MEDIA RELEASE
19 September 2006
5 4 3 2 1: Auckland Artist Projects
Auckland Art Gallery comes alive this Sunday as two percussionists perform improvised music on an installation by artist
Sam Morrison.
Morrison’s An Activation creates a musical instrument out of the gallery, transforming its walls and recesses into
resonating acoustic chambers.
Percussionist Chris O’Connor is a legend in the improvised music scene who has performed with Don McGlashan, Trinity
Roots, Surfing USSR, and Cloudboy.
James Pinker has a long and diverse history in electronic and multicultural music, ranging from recordings with Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan and the Holiwater Project, to playing in local post-punk groups The Superettes, The Features and Fetus
Productions before joining SPK and then Dead Can Dance.
This performance – their first together - is part of a series of sound projects curated by Andrew Clifford for the
exhibition 5 4 3 2 1: Auckland Artist Projects.
Clifford says Morrison’s installation recalls the work of artist Alvin Lucier, whose seminal Music on a Long Thin Wire
was shown at Auckland Art Gallery in 1984.
Lucier’s work will be discussed by composer James Gardner - a Concert FM broadcaster and director of Auckland’s only
professional contemporary music ensemble 175 East, in a public talk at 1pm before the performance at 3pm.
ENDS