Catch these two Japanese artists when they visit Wellington next weekend!
KAWOL SAMARQANDI
REFUGEES
Kawol Samarqandi crafts non-national, “poor” music—stripped-down improvisations built only from his faltering guitar and trembling voice. In this sparse terrain of sound, silence becomes structural, and fragility becomes strength.
Across decades and continents, Kawol Samarqandi’s guiding principle remains unchanged: the will to listen attentively to the world through the austerely beautiful silences, notes, and structures of improvisation.
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Refugees is the duo of Mary Meacha Goldfish with her partner, Kawol SamarQandi. The project became a platform for expansive, contemplative soundscapes that blend analog electronics, acoustic instrumentation, and poetic minimalism.
Mary Meacha Goldfish is a multidisciplinary musician and sound artist known for her atmospheric compositions and her philosophy of “tinnitus music,” an approach that designs organic acoustics while listening attentively to the sound of silence.
Central to Goldfish’s artistic philosophy is what she calls “tinnitus music.” Rather than treating silence as absence, she approaches it as a living field of subtle vibration. By designing organic acoustics and listening carefully to internal and environmental sound, she creates works that hover between presence and disappearance.
Her compositions invite listeners to attune themselves to micro-sounds, resonances, and the fragile boundary between noise and quiet.
Through a life shaped by kitchens, harbors, choirs, ateliers, and analog synthesizers, Mary Meacha Goldfish continues to craft immersive sonic spaces—music that listens as much as it speaks.
For this special event local musicians Erika Grant, and Winterwood will join Samarqandi, and Refugees for a collaborative improvisational performance.
Saturday 21st March
Newtown Community Hall
71 Daniell Street
1:00pm. $20.00 waged. $10.00 unwaged
