Vitamin-S was devised as a place where those interested in 'improvised music' could meet, perform, listen to and discuss, and generally interact with, all aspects of this complex and largely misunderstood art form.

There are regular pool driven trios every Wed in AK and monthly workshops

PD (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.

The New Zealand Music Commission is one of the Government funded arts agencies. The NZMIC is committed to growing New Zealand music business.

NewMusicBox is a Web-based advocacy magazine and portal dedicated to the music of American composers and improvisers and their champions.

David Howards piece from the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre featuring biographical material, writings, lyrics, bibliograpohies and discographies from Matthew Bannister (Sneaky Feelings), Jay Clarkson, Brian & Maryrose Crook (The Terminals/The Renderers), Graeme Downes, Alastair Galbraith, Hamish Kilgour (The Clean/Mad Scene), Demarnia Lloyd (Cloudboy), Martin Phillipps (The Chills), Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Peter Stapleton (The Terminals).

An artist-run exhibiting space, Christchurch

FRACTURED SONIC EXPERIMENTS: AN ON-GOING PROJECT IN EXPERIMENTAL SOUND BASED IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND

slightly out of date, but still covering many good things in NZ stuff

a great list of all the venues in NZ.