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 4 – SATURDAY 8TH DECEMBER
12PM @ ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF THE BUFFALOS
GREG MALCOLM KID’S SHOW [KOHA]
Greg Malcolm’s story time session is a fun, musical, visual and dramatic journey through songs and stories. Beautiful melodies and nursery rhymes of the past are fused with contemporary fun songs. Felt boards and puppets make this a fun and visually entertaining performance and the children will become actively involved singing songs with actions and humour. Greg provides a fantastic opportunity for children to be involved in music encouraging them to be imaginative and creative thinkers. This show is aimed at babies to seven year olds and all those young at heart!
3PM @ ROYAL ANTIDELUVIAN ORDER OF THE BUFFALOS
Exhibition: RHONA CLEWS and ALEXANDER TUCKER
Films, photography and drawings.
MR STERILE ASSEMBLY
Formed in 2001, outsider punk outfit Mr Sterile Assembly mutated through many formations before settling on the current two-piece line-up, reportedly the most assertive and explosive to date. They have a distinctive, South Pacific sound based on unusual and urgent time signatures, repetitive heavy rhythms, and angular lyrics
SETH FRIGHTENING
Unconventional stories with shifting, clouded characters and evasive narratives.
JEFF HENDERSON
Ancient Wisdom - a new graphic compostition for assorted 18-piece orchestra.
BLIND JOE DEATH
Banjo, 12-string guitar and experimental films: visual noise compositions. Entropy worship. Beautiful nature fatographoy enhance enhance. Some of it is in red/blue 3D, BYO goggles.
STEPHEN BAIN
New experimental video work.
BILL DIREEN
Direen performs a solo set of new material.
SIGN OF THE HAG
Duo of adapted spinning wheels, one making pulsating phantascopic images, the other spinning whirlpools of rhythms and sound
6:30 ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF THE BUFFALOS
FILM – PAUL WOLFFRAM STORI TUMBUNA: ANCESTORS’ TALES
A feature length ethnographic documentary, Stori Tumbuna is set in the remote region of Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, a region without roads, power or water supplies, and focuses on the lives, culture and mythology of the Lak people. This film is a collaboration between people of the Lak region and Wellington ethnomusicologist Paul Wolffram who lived there for two years... “I was to become enmeshed in events that resulted in bloodshed and death. What’s more, I was held responsible.” – Paul Wolffram
8:30 SPECIAL EVENT @ WAITANGI (CHAFFERS) PARK LIGHT TREE
DROSZKHI
Torben Tilly’s solo project, Droszkhi, follows in the spirit of his electronic duo Minit and sonic explorations with Full Fucking Moon. Field recordings, electronics, synths, percussion & other mixed-media produce a sound world of mind-expanding elliptical loops, discombobulated rhythms, electric pulses, and cosmic drones. Tonight Droszkhi will perform a special surround sound set at the psychedelic Christmas tree light sculpture at Waitangi (Chaffers) Park.
10PM@PUPPIES
[featuring DJ DUCKLINGMONSTER]
LASER COOLING
Dunedin duo. Fat. Ill. Dance. Industry. Mini. Ambient.
DJ BLOWOUT
Rusty, crusty and dusty dance dirges out of four-to-the-floor rhythms, mangled by fx loops and garbled by tape hiss.
THE FUTURIANS
Dunedin/Auckland. Monsters interplanetary spacecraft commanding a drunk, covered in sap and molasses, pink and green. Messier lovers of film, music and comics, the collective New Zealand The Futurians. Its zonked clique of superheroes, consisting of Duckling Monster, CJA, Mandroid, and ISO12, comes to ninth years of life with a production-trash hardcore punk-sci-fi as unusual as unknown.
GOLDEN AXE
Auckland.
