Artists:
Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā), Author / Narrator
Riki Gooch (Ngāti Wai, Patuharakeke, Ngaati Maahanga), Conductor-Composer / Taonga Puoro
Serenity Thurlow (Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui), Viola
Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe), Cello / Taonga Puoro
Al Fraser, Taonga Puoro
Kiva Parsons-Pirihi (Ngāti Wai, Patuharakeke, Ngaati Maahanga), Taonga Puoro
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, academic, and sound artist, Riki Gooch (Ngāti Wai, Patuharakeke, Ngaati Maahanga) and award-winning author Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā) weave their talents together to create a new work, created in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand, that seamlessly integrates kupu, taonga puoro, and orchestral string instruments.
Taking Māori futurism, whakapapa and taiao as its starting points, Ā mua spirals and forms connections across time. The tone shifts from the elemental and universal to the contemporary and gritty, but is always intimate.
Ki te Whai Ao, ki Te Ao Marama. Light comes into the world. Matter spirals into being. The history of humanity rolls out—longer and more fascinating and complicated than we can imagine, and you have lived many lives through it, coming into and out of being.
There will be a Q&A with Tina Makereti and Riki Gooch prior to the Wellington performance on 6 March, 5.15-6.45pm, hosted by Arihia Latham.
