The Audio Foundation is excited to present Now! Here! This! – Ōtautahi.

The 3 day festival is part the re-invention of the popular Altmusic programme, which has seen regular tours by legendary artists of experimental music and sound art tour Aotearoa over the past decade. With the advent of Covid 19 and the impossibility of international visitors the Altmusic programme has been transformed to present 3 day festivals in Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington in addition to the regular festival in Auckland.

First up is Christchurch – over 3 nights and one day Space Academy will be filled with experimental sound and adventurous music by a huge roster of visiting and local artists.
Visiting Ōtautahi for the festival are legendary electronic music pioneers Omit and K Group, both of whom have a long association with Bruce Russell’s Corpus Hermeticum label and have achieved guru status in international experimental music circles. Dunedin based free jazz/noise power duo Sewage perform in Christchurch for the first time, and the visitors lineup is rounded off by Pōneke based doom beatmakers Crone.
The kaupapa of the festival is collaboration and the lineup features a full roster of unique first time meetings between local artists and visitors, including established sonic artists such as Bruce Russell, Malcolm Riddoch, Motte and Helen Greenfield, emergent artists RMF Thomas, Maki Matsumoto and Chris Spall, Taonga Puoro players Jake Kīanō Skinner and Geoff Low, relentless experimenters Memory Burn, Teen Haters and much more.

For the full lineup and further information visit www.audiofoundation.org.nz/altmusic
Tickets available from www.undertheradar.co.nz
further information email

FEATURED ARTISTS

OMIT

Clinton Williams has been on a highly personal journey into sound since the late 1980’s. Starting from scratch, using modified electric motors as his sole sound source, he has built up a home studio and battery of hand-made and salvaged electronic sound sources, with which to pursue his researches into the human psyche.

K GROUP

K-Group is Paul Toohey’s solo project. In the mid/late nineties he was member of arguably one of the most influential drone outfits ever – Surface Of The Earth, a group which set a benchmark in feedbacking drones worldwide.

SEWAGE

Ōtepoti based duo Sewage is Ro Rushton-Green (saxophones/violin/voice) and Gabriel Griffin (drums). The duo play high energy improvised music which careers from fire-breathing squalls to probing skitters to blood curdling screams and beyond

CRONE

Pōneke-based sci-fi goth duo crone, is the collaborative project of Emily Berryman and Lucy Reid. Originally hailing from Ōtepoti, the duo’s darkly evocative sound-universe deploys bone-rattling drones, half-formed sample snatches and doomy post-industrial textures to unnerving and intoxicating effect. Berryman and Reid are the co-founders of MESH, who have facilitated a crucial series of live events and monthly mixes, showcasing the work of innovative and adventurous dancefloor-adjacent artists from throughout Aotearoa.

THURSDAY 10 JUNE – 8PM
– DEATH HORSE + LUCY REID
– K GROUP
– BRUCE RUSSELL / NOEL MEEK
– SEWAGE
– OMIT


FRIDAY 11 JUNE – 8PM
– CHRIS SPALL, MAKI MATSUMOTO, NIC WOOLLASTON, JAKE KĪANŌ SKINNER
– MOTTE / RO RUSHTON-GREEN /LUCY REID
– JUSTIN DEHART
– K GROUP / OMIT
– NICK HARTE / LUCY REID / GABRIEL GRIFFIN / JONTY O’CONNOR / REECE MCNAUGHTON / I.R.D / MIKE MINCHINGTON / LUKE SHAW


SATURDAY 12 JUNE – 2PM
– AURICLE AMBISONICS :
PAUL TOOHEY, MALCOLM RIDDOCH, DAVID KHAN, NOEL MEEK
– NICOLE REDDINGTON, MICHAEL KIME, HELEN GREENFIELD, ANITA CLARK,
RO RUSHTON-GREEN, HEATHER WEBB, NIC WOOLLASTON
– JAKE KĪANŌ SKINNER, GEOFF LOW & MEMORY BURN

SATURDAY 12 JUNE – 8PM
– RMF THOMAS, MOTTE, JONTY O’CONNOR
– OMIT, TEEN HATERS + EMMA JOHNSTON
– POLTROON & SEWAGE
– BIG FLIP THE MASSIVE
– CRONE