The Second Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds presents:
The culmination of, ‘a place to play a clarinet’, a series of intimate clarinet concerts initiated by artist J.A. KENNEDY in 2022.
This final movement of the series returns to the Governor Brick Pumphouse - a green box - located at 1A Tuarangi Road, Grey Lynn.
The performance is intended to be approximate 45mins, with original players, Jeff Henderson and Sean Martin-Buss playing alongside additions from the second - fourth iterations, Ben Sinclair, Lukas Fritsch, and Callum Passells. The recording from the first performance will accompany the players as an apparition of an appearance.
There are two original + three additional chairs provided as sculptural notation for the players to read / use at their discretion.
1A Tuarangi Road, Grey Lynn, Tāmaki Makaurau.
2pm
FREE!!
Audio Foundation kick starts the new year with a stunning lineup of local and international sound, music and performance.
The Second Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds sees visitors from France, Sweden, Australia and Germany create new works alongside and in collaboration with Aotearoa based artists in an array of venues and settings.
Highlights include Scandinavian avant-folk singer Anna Fält in collaboration with local heroes Karl Sölve Steven and The Palcontents, alternative singer-songwriter Simon Joyner from the USA, legendary collective HUBBUB which features some of the leading voices in French improvised and experimental music, prolific Australian visual, sound and performance artist Victor Meertens and his close collaborator Alexis Ensor of the Charles Ives Singers, a newly commissioned work by ex-pat composer Flo Wilson featuring six singers and six amplified speakers, Taonga Puoro specialist Rob Thorne and his new free jazz trio, and many more performers activating the acoustics of the Audio Foundation, Auckland Unitarian, Silo 6, Whammy Public Bar, Kim Meredith Gallery, Western Park and 1A Tuarangi Road, Grey Lynn.
Festival passes on sale now from https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/94350/The-Second-Aotearoa-International-Festival-Of-Secret-Sounds.utr
FESTIVAL PASSES $55 + BF, access all shows
Individual shows $30 per night
More information from www.audiofoundation.org.nz
