A.M. (Antony Milton from Wellington's Pseudo/Arcana label), Plains, City Peoples Farmers Music and Un Ciego performed at the Wine Cellar in Auckland on Saturday, 4th March, 2006.
This section of the site contains some documentation of the night - videos of parts of the performances chats with some of the performers & photos taken throughout the evening.
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!)
The TransAcoustic festival was held in Auckland 8-11th December, 2005 and combined the artistic and musical talents from performers and composers from Australia and New Zealand.
Vitamin-S was devised as a place where those interested in 'improvised music' could meet, perform, listen to and discuss, and generally interact with, all aspects of this complex and largely misunderstood art form. As improvisation is the most widely practised of genres, it may be necessary to define two main forms: