Mission Statement

To support, promote and preserve innovative audio in NZ

Founded in 2004, The Audio Foundation Charitable Trust is a peer-based facilitative organisation dedicated to New Zealand audio culture. Our purpose is to support a nation-wide network of practitioners whose work involves and foregrounds an exploratory approach to audio.

We have two main areas of activities. We do this by:

1.
Initiating events, workshops, projects and networking opportunities that maximise potential for artistic development within this culture.

2.
Acting as an archival resource, providing a framework for digital preservation of historic and contemporary audio recordings, and instigating associated research into current and historical audio culture within New Zealand.

These activities contribute to the exploration and understanding of the place and possibilities of audio culture, locally and internationally.

The Audio Foundation is unique in its focus on the peripheral and the emergent, foregrounding artists and practices that often fall into the slippery territory between genre and disciplinary distinctions.
We hope to raise awareness and appreciation of the rich living history of innovative NZ sound.

AUDIO FOUNDATION AIMS

• To support and promote the creation, production, and dissemination of innovative New Zealand audio projects

• To foster and preserve an identity and history for NZ audio culture, and to promote this to the wider public

• To enable research, development and preservation of creative artistic potential primarily concerned with audio culture

• To facilitate access, engagement and connection from the audio community to the wider arts community

• To maintain and provide a professional integrity through sustained communication, delivery of programs, facilitation and successful initiatives of all kinds