2024 marks 20 years of the Audio Foundation and to kick off a bumper year of extraordinary sound celebrations we are excited to announce...
The Inauragural Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds!
7 nights and days of amazing unusual music and sound art featuring artists from Japan, France, Australia, Northland, Ōtautahi & Tāmaki Makaurau.
Free improvisation, noise, minimal drone, jazz skronk, invented instruments, outdoor installations, electronic microscoppery and unbelievable ululations combine and clash in a spirit of unbridled & fearless sonic skillduggery.
Festival and nightly passes available.
FRI 9 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 8PM
JOHN BELL/PHIL DADSON/IVAN MRSIC - We are excited to welcome maverick improvisor, composer and bandleader John Bell back to the stage after a long time away researching the atmospheric conditions of Northland.. John is joined by two geniuses of instrument invention - Phil Dadson (From Scratch) and Ivan Mrsic (Projection Band).
GUILLAUME GARGAUD (FRANCE) - Guillaume Gargaud (France) is a composer and improvisational guitarist. He has participated in dozens of albums and composed music for contemporary dance and film. He collaborates with musicians and plays solo in Europe, the United States, Australia and for the first time - in Aotearoa, New Zealand
HEATHER WEBB/BRENDAN MORAN/STEFAN NEVILLE - New guitar star Heather Webb performs for the first time with legendary drummer Brendan Moran (vor-Stellen, the Subliminals) and AF Amigo Stefan Neville (Pumice, O-Pus) on electric bass
ROD COOPER(AUS)/KAORI KOMURA(JAPAN) - Rod Cooper is an Australian instrument inventor and noise musician who has spent 40 years of instrument building, noise machine construction and noise making using tape, gadgets, mortal coils, drain spaces, bridge spaces, microphones, computers, wood, metal, paint, paper, plastic and glass.
Rod is touring with the incredible Japanese percussionist Kaori Komura who has been performing in Japan from the age of 14 as a performer of traditional Korean drums. She performed with legendary Japanese punk band G.I.S.M and is a constant collaborator within the Japanese improvsation, noise, rock and jazz scenes.
Full programme details at www.audiofoundation.org.nz
SAT 10 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION 2pm - 5pm
HEATHER WEBB
SAM LONGMORE
WHIPPING STAR - ANITA CLARK & MATTHEW GUNN
JOHNNY CHANG PLAYS PHILL NIBLOCK
8pm
JOHN BELL/NEIL FEATHER/STEVE COURNANE/DARREN HANNAH
KAIROS (FRANCE) - Jean-Sébastien Mariage & Gwennaëlle Roulleau
KAORI KOMURA
ROD COOPER & TRUE BLISS EXPERIENCE
SUN 11 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION 5PM-8PM
STEPHEN BAIN HEADPHONE EXPERIENCE
Jean-Sébastien Mariage/HEATHER WEBB
TASH VAN SCHAARDENBURG - CIVIL TWILIGHT
Gwennaëlle Roulleau KAORI KOMURA
GOING GOING GONG
MON 12 FEB - WINE CELLAR - 8PM
VITAMIN S HOSTS EVERYBODY PLAYS
TUES 13 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 7.30PM
IGGY EPSTEIN/TASHI STEWART/EAMON EDMUNDSEN-WELLS/JEFFREY GARUS
ROD COOPER
WED 14 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 8PM
RAHANA LARSEN TAYLOR/PARKS/ALLANA GOLDSMITH
SONSON (HERMIONE JOHNSON/JEFF HENDERSON) & KAORI KOMURA
ANIMAL DUO (FRANCE) - GUYLAINE COSSERON/DIEMO SCHWARTZ
