Links - Organisations/Institutions
A Klass Records
Experimental electronic label based in Auckland, primarily focusing on breakcore and fakecore.
APRA
The first copyright collecting society set up in Australasia, APRA represents some 5,000 NZ music writers and publishers in their total membership of over 38,000. As part of a world-wide network of similar organisations, APRA also provides local representation for over 2 million music writers and composers worldwide
ARTSPACE
Artspace operates in an expanded field of art practice, taking in aspects of moving image, sound art, new music and architecture. (Auckland)
ASRA
An association for those interested in recorded soundThe Association is made up of private record collectors, professional sound archivists, radio broadcasters and social historians, consisting of individuals and institutions with a strong interest in sound recording history, its development and all related activities.
Creative Sounds
Creative Sounds is a non-profit voluntary organisation dedicated to the enhancement of local artistic talent and to the encouragement of musical, artistic and performance activities. (Palmerston North)
Enjoy
Enjoy facilitates contemporary art projects and is liberated from commercial constraints to actively promote critical dialogue. (Wellington)
GOD Rekidz
"Quality over Quantity over Quality"
God Rekidz was founded by Jonathan Bruce, Leonard McMullen and Nic Jukes in 1996 and operates as an independent recording label.
In 2007 God Rekidz, became an Incorporated Society as the founders gained more peer support for their projects.
God Rekidz is a not-for-profit Incorporated Society whose volunteer membership works to further the aims of outlined in the Society's rules.
These rules include:
1) Encourage and organise exchanges internationally;
2) Create a New Zealand based community for experimental electronic;
Independent Music New Zealand
is a group set up to provide a voice for the interests of New Zealand independent recording labels and distributors.
International Links
http://www.acousticecology.org/
All the news, issues, research, and activism that fill the rest of AcousticEcology.org are inspired by a simple thing: listening
http://aliasfrequencies.org
An obscure but vibrant corner of Australian Culture, home of aus-e-music, furthermore & plenum
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/DIY/
This site has been designed to help new artists and labels find out what they need to know to get their own work out into the world. The intention is to provide a forum of information, ideas and resources that will help to dymystify the process of getting started.
NZ Music Commission
The New Zealand Music Commission is one of the Government funded arts agencies. The NZMIC is committed to growing New Zealand music business.
SOUNZ
The Centre for New Zealand Music.
SOUNZ is a music information centre promoting the music of New Zealand through a range of services, projects and activities.
the Big City
Chris Andrews excellent site, covering mainly Chch bands these days, but a heap of info on experimental stuff from the past
The Noise Machine
FRACTURED SONIC EXPERIMENTS: AN ON-GOING PROJECT IN EXPERIMENTAL SOUND BASED IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand Inc
is a non-profit organisation representing the rights and interests of major and independent record producers, distributors and recording artists throughout New Zealand.
Vitamin S
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
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