Stanier Black-Five is a Christchurch-based sound artist and writer, who for the last 15 years has been actively involved with experimental music and sound art in the UK, Europe and New Zealand.

Her audio work is largely based on the manipulation of her own environmental recordings, as well as found sounds, which she uses to create dense soundscapes that use sources such as mesmerising aircraft drones to the pounding rhythms of trains.

As well as playing throughout New Zealand at events such as Lines of Flight, Stanier Black-Five has performed alongside international artists such as Chris Watson and Daniel Menche and taken her visceral musique concrète to the UK and Europe, presenting her work at festivals such as London Musicians Collective's annual festival of experimental music.

She has also created gallery based sound works at London’s 121 Centre, with her food and consumption themed piece, Prosumption, was part of the Atavistic Ratchets exhibition at London’s Lewisham Art House and recently exhibited Oenomatopoeia, an installation created using sounds connected with wine shown at the Taupo Erupt Festival.

Jo also makes sporadic releases on her own Argot label and has had her work put out internationally and was one of the artist featured on the Wire magazine's 2009 compilation, Dirt Beneath the Daydream.

Actively involved with communicating about sound art and experimental music, Jo has contributed to journals such as the UK’s Noisegate magazine and Berlin’s Datacide, as well as here on the Audio Foundation website.

Over the years she has hosted a number of experimental radio shows, on the UK’s Resonance FM to Christchurch’s RDU, and currently has a monthly slot on Volcano Radio’s Borderline Radio show (Sundays 8-10pm 88.5FM in the Lyttelton area or online at www.volcanoradio.co.nz). The latter is the electromagnetic arm of the Borderline Ballroom, a collective of which Jo is a founding member, which aims to provide a platform in Christchurch for performers working on the peripheries of music and sound.