2024 marks 20 years of the Audio Foundation and to kick off a bumper year of extraordinary sound celebrations we are excited to announce...
The Inauragural Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds!
7 nights and days of amazing unusual music and sound art featuring artists from Japan, France, Australia, Northland, Ōtautahi & Tāmaki Makaurau.
Free improvisation, noise, minimal drone, jazz skronk, invented instruments, outdoor installations, electronic microscoppery and unbelievable ululations combine and clash in a spirit of unbridled & fearless sonic skillduggery.
Festival and nightly passes available.
SAT 10 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION 2pm - 5pm
HEATHER WEBB - solo guitar set from Ōtautahi based guitar explorer
SAM LONGMORE - Master of minimal sound experiments presents a new participatory work for multiple cell phones
WHIPPING STAR - ANITA CLARK & MATTHEW GUNN - Cracking new duo project from Anita Clark (Motte, Don McGlashan) and Matthew Gunn (Doprah,Pickle Darling)
JOHNNY CHANG PLAYS PHILL NIBLOCK'S Two Blooms
A tribute to the recently departed master of transformative drones.
The music of Phill Niblock aims to achieve a massive volume of sound, made up of the individual voices of the performers. This mass is alive with frictions, microtonal artefacts, distortions and spatial resonances.
Full programme details at www.audiofoundation.org.nz
SAT 10 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION 8pm
JOHN BELL/NEIL FEATHER/STEVE COURNANE/DARREN HANNAH
KAIROS (FRANCE) - Jean-Sébastien Mariage & Gwennaëlle Roulleau
KAORI KOMURA
ROD COOPER & TRUE BLISS EXPERIENCE
SUN 11 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION 5PM-8PM
STEPHEN BAIN HEADPHONE EXPERIENCE
Jean-Sébastien Mariage/HEATHER WEBB
TASH VAN SCHAARDENBURG - CIVIL TWILIGHT
Gwennaëlle Roulleau KAORI KOMURA
GOING GOING GONG
MON 12 FEB - WINE CELLAR - 8PM
VITAMIN S HOSTS EVERYBODY PLAYS
TUES 13 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 7.30PM
IGGY EPSTEIN/TASHI STEWART/EAMON EDMUNDSEN-WELLS/JEFFREY GARUS
ROD COOPER
WED 14 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 8PM
RAHANA LARSEN TAYLOR/PARKS/ALLANA GOLDSMITH
SONSON (HERMIONE JOHNSON/JEFF HENDERSON) & KAORI KOMURA
ANIMAL DUO (FRANCE) - GUYLAINE COSSERON/DIEMO SCHWARTZ
