Lineup Announced For Outlier Festival 2019

A diverse lineup of experimental sound-makers from across Aotearoa has been announced for Tāmaki Makaurau's inaugural Outlier Festival, happening over three days in mid-August and based in the subterranean surrounds of the Audio Foundation. Organised by Grace Verweij (lskse_, Milk) and Tash van Schaardenburg (Bib Kids, VSSL) and presenting a senses-expanding selection of artists working at all ends of the sonic spectrum, the intergenerational bill includes Motte, Omit, Ragged Veins, Ducklingmonster, Totems + Sequentia, Rachel Shearer and many more. Do your ears a favour and explore the full artist bio details over here, and cop your very own festival pass for all events while you're at it...

Outlier Festival 2019

Friday 16th August - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 7pm start (all ages)
Featuring... K-Group, Citacsy D, Usine, Net Worth, Nadir Knot, Ducklingmonster

Saturday 17th August - offsite venue to be announced (all ages, free)
Featuring... Rachel Shearer, Fraser’s Boring Music

Saturday 17th August - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 6.30pm start (all ages)
Featuring... Omit, Ragged Veins, Slitopia, Motte, Briar Mead, Totems + Sequentia, Jamie Awakshidar

Sunday 18th August - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 4.00pm (all ages, koha)
Hermione Johnson, Todd Luffa, Saggitarius A

Festival passes available HERE via UTR (door sales also available)

Experience an immersive animated clip for Briar Mead's 'Beneath The Willow'...

Take in the freewheeling sonics of Ducklingmonster's 'Passively is Unthinkable'...

Watch the hyperreal clip for Net Worth's 'Tee Aych'...

Press release:

Very happy to announce the OUTLIER FESTIVAL, organised by Auckland-based musicians/artists/makers-happen, Grace Verweij (lskse_) and Tash van Schaardenburg (Bib Kids, VSSL).

Drag yourself out of the winter gloom and into the underground of our favourite experimental music institution for three days of somatic sound, multimodal musical gestures, constellations of sonic intimacy, and all matter of hypnotic tones, drones and oscillations. Prepare to delve deep as we commune to drown out the psychic noise of a world in peril with 18 of the finest sound explorers and fresh talent plucked from Tāmaki Makaurau and around Aotearoa in a celebration of sonic hues from across the spectrum.