A ROOM THAT ECHOES
The Audio Foundation presents a festival of immersive music, surround sound and deep listening. Through quadraphonic, octaphonic and dodecaphonic sound systems, portable speakers, massive analogue synthesiser arrays, multiple radios and more – the festival promises unique technological listening experiences from a lineup of extraordinary international and local performers and composers.
29 July – 1 August 2021
Festival homepage
NIGHT THREE:
Warren Maxwell sound installation activated by Malcolm Riddoch Al Fraser
Clovis McEvoy
Mabe Fratti (GUA)
Richard Francis (live)
Anthony Pateras (AUS)
Thomas Arbor
Kraus (live)
Saturday 31 July @ The Audio Foundation, doors open 2pm
Presale tickets available from UTR
$25 at the door
LINK TO FULL PROGRAMME
WARREN MAXWELL
Warren Maxwell (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngai Te Riu, Ngati Whare, Ngati Rakaipaaka, Ngai Te Rangi) has been a professional working musician and composer for the better part of two decades. He has composed for film and television and appeared at numerous festivals internationally, including Celtic Connections, WOMAD NZ, and the Byron Bay Blues, Woodford Folk, Big Chill and Roskilde Festivals. Warren is currently a Senior Lecturer at Massey University where he teaches composition and performance. In 2016 was inducted into the Institute’s prestigious ‘Hall of Fame’.
CLOVIS MCEVOY
Clovis McEvoy is an award-winning composer, sound artist and researcher. He specialises in creating experiential installations for virtual reality, mixed media and musical works for instruments and electronics. His works have been performed in America, France, England, Italy, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Portugal and Switzerland. An active researcher, Clovis has presented papers on audio-visual relationships, virtual music and compositional practice at conferences in Japan, Italy and New Zealand.
MABE FRATTI
Mabe Fratti is an experimental cellist and composer. Originally from Guatemala, Fratti is now based in Mexico City. She uses cello, voice and synthesizers to present sound in the form of installation, composition & free improvisation. Mabe’s music takes us to sensible sounding boards: through a hypnotic and captivating performance, she sews contemporary elements like shoegaze and dream pop with ancestral influences that go from Gregorian chants to Sephardi music, transforming them in ingredients of a potent sonic ritual that causes a profound emotional impact.
RICHARD FRANCIS
Richard Francis uses field recordings, modular synthesizer and computer to compose and improvise sound works. He has released solo and collaborative albums on a number of labels including Korm Plastics (NL), Monochrome Vision (RU), Aufabwegen (DE), Last Visible Dog (USA) and his own record label CMR (NZ). Recent published collaborative CDs have been with Bruce Russell (NZ), Mattin (ES), Jason Kahn (USA) and Francisco Lopez (ES).
ANTHONY PATERAS
Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electronic musician active since the late 90s. His music explores multiple creative approaches including notation, improvisation, electro-acoustics, songwriting and cross-disciplinary projects.
At 2021, his core concern is how electronics & instruments can work together in multi-speaker environments. To this end, he recently wrote Nonsite Satellite for piano and 32-channel acousmonium (Festival Archipel, Geneva, 2021), Syncope(s) for 5 masked singers, piano & electronics (Centro di Musica, Modena, 2020), Mécanique Céleste for a building by architect Alberto Figuccio (HEIG-VD, Yverdons-Les-Bains, 2020) and Pseudacusis for electro-acoustic septet (Musica Sanae, Naples, Sokolowsko, Berlin, 2019).
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The piece Anthony will be playing is called The Sound Sings The Speed (2015), it goes for 10 minutes and is for 8-channel surround. An exploration of spatialised polyrhythms using close-miked prepared piano timbres.
THOMAS ARBOR
Thomas Arbor (ex I.Ryoko) is a composer, producer and audio engineer with an interest in progressive politics. Thomas runs Sonorous Circle, an Oceanian outlet for adventurous music, art and communities.
FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:
OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 29 July @ Audio Foundation, 7pm
Suzanne Ciani (USA)
Flo Wilson – LIVE
Thembi Soddell (AUS)
Concepcion Huerta (MX)
JIM-S (MX) – LIVE
Mo Zareei (IRAN) – LIVE
THERE NOT HERE
Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 July @ Audio Foundation, 12pm – 7.30pm
There Not Here – Tash Van Schaardenburg, Jimmy Solōrzano, Sam Longmore field recordings installation
NIGHT TWO
Friday 30 July @ Audio Foundation, 7pm
Jōse Orozco Mora (MX)
Natasha Anderson (AUS)
Sergio Merce (ARG)
Judith Hamman (AUS)
Jo Burzynska
Malcolm Riddoch – LIVE
Clinton Watkins – LIVE
AFTERNOON SESSION
Saturday 31 July @ Audio Foundation, 2-6pm
Musical Electronics Library Performance
John Kim
Phil Dadson – Radiophonic work with Sam Longmore / Torben Tilly / Rachel Shearer / Flo Wilson
Johnny Chang performs Michael Pisaro (USA)
NIGHT THREE
Saturday 31 July @ Audio Foundation, 8PM
Warren Maxwell sound installation activated by Malcolm Riddoch Al Fraser
Clovis McEvoy
Mabe Fratti (GUA)
Richard Francis (live)
Anthony Pateras (AUS)
Thomas Arbor
Kraus (live)
FINAL DAY
Sunday 1 August @ Old Folks Association (Gundry Street), 2-6pm
The Observatory Project
Bluetooth Orchestra – Kristian Larsen
Colin Woods, Andrew McMillan
Malcolm Riddoch Organgy