is Mark Sadgrove, an Auckland based sound artist who has released
solo work on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon (Lower Hutt), Scarcelight (America)
and his own label a binary datum.
He is also a member of Auckland ensemble Plains and performs in numerous
duos. mhfs has recently performed in Berlin and Tokyo in a micro world-tour.
A neo-Luddite, he plans to eventually replace all the equipment he doesn't
understand with his own creations and enter a hermetically sealed sound
world of insular sonic gestures.
Until that day, you get to enjoy his home made pipe guitar and decimator
circuits channelled through an angry array of csound processors, creating a
barrage of decaying waveforms. Eat up!
This video is part 1 of 2 recorded at the performance.
This section includes some documentation of the performances, and chats with members of the audience and information about the artists from the original event listing sent to the NZ Audio Foundation mail list.
Read more to view the videos and photos. Or visit the event documentation section of this site then follow the links
Here's a rough review of TransAcoustic Festival held in Auckland in December 2005. It is actually comprised of a couple of emails sent to the aus_noise yahoogroups mail list and the audio foundation NZ mail list, so is casual / informal in manner & language. (but I like it this way!)
Finding my old bookmark files has made me nostalgic for the early computing days when everything was new and exciting and full of possibilities. One of my favourite magazines back in the early 90s was Mondo 2000. It was hard to get - only a few places in Brisbane stocked it, actually only two that I recall and even then it was occasional. By the time I got round to subscribing to the magazine it had finished being published and I lost my subscription renewal to the cause so to speak. At the time, it was cutting edge and the full gloss images and interviews with leading thinkers made it a great read. R.U. Sirius who was the editor of the mag has a podcast these days and can be found around mondoglobo.net. Here's a collection of links to mondo 2000 stuff:
The women of hip hop will take center stage at Bar Broadway on Thursday 15th May at Ladies First , a night dedicated to showcasing and paying well deserved respect to some of this countries leading ladies of hip hop.
The night kicks off with a screening of 'All the Ladies', a 25-minute documentary by Colleen Hughson and Mary Quinscara (AKA MC Q), about women in Australian hip hop.
The Scratch DJ Tour hit Sydney with the arrival of hip hop legends Q-Bert, Jazzy Jay and J-Rocc. All these guys have been major influences in the hip hop community and are revered by up & coming and established turntablists/hip hop producers alike.
