About The Audio Foundation

About The Audio Foundation

Mission Statement

To support, promote and preserve innovative audio culture in NZ

The Audio Foundation is a peer-based facilitative organisation dedicated to New Zealand sound culture.

Our purpose is to provide support to a nation-wide network of distributed practitioners whose work involves an exploratory approach to sound.

Firstly, by acting as an incubator, initiating events, workshops, projects and networking opportunities which maximise potential for artistic development within this culture.

Secondly, by 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 experimental music and audio culture within New Zealand.

These aims are in the interests of contextualising current audio art and experimental music's place and possibilities, both within a specifically New Zealand (art-) historical context, and in relation to parallel cultural narratives elsewhere.

We are unique in our focus on the peripheral, the cross-genre and the emergent, foregrounding artists and practices which, both then and now, often fall into the slippery territory between categorisational and disciplinary distinctions.

In our work, we hope to raise awareness and appreciation of the extraordinarily rich living history of innovative experimental music and sound work that has long marked our small but creatively fertile islands.

AUDIO FOUNDATION AIMS

• To support and promote the creation, production, and dissemination of innovative New Zealand audio projects through provision of online information resources, national networking infrastructures, events, heritage and exhibition services.

• To support and promote research in and the development of innovative artistic potential primarily concerned with audio.

• To foster a coherent identity and history for NZ audio culture, and to promote this to the wider public.

• To facilitate public audio events of a high standard, offering alternative opportunities to small groups and professional specialized communities in the audio culture of NZ.

• To forge alliances with industry, art organisations and other institutions to assist in the creation of resources and support for the sound/noise/outsider music community.

• To build the Audio Foundation through sustained communication, provision of information resources, preservation of contemporary and historical NZ audio culture, membership incentives and self-perpetuating successful initiatives of all kinds.

Projects under The Audio Foundation

Projects under The Audio Foundation

THE AF LIST
A list-digest to facilitate networking, discussion and events, The AF list is a subscriber-only email digest of around 250 people nation-wide.
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Archives

THE ALT.MUSIC FESTIVAL

Altmusic is a series of events, organised by an independent committee under the auspices of the Audio Foundation.
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.

For more details

MONTHLY RADIO NEW ZEALAND SLOT

A monthly slot profiling NZ sound/noise artists on Upbeat

MP3 LIBRARY

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 will not be online, due to copyright issues, but available through AF and The Film Archive.

ORAL HISTORY

Funded by Lotteries Heritage and Environment the Oral History component is a crucial part of AF. The specific outcome is to provide records of the unique insights, methodologies and historical accounting of NZ artists. These interviews will serve to not only provide a historical understanding of some of the most pioneering artists in NZ, but also will hopefully provide inspiration to emerging practitioners and increase an understanding of the practise through this.
The original audio will be lodged with the Sound Archives and transcripts of the audio with permission will be available online in the Knowledge section.

AF CD SHOP

A nomadic shop offering wares on behalf of NZ artists . Often part of the Craftwerk
or at Altmusic events. Watch out on News and Events for the next announcement.
To sell your work there contact
admin@audiofoundation.org.nz
or send to the PO Box

Contact

Contact

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

Ph: + 64 027 2068103
Email: admin@audiofoundation.org.nz

Feedback and suggestions about the site

Feedback and suggestions about the site

Feedback about the site including suggestions and bug reports are always welcome. Use the feedback form to contact the Audio Foundation.

People

People

Facilitator and Co-ordinator
Zoe Drayton

AF 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 McIntyre
Zita Joyce
Andrew Clifford
Zoe Drayton
Stefan Neville


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