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vegetable.machine.animal (vma) will tour Aotearoa New Zealand from 27 September to 28 November 2026 in support of TRIO, the project’s new album, co-released by Audio Foundation Records and skirted Records. The 15-date tour runs from Whanganui to Invercargill, taking in main centres and out-of-the-way venues alike.
TRIO is billed as the “interspecies trio” — a collection of music grown from the interaction of drums, modular synthesis, and plant-triggered biosignals. It stands as a companion to vma’s 2025 release, GUEST, which invited a rotating cast of collaborators — including Ruby Solly, David Long, and Mo H. Zareei — to add their voices to the project’s living sonic ecology. Where GUEST opened the circle outward, TRIO pulls the focus back to the project’s original three-way interaction between human, machine, and organism, completing the pair of bookends vma first envisioned for its 2024 Sonic Artist Residency. A cherry log, gifted to the project during its 2025 Aotearoa tour and now fruiting with mushrooms, generates the voltage that drives the synthesiser, translating fungal and plant activity directly into sound alongside live drumming and electronics. The result is a polyphonic, unpredictable soundworld exploring what a “more-than-human” music might sound like.
The album was recorded in January 2026 inside a repurposed wooden Salvation Army hall in Island Bay, Wellington, and mastered in time for a successful 19-date Australian tour. vma now brings the completed work home for this Aotearoa run.
Live, vma continues to deliver dynamic and unpredictable performances, working in real time with the musical ecology of human and more-than-human interaction — drums, electronics, percussive clatter, and plant-triggered samples combining into a soundworld that is as perplexing as it is entertaining.
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DEO (AUS)
Originating from Meanjin, Queensland Australia, DEO is a improvised rotating roster of members fronted by Ekavir Deo.
Uniform
Uniform is a Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, New Zealand based collective. Established in 2014, collaborative methods are essential to their practice and extend into the projects they work on. They predominantly work in sound, performance, writing, print, spatial design, and film”
Saturday 3 October, 8PM @ Audio Foundation
Tickets from Undertheradar
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