Nowhere! Festival 2018

Aotearoa's premiere festival adventurous and avant-garde sonics is back, bringing more than 50 incredible acts of off-kilter experimentation to Auckland for four days and nights of boundary-pushing sonic bombardment.

Over Labour Weekend, artists from as far away as Belgium will converge across the city to engage in radical sound making, sonics on the edge of perception, extreme instrumental techniques, vocal catharsis and all round sensory stimulations!

In addition to utilising Auckland's holy trinity of underground music venues – Audio Foundation, the Wine Cellar and Whammy Bar, this years Nowhere! Festival also takes over the spectacular acoustics of the Silo’s on Auckland waterfront for a day and night of reverb drenched experimentation.

NO DAY OF REST : an afternoon and evening of small groups, solos and frst time meetings at Audio Foundation : Sun 21 Oct – 2 - 10pm

Campbell James Kneale (Our Love Will Destroy the World/Birchville Cat Motel) – high priest of volume and density fips and plays very quietly!
Rachel Shearer – deep listening environments by renowned Sonic Artist
The Family – guitar/electronic whizz Kraus with his Sth Island whanau Motoko Kikkawa, Gabriel Griffn and Ro Ro G
Sandra Bell – leading figure of peripheral oddities
Pumice – porous songs with glowing depth!
SL & Nilfisk – hisses, rumbles, rings and pings: low volume, high density
Liam Bowen – an exploration of the musical potential and historical legacy of gourds
Barbra Patterson – classically trained singer bringing a touch of class
Bad Bandmate – Gem Tones and Motoko Kikkawa expand time, space and consciousness
SONSON – a spasmodic meeting of prepared piano and reeds
Francisca Griffin (solo) – an acoustic set from a legend of New Zealand's alt-pop scene
Reuben Derrick / John Bell / bOnEhEaD / I.R.D. – a trio
Pom Pom – swirly sonic guitar punctuated with driving bass and trance rock drums
Sophie & Evelyn – an unknown electronic quantity