Festival Of Secret Sounds 5 - Gongs, Headphones, Hanging Speakers

2024 marks 20 years of the Audio Foundation and to kick off a bumper year of extraordinary sound celebrations we are excited to announce...
The Inauragural Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds!
7 nights and days of amazing unusual music and sound art featuring artists from Japan, France, Australia, Northland, Ōtautahi & Tāmaki Makaurau.
Free improvisation, noise, minimal drone, jazz skronk, invented instruments, outdoor installations, electronic microscoppery and unbelievable ululations combine and clash in a spirit of unbridled & fearless sonic skillduggery.

Festival and nightly passes available.

SUN 11 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION 5PM-8PM

STEPHEN BAIN HEADPHONE EXPERIENCE - Brilliant performance curator Stephen Bain brings a new work for multiple headphones

Jean-Sébastien Mariage/Heather Webb - two guitarists, one from France, the other from Ōtautahi..never met nor played together before, an exciting and enticing proposition!

TASH VAN SCHAARDENBURG - Civil Twilight - Prolific local Sound Artist Tash Van Schaardenburg (Citacsy) presents their outdoor sound installation 'Civil Twilight' for the first time in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Gwennaëlle Roulleau (France) & Kaori Komura (Japan) - Gwennaëlle Roulleau is an electroacoustic composer, musician and sound artist.Listening to the environment or the sound body, she collects and sculpts sound material in their physicality, transforms it to propose an expressive and sensitive sound experience. Here she collaborates with the stunning percussionist Kaori Komura of Japan.


GOING GOING GONG - a closing ritual performed on multiple gongs by local drum/percussion hero Chris O'Connor

Full programme details at www.audiofoundation.org.nz


MON 12 FEB - WINE CELLAR - 8PM

VITAMIN S HOSTS EVERYBODY PLAYS

TUES 13 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 7.30PM

IGGY EPSTEIN/TASHI STEWART/EAMON EDMUNDSEN-WELLS/JEFFREY GARUS
ROD COOPER

WED 14 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 8PM

RAHANA LARSEN TAYLOR/PARKS/ALLANA GOLDSMITH
SONSON (HERMIONE JOHNSON/JEFF HENDERSON) & KAORI KOMURA
ANIMAL DUO (FRANCE) - GUYLAINE COSSERON/DIEMO SCHWARTZ