Friday 29 January 2010
21:00 - 01:30
$5

TOECUTTER [AUS]
NOMEX [UK]
THE INCREDIBLE HEXADECIBELS W/ CREASSAULT
K5K
PONNY FIGHT
GEE GEE

Advice: Bring Yr Own. Or make a donation, receive a free beer !

Kevin Blechdom (USA) feat. Barnwave + Greg Malcolm & Jenny Ward

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:27:50 -0800

Kevin Blechdom is a musician from Tallahassee, Florida, whose solo and collaborative work – as a member of Blectum from Blechdom and Adult Rodeo and as a duo with Eugene Chadbourne – has appeared on labels such as Kid606’s Tigerbeat6 (DJ /rupture, Indian Jewelry, Quintron and Miss Pussycat), Kit Clayton’s Orthlorng Musork (AGF, Akira Rabelais, Ekkehard Ehlers), Sonig (Jason Forrest, Mouse On Mars), Shimmy Disc (Daniel Johnston, Ruins, Shockabilly), Les Disques Victo (Anthony Braxton, Kid Koala, Hijokaidan, Wolf Eyes, Cecil Taylor) and Chicks On Speed Records (Le Tigre, DAT Politics).

Richard Francis, Cathedrals (Nigel Wright & Tim Coster) & Jeff Burch (Sydney)

jeffhburch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:32:47 -0800

The High Seas
Ground Floor, Theta Building
1/12-14 Beresford Square
Auckland Central

Artist Information:

Jeff Burch is an American born New Zealander now based in Sydney Australia. Besides his controlled solo guitar work he runs independent Imprint/Record Label The Spring Press, has a duo project Mandala Trap with Paul Gough (Pimmon) and is also one quarter of Songs. His first solo release, recorded in 2006, is out in November through Perth label Farmer Frontier.

The Adelaide Sax-Pack

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:48:11 -0800

Australian Multi-Instrumentalist Adam Page (winner Best Music and Best Solo Show at the 2009 New Zealand Fringe Festival, and collaborator with STRIKE in July 2009) is returning to Wellington, but this time he is bringing some friends... The Adelaide Sax Pack!

Think about this... four world-class saxophonists, one huge quartet sound, stacks of the cheesiest music you know you love but choose to hate, that's The Adelaide Sax Pack.

JOHN WIESE - 'Battery Instruments'

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:26:20 -0800

John Wiese is an artist, composer and arch-collaborteur from Los Angeles, California, who has recorded alongside a myriad of other musical luminaries, such as Wolf Eyes, SunnO))), Die Monitr Batss, Lasse Marhaug, Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Thurston Moore, Cattle Decapitation, Merzbow, The Locust, Smegma, Yellow Swans, Daniel Menche and Bruce Russell. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C.

JOHN WIESE (US) + Adam Willetts + LA Lakers

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:24:42 -0800

Czech group Už Jsme Doma NZ tour with mr sterile Assembly[WGTN]

mr sterile — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:43:41 -0800

Uz Jsme Doma, (pronounced oosh-smeh-dough-ma), are a progressive rock band from Czech Republic, who originally formed in northwest border town Teplice in 1985. The band's name translates literally to, "we're home now" but, as an idiom, means something more like, "well, there we go" in Czech conversation.

the TRONS, the SHRUGS, DISCO VOLANTE, and experiments

glocke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:19:26 -0800

A Night of Experimentalia featuring the films of Snakebeings and randomized installations by various underground artisics

A joint presentation by collective experimental group Art Rotunda, and junk factorial Pieplate Industries

THE TRONS

PUMICE, VOLT, RICHARD SCOWEN

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:52:09 -0800

The crumbling lattice rock and cherubic choral goo of Stefan Neville’s Pumice (http://www.myspace.com/pumarse) was last witnessed here alongside US’ Grouper and has more recently been performed over in the States itself, meanwhile being committed to record on both Soft Abuse (Wooden Wand, The Futurians, Hala Strana, The Skygreen Leopards) and Dirty Knobby (Astral Social Club, Peter Wright, Our Love Will Destroy the World).

The Futurians, Murderbike, Zombie?Fuck!, CJA, Grunge Genesis

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:19:16 -0700

The proton b-punk and recalcitrant rock of The Futurians has been described by their Minneapolis label, Soft Abuse as 'analog futurism performed by a group of sci-fi addicted noise freaks.’ Its zonked clique of superheroes, consisting of Duckling Monster, CJA, Mandroid, and ISO12, creates a garage din straight out of the border territories of some bio-junk comic plot in a windswept cathode past. “It's Wolf Eyes meets The Troggs, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks meets This Kind of Punishment’, Soft Abuse continues.

SHAYNE BOWDEN (JP/AUS), FENCE, RICHARD NEAVE

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:17:22 -0700

Shayne Bowden is an Australian sound artist, writer and curator based in Fukuoka Japan. His practice switches between power electronics and percussion, and he has played alongside the likes of Eugene Chadbourne, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lawrence English and Acid Mothers Temple. In 2003 he founded DETERRA, an organization that has produced live shows by the likes of those listed above, and the AGAINST: Fukuoka Extreme Music Festival that has played host to noise legends, Incapacitants, Masonna and Jazkamer.

Music Machines

Bluevibe studio — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:09 -0700

A one day celebration of electronic music bringing together New Zealand’s largest collection of classic synthesiser’s and drum machines. Performances and demo's by Jed Town and Tom Ludvigson (special one off performance titled "Radioactive Waste",
Nigel Russell (Car Crash Set),
Nathan Haines,
Lewis McCallum,
The "Analog Allstars" live techno jam,
Tim William,
Stress Cadet.

This is your chance to come and play some of these vintage and modern synths, meet some of the collectors and learn about the history of electronic music machines in New Zealand.

collective: improvisation; new music; sound art; experimental aurality; hello sir/madam

noelmeek — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:49:39 -0700

new weekly music evening of improvisation, noise, new music, sound art and other aural pleasures

tuesdays

contact noel meek for performance opportunities: bootlegginteacher@gmail.com

4th Hamilton Underground Film Festival 2009 13th and 17th October

snakebeings — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:00:27 -0700

3 Different Screenings and events:

Tuesday 13th October 2009 6pm @ Waikato Museum of Art and History[Lecture theatre]
Short Films + intermission + Longer Films + Super 8 projections + Karen Karnak section [finishes at 9pm] $5 PG

Saturday 17th October 2009 6pm @ Waikato Museum of Art and History[Lecture theatre]
NZ's premier Underground Film Director David Blyth {Angel mine, Death warmed up, Circadian Rhythms} will introduce his new film "Transfigured nights" + questions and answers $5 R16 [MC for the night Martin Rumsby] +

5th November:

Ducktails (US)/ The Aesthetics/ The Forgotten Guests/ Alex MacKinnon

alex mackinnon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:26:59 -0700

None and Claude&Power are excited to bring to Dunedin Ducktails!

Chris Watson (UK) and PSN Electronic (Dunedin) @ the DPAG

alex mackinnon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:38:04 -0700

Altmusic and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery are very proud to present Chris Watson, for a live multichannel diffusion mix of the pieces 'Midnight at the Oasis' and 'Oceanus pacificus'.

Ducktails (US), Peter Wright, Not Even Owls, Adam Willetts & LA Lakers

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:08:20 -0700

Take a trip back to the 1982 summer season and come parasailing through sun-stoned peach skies and glimmering turquoise waters for this special one-off Christchurch show by Matt Mondanile’s DUCKTAILS. 2009 has been a momentous year for this New Jersey native, who has released two acclaimed LPs on label du jour, Not Not Fun and boutique Olde English Spelling Bee, and a veritable mass of other material under various aliases such as The Parasails and Predator Vision, his blog-darling band Real Estate, and the continental offworlder unit, Africa Germany Germany Mexico Turkey Australia.

Altmusic presents: CHRIS WATSON (UK)

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:04:13 -0700

Altmusic is proud to present Chris Watson as the final artist in 2009's performance series.

Chris Watson is one of the world's leading sound recordists specialising in capturing the sounds of wildlife and natural phenomena.

Watson puts his microphone where you can't put your ears. In this performance you might hear the unearthly groaning of an Icelandic glacier or the voices and rhythms of the Humboldt current around the Galapagos Islands.

SHOJI HANO (JP) National Tour

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:52:16 -0700

Born in 1955, based in Tokyo, Shoji Hano is one of free-jazz, noise and psychedelic rock’s most preeminent percussionists and brilliant all-round sages.

Widely regarded on the same consecrated plane as celebrated jazz heavyweights, the late Rashied Ali, Milford Graves, and his own mentors Max Roach and Art Blakey, Shoji’s solo drumming is a mesmerizing feat to witness, and displays a bewildering dexterity that’s both physically and psychically difficult to attribute to the motions of one individual player.

Radio Active 89fm Presents "Spring Clean"

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:56:25 -0700

Radio Active 89FM loves you, so come party with us! Four of Welli's best bands and 10 of Wellis best DJ's all under one roof.
Introducing rising star Rap Authoritar, rhythm king Rio Hunuki-Hemopo, future folkesque Family Cactus and a rare exclusive performance by "Mr eclectic-ronica" Module.

Confirmed DJ's: Lotion, Dr Dude, Knave Knixx, Maximillion, Ayesha, Roddy, Omega B and more to be announced.

$20 from Rex Royale, Radio Active or more on the door. Heaps of prizes up for grabs, party drink specials and community culture.

ILIOS (GR/ES)

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:00:34 -0700

Producer of hits like 'Love is my Motor', 'Balls', 'Eurovision / Otravision' and 'Dance Classics', ILIOS is dance music’s brain-mulching enemy. Architect of some of the most austere and extreme sonic creations that are equally contemplative in their captivating realisation, the Greek composer and Spain-based curator has worked alongside an array artists working on similar exploratory fronts of music, such as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Francisco Lopez, Sachiko M, Steinbrüchel, Jazzkammer, Daniel Menche, Reynols’ Anla Courtis, and the Basque provocateur, Mattin.

xNOBBQx / Creche / Wu / Not Even Owls @ NONE!

alex mackinnon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:17:38 -0700

xNOBBQx (brisbane)
Creche (christchurch)
Wu
Not Even Owls

@ NONE! 24 stafford st/ Dunedin/ saturday 26th Nov/ $5/ 9pm.

http://none.org.nz/

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/event.php?eid=131132977171&ref=nf

http://www.myspace.com/xnobbqx

http://www.vimeo.com/5256435

xNoBBQx (AUS) / GRUNGE GENESIS + BRUCE RUSSELL

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:24:57 -0700

The Australian drums and guitar duo xNoBBQx are frequently compared to North American noise-rock legends Harry Pussy and Mouthus et al., but as its members Nik Dan and Matt Earle suggest, that’s only a point of reference for hipsters and themesters. Their deconstructive seizure punk might be a more direct channeling of the disobedient spirits on our own Bruce Russell’s legendary Xpressway label. ‘If the Dead C are the AMM of punk rock’, Seht’s Stephen Clover has suggested, ‘then xNoBBQx are a stop-motion Morton Feldman’.

PINK REASON (US) / MARYROSE & BRIAN CROOK + CRECHE / ADAM WILLETTS + NDLSS DMNSN

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:03:59 -0700

The bent, de-learned and congested drone, rear-ended syncopations, psychotropic jazz, autistic ragtime and geological gangster punk of Columbus, Ohio’s Pink Reason is made by a leviathan of transitory board members chaired by one Kevin de Broux, the witchdoctor of spiked rhumba dance contests and wrong Powerpoint presentations. Entirely uncertified sonic bookies and musical genre traitors, their sound can vary radically from Health & Medicine to New Age Religion & Philosophy to Business Directories. Total Purity and Danger.

RYAN JEWELL (US) / MATT HORSESHIT (US) / BRUCE RUSSELL (NZ)

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:01:16 -0700

Ohio’s Ryan Jewell is Secretary of both the UFOlogical Drummer Summit and Abducted Rare Species Groove Conference, 90210 A.C. Antenna to the percussion deities, Jewell channels the same octopus tempers as fellow un-counters, Chris Corsano, Edie Prevost, Tim Barnes, Chris O’Connor and the Dialogue of Drums, but lands in a separate dyslexic ocean completely, soft abrasions and filament scratches hook up on a dexterous mulch tide of brush slithers and skimmed respires, all with the most minimal of instrumental elements.

undrawing & stress cadet

undrawing — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:16:27 -0700

Piano Queen Rainbow Star Telephone

alex mackinnon — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:15:15 -0700

Piano Queen Rainbow Star Telephone
are playing at None this saturday evening
after 9pm

PQRST is a large improv band involving:
Motoko kikkawa
john white
alex mackinnon
katrina thompson
toki wilson
edie stevens
rachel blackburn

organs/ strings/ turntable guitar amps/ lots of shit everywhere

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/none/videos/5561336

The Borderline Ballroom presents New Selves

davidkhan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:25:47 -0700

The Borderline Ballroom presents

New Selves

Saturday 22 August, Wunderbar, Lyttelton, 9pm, $5

Oh Mental Hospitals (Chch)
The New Self (Dunedin)
David Khan (Chch)

Thurs 30th July ALPS (aus)+Golden Axe+Stress Cadet

stresscadet — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:19:38 -0700

Playing in Auckland this thursday, July 30th at Sky bears cuddle den will be Australian lo-fi drone-drone hardscape ambient pop artist ALPS playing with the infinite Golden Axe and the evil and mediocre washout-timewasters Stress Cadet.

The show is only $5. Starts at 7:30 and will finish before midnight. You do the math.

VEGAN ICECREAM BONFIRE

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:10:11 -0700

HSP SHIFTING PARTY

GREG MALCOLM, LUCIEN JOHNSON & CHRIS O’CONNOR

SAM HAMILTON

GRUNGE REVELATIONS WITH BRUCE RUSSELL

SPACE ARK BAND

VELVET HOUR (TIM COSTER & LA LAKERS)

APRICOT BEATS / PHAROAH CONTRAPUNCH / MADASS AWEPSYCH / TRUANT KOSMISCHE / EMBLAZONED AUTOBAHNS / CARBONATED PUNK / CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHICAL R&B / BOWIE HOTSPOTS / ASH RA PLUMES / MURAKAMI PYROCUMULUS / GOTH PINNACLES / RITUALIZED FROGUEROCK / PURGATORY GAMELAN / SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL

Sam Hamilton, Chris O'Connor, LA LAKERS, Adam Willetts

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:28:44 -0700

Saturday 1st August – late
HSP gallery (Christchurch)
Performing solo electronics and yahoo’s plus a voodoo free punk psych duo with fellow SPACE ARK BAND drummer Chris O’Connor
With LA LAKERS, Adam Willetts and more!
Celebrating the moving on of HSP’s physical gallery

Te Tuhi Art Bus

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:26:55 -0700

Saturday 25th July – 1:30pm
Te Tuhi art bus (Auckland)
Solo electronics and bells performance on the bus from ARTSPACE to Te Tuhi for exhibition opening celebration.

Dugal McKinnon, Chris Watson, Igor Stravinsky

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:21:11 -0700

Wednesday, 22 July, 1 p.m.
Dugal McKinnon - Diktat, Ditty, Half-life
Chris Watson - Coffe Table Book
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (2 pianos)
Pestova/Meyer piano duo, Marama Hall, University of Otago, Dunedin
$2/$5

If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given: WU, CRUDE and an OPEN FLOOR

cruderr — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:32:47 -0700

'Concept' event featuring:
ACT 1: WU - free jazz trio comprising of Matt Middleton (tenor sax) , Lee Noyes (drums and percussion) and Alex MacKinnon (guitars/effects)

ACT 2: CRUDE - performing a special 5 act spoken word/conceptual/exhibit/musique concrete piece
i: statemtn
ii: sound
iii dance
iv: statement
v: conclusion

ACT 3: FREE FOR ALL MEGA JAM - an open mic. anyone and everyone.

undrawing

undrawing — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:07:24 -0700

undrawing is an audiovisual band without roles, and without compositions. Based in Auckland, New Zealand. It bridges that vast gap between technical command and consolidated musicianship. The result is entirely constructed on stage, with the capacity to explore pure electronica, traditional instrumental improv, or all the permutations inbetween.

featuring:
Abe Kunin: guitar, loops, effects
Alex Freer: drums, Korg ER1, Nintendo DS
Nicholas Rogan: Rhodes, voice, Roland MC505, Korg Kaoss Pad 2, Korg Kaoss Pad Mini, compressor, mixer
Chris Targett: Fluxus live-coded visuals

MARTYN REYNOLDS + HSP PRESENT: "RONNIE JAMES CELINE DION"

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:46:09 -0700

MARTYN REYNOLDS /

DISNEYLAND / D'ORSAY / DAYPASS / DOORPASS /

LIVE SOUND BY CRECHE, ADAM WILLETTS AND NDLSS DMNSN /

THURSDAY 16 JULY / 8.30PM /

HIGHSTREETPROJECT.BLOGSPOT.COM /

Karlheinz Stockhausen: MANTRA for two pianists and live electronics (digital version)

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:14:42 -0700

Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer, pianos
Philip Brownlee, sound projection

For more information on the project: http://xeniapestova.com/mantra.html

SKY BEAR'S "Fuck recession mentality, the future is what we make it" PARTY

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:34:01 -0700

REASONS AND CELEBRATIONS:

1 - its the official after party for the new expanded cinema show at Gus Fisher with Australian experimental film guru's Dirk de Bruyn and Joel Stern with the Parasitic Fantasy Band (Eve and Sam) and Nova Paul.

2 - finally, after half a year of waiting, its the official release party for Sam Hamilton's new full length CD "Sooty Symposium"!!!

3 - as well as the Launch for Adam Willetts new CDR on Fictitious Sigh's

4 - then it just so happens to be TIM COSTERS BIRTHDAY!!! yaahooo (happy birthday Tim!!!)

Retinex Reflux - a performance by Dirk de Bruyn & Joel Stern

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:26:09 -0700

A concert of live, expanded and experimental cinema from Joel Stern (Brisbane), Dirk de Bruyn (Melbourne), who are presenting Retinex Reflux, a traumatic cine-ritual performance for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade film, sound collage and unhinged mouth music.

Also featuring peformances and screenings by:

The Parasitic Fantasy Band

Light Piercing the Nerve – a performance by Abject Leader

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:24:15 -0700

Saturday 13 June, 7.00pm Light Piercing the Nerve – a performance by Abject Leader (AU, 60 minutes, Exempt) Abject Leader is an ever–evolving film and music project between Sally Golding (film, projectors) and Joel Stern (concrete sound). Based in Brisbane, Abject Leader perform ‘expanded cinema’ pieces with multiple 16mm projectors. They describe the key ingredients of their performances as handmade and hand processed film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, trumpets and strings, specially prepared screens and alienated narration.

Retinex Reflux - a performance by Dirk de Bruyn

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:22:27 -0700

Friday 12 June, 7.00pm

Retinex Reflux - a performance by Dirk de Bruyn (AU, 60 mins, Exempt)

Over the last 30 years Melbourne-based film-maker, writer and academic Dirk
de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films
and videos. In his first visit to Wellington he presents Retinex Reflux; a
live film performance that uses multiple 16mm film projectors in an
explosion of light, colour and sound.

http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_deta...

http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/debruyn.html

PERLONEX [BERLIN]: NEW ZEALAND TOUR

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:48:34 -0700

The Berlin group PERLONEX’s flurrying micro textures and corrupted electro-acoustic zones have taken them on a twisting incursion across some of the most persistently radical and inventive musical fields of thought and experimentation.

Clinton Watkins & Adam Willetts

Mon, 25 May 2009 02:13:07 -0700

Cream were a 1960s British blues-rock band and supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. Their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, hard rock and psychedelic rock.

Adam Willetts Live at Shirley Library

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:41:12 -0700

Adam Willetts will be performing at Shirley Library this Sunday at midday as part of Christchurch City Libraries New Zealand Music Month events. http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Events/NZMusicMonth/2009/

Adam Willetts
Shirley Library (36 Marshland Road next to the Palms)
12pm (this performance will start on time so get there early)
FREE

Two Trains of Thought: Stanier Black-Five and Mela

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:24:30 -0700

After recent performances at Dunedin’s Lines of Flight, Lyttelton-based sound artists Stanier Black-Five and Mela make their North Island debuts this month, followed by a special homecoming performance in Lyttelton.

WELLINGTON: 28th May – Adam Art Gallery - 8pm – free as part of the Sound Check series
AUCKLAND: 30th May – The Wine Cellar – 8pm - $5
LYTTELTON with guest, Bruce Russell: 7th June – Unanimity Lodge, 6 St Davids Street – 4:30pm - $5

Two Trains of Thought: Stanier Black-Five and Mela

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:23:47 -0700

Two Trains of Thought: Stanier Black-Five and Mela

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:22:59 -0700

"stars" by warwick blair auckland premiere

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:40:12 -0700

Journey through space and time in this remarkable 24-hour work from acclaimed composer Warwick Blair. Astronomy meets Indian gandaharva music and electronica in STARS, a multimedia installation that combines original live and recorded music with a stunning six screen video projection of the heavens. STARS is the result of Blair’s collaboration with video artist and astronomer Paul Moss, and Indian vocalist Arpita Chanda, and will be performed at Galatos (Auckland) on June 4 and 5, 2009 - the International Year of Astronomy.

Oren Ambarchi, Roy Montgomery and Alex MacKinnon

luke — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:27:25 -0700

Oren Ambarchi is an experimental musician whose work explores the effect of music of tremulous beauty played at brutal volume. Born in Australia, he has a long history of challenging, absorbing solo work, and collaborations with some of the most prestigious artists working in the field of contemporary music: ranging from the high art seriousness of Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, Sachimoko M, Phil Niblock and Christian Fennesz, to Dave Grohl and the satanic majesties of experimental metal, Sunn o)), with whom he has recently toured.

Oren Ambarchi 1pm 'Lecture'

luke — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:25:46 -0700

Oren Ambarchi Altmusic Tour

luke — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:23:16 -0700

Oren Ambarchi Altmusic Tour

luke — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:22:11 -0700

He Kaihua Ki Uta:LANTERN Special

islepark — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:04:47 -0700

Tune in to a poetry reciting hosted by local poet Isle Park, with a voice to reach your soul and the ocean. Presented in English.

Next broadcast on Wellington Access Radio 783AM at 4:30pm on Saturday 25th April 2009.

Isle talks to Renée Liang, a poet, playwright and MC at Poetry Live, a weekly poetry performance event in Auckland. Renee discusses her new play Lantern, on at Bats theatre this month.

The only poetry radio show at capital city.

cost:
Free

featuring:
Renee Liang,Chris Tse and isle park

Downloading:
http://www.accessradio.org.nz/he_kaihua_ki_uta.html

Bob Wiseman NZ Tour

black beaver — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:25:43 -0700

Go and see the Bob Wiseman show in your town - open the little flyer and zoom in for dates. (still trying to upload flyer)
He's a legend.
If you don't beleive me, spend a little quality youtube time watching Bob do weird things to music and film.
Go to www.bobwiseman.com for more.
Contact me (black beaver) for details.

(flyer won't upload now - here are the dates):
Friday April 10th: WHANGAREI - Quarry Arts Centre
(workshop 1pm-5pm/performance @8pm)
Saturday April 11th: AUCKLAND - The Wine Cellar

i.ryoko, Seth Frightening & Basketball Nightmare

i.ryoko — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:27:23 -0700

Saturday afternoon chillout! 4PM isn't a typo.

isle Park:He Kaihua Ki Uta Poetry Recital

islepark — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:33:24 -0700

Tune in to a poetry reciting hosted by local poet Isle Park, with a voice to reach your soul and the ocean. Presented in English.

Next broadcast on Wellington Access Radio 783AM at 4:30pm on Saturday 28th March.

The only poetry radio show at capital city.

cost:
Free

featuring:
isle park

dates:
Sat 28 Feb 09, 4:30pm

venue:
Welington Access Radio 783AM, Tune in to 783AM, Wellington

region:
Wellington, New Zealand

bio:
isle Park,
a wild soul child from Waikato river.
Park is a poet, singer, songwriter as well as radio programme maker.

The Borderline Ballroom presents mr sterile Assembly with As At, Wunderbar, Lyttelton, March 20th

davidkhan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:11:04 -0800

The Borderline Ballroom are pleased to present a rare performance by Wellington-based, Outsider punk 3-piece mr sterile Assembly at the Wunderbar, Lyttelton, Friday March 20th. Doors open 9pm, entry is $5. Support is to be provided by local Christchurch experimental music duo As At.

Altmusic presents: GROUPER + PUMICE + ROY MONTGOMERY + CHRISTCHURCH

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:11:06 -0800

GROUPER is Portland’s Liz Harris, whose 2008 opus Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill bloomed as one of the defining albums of the year, appearing on a blogging generation’s collective top-ten list, mesmerizing many with its gossamer murmurs and dulcet vapours, appearing siren-like in its eerie yet uplifting mix of a shoe-gaze palette with indelible choral palimpsests and undulating modal drones that seemed both extraterrestrial and utterly homely in their foggy grace.

Lines of Flight 2009

alex mackinnon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:17:40 -0800

Check out http://lof09.blogspot.com/ for more info, updates etc.

If you use facebook! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56789631889#/group.php?gid=4502472...

MARCH 26th/ 27th/ and two shows on the 28th!

CHICKS HOTEL, Port Chalmers, Dunedin.

All shows $8 with a radio one card and $10 without, a $30 weekend pass will be available on the first night.

The Line up:

Thursday the 26th - 8pm

Tillakaratne (Dunedin)
Mela (Christchurch)
Tim Coster (Auckland)
White Saucer (Auckland)

++++++++++++++++++

Friday the 27th - 8pm

Peter Wright (Christchurch)

Rosy Tin Teacaddy Album Release w/ Jess Chambers

Earl Grey Records — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:22:16 -0800

Wellington-based, indie-folk ensemble, Rosy Tin Teacaddy, are proud to announce a cure for homesickness in the release of their new album, The Homeward Stretch.

Following their 2007 debut ‘Blind Leading the Blind’, The Homeward Stretch is a collection of loosely interwoven vignettes featuring temptresses and miscreants. Some are flights of fancy, dedications to loss, or rants from the confessional booth. Others are memories glimpsed through rose-tinted glasses - or an empty bottle of absinthe. There is the occasional cannibalistic dinner and inappropriate suggestion.

HSP MARSUPIAL PRESENTS: TENNISCOATS + TIM COSTER + SETH REES

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:12:27 -0800

Tenniscoats is the playful moniker of Saya and Ueno Takashi, a maniacally cute combustion of telepathic Japanese minds that have captured the attention of a swelling audience attuned to and usually pretty smitten with the subtle ecstasy of their supra-pop chimes, muted skeletal breakbeats, joyfully wistful and whispered vocals, whirring brassy parabolas and lapping aquatic twinkles that cloud around vignette-like song forms like soft expressways which go straight to listeners’ sticky hearts.

Transpacific Composers Project

philbrownlee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:22:12 -0800

A collaborative musical performance, featuring composers and improvisers from Buenos Aires and Wellington:
Phil Brownlee, Tristan Carter, Marc Chesterman, Simon Eastwood, Matias Giuliani, Hermione Johnson, Dylan Lardelli.
Acoustic and electric instruments, live and prerecorded electronics, planned structures and spontaneous digressions.

HSP & OKay Jams Present: DAN DEACON (USA) and HIGH PLACES (USA) with support from Adam Willetts.

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:02:38 -0800

When describing the music and famed live performances of Baltimore's DAN DEACON, it's easy to slip into a juvenile and excited '90s lexicon; RAD! KOOL! SUPER! FUN!

THE BORDERLINE BALLROOM Christchurch Dirt Beneath the Daydream CD launch

stanierblack5 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:37:38 -0800

Christchurch artists featured on the Dirt Beneath the Daydreamm CD celebrate its release. This includes a collaboration between local legends Bruce Russell and Greg Malcolm; Richard Neave, Adam Willetts and LA Lakes performing as Grunge Genesis; and solo work from Stanier Black-Five.

Copies of the White Fungus issue featuring the CD will be on sale at the event, that starts at 8pm.

Broken Fall

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:07:01 -0800

Newcall celebrates the opening of Broken Fall, an exhibition held in two locations, Newcall Gallery and St Paul St Gallery2 with thanks to EPIC Beer
LOU HUBBARD, SUSAN JACOBS & KATIE LEE (Melbourne)
Opens at Newcall Gallery 6pm, Tuesday 10 February

PERFORMANCE BY TIM COSTER(Auckland)
at Newcall Gallery 9pm, Tuesday 10 February

PERFORMANCE BY RICHARD FRANCIS(Auckland)
at St Paul St Gallery Friday13th of February St Paul St Gallery 2 6pm

Undrawing, Nigel Wright

undrawing — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:50:10 -0800

From the promoter: "A night of audio manipulations, crafted digital ambiance, and sympathetic musicianship."

About Undrawing: Auckland-based experimental trio.

Band members:
Nicholas Rogan - rhodes, vocals, gadgets
Colin Hunter - bass, gagdets
Alistair Deverick - drums, gadgets

About Nigel Wright: Auckland-based soundscape artist performing since the late 90s. Uses a laptop to process guitar and tape loop source sounds, creating dense, tonal drones. Has played alt.music Festival (Auckland), Liquid Architecture (Brisbane, Sydney), Auckland International Film Festival.

GROUPER (Portland), PUMICE, CJA/SMOKEHOUSE - Chicks Hotel - DUNEDIN

alex mackinnon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:41:14 -0800

GROUPER (Portland) - PUMICE (AK) - CJA (DUN)
Chicks Hotel
Port Chalmers
Dunedin

21st March
9pm

$10.00 or $8 with a 2009 Radio One card.

Grouper (Portland) is the project of Liz Harris. In a short space of time, Grouper has become the name on the lips of the underground music world having captured hearts worldwide with her distinct blend of noise, ambience and a dream-pop sensibility. She submerges her songs in a shimmering haze of hiss, looping chorals and decomposed guitar feedback, but somewhere in there you can hear the ghosts of My Bloody Valentine or possibly Slowdive.

spacething.co.nz launch with the windups, terror of the deep and big screen pong

Ducklingmonster — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:44:00 -0800

yeee we are launching spacething.co.nz on Friday. Come help us give it a good blastov with...
The Windups
Terror of the Deep
BIG-SCREEN PONG + TETRIS!

EL GUINCHO! CHRISTCHURCH! FEBRUARY!

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:27:05 -0800

HSP & OKAY JAMS present

EL GUINCHO (ESP)
with

AS AT and MOUNT PLEASANT

EL GUINCHO is the moniker of Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa, whose sample-based, percussive, tropical-beach-pop has been exciting clubs of sweaty revellers and discerning music critics worldwide.

Altmusic presents Grouper and Pumice

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:49:34 -0800

Auckland - March 12th at Whammy Bar
Wgton - March 14th, venue TBC
Christchurch - March 18th or 19th, venue TBC
Dunedin - March 21st at Chicks Hotel , Port Chalmers

Altmusic presents Gudrun Gut

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:45:29 -0800

Dates:

Christchurch - 25th Feb (Venue TBC)

Wellington - 27th Feb at Mighty Mighty (TBC)

Auckland - 4th March at Cassette 9 with Disasteradio and Mr HayDay

Gudrun currently runs the Berlin-based Monika Enterprise Label, was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and most famously founded the 1980s band Malaria!

Altmusic presents TennisCoats and Rachel Shearer

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:41:24 -0800

Tokyo's Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married couple who have been making music since 2000, and together run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records.Tenniscoats manage to reign in the sounds of the avant-garde and knit them into accessible and wonderfully listenable vignettes in which you find yourself going back to again and again. Their starting point is pop songs, but with a staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything is possible.

JUSTICE YELDHAM, EMPIRICAL + THE EMPIRICAL ORCHESTRA

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:41 -0800

What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique audio work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. By pressing his face and lips against the glass whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, he turns disguarded household windows into crude musical instruments. Resulting in a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical.

EUGENE CHADBOURNE (!)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:01:35 -0800

Un/Equal parts polymath, autodidact, inventor, scene-mongrelizing underground cult anti-hero and true Maverick of modern North American music, Eugene Chadbourne strikes Christchurch [and the rest of the COUNTRY!] with his eclectically singular and incendiary brand of electrified be-bop hillbilly improv.

GRUNGE GENESIS COMEBACK @ new marsupial gallery

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:42:29 -0800

Discerning deserters, where do we find oursleves mid way through this desultory sylvan life?

Slowdiving combustion or mere sanguine inauguration, this coming Tuesday's Marsupial Gallery opening will feature the vitriolic virtuosities of the unholy trinity of the 03 UNDERGROUND - jesus Christ, it's all really just surface round here - ADAM WILLETTS/LA LAKERS/RICHARD NEAVE as GRUNGE GENESIS + the unconfirmed phantom presence of either A-Sides for Betaville or iRory on the levitating mezzanine decks of acousmatic and radiophonic PURGATORY.

Genuflect, bitches.

MARSUPIAL GALLERY.

Ginger Brown

Transmit — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:19:21 -0800

Like nothing you have heard before - the thunderous resonance of Ginger Brown is destined for Auckland’s Whammy Bar early January 2009.

The psychedelic three piece from Wellington city is an amalgamation of furious drums, throbbing Rhodes bass, wild Hammond organ, vivacious vocals and soaring guitar, igniting a swirl of 50's-60's psychedelia and modern rock with undertones of Cabaret and carnival.

Their recent debut album ‘Who Scared Who’ had one reviewer nominate Ginger Brown as a contender for New Zealand’s most innovative album.

ADAM WILLETTS+DIRTROOM+EYE+RADIO CEGESTE+A SIDES FOR BETAVILLE

alex mackinnon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:28:17 -0800

FRIDAY THE 12th of DECEMBER @ CHICKS HOTEL IN PORT CHALMERS OF DUNEDIN
9PM - $5.

DIRTROOM (dun)
ADAM WILLETTS (chch)
EYE (dun)
RADIO CEGESTE (chch)
A SIDES FOR BETAVILLE (chch)

DIRTROOM
this is Dirt Room's final gig for an uncertain but finite period!!! We will be performing with an imported and special friend Tim Coster from Auckland (http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/artist/tim-coster/73). DONT, Don't mind the slightly grandiose sound of this Dirt Room filler from http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/artist/dirt-room/337!:

undrawing

undrawing — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:47:57 -0800

undrawing is gonna play at the wine cellar on tuesday the 16th. All original, free, improvized welding together or acoustic and digital instruments. No door charge, just a hat.

Borderline Ballroom & kRkRkRk presents Point That Thing

stanierblack5 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:57:48 -0800

kRkRkRk Recordings, in association with the Borderline Ballroom, presents Point That Thing – an evening of omnidirectional music

The Programme

Point That Thing is a collaboration between sound artists and musicians, bands and DJs associated with local independent collectives kRkRkRk Recordings and the Borderline Ballroom. The evening will progress in a series of movements, exploring various directions and possibilities enabled by combining different musical forms and performance strategies.

AIRPORT SOCIETY (Johnny Chang in flux)

Johnny Chang — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:37:08 -0800

AIRPORT SOCIETY
(Johnny Chang in flux)
December 4, 8pm
Wine Cellar,
St Kevin's Arcade, K'rd
AUCKLAND
entry $5

Music by Christian Wolff (For, 1, 2 or 3 people") , Michael Pisaro (violin and __ materials) and Johnny Chang as well as selections from George Brecht's "Water Yam" and our own realizations from this Flux kit of events scores.

Performers: John Bell, Jim Gardner, Kevin Keys, Luke Munn, Chris O'Connor and Charlotte Rose.

(Thanks Luke for the flyer design...)

Please distribute this information freely to any and all you feel might be interested !

SHIFTING CITY SOUND PLAINS (SOUND WALKS) a one-day mini festival of explorative listening

Sam Hamilton — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:56:21 -0700

...............................................................
(b)
(objective) acoustic ecology...ish
SOUND WALKS

two separate hour-long strategically mapped and guided listening walks through central Auckland's acoustic environment and most exceptional public sonic experiences (walking shoes recommended).

starting from
CROSS ST STUDIOS
SATURDAY 6th Dec

DAY WALK -12pm
(Midday)
NIGHT WALK -10pm
(After the concert)

SHIFTING CITY SOUND PLAINS (CONCERT) a one day mini festival of explorative listening

Sam Hamilton — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:52:41 -0700

(a)
CONCERT

ARMPIT and DIRTROOM at NONE G.

alex mackinnon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:57:49 -0700

thursdaty 30th oct. at 24 stafford st. dunedin. album release!

Fête Macabre

evemdgordon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:12:02 -0700

Tales of the Dead, GHOSTLY MUSIC, Demonic BLOODY PUPPETRY, LIFE defying AERIAL MUSICAL, Gruesome REAL BLOOD Projections, INSTALLATIONS of mind-bending terror, Ghoulish ZOMBIE Dances, DEATH galore! and a living DEAD DOORMAN!

SAT 8th NOV
7pm til 1am

www.thedustpalace.co.nz/fete-macabre

$15 pre-sales from Real Groovy
from The Wine Cellar
or by emailing eve@thedustpalace.co.nz

Performances (music, dance, aerial, angle grinding...) by:

THE TRONS & CLAUDELANDS WEASELS at wine celler

pumice — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:14:54 -0700

Saving Pop Culture: Experimental German Music Videos

Nicole Edwards — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:25:03 -0700

SAVING POP CULTURE:
EXPERIMENTAL GERMAN MUSIC VIDEOS

7 Oct 2008, 7pm @ Galatos, 17 Galatos Street, Newton, Auckland

The Goethe Institute presents SAVING POP CULTURE: EXPERIMENTAL GERMAN MUSIC VIDEOS in association with MIC Toi Rerehiko and the NZ Film Archive. Join MIC Toi Rerehiko and Director Christina von Greve Tuesday 7 October for an outstanding selection of experimental German music videos!

Sound Sketch

Melanie Oliver — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:34:25 -0700

Saturday

10 – 5
Sound installation
Wellington-based musician Andy Hummel offers a sonic journey through 'Snow Ball Blind Time', playing off Peter Robinson’s sculptural ramblings and the oddities of Govett-Brewster’s architecture.

2.30 pm
Sounding out
Join the Sound Sketch artists as they chat about sound, space and the peculiarities of polystyrene.

6pm
An evening of sound performances

AlTMUSIC - ALASTAIR GALBRAITH AND PETER WRIGHT

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:04:09 -0700

Also!
Free Wire Music Workshop with Alastair Galbraith
6pm @ Gus Fisher Lobby.
The Kenneth Myers Centre
74 Shortland St

Alastair Galbraith

Alastair Galbraith is an experimental musician based in Dunedin and is one of the most admired musicians in the 'underground' music scene worldwide.

undrawing with guest speaker

undrawing — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:56:39 -0700

undrawing will be playing a show at the wine cellar on thurs 16october with a solo performance by guest speaker

BB #17 Radio Acoustic, featuring Adam Willetts, Mela, i rory, A'sides for Betaville

cegeste — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:12:21 -0700

the BORDERLINE BALLROOM #17

The Woolshed Sessions

Transmit — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:48:00 -0700

In late 2007 a bunch of Wellington musicians got together in an old woolshed in the Takaka Valley to record some songs. From this summertime project The Woolshed Sessions band and album was born.

Distinguished by lashings of lap-steel guitar, lush vocal harmony sing-a-longs, taonga puoro and banjo punctuations, The Woolshed Sessions is a fresh approach for New Zealand songwriting.

The Woolshed Sessions

Transmit — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:40:19 -0700

In late 2007 a bunch of Wellington musicians got together in an old woolshed in the Takaka Valley to record some songs. From this summertime project The Woolshed Sessions band and album was born.

Distinguished by lashings of lap-steel guitar, lush vocal harmony sing-a-longs, taonga puoro and banjo punctuations, The Woolshed Sessions is a fresh approach for New Zealand songwriting.

MPC Championship Of The World

Transmit — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:11:22 -0700

MPC Rumble

Ladies & Gentleman get ready to rumble as the third MPC Championship Of The World returns to the ring.

In the world's only official MPC battle, an all-star line of musicians and DJ's will compete at Bodega, Wellington on 25 September in an attempt to clinch the supreme title.

The MPC or Midi Production Centre is an all-in-one sequencer, sampler, controller and drum machine. Contestants will be provided with the same selection of beats and samples to mix ahead of fight night, and then compete live to deliver the most original composition.

Asni: Travels in Middle-earth CD launch

asni — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:45:49 -0700

WHO: Asni – formerly a world-travelling harper who settled down in Wellington five years ago and now presents her first New Zealand solo CD release featuring an unusual combination of medieval, traditional, contemporary and original harp music with Maori traditional taonga puoro (performed by Alistair Fraser).
Support: Tahu – Henare Walmsley, taonga puoro & Mike Hogan, guitar.

WHY: Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience Asni performing live!

Speed of Sound: Motion and Journeys

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:38:31 -0700

The Gus Fisher Gallery, 21-24 August 2008

A weekend festival of sound installations, performances and listening
events, including staff, students and graduates of The University of
Auckland School of Music and Elam School of Fine Arts. Speed of Sound
acknowledges the movement inherent in both the production and reception
of sound. Listening also plays an important role in our sense of space
and place, whether it is through our (conscious or subconscious)
awareness of the sound ecology we inhabit, or being transported to
destinations real or imagined through recordings and sonic

AF CD SHOP/S

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:31:10 -0700

We have two more dates for the AF CD shop coming up.
We need more work to sell too, so please send us through anything you would like sold:

The Audio Foundation
PO Box 68518,
Newton,
Auckland,
NZ

No commission. We sell on behalf!!

Dates:
STARVING ARTISTS FAIR -2 pm on
Sunday, 10th August
Artspace
Auckland
http://www.starvingartistsfund.com/

CRAFTWERK - 6 pm - 8 pm
Thursday, 14th August
St Kevs Arcade
Auckland
http://www.craftwerk.co.nz/

Lux Lucis ut Sanus

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:58:46 -0700

The Auckland Film Archive is pleased to present a new exhibition curated by The Audio Foundation.

OPENING: 3 Sep, 6 pm
3rd Sep – 30th Sep
1st Floor, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 11am - 4pm

Seeking to underline the acoustic perspective in a predominately visual culture, the Audio Foundation asked five artists to explore the notion of transforming light or optical information into sound.
Included with the exhibition will be a catalogue and limited edition CD showcasing the artists.

Featuring:

Adam Willetts

Marilyn Crispell, Richard Nunns & Jeff Henderson

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:48:43 -0700

Vitamin S and Stamp present

Marilyn Crispell, Richard Nunns & Jeff Henderson
Supported by the New Pacific Music Ensemble
Friday the 19th of September will be an unforgettable evening of unique and creative music. Performing at the Edges Lime-Light bar in the Aotea Centre the explosive creativity, and dynamic personality that is New York pianist Mariln Crispell will perform solo. Crispell will then team up with our own national treasure Richard Nunns on taonga puoro (Mäori musical instruments), and the creative force of Jeff Henderson.

Vitamin s presents improvisation workshops

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:07:52 -0700

Vitamin s presents improvisation workshops

Sunday August 3 Mark Trayle
6PM Wine Cellar Back room $5

Collector/Emitter
Listening and Performing with Electronics

A workshop for anyone using electronics to make improvised/experimental music, and their friends.
On the way to making an evening concert we'll work with gesture, texture, and timing in an ensemble of electronic instruments.
Bring your own laptops, analog synths, effects pedals, home-brewed circuits, hot-wired mixers, MP3 players, bent toys, and what the hell, radios. And some amplification, too.

make music with a soldering iron

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:01:00 -0700

Linwood College Adult and Community Education in Christchurch is running an introduction to electronics night class over the next couple of terms where you get to build a simple analogue synth. Starting with an overview of basic electronics concepts and techniques, the focus will be on the practical construction of a variety of fun circuits for the making of electronic music. No previous knowledge of electronics or music is assumed.

No Man's Land

fionasoepaing — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:06:19 -0700

Colliderscope presents "No Man's Land" at the monthly "Intersect" music and visuals nights at Galatos. Skeletal, off-world electronica and visuals collide in the spaces between dreaming and waking. Alien lullabies envelop and mesmerize - warped beauty enfolds you in an unsettling and compelling "No Man's Land" Music and vocals from Scottish/Burmese producer Fiona Soe Paing, original animation from Zennor Alexander.

RYOJI IKEDA and STUART PAGE

Nicole Edwards — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:46 -0700

MIC Toi Rerehiko presents Ryoji Ikeda and Stuart Page.

OPENING RECEPTION JULY 11 @ 8PM,
Level 1, 321 K-Road, Newton, Auckland

RYOJI IKEDA – data.tron

Tim Coster and Adam Willetts play The Physics Room

luke — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:30:44 -0700

Tim Coster graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT in 2002, specialising in sculpture. Since then he has been practising mainly as
a Sound Artist, working with audio releases, installations and
performance. Coster uses field recordings and other gathered sounds,
processed by computer and digital/analogue looping devices to create
shifting delicate drone works. Collaborations include work with Mark
Sadgrove, Nigel Wright, Andrew Scott (as Huzun), and Plains.

Tim curates the CLaudia label, which releasing audio documents

Altmusic Event - Rafael Toral and Adam Willetts

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:19:45 -0700

AUDIO FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN ALTMUSIC EVENT
RAFAEL TORAL
WITH ADAM WILLETTS

RAFAEL TORAL (PORTUGAL)

"SPACE STUDIES"
Rafael Toral was considered in the 1990s "one of the most gifted and innovative guitarists of the decade" (Chicago Reader). He has collaborated with Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Alvin Lucier, Evan Parker, David Toop, Sonic Youth, Fennesz and many others, having played across Europe and the US, Canada and Japan. He's a member of the electronic orchestra MIMEO, alongside Keith Rowe.

Ray Off and Tujiko Noriko

admin — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:57:09 -0700

Friday 29 August 7.30pm Tujiko Noriko, Japanese avant-pop, experimental musician will perform. Courtesy of Room 40. Support from Dunedin band Ray Off. A musical experience not to be missed. $15/$10 no Eftpos

Performance by Alison Isadora and Jan-Bas Bollen

admin — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:55:47 -0700

Thursday 3 July 7.30pm SYNC - musicians Alison Isadora and Jan-Bas Bollen - direct from the Netherlands, perform a new work Trace. SYNC performed here in 2001, and Dunedin is the first stop on their 2008 New Zealand tour. An audio-visual treat. $15/$10. Door Sales only. No Eftpos.

Short Experimental Films by Kim Pieters and Nathan Thompson

admin — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:53:27 -0700

Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June 3pm On the big screen a programme of short experimental films (approx.40-50mins) by local artists Kim Pieters and Nathan Thompson. Free

Rafael Toral and EYE

admin — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:36 -0700

Saturday 28 June 7.30pm Space Studies. Internationally respected musician Rafael Toral, who is touring New Zealand, will play. (visit for more information), Courtesy of Room40, Instituto Camões, Direcção-Geral das Artes, Fundação Luso-Americana, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Support from Dunedin band EYE. $10/$15. Door sales only. (No Eftpos).

A Freeform Soundscape Collaboration feat: I.Ryoko, Monolith + In The Interest Of The Convoy

Sonorous Circle — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:20:50 -0700

Thursday the 15th of May sees three young NZ solo soundscape artists (I.Ryoko, In The Interest Of The Convoy (WGN) + Monolith (AK) come together to collectively create a guitar-based sonic space. Hailing from a variety of collective enterprises (A Flight to Blackout/Enright House, (Akaname/Donatello/Ornithologist, Ulcerate/The House Of Capricorn/Graymalkin) the three will create a soundmass unique to one night only.

myspace.com/idotryoko
myspace.com/intheinterestoftheconvoy
myspace.com/sonorouscircle

Elise and Jem, Eye, Wolfskull, and House

Peter P — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:48:24 -0700

The deep south and Dunedin welcomes Elise and Jem from Melbourne with some top drawer ecstatic chaotic hypnotic beautiful noise and sound and rock and and and and ... come along! Doors open from 9pm, in the new Arc. Its getting pretty cold these days, so hopefully the fire is roaring along with the music.

elise&jem: Happy, Wellington

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:21:17 -0700

supports:
Black Boned Angel, The Stumps, The Inventionists.

elise and Campbelle Kneale first collaborated together in BCM.

it's been many years since they have graced the same stage. Maybe we'll get a little cross polenation going.

Who can say? You'll just have to come down and see.

myspace.com/eliseandjem to hear sounds.

If anyone wants to record the show we'd be stoked.

elise&jem: "SWELL" at Square Edge, Palmy nth.

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:15:46 -0700

Supports: Hoopla!, One Armed Tourist, Bad Evil.

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem

SWELL is a monthly experimental night. We'll be broke by this stage of the tour so come and buy a CD.

If anyone wants to record the show we'd be stoked. Hoping to compile some kind of release from this tour.

elise is from Palmy originally so......i dunno make her feel at home?

elise&jem: Whammy Bar, Auck

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:06:13 -0700

Supports:
malenki Robot, moosmbasil, bemsha swing

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

We will Have copies of our first album and maybe a tour ep (if we get it done in time!) Aswell as canvas Patches. people are encouraged to record these shows, we'd love to make a release out of something from this tour.

elise&jem: 121, Hamilton

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:03:56 -0700

Supports: Crashes & Ministry of Hypocrsisy
www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

elise&jem: Eye of the Night, Wanganui

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:57:54 -0700

Supports TBA

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

elise&jem: Pink House, Napier

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:55:21 -0700

Supports: Rocket Jocks, Vicious Rumour, Nervouse Surgeons, Safety First

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

elise&jem: WunderBar, lyt w Zero and minus 2

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:52:37 -0700

been told this venue rules.

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

elise&jem: ARC, Dunedin With EYE and Wolfskull

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:50:35 -0700

Come and say g'day.

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

elise&jem: Media Club, ChCh

elise and jem — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:47:14 -0700

This is the first show of our NZ tour.
We are going on between a couple of punk bands and a couple of poets.

www.myspace.com/eliseandjem
if you want to listen to some stuff.

Philip Jeck, Sandoz Lab Technicians and Sam Hamilton

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:39:05 -0700

AUDIO FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN ALTMUSIC EVENT

Philip Jeck (UK)

Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. Since the early '80's he has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as well as his solo concert work.

The Stumps and White saucer at The Whammy Bar

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:22:58 -0700

The Stumps (Wellington) & White Saucer (plus Djs Tanner, Seht and Wyatt Riot)
Saturday 26th April 2008, doors at 9.30
Whammy Bar, St Kevins Arcade - $10
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New Zealand Tour- Both Islands

elise and jem — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:19:31 -0700

We are playing Christchurch, Dunedin, Lytellton, Napier, Wanganui, Hamilton, Auckland, palmy nth. Wellington.

I'll put the whole tour up soon. Anyone who wants to lend gear/beds etc. or help with any promo (no zine is too small) please contact us at: eliseandjem@gmail.com

or if you just want to reccomend good local beers/record stores. Oh and we are hitching to most shows so a lift would be awesome and rewarded.

thanks
elise&jem

ALT.MUSIC EVENT - Daniel Menche, Birchville Cat Motel and Golden Axe

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:47:48 -0700

“If music is like blood - then make the speakers bleed" Daniel Menche

Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure. Rather than creating "noise," he strives for order and cohesiveness. Subtle and patient compositions rely on long, dense layers of droning sounds, while abrasive pieces rely on sounds amplified and processed to extreme levels, pushing the full spectrum of frequencies to the most threshold of limits.

SOUND CIRCUIT

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:45:37 -0700

SOUND CIRCUIT
13 March - 20 April
Sound Circuit is a suite of four temporary sound projects commissioned by the Adam Art Gallery to take place in public spaces around Wellington in March and April 2008.

Using various downtown sites, Sound Circuit explores the city through sound. Featuring the work of Rachel Shearer, Dugal McKinnon, Kaleb Bennett and Dion Workman, it listens in on the rumbles and reverberations of the city’s streets and public spaces, enticing audiences to re-think their everyday urban environments.

SOUND IN THE CRACKS

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:24:21 -0700

Crack Productions / Metonymic Trust (DUN)
DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY (3rd; 4th; 5th); VARIOUS LOCATIONS (6th)

Dunedin’s experimental music subculture takes you on an exploration of the chance and collaboration that informs all music. Innocence (3rd) live soundtrack creation / new NZ film & video; Experience (4th) at the edge of composition; Private (5th) an immersive sound environment; Public (6th) a tour through Dunedin’s sonic spaces.

Replacing Lines Of Flight for 2008, SOUND IN THE CRACKS takes adifferent angle on musical experimentation by breaking down the ways

the af cd shop

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:57:53 -0800

The Audio Foundation presents the second AF CD Shop!
complete with badges...

We are selling on behalf of all artists in NZ and all profits will of
course go back to the artists.

In stock we have:

* Lovely Midget
* Sci Hi and Audible 3
* PseudoArcana artists
* CMR artists - including Richard Francis latest work
* CLaudia artists
* Nigel Wright
* Rosy Parlane
* Pumice
* Adam Willets
* Crude
* Agitated Radio Pilot
* Spacething stock
* Postmodern Core artists
* Golden Axe
* Dream Roll artists
* United Fairy Moons artists
* Artless Intent artists

and many more!

The Audio Foundation presents the first 2008 Alt.music events, The Necks

admin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:17:07 -0800

The Necks are one of the great cult bands of Australia. With next to no publicity, their thirteen albums have sold in their thousands.

Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (drums), and Lloyd Swanton (bass) conjure a chemistry together that defies description in orthodox terms.

These three musicians are among the most respected and in-demand in Australia, working in every field from pop to avant-garde. Over 200 albums feature their presence individually or together, but the music of The Necks stands apart from everything else they have done.

Jon Dale - Auckland Show

admin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:03:29 -0800

Jon Dale is gracing Auckland with a visit on his whirlwind NZ tour...
"Some of you may know Jon as the guy behind 'Moth', this fantastic (and up until now..) ultra secretive drone guitar project. Sometimes lush and beautiful, other times scorchingly loud and ecstatic.He also runs the Rhizome label, is an academic specialising in underground
music, and is a regular contributor to the recently controversial (ahem) Wire magazine."

$5 on the door! Please try and make it on time, theres a lot to see and we will be punctual(ish