Audio Foundation Announce 'A Room That Echoes' Festival

Aotearoa's indefatigable Audio Foundation team are following up mid-June's Now! Here! This! Ōtautahi extravaganza with an all new four day aural experience named A Room That Echoes — "a festival of immersive music, surround sound and deep listening." Happening in and around their Tāmaki Makaurau HQ in late July / early August, the snazzily abbreviated A.R.T.E. (great job whoever came up with that title), will showcase both recorded works and live performances from artists throughout the globe, promising "unique technological listening experiences from a lineup of extraordinary international and local performers and composers." Overseas artists contributing to A.R.T.E.'s impressive bill include US electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani (whose 2016 collaborative album with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Sunergy remains hugely popular), while our local contingent includes works and performances by Phil Dadson, Jo Burzynska, Richard Francis, Kraus, Flo Wilson and more. 

A Room That Echoes
For more details, head over to the Audio Foundation site HERE

Thursday 29th July (opening night) - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 7pm
Suzanne Ciani (USA)
Flo Wilson - LIVE
Thembi Soddell (AUS)
Concepcion Huerta (MX)
JIM-S (MX) - LIVE
Mo Zareei (IRAN) - LIVE

Thursday 29 July - Saturday 31st July, 12pm - 7.30pm
Here Not There - Tash Van Schaardenburg, Jimmy Solōrzano, Sam Longmore field recordings installation

Friday 30th July - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 7pm
Jōse Orozco Mora (MX)
Natasha Anderson (AUS)
Sergio Merce (ARG)
Judith Hamman (AUS)
Jo Burzynska
Malcolm Riddoch - LIVE
Clinton Watkins - LIVE

Saturday 31st July - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 2pm - 6pm - ALL LIVE
Musical Electronics Library Performance
John Kim
Phil Dadson - Radiophonic work with Sam Longmore / Torben Tilly / Rachel Shearer / Flo Wilson
Johnny Chang performs Michael Pisaro (USA)

Saturday 31st July - Audio Foundation, Auckland, 8pm
Warren Maxwell sound installation activated by Malcolm Riddoch
Al Fraser
Clovis McEvoy
Mabe Fratti (GUA)
Richard Francis - LIVE
Anthony Pateras (AUS)
Thomas Arbor Kraus - LIVE

Sunday 1st August - Old Folks Ass. Gundry St., Auckland, 2pm - 6pm - ALL LIVE
The Observatory Project
Bluetooth Orchestra - Kristian Larsen
Colin Woods, Andrew McMillan
Malcolm Riddoch
Organgy

Tickets available HERE via UTR

Experience Flo Wilson's 2017 audio-visual work '(Please) Keep Breathing'...

Press release:

The Audio Foundation presents a festival of immersive music, surround sound and deep listening. Through quadraphonic, octaphonic and dodecaphonic sound systems, portable speakers, massive analogue synthesiser arrays, multiple radios and more - the festival promises unique technological listening experiences from a lineup of extraordinary international and local performers and composers..