From our home on the edges of Myers Park, Tamaki Makaurau, Audio Foundation produces a vast programme of events, online content and artistic aid for the music and arts community. All of this is achieved with a small, devoted team, a few volunteers, and a passionate community that is always down to lend a helping hand or ear.

CONCERTS
WORKSHOPS
EXHIBITIONS
ARTIST TALKS
AFM RADIO STATION
INTERCITY FESTIVALS
AFR RECORD LABEL
NATIONAL TOURS
MUSICAL ELECTRONICS LIBRARY
SOUNDWALKS
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
INTERNATIONAL ACTS
FILM SCREENINGS
ARTIST ADVOCACY
RESEARCH SUPPORT
SOUNDBLEED WRITING JOURNAL
AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
PUBLICATIONS

Our work at the intersection of music and contemporary arts fosters an energetic community supported by our regular events, grass-roots initiatives, and collaborations with other arts institutions. As the primary national organisation dedicated to this field of practice, The Audio Foundation is a precious component of the wider arts ecology in Aotearoa. Increasingly our kaupapa is responsive to gaps in the local and national arts infrastructure.

The Audio Foundation engages a range of communities through our programmes. These communities are diverse and include established and emerging artists and musicians, arts and music educators, students, and people who are passionate about local, contemporary arts, music, dance and film. We specifically support groups who face adversity in presenting their work, including artists working with disability, trans and queer people, and Māori and Pasifika people. Our priority is to present and support the diversity of Aotearoa/NZ practitioners exploring practices relating to experimental music and sound art. These practices also span the areas of contemporary art, performance, video and more.

OUR GOALS
• To support and promote the creation, production, and dissemination of innovative New Zealand audio projects.
• To foster and preserve an identity and history for NZ audio culture, and to promote this to the wider public.
• To enable research, development and preservation of creative artistic potential primarily concerned with audio culture.
• To facilitate access, engagement and connection from the audio community to the wider arts community.
• To maintain and provide a professional integrity through sustained communication, delivery of programs, facilitation and successful initiatives of all kinds.

AF MAIL LIST

The Audio Foundation mailing list has been serving the New Zealand experimental audio community since April 2005.

For more information and to subscribe, visit the AF Mail List page.

The overall administration of Audio Foundation runs thanks to funding from Creative New Zealand, Foundation North, Auckland Council and Waitemata Local Board… Thanks!