Kuki Koori Wellington Planetarium Show Announced

Aotearoa multimedia collective Kuki Koori, the team of Iain Gordon (Fat Freddys Drop) and Mick Finn, will be dazzling the senses in Pōneke this December with a special headline event in the interstellar surrounds of Carter Observatory's Space Place Planetarium Dome. The duo's highly collaborative live performances deliver an audio-visual jam of Gordon's swirling beat-driven vintage electronics with animated visuals created on the spot by Finn. Join Kuki Koori for the "Earth Leg" of their Inner Solar System Tour at the date below...

Kuki Koori
Inner Solar System Tour – Earth Leg
Sunday 8th December - Space Place Planetarium Dome, Carter Observatory, Wellington (doors 8pm)
Tickets available via www.museumswellington.org.nz (limited capacity)

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Press release:

Kuki Koori is the brainchild of Iain Gordon (Fat Freddy’s Drop) and Mick Finn.

Some people collect mountain bikes, or Crown Lynn, but for Iain Gordon (a.k.a. Kuki), it’s keyboards.

He’s long coveted the warm analogue sounds of 70’s and 80’s machines like the Korg Trident and Roland SH101 (his go-to compositional tools for Ebb and Fat Freddy’s Drop). Excited to jam sounds on the fly to Mick Finn’s visuals, Kuki will enlist some new machines to take for a hoon, the Prophet 6 and Tanzbar (Dancing Bear) drum machine. Expect big, warm and bassy.

Mick Finn has been drawing from an early age, when he first heard the words 2B or not 2B. After discovering the joys of animation several years ago, he has since experimented with VJ’ing using hand-drawn zoetropes and light painting brushes before settling on live drawing, painting and animating for performances.

Their manifesto is to construct a sonic and visual feast from scratch, with Iain and his electronic instruments laying down a trail of hypnotic notes to be chased by Mick’s swirling and ephemeral dashes of painted light. As the intensity and the beat builds the live illustrations begin to move in various ways in response to the music.

Each performance is uniquely collaborative, with a visible and high-pressure creative process: Iain steps out from behind the keyboards of Fat Freddy’s Drop to conjure an electronic symphony from drumbeats, synths, compressors, filters and samples, while Mick responds with hand-drawn art projected large.