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Vegetable.machine.animal, Invisible Plain - Common Room

When
Thu Jul 24th, 2025
Where

Doors open
9:00pm
Gig starts
9:30pm
Entry
R18
Cover charge*
$10
*Guide only - booking fees may apply
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vegetable.machine.animal - 'Guest' album release gig

featuring
vegetable.machine.animal
Moon Hotene
Halcyon Birds

vegetable.machine.animal
A live conversation between plants, fungi, machines, and human musicians

What would it sound like if we could interact musically with plants and fungi—if humans stopped to listen and respond?

vegetable.machine.animal is an interspecies improvisational trio exploring this question through a hybrid sonic language of biosignals, modular synthesis, and live drums.

Led by drummer Kieran Monaghan, the project transforms living data from plants and fungi into voltage, translated into sound via modular synthesizer. Monaghan responds in real time, creating a feedback loop between human, organism, and machine.

Their debut album, GUEST, was recorded during the 2024 Sonic Artist Residency (Creative New Zealand / NZSM / Toi Pōneke) and emerged through open-ended, intuitive sessions. A diverse group of collaborators was invited to join the process, including Kedron Parker, Nico Buhne, Bill Wood, Ruby Solly, Indigique Brown, David Long, Andrew Faleatua, Andy Wright, Gemma Thompson, Timothy Morel, Mo H. Zareei, Tae Kyung Seo, Issac Smith, and Chrissie Butler.
Rather than guiding the music, contributors were invited to follow it—adding their voices to a living, shifting ecology of sound. The result is an album that is rhythmic, irregular, immersive, and alive.
GUEST is co-released by Audio Foundation Records (Tāmaki Makaurau) and skirted Records (Te Whanganui-a-Tara).

KIERAN MONAGHAN
Kieran Monaghan is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, writer, recording artist and sound bogan based in Te Whanganui-A-Tara. He is a prolific creative and organiser, with an irrepressible DIY ethic, known for his experimental and innovative approach to performance and sound making. Used to drum with mr sterile Assembly

INVISIBLE PLAIN
Sun Ra reincarnated in Heretaunga

Tags
alternative, art/noise, electronic, jazz, metal, punk/hardcore, Invisible Plain, vegetable.machine.animal

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