Audio Lounge welcomes you to the first in our series of community events celebrating the incredible and diverse local talent of experimental and alternative musicians, and offering a laid back, intimate and interactive adventure in listening!
MOTOKO KIKKAWA + SIMON EASTWOOD
ITALIKS
KĀHU
Motoko Kikkawa is an Ōtepoti based violinist known for her musical improvisation as well as her visual art. She performs many different genres of music and in several bands. She plays everything from quiet sound art performances in art galleries through to loud punk rock.
New Zealand based composer and bass player Simon Eastwood has a diverse practice, including orchestral and chamber works, electronic pieces, and improvisation. As a bass player, he regularly performs in a variety of contexts, playing in orchestras and chamber ensembles as well as rock, jazz and folk groups. As a composer, Simon has had works performed extensively around New Zealand, in the UK, Austria, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria,Turkey, Lithuania, and Korea, as well as in the United States. He is currently Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
Italiks (aka Alpharhythm) has been making beats of all shapes & sizes for over 25 years . An accomplished producer and seasoned musician , his deep, heavy dub riddims are complemented by live guitar and smooth, soul drenched vocals. Guaranteed to move the feet, soothe the soul & rattle the rib cage.
Kāhu is Tristan Dingemans, Solo - (Mountaineater / HDU / Kāhu Rōpū). Tristan is an Ōtepoti based musican best known for his thunderous, electric guitar wizardry and lead vocals in High Dependency Unit and Mountaineater, and now for his more recent solo and ensemble project including the pared back and beautifully spacious Ayanaant: Sound Journeys with his wife Jasmin.
We'll set up the sofa, chairs, bean bags and cushions for you, but feel free to bring extra cosiness.
An intimate, lounge style experience of music for you, which includes conversational interludes with the musicians about their stories, craft and instruments.
Our alcohol free, all ages series is held at A Y U Community Space, 7 Crawford St, with the generous support of Creative New Zealand.
