AUDIO FOUNDATION PRESENTS NOW! HERE! FESTIVAL
August 10th – 12th 2012
Audio Foundation/Wine Cellar/Whammy Bar/Silo Park
Audio Foundation is very excited and proud to present the Now! Here! Festival – a three-day celebration with New Zealand / Aotearoa’s inventive and accomplished sound artists and musicians championing the experimental and avant-garde in all its multitudinous, intriguing and unpredictable forms.
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THURSDAY AUGUST 9TH
@ AUDIO FOUNDATION
Erewhon Calling Publication Launch
6.30 pm. Free
Join us for wine and nibbles to celebrate the launch of the Erewhon Calling publication, a concise survey of recent and contemporary New Zealand / Aotearoa sound and noise music practices. Copies of the book will be available for purchase on all nights of the Festival
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FRIDAY AUGUST 10TH
@ FILM ARCHIVE
EXPANDED CINEMA
8 pm, $5
In collaboration with Auckland Film Archive, Expanded Cinema is a live cinema and sound event engaging and expanding rarely seen ephemeralities into explorative cinematic dialogues with three sound artists.
JANE AUSTEN
(Clean Teeth Recordings, Currer Bells)
PETER WRIGHT
(PseudoArcana, Digitalis)
CLINTON WATKINS
(CMR, Starkwhite)
@ WINE CELLAR
10 PM
Cinema buff DEREK GEHRING curates special celluloid screenings of experimental, abstract and alchemical cinema in the Wine Cellar
@ WHAMMY BAR
10 pm, $10
With DJ STEVIE KAYE and MC COOKIE BROOKLYN
VULCAN STEEL
Beth Dawson (Futurians, Octopus, Five Satans), Stefan Neville (Pumice, Coolies), Clayton Noone (Futurians, Root Don Lonie for Cash)
MR STERILE ASSEMBLY
Keiran Monaghan, Chrissie Butler
PIETERS/RUSSELL/STAPLETON
Kim Pieters, (Flies Inside the Sun,Dadamah) Bruce Russell (Dead C) Peter Stapleton (Handful of Dust, Eye)
BAD STATISTICS
Thembis Mutante, Mark Williams (Marineville) Jo Contag (Golden Awesome, Cloudboy) Torben Tilly (Minit, Garbage and the Flowers) and Justin Barr (Raskolnikovs)
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SATURDAY AUGUST 11TH
@ AUDIO FOUNDATION
FREE DAYTIME WORKSHOPS
10.00 – 10.45 AM
PEANUT BUTTER AND JAM – FREE
http://musicworkings.weebly.com/peanut-butter-and-jam.html
Drummer extraordinaire Chris O Connor takes a session for young children and their parents to experience real instruments in a real venue! From newborns to ten year olds. Bookings essential!
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12.30 – 1.30 PM
SOUND WALK – FREE
Artist John Radford has created a large amount of permanent and temporary public artworks and is involved in sound/movement/object performance. Participants are invited to join in a Sound Walk guided by John to attune to the cityscape in all its detail as an ongoing composition and symphony over the duration of an hour. Bookings essential!
1.00 – 3.00 PM
VOCAL WORKSHOP – FREE
Jonny Marks, composer and musician will present some of the core principles of Mongolian Khoomei (throat singing) production. Using simple exercises that focus on the voice, tongue, resonance, and breath, Jonny helps to tune your ears to tune your muscles to make beautiful noise! Open to all voice types and levels. Bookings essential!
@AUDIO FOUNDATION
8 PM, $5
Two Intriguing Trios and a Solo!
SIMON CUMING
SEAN KERR
SEAN O’REILLY (King Loser The Renderers)
GREG MALCOLM (Kranky, Corpus Hermeticum)
RACHEL SHEARER (Xpressway, Flying Nun, Ecstatic Peace)
ROSY PARLANE (Touch)
RICHARD FRANCIS (CMR)
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@ WINE CELLAR
10 PM
Artist, musician and filmmaker Kim Pieters provides a range of hypnotic and ephemeral luminescences in the Wine Cellar.
@ WHAMMY BAR
10 PM, $10
with DJ ALAN HOLT and MC PHAT SLOBBY
!RECUERDE! / FORGOTTEN CAUSES
(Arcade, Wine Cellar)
IT HURTS
Ducklingmonster (Futurians), Claire Mahoney, Angeline Chirnside (Clean Teeth Recordings, Currer Bells)
COOLIES
Stefan, Sjionel, and Tina
Another ODB tribute group
DEAD C
Bruce Russell, Micheal Morley, Robbie Yeats
(Xpressway, Siltbreeze)
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SUNDAY 12TH AUGUST
SUNDAY SESSIONS IN THE SILO (Wynyard Quarter)
Daytime performances in the unique echo chambers of the Silo space!
12.30 – 5 PM FREE
With DJ AARON YAP
http://silopark.co.nz/
STANIER BLACK FIVE
A Lyttelton-based sound artist, whose work is largely focused on the manipulation of her own environmental recordings and found sounds.
VITAMIN S
Vitamin S collective presents 2 sets of improvised performances. Amazing results in music, sound and movement will occur.
NIGEL WRIGHT
Long time stalwart of the Auckland free-sound underground, Nigel creates pieces of cavernous free flowing electronics unhampered by the narrative musical constraints
JEFF HENDERSON
Heavy breather Jeff Henderson presents a new compostition for improvising ensemble. A spatial and palatial multiverse of sound energy will activate your third ear; bring shoes suitable for interstellar travel.
OMIT
Omit demonstrates how exploring the possibilities and capacities of vintage homemade electronic equipment can tell fascinating and compelling stories.
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4 POYNTON TERRACE, SUB-BASEMENT OF PARISIAN TIE FACTORY
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!!
ARTS ALIVE, CREATIVE COMMUNITIES, FILM ARCHIVE, CREATIVE NZ, K RD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, ASB TRUST, SILO PARK, WATERFRONT AUCKLAND, ARTSPACE, COOPERS, UTR