For the support, promotion and preservation of independent and adventurous music and sound in Aotearoa/NZ

We believe in independent and adventurous visions, creative engagement and critical enquiry in sound and music practice in Aotearoa/NZ.
The Audio Foundation is a dedicated and professional space to support, promote and preserve these practices.

Our priority is to present and support the diversity of NZ practitioners exploring practices relating to sound. These practices span the areas of contemporary art, zine work, performance, video and more

Please see CONTACT for details on how to get hold of us.

BACKGROUND:

The Audio Foundation was founded in 2004 to support, promote and preserve "Sound Art" /"Experimental Music" / "Noise"  / "Outsider Music"  /"Drone Music" etc in NZ. 

Audio Foundation is situated in the sub-basement of the Parisian Tie Factory in Poynton Terrace. We have a performance space , low powered Radio Station on AFM 88.3 and online here, our MP3 and AV Library showcasing up to 60 days of NZ "avant garde" music and video, the Gallery space, Zine Library, Screening Room and a shop for underground NZ artists to sell their products to the wider public. Since opening as a hub we have presented numerous events including performances by local and international artists, regular exhibitions of art work relating to sound, panel discussions, workshops and film screening evenings.

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

The overall administration of Audio Foundation runs thanks to funding from Creative New Zealand and ASB Trust! Thanks guys!

RADIO STATION

AFM features fortnightly specialist shows presented by local DJs every Sunday and Monday evenings (NZ time) and broadcasts the amazing Audio Foundation MP3 library of NZ independent & adventurous music and sound between those periods. AFM endeavours to promote and explore high quality, distinctive visions in sound from both New Zealand and beyond.

EREWHON CALLING

Erewhon Calling is a survey of how a bunch of antipodean misfits and malcontents have forged new ways and new reasons to make noise, here at the end of the earth. Edited by Bruce Russell (the Dead C.), in association with Richard Francis and Zoe Drayton; the aim of this volume is to survey the full range of ‘non-standard’ audio practices in contemporary NZ culture. The book’s remit runs from the borders of composed art music, through improvised noise, to deconstructed ‘rock’n pop filth’; and every genre, every scene, every permutation of unconventional audio practice in-between. 

Page featuring tracks chosen by contributors to the book

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GALLERY

The Audio Foundation seeks to create a dedicated exhibition space for works focused on and around sound-related practice and to facilitate critical listening and thinking about these practices. We encourage the exploration, research and development of artistic practice using or relating to sound as a medium through the spatial context and temporal considerations of the gallery space.

MONTHLY LISTENING SERIES AND OTHER EVENTS

The Audio Foundation Events Program focuses on:

+ The presentation of work relating to sound

+ The development of artists within their creative and research practices

+ The promotion of sound, art related to sound and its interests to a wider audience.

ALTMUSIC EVENTS

Altmusic is a series of events, organised by independent committee's in each city under the auspices of the Audio Foundation. Please see "People" below for individuals in each region. Altmusic is a vital injection of contemporary sound art dialogue for New Zealand. It provides local practitioners and audiences direct access to, interaction with and experience of the latest currents in sound making.

VIDEO/MP3 LIBRARY

Pop by and browse the Audio Foundation A/V Library - MP3s A-MN-TU-Z and Videos A-Z

This is a comprehensive digitised Library of work from the Audio Foundation NZ CD collection. Many of the recordings in this are obscure and now out of print. The Library ensures the preservation of the work in a format that can be transferred safely and maintained for posterity. This is available in the Audio Foundation office during working hours and is also streamed on AFM in between live shows.Funded by the Lotteries Heritage and Environment the Library project was digitised by Stefan Neville and opened on July 3rd 2009 at the Auckland Film Archive. For more information or queries email admin@audiofoundation.org.nz

DIRT BENEATH THE DAYDREAM

With thanks to Creative New Zealand funding Dirt Beneath the Daydream was distributed with thanks in the WIRE magazine in 2009. 

THE AF LIST A list-digest to facilitate networking, discussion and events, The AF list is a subscriber-only email digest of around 350 people nation-wide.

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