Audio Foundation YouTube channel is our video archive of performances, talks, and happenings through the public programme.
Audio Foundation is part of a diverse network of local and international sound explorers. Some of them are below.
National partners
Auckland/ Tāmaki Makaurau
– The Wine Cellar
– Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery
– Tautai
– Artspace Aotearoa
– Te Tuhi
– Gus Fisher Gallery
– Strange Haven
– Flying Out
– Platform Gallery, Parnell
Wellington/ Te Whanganui-a-Tara
– Pyramid Club
– CIRCUIT
Elsewhere in the North Island
– Miracle Room (Featherston)
– Snails: Artist-Run Spaces (Palmerston North)
– Lucky Bar (Whanganui)
– Common Room (Hastings)
– The Incubator Creative Hub (Tauranga)
– Whakatane Museum and Arts (Whakatane)
South Island
– Lines of Flight Festival (Dunedin/ Õtepoti)
– Blue Oyster Art Project Space
– Dunedin Public Art Gallery
– The Anteroom (Port Chalmers)
International partners
Australia
– Liquid Architecture (Melbourne/ Naarm)
– BLINDSIDE Gallery (Melbourne/ Naarm)
– Loop Project Space & Bar (Melbourne/ Naarm)
– Room40
Funding & Opportunities for Sound Artists
In NZ
– Auckland Council Artist in Residence
– Toi Pōneke summer sound art residency
– Residency Programmes at Goethe-Institut, NZ
– Creative New Zealand Arts Grants
Overseas
– New Interfaces of Musical Expression Conference
– Australian Computer Music Conference
– NTS Work In Progress: One Year Artist in Development Programme
– Performer-Composer Residency at Westben, Canada
– STEIM
– International Symposium of Electronic Art / ISEA International Conference
– IRCAM
Friends of the Audio Foundation:
– Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Campbell Kneale has been releasing material through Celebrate Psi Phenomenon (and sub-labels, Battlecruiser, Higher Plain Series, Lower Plain Series) since the mid-1990s.
An expansive (yet only partial) release history can be found at the following link
– iiii Records
Run by AF Director, Jeff Henderson, iiii Records releases represent the cutting edge of antipodean Jazz-adjacent sonic exploration.
A partial release history can be found at the following link
– mf/mp
Initially focused on experimental electronic music, the remit of the mf/mp imprint (operated by AF Manager, Sam Longmore) has since then expanded to include adventurous music of manny different styles including the likes of Kraus, Daisy Wells, OV PAIN, Karl Leisky, William Henry Meung and more.
– Stabbies and the Rocket
Through Stabbies and the Rocket (sometimes ‘Stabbies etc.’), musician, educator, illustrator, Stefan Neville has produced releases for a wide range of wonder-artists as well as a number of issues for his long-term project, Pumice.
A partial release history can be found at this link.
– Independent Woman Records
Benedict Quilter’s limited editions on Independent Woman Records combine ornate screen printed sleeves with material by renowned aural explorers from all parts of the planet.
Since its inception in 2015, the label has amassed an impressive catalogue of lathe-cuts and zines which can be found here.
– Root Don Lonie For Cash
The releases of Root Don Lonie For Cash chart a course through the murky history of noise and no-fi music from Aotearoa. Artists such as Artpit, CJA and Witcyst feature repeatedly amongst one-off releases by ensembles which mutated quickly, and by artists under arcane monikers which they have since discarded.
The Root Don Lonie discogs listing gives sense of the scope of the label while the Root Don Lonie Blog provides associated notes.
– End of the Alphabet Records
Beginning with compilation cassettes, End of the Alphabet Records quickly expanded to include lathe-cut records, CDs, zines and texts, functioning as a distribution hub and imprint.
A partial catalogue can be viewed through their bandcamp page – https://endofthealphabetrecords.bandcamp.com/
– God in the Music
After End of the Alphabet came God in the Music, a label releasing musical collaborations between artists from different places.
– pseudo arcana
With nearly 200 releases it is no exaggeration to consider pseudo arcana (and sublabels The Seedy R! and Wire Bridge) one of Aotearoa’s most significant imprints.
Run by Antony Milton, this bastion of Strange continues producing. An official discography can be found at the end of this link, and information about past releases stored on the label website – http://www.pseudoarcana.com/.
– krkrkrk