Audio Foundation presents Listening Series #7
A unique show with Peter Porteous, Hermione Johnson and Empirical.
Peter Porteous is a guitarist who plays in Dunedin psych-noise-improv-rock band Eye. He has previously played in Empirical, Lapdog and Pointsman. He is also a co-organiser (with fellow-Eye member Peter Stapleton) of the long-running Dunedin-based Lines of Flight experimental music festival. This will be a rare solo performance.
Hermione Johnson is a composer and pianist living in Auckland, New Zealand. In recent times she has improvised with Jon Rose, David Brown, Gerard Crewdson and Jeff Henderson, appeared solo at Sydney's Paddington Uniting Church alongside Chris Abrahams and Monika Brooks, and with Louise Curham's 'Drunken Flower' at the Lines of Flight Festival in Christchurch. She has performed at the Soundout, Now Now, Fredstock, iiii and Bomb the Space Festivals, and her recent appearance with Jeff Henderson at the Lines of Flight Festival 2013 won her Best Performer Prize at the Dunedin Fringe Festival. Her solo album 'colour code' was released by the iiii label in July last year.
Empirical is such an occasional performer it is fair to wonder if this band really exists. The realities of it are a number of boxes in a Mt Roskill factory that come out to play when the stars align and fortune smiles. In the boxes are machines, machines called shimsaws and playing these machines is Marcel Bear. This is Empirical
