The Sound and Light Exploration Society welcome you to the Rising Tides Festival, four days of mind expanding music, psychedelic sound experiments, backyard electronics, kitchen sink improvisation, primitive rock, free noise, hypnotic projections, ethnographic films, invented instruments and more. Continuing in the tradition of the Wellington music festivals Bomb the Space and Fredstock, Rising Tides is a celebration of the unconventional within NZ’s creative music scene: the outsiders, the non-conformists and the eccentrics. We are very happy to bring to Wellington, artists from around NZ and several special international visitors. Puppies is the festival club, with shows on there every night. Early shows are at various locations around the city including The Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffalos, Thistle Hall, Garrett Street and at some special outdoor locations.
DAY 3 – FRIDAY 7TH DECEMBER
6PM@THISTLE HALL
featuring DUCKLINGMONSTER’S DREAMY-MACHINE
Withdrawn scratchy analogue projections. Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Ursula Le Guin
DORKWIND
Leathers Pants put through an Auto Wah
GRVDGGR
Dunedin. None Gallery director Brendan Phillip - raw guitar.
OPEN CALL
First-time players to proficient musicians perform compositions by Amos Mann, including a choral piece with a 16m long score used to create acoustic loops, delays and echoes.
MOMENT TELEPATH
Dunedin. Toki Wilson (Mental Health Triangle, Big Fat Raro etc). Acoustic sound arrangements - toys, robots, hairdryers, music boxes and more.
ERIKA AND ATSUSHI
Exploring interactions between voice as sound, music as sound, voice as language and, music as music.
HERMIONE JOHNSON/JOHN BELL/SIMON O’RORKE/JONNY MARKS
Prepared piano virtuoso Hermione Johnson with vibraphonist John Bell, electronic percussionist O’Rorke and All Seeing Hand front man Jonny Marks on vocals.
GREG MALCOLM/ANTHONY DONALDSON/ALPHABETHEAD/LUCIEN JOHNSON
A musical meeting of seriously profound possibilities... all four are living legends on their respective instruments.
9:30PM@PUPPIES
[featuring DJ TRACKPANTZMAN]
ALEXANDER TUCKER
UK. Hailed by The Wire as an ‘avant folk genius’, psychedelic outsider artist Alexander Tucker has been creating his distinctly British song cycles for many years, released firstly on ATP Records and more recently on Thrill Jockey. His music is an intensely personal world of dream-logic narratives and out-of-focus scenes, as much heavy and sonic as it is gentle and acoustic. Tucker collaborates regularly with members of Sunn O)))) and Circle and forms half of Imbogodom with NZ’s Daniel Beban. Equally active as a visual artist, Tucker’s drawings and films will be exhibited along with his partner Rhona Clews’ photography on Saturday. Obsessed with and heavily influenced by NZ psych and noise music, Tucker’s visit is an eagerly anticipated musical pilgrimage.
BILL DIREEN and the FEROCIOUS THREE
France/NZ. Bill Direen is a New Zealand musician, poet and novelist based in Paris. His longstanding group The Bilders achieved legendary status both in NZ and abroad through their lo-fi recordings that showcased Direen’s unique take on songwriting: angular and unpredictable with electrifying lyrics. Some of these early 1980s DIY recordings have recently been re-released on Siltbreeze (USA) and Unwucht (Germany). He continues to record and release new material as a soloist and collaborator with musicians based in NZ and Europe.
BADD ENERGY
Motley jams blending stoner-swamp riffs with laid back 808 raps.
SUPERSTARS OF WESTLYNN
Aaaiiiiiieeeee! Indoo DaOoorl! Umina a Umina Umina a Umina!
Gan geet nar plau eahbit. Deh oople ga ob eeblan. Dok dok dok. Duk duk duk.
