Outlier Festival 2022 Lineup Announced

Presenting a carefully curated selection of Aotearoa's most artistically ambitious and challenging electronic music / sound practitioners, Tāmaki Makaurau's Outlier Festival is making a mighty return over three days in October. Brought to you by experimental music champions Audio Foundation, the festival will be happening in a variety of central city locations, including Whammy Bar, Whammy Backroom, Artspace and the Auckland Unitarian Church. Artistic directors Grace Verweij (Sequentia, Related Articles) and Tash van Schaardenburg (Citacsy) have invited open-eared artists from all around the country with both deep listening and dancefloor-focussed experiences in mind — encompassing such wildly diverse approaches as "EBM, glitch, footwork, deconstructed club, ambient, cumbia, synthpop, hyperpop, cowgirl breaks, concrete music, goblin-core, dubstep, leftfield bass, power electronics, techno, taonga pūoro, drone, IDM, noise, neo-folk, industrial-sonics, coded music, splatter, slambient + everything in between!"

Including rare Tāmaki performances by Current Bias, Strange Stains, E/N/T, Cave Circles (all travelling from Te Whanganui-a-Tara), Synthetic Children (Papaioea), Big Flip the Massive (Ōtautahi) and Synthesized Waves (Waihōpai), festival passes and tickets for individual days are available now. Scope out the all-killer full official lineup and timetable details below, with even more details for the must-attend "multi-modal showcase" to be announced soon over on the festival's Instagram page HERE.

Audio Foundation presents…

OUTLIER FESTIVAL
Three days of experimental and exploratory electronic music from Aotearoa

Friday 7th October - Whammy Bar, Auckland (8pm start)
Big Flip the Massive, Briar Mead, Benny Salvador, Mr Sic, 3PT, Samara Alofa

Saturday 8th October - Auckland Unitarian Church (2pm start)
E/N/T + M4URI M4STA, Ike Zwanniken, Veale Moss

Saturday 8th October - Whammy Bar & Backroom (9pm start)
Cave Circles, Current Bias, Ex-Partner, Fern, P.H.F, Vanessa Worm, Synthetic Children

Sunday 9th October - Artspace
Flo Wilson, i.e. Crazy, Synthesized Waves

Three day festival passes available HERE via UTR / Tickets for individual days available HERE via UTR

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Press release:

Outlier Festival presents three days of genre-spanning music reflecting the diversity of Aotearoa’s experimental electronic music scene; including EBM, glitch, footwork, deconstructed club, ambient, cumbia, synthpop, hyperpop, cowgirl breaks, concrete music, goblin-core, dubstep, leftfield bass, power electronics, techno, taonga pūoro, drone, IDM, noise, neo-folk, industrial-sonics, coded music, splatter, slambient + everything in between!

First produced in 2019, artistic directors Grace Verweij (Sequentia, Related Articles) and Tash van Schaardenburg (Citacsy) have reimagined the festival to potentiate both deep listening experiences and unique dancefloors with a programme of exclusively live and original sets by adventurous electronic practitioners from around the country.