The Audio Foundation presents Alt.music Festival
Big month for experimental music in Auckland this July
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Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Phil Dadson
$25, Friday July 6, 2007, doors 7pm, starts 8pm
Tickets from Tickitek (Service fees apply)
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland
Free Deep Listening™ workshop with Pauline Oliveros and Ione at St Paul St Gallery, AUT, 6pm – BYO pillow
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La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine and Plains with moving image work by Michael Morley
$20, Saturday July 14, 2007, doors 7pm, starts 8pm
Tickets from Tickitek (Service fees apply)
Kenneth Myers Centre, University of Auckland, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland
Free workshop with Metamkine’s Jerome Noetinger, Kenneth Myers Centre, Saturday July 14, 4pm
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Schimpfluch-gruppe including Runzelstirn and Gurglestock, Dave Philips, Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device,
and Crude
$15, Saturday July 28, 2007, doors 8pm, starts 9pm
Rising Sun, 373 Karangahape Rd, Auckland
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz
http://www.myspace.com/altmusicfestival
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