Kraus plays the Audio Foundation on the last date of his 2024 NZ tour. With support from ducklingmonster and Hermione Johnson
Kraus (aka Pat Kraus, he/him) is a producer of psychedelic music based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Starting his musical life as a drummer in Ōtepoti bands such as The Futurians, Kraus has released over twenty solo albums since the turn of the millennium and performed widely in Aotearoa, Australia and Europe. Drawing on an extremely wide range of influences, from contemporary West African synth music (eg. Hama) to the outer limits of 70s psychedelia (Pärson Sound, Les Rallizes Denudes), and from early electronic pioneers such as Laurie Spiegel to the traditional folk music of East Asia, Kraus conjures a rich and evocative sound-world through vividly modal and minimal compositions for guitar, synthesizer and drums. His recent synth-heavy work melds sci-fi sound-design and hypnotic polyrhythms to create new forms of head-spinning electronic music.
“Corrosive and masterful” (Byron Coley, The Wire)
“One of the most quietly important and interesting people making music in New Zealand” (Kiran Dass, The Listener)
https://kraussss.bandcamp.com/
Ducklingmonster is an audio-visual artist from Tāmaki. She utilities a combination of scratched 45 records, broken beats emanating from a JVC boombox, field recordings of crashing oceans and Karangahape footpaths, electronic and vocal textures to invite you into her sonic possible worlds
https://ducklingmonster.com
https://audiofoundation.bandcamp.com/album/i-know-a-way
Hermione Johnson is a classically-trained pianist, composer, and free-improviser from Auckland, New Zealand, who focuses on extended and prepared piano techniques. She investigates the timbral qualities of the piano and expanding its range of voices with contrasting patterns and phrases in different registers. She is a key figure in the New Zealand experimental music scene.
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tremble
