Festival Of Secret Sounds 4 - KAIROS, KOMURA, TRUE BLISS, JOHN BELL

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 8pm

JOHN BELL/NEIL FEATHER/STEVE COURNANE/DARREN HANNAH - John Bell (Spoilers of Utopia, Dominion Centenary Concert Band) and Steve Cournane (Bill Direen, Alpaca Brothers) have been collaborators for 3 decades, they are joined by legendary Sound Mechanic Neil Feather (invented instruments) and Vitamin S doyen Darren Hannah (double bass).

KAIROS (FRANCE) - Jean-Sébastien Mariage (guitar) & Gwennaëlle Roulleau (electronics).
From acoustics to electronics via effects, the manipulation of acoustic objects or the reworking of the sound of the guitar and its processing by Gwennaëlle, the erratic manipulation of effects by Jean-Sébastien generates a meeting zone where each affirmation of one position can only reveal another.
Between fugue and flight, the musicians echo each other, conceal, transform, bounce back. The duo brings into play the metamorphosis of the subject by playing on the memory of the listener. Sound objects are proposed, they are identifiable. Subsequently they reappear in a transformed way, they are still recognizable but they have changed form, they have possibly passed from the guitar to the electronics and vice versa. This gives rise to a global object which is still made up of the same sub-objects but whose form has evolved. The duo develops in their work the composition of sound objects that are made, undone, transformed.

KAORI KOMURA (Japan) - masterful solo set of Korean percussion

ROD COOPER (Australia) & TRUE BLISS EXPERIENCE - Extreme noise inventor Cooper meets Auckland's favourite free noise power trio of Andrew McMillan (electric plank), Sean Martin-Buss (electric bass) and Alan D. Jones (drums)

Full programme details at www.audiofoundation.org.nz


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