Experimental Audio Culture in New Zealand

Hi All,
Seeing as it sounds like this will probably be the last time Fireworks will be available to the public to purchase in New Zealand, I want to put together an audio collage of this years celebrations nationwide. (November 5th)

Technical criteria:
- Please send the original recordings with no eq/ limiting post work done!
- 24bit / 48Khz files prefered , but will accept 16bit / 48khz recordings.
- I can transfer from DAT (and will return the tape afterwards)
- No mini disks please! I don't have the equipment to transfer on to my mac.
- Stereo please! (m/s or x/y , either is ok.)
- Surround would be way cool!

Subject matter:
It's up to you. It can be at home with your friends and family , a public display , the neighbourhood sounds... you get the idea.

Please get in touch and let me know that you are willing to participate , also feel free to send this on to anyone you think may be interested. I'll be posting the final result on my web page: http://www.ourmedia.org/user/44279 late november and will send each contributor a couple of copies of the finished product. If it comes together well I'll look at releasing a short run of cd's.

Regards,
Grant Finlay
grantfinlay@clear.net.nz
http://www.ourmedia.org/user/44279

High Dependency Unit - one show only
- Posted: 05 Mar, 2006

John Peel called them ?one of the ten best bands in the world you have never heard of?. If you know anything about anything however, you will have heard of them, and if you haven't, you should go anyway. HDU are set to take the stage at Auckland?s Studio on April 22 supported by Yokel Ono. The one off gig, will double as the release of their stunning new single Tunguska . HDU, were last seen performing alongside the Straitjacket Fits in Wellington last year, they made a terrific racket, then disappeared out of sight again. They don't play many shows these days so see them while you have a chance. HDU will kick your arse and make you like it.

?An unstoppable drone-juggernaut, they proved equal parts compelling and terrifying for the more, er, chemically refreshed portions of their audience?
Melody Maker

?A roaring, enveloping psychedelic swirl of a propulsive hard rock band. Simultaneously driving and expansive, their music projects a wide-screen image of the onrushing of infinite landscapes as traversed from low orbit.?
Steve Albini

H D U & Yokel Ono One show only Studio, April 22 Tickets $25 +b/f on sale now

Govett-Brewster exhibition seeks out activism in art
- Posted: 13 Jan, 2006

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery is pleased to present From mini-FM to hacktivists: a guide to art and activism from 10 December to 3 March 2006. Curated by Mercedes Vicente this is her first exhibition as the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery?s new Curator, Contemporary Art.

The artists featured include: Greg Bordowitz (US), Fiona Clark (NZ), Alannah Currie (NZ), John Di Stefano (NZ), Marcelo Exp?sito (SP), Annie Goldson (NZ), Adam Hyde (AMS/NZ), Zita Joyce (NZ), Tetsuo Kogawa (JP), LTTR (US), neuroTransmitter (US), Paper Tiger TV & Deep Dish TV (US), Oliver Ressler & David Thorne (AU/US), Martha Rosler (US), Allan Sekula (US), The Yes Men (US), 0100101110101101 (Eva and Franco Mattes) (IT)

Vicente says: ?From mini-FM to hacktivists examines contemporary artistic and activist practices in the context of alternative media and provides the historical grounding for today?s internet collaborations. It illustrates a new paradigm of counter information in communications as well as in artistic practices.?

Three components make up the show including; installation works; an interactive media lab; and a programme of documentary screenings in the Gallery theatre. This exhibition presents the mini-FM project of Tetsuo Kogawa, founder of free radio in Japan in the early 80s, whose model has influenced media activists and artists such as the collective neurotransmitter and artists Adam Hyde and Zita Joyce.

Microscore Project in Concert
- Posted: 27 Feb, 2006

Coming to an Auckland near you is the Microscore Project with violinist Johnny Chang and cellist Jessica Catron. They will be playing at the School of Music, on March 10th, 8pm and conducting a composers workshop in the afternoon from 3.30-5pm, discussions dealing with the microscore & 30-second form, preparations and approach and variours experimental practices.

For the concert, Johnny and Jessica have assembled music from our previous Microscore concert happeninsg in Los Angeles (dating back to 2001) of more than 30 composers and presenting newly written works of composers currently affiliated with Auckland University - a total of no less than 50 compositions heard in 3 parts ove the course of the evening.

Please visit http://www.johnnychchang.net for music from past microscore concerts, and bring anyone else interested to the show !

into the groove - Tony Nichols - Ramp Gallery
- Posted: 24 Jul, 2006

PUT THAT IPOD ASIDE

Curated by Richard Francis ‘into the groove’ is a collection of vinyl and lathe cut 7 inch records; a mini-audio-library showcasing some of New Zealand’s most prolific and well respected experimental music artists. Available for perusal in a make shift audio lounge, visitors can sit down, look through records, and indulge in the vanishing recreation of spinning 45’s. 'into the groove’ features work by:

1/3 Octave Band
Birchville Cat Motel
Tim Coster
Francis/Guerra/Mattin/Stern
Gate
Rosy Parlane
Pumice
Bruce Russell
Pieters/Russell/Stapleton
Mark Sadgrove
Sandoz Lab Technicians
Seht
Peter Wright

In ledge this month local artist Tony Nichols presents ‘Mono Filament‘, a sonically driven mechanical oscilloscope and visual amplifier that enables sound energy to be seen.

‘into the groove’ and ‘Mono Filament’ open this Friday the 28th of July at 5.30 pm.
Both exhibitions run from July 31 – August 18

For more information about the exhibition or any other RAMP activities, please contact us.

Regards,
RAMP

ramp@mediarts.net.nz
http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz
http://www.rampmagazine.org
+64 7 834 8800 x8438

Gallery open Tues-Fri 12-4. Closed Mondays.
RAMP and ledge are located at Media Arts, Wintec, Gate 2, Collingwood Street, Hamilton.

BUS B at the Fringe Festival
- Posted: 03 Feb, 2006

BUS B is a videographic and musical experiment in public transport, recreated inside an inflatable bus through live audio manipulation and remix. This is a collaboration between Parisian video artist Kartini B and Wellington musicians Disasteradio and Saali Marks. Playing with acoustic isolation, open source software, ancient synthesizers and mp3 players, they create an improbable dialogue between image, sound/noise and silence in a habitually non-social urban interstice. BUS B will be showing at the Thistle Hall Gallery, top of Cuba Street in Wellington, February 25-27. Advanced booking is recommended. Consult www.busb.co.nz for more information and reservations.