The Audio Foundation presents Alt.music Festival

The Audio Foundation presents Alt.music Festival

Auckland can expect unprecedented levels of diverse sound art and outsider music activity this July with imminent visits from internationally renowned sound artists for this year’s Alt.music festival. Scheduled to perform are Pauline Oliveros (USA), Ione (USA), Metamkine (France), Runzelstirn and Gurglestock (Switzerland/Japan), Dave Phillips (Switzerland) Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device (Australia). Joining them from around New Zealand are Phil Dadson, Plains with Michael Morley, and Crude.

Born in 1932, US composer Pauline Oliveros is a living legend having pioneered new ways of thinking about sound. In the late 1950s she was amongst the first US composers to work with electronic music alongside the likes of Steve Reich and Terry Riley. For this visit she will be reworking her seminal 1966 composition A Little Noise in the Sytem, the first to use her Expanded Instrument System and an important precursor to contemporary ideas of noise. She will also perform two recent pieces with regular collaborator, vocal artist Ione. Also playing is one of New Zealand’s most respected senior sound artists, Phil Dadson.

Collaborating with the Telecom 39th Auckland International Film Festival, Alt.Music presents La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine. This is an open-ended group including musicians and filmmakers. Researching relationships between image and sound through the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and ingenious live-on-stage editing, Metamkine produces and directs a new film with each performance. Working around a core narrative, they spill eddies of impromptu vignettes accompanied by a live soundtrack of tape fragments and ancient synthesiser sounds. The three collaborators, who have worked together for ten years, have succeeded in pushing the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live performance. In the same spirit, Auckland electronic supergroup Plains will be performing in collaboration with a moving image work by Michael Morley (Dead C/Gate).

Influenced by martial arts attack patterns and the notorious actions of the Viennese performance artists of the 1960s and 70s, Schimpfluch is a loose collective of bruitists and performers dealing with “psycho-physical tests and trainings“. At the core of the group are Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips and Joke Lanz (absent). Using sound, their often brutal performances challenge their audience’s responses using anything from voice and handguns to a theremin and dead fish. Sharing the Shchimpfluch sensibility and joining them for their NZ tour is Australian glass performer Lucas Abela aka Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device. Also joining them in Auckland is one of NZ’s most prolific recording artists, Matt Middleton aka one-man-band Crude.

Alt.music is an ongoing series of audio events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary sound art from around the world to New Zealand. Organised by the Audio Foundation, Alt.music began as an international festival of experimental music and sound art under ARTSPACE in 2001, followed by successive festivals in 2002 and 2004. Previous Alt.Music artists include Keith Fullerton Whitman, Peter Rehberg, David Toop, Pan Sonic, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jon Rose, Voice Crack, Sachiko M, Francisco Lopez, Pierre Bastien, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Licht, Richard Nunns and the Dead C.

The Audio Foundation and Alt.music is supported by Creative New Zealand, Fulbright New Zealand, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Auckland University of Technology and St Paul Street Gallery, The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries,  Vit S, Liquid Architecture, Room40, Telecom 39th Auckland International Film Festival, The Edge in association with Stamp, and ARTSPACE.

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