vegetable.machine.animal Album Launch with Special Guests
Join us as we celebrate the release of vegetable.machine.animal's new album, with special guests: Chrissie Butler, indigogue brown, David Long, Timothy Morel, Gemma S. Thompson and Kedron Parker
LP/CD released by skirted Records & Audio Foundation Records.
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Kieran Monaghan (he/him) is predominantly, and persistently, a drummer and percussionist of found sounds.
From punk rock beginnings in the deep South, he moved through ‘free-jazz’ that tumbled from venues such as The Space. While continuing to play assertive music, alongside developing confidence in improvisational arenas, necessity also dictated that income be made by playing multiple pub circuits in working bands.
Kieran Monaghan's project, vegetable.machine.animal(VMA), is his newest iteration of ongoing musical expression. It explores the intersections between spontaneous playing, electronic music, and science-informed inter-species collaboration.
He co-runs the skirted Records label with domestic and performative partner Chrissie Butler. Together they were the core of the outsider punk group mr sterile Assembly, who Nick Bollinger named as one of the 10 great rhythm sections of New Zealand.
Monaghan has toured internationally many times with the Assembly, and more recently with VMA. He has a long catalog of solo, band, and collaborative recordings. He is a semi-regular DJ on Radioactive.FM, remains happily hitched, and is a father to three daughters and one mokopuna.
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Chrissie Butler is one half of the now-defunct Mr Sterile Assembly, whose solo project DSLB (Ditzy Squall's Lunch Box) is a showcase for a love of long endings and the hum things make when you hold them close to your ear. Performed live, DSLB is an improvised mash-up of ancient record players, purring keyboards, kitchen utensils and found objects.
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indigogue brown is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, both projects hailing from the other side of the coin - one riddling practical gore-concoctions in multimedia film, with chaotic semi-improv; the other being sparkly yet harsh noise-pop & omnichord meanderings
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David Long is a musician, composer and producer. In 2020 he won best score at the APRA Silver Scrolls for the BBC drama series, The Luminaries. He composes mainly for film and television but also contemporary dance. He has worked on all of Peter Jackson’s films of the last two decades. He performs on banjo, guitar and theremin with The Labcoats and Teeth, and was a founding member of the seminal New Zealand band The Mutton Birds with whom he made 3 albums over 7 years. In the 1980s he was a member of the Braille Collective and The Six Volts.
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Gemma S. Thompson (Savages) is a guitarist and visual artist who finds a unique dialogue between poetic form and soundscape. Working with graphic scores developed from a series of soundwalk drawings, she finds a sense of freedom in being able to transpose/transform drawn marks that correlate with the landscape, through her guitar. Thompson is originally from London but is now based in Pōneke.
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Kedron Parker is a Wellington-based artist investigating place and nature in the city. Her practice is public, collaborative, installation and performance-based. She likes kids, music, ecologists, places, people, cameras, radios, birds and water.
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Timothy Morel is a multi-instrumentalist for Sendam Rawkustra.
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
