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
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LINK TO FULL PROGRAMME
THERE NOT HERE
Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 July @ Audio Foundation, 12pm – 7.30pm
Free
There Not Here is a monthly broadcast of field recordings on AFM. Each edition of is organised around a theme determined by Tash van Schaardenburg, Jimmy Solórzano, Sam Longmore, and Xin Cheng, artists working with and in relation to field recording in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Responding to the given theme, each of these artists produces a selection of recordings over the course of a month. These sonic excerpts of place are collated and broadcast on AFM from 7pm on the second Wednesday of each month, before being archived on the AFMixcloud page.
For A ROOM THAT ECHOES, a selection of these recordings will be installed in the Audio Foundation entranceway and stairwell, diffusing via an array of portable speakers. Descend into AF and through the sounds which have comprised recent THERE NOT HERE broadcasts (“Tāmaki by Night”, “Waterways”, “Weather”, “Living Sounds”, “Sounds of Joy”).
TASH VAN SCHAARDENBURG
Tash van Schaardenburg’s (Citacsy/Unisex Fuck Club) art practice explores the acoustic anthologies and social negotiations of sound in the cityscape through audio, film and installation works. They are also known for their experimental music project Citacsy-D which extends their practice into ambient biographical journeys with a synthesis between live sound sculpting of field recordings and electronic instruments. Tash is also a regular contributor to the monthly ‘There not Here’ field recording broadcast on AFM, and host of Sound Dose.
SAM LONGMORE
Sam Longmore is an artist and electronic musician based in Tāmaki Makaurau. His work is informed by minimalist aesthetics, theories of architecture and geography, and aural experiences of the world around us, and has been performed and exhibited at galleries and project spaces throughout Aotearoa and abroad.
JIMMY SOLÓRZANO
Jimmy Solórzano is an electronic musician and sound artist from Guadalajara, México. He holds a Bachelor of Audio Engineering from SAE Institute in Mexico City, and has been active as a recording engineer and music producer since 2015. Throughout 2020 Jimmy has worked as the in-house technician at the Audio Foundation, as well as developing bespoke electronic musical devices and workshops for the Musical Electronics Library. His principal creative focuses are performative and generative electronic music and his recent work has explored creative means of incorporating natural sounds into installation and performance contexts, as well as the development of different forms of psychoacoustic expression.
XIN CHENG
Xin Cheng likes to walk and do stuff around making by hand, ecology, conviviality. While living in Hamburg in 2016–19 she hosted performative talks and workshops on everyday resourcefulness in Berlin, Sheffield and Mexico City; befriended dancers, film-makers, philosophers, junk traders; wrote stories for Hainamana; made books with Materialverlag; and organised a multidisciplinary show on rubber trails. Returning to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland before a virus changed the world, she is happy to continue her making-do(ing) with old and new friends.
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