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For independent and adventurous visions, creative engagement & critical exploration in sound and music from Aotearoa/NZ. For inquiries please email.

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Audio Foundation presents..
8 x 10 – Phil Dadson at 80

Celebrating iconic sound artist Phil Dadson’s 80th rotation with four concerts of new collaborations, old friendships, new music and special guests.

🔊 Friday OCT 23 – Audio Foundation 8pm
Presales UTR: $20 + BF
Door sales: $25
members free

Phil Dadson with:
Anita Clark
Finn McNeill
Darryn Harkness
Chris O’Connor
Peace Myth

🔊 Saturday OCT 24 – Audio Foundation 8pm
Presales UTR: $20 + BF
Door sales: $25
members free

Phil Dadson with
Simon O’Rorke
Kristian Larsen
Sean Martin-Buss
Eamon Edmundsen-Wells
Ivan Mrsic

🔊 Friday Oct 30 – Audio Foundation 8pm
Presales UTR: $20 + BF
Door sales: $25
members free

FROM SCRATCH
'The Place of Five Points'
Phil Dadson
Adrian Croucher
Shane Currey
Chris O’Connor
Darryn Harkness

🔊 Saturday OCT 31 – Audio Foundation 8pm
Presales UTR: $20 + BF
Door sales: $25
members free

Phil Dadson with
THE OBFUSCATORS
Tae Kyung Seo
Rui Inaba
Sean Martin-Buss
Proboscis Drumkey

Nranra
Rosie Langabeer
Allana Goldsmith
Neil Feather by @audio.foundation

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High Altar – Aotearoa’s improvisational power duo of Brendan Moran (Hasselhoff Experiment, Subliminals, Vor-stellan) and Taipua Adams (Terror of the Deep, The Perms), HIGH ALTAR coax amp-blasting riff swarms from bass guitar, drums and electronics. /

Uniform – cracked songs and noises from Tina Pihema (The Coolies) & Beth Dawson (Ducklingmonster,The Futurians)

Oksun Ox – one man swamp funk from Ben Holmes

Saturday 10 October, 8PM @ Audio Foundation
Presales from @undertheradarnz
Members free by @audio.foundation

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Thursday, tomorrow, we celebrate the opening of Threads @audio.foundation . With sound from @ryantomov @francescaparussini & @tashi.noise . 4 Poynton Terrace (below the Parisian tie factory) from 5:30. Tremendously grateful & excited to share this .
Installation captures from the best @amarieott 🩶 by @audio.foundation

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11 days ago

THE LOOM presents a fortnightly series of new Jazz and Improvised Music!

THE LOOM #27

First:
Raga & Rhythm
Shalu Garg - Sitar
Rhythm Kaur - Tabla

Second:
Takadimi Trio
Alan Brown - Keys
Olivier Holland - Bass
Manjit Singh - Tabla

Limited Capacity
Undertheradar pre-sales $20
Door Sales $25 Waged/$15 Unwaged
Members Free by @audio.foundation

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16 days ago

🔊 Call for Submissions: MEL Compilation Vol. 4 🔊

The Musical Electronics Library is putting together our fourth compilation album for release on AFR!

🎶 Here’s how to submit:

- Make a piece of music utilising at least one item from the MEL (including sample library – 4 volumes up now at audiofoundation.bandcamp.com)

- Send your track in via dropbox, google drive, Wetransfer, drop in with it etc..

- tell us your artist name & what MEL items you used

- tracks no longer than 4 min 33 sec

- You must be a member of the MEL to submit!

🗓 Deadline NOVEMBER 13!
📧 Email: mel@audiofoundation.org.nz by @audio.foundation

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19 days ago

Thanks for joining us for the inaugural Karangahape Art Weekend! We kicked things off in collaboration with @audio.foundation to test the sonic potential of the RM loading bay.

A massive thank you to @paradoxprincessxox @ducklingmonster @katlang___ for their captivating performances!

Thanks to @karangahape_art and @kroadnz

Documentation: @h0llythai taken in RM, by @audio.foundation

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Audio Foundation is thrilled to present an evening with Kina:suttsu (@kina_suttsu)

Based in Hiroshima, Japan, Kina:suttsu performs solo improvisations built from soprano saxophone, sampler, and electronics — moving fluidly between ambient soundscapes and experimental noise. Each performance is shaped in response to its environment, with a focus on immersive, site-sensitive work that treats the performance space itself as an active collaborator. The results are unpredictable, textural, and deeply attuned to the room they’re made in.

www.kinasuttsu.bandcamp.com

With support from Soft Rock and Monsterwitch

Soft Rock
Soft Rock is the experimental solo project of Alice Sparrow, playing broken keyboards Alice combines semi improvised ambient sonic explorations with mutant pop riffs. May include rocks.

Monsterwitch is the mutant offspring of noiseniks Ducklingmonster and P Wits

Friday 09 October, 8PM @ Audio Foundation
Presales from @undertheradarnz
Members Free by @audio.foundation

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23 days ago

Foil: the track or scent of a hunted animal

In this three-part experimental radio series, Beth Robertson investigates the act of recording as a site of haunting.

Framed as a series of ghostly encounters, the stories explore recording as a practice of remembering, one that isn’t unique to humans. Characters track and trace sounds as both presence and absence, reimagining what it means to listen. A museum host becomes obsessed with the silence of her building after hours, and begins recording it in an attempt to reach whatever lies behind that silence — only to find herself listening, over and over, to the sound of recording, or perhaps to the silence of being listened to. In a derelict hospital prized for its biodiversity, two recordists sneak in to capture its wildlife, but when their equipment cuts out, a strange scratching sound lures one of them up to the higher floors. And in a gallery, after an invigilator glimpses a mysterious figure in the corner of the room, the staff come together to investigate what they assume is a ghost — until they discover that more than ghosts can haunt you.

Foil Tracks follows the traces of hauntings and huntings, residues, silences, and voiceless utterance — and the unease of being caught recording. Sound as a medium blurs the boundary between things: the recorder becomes the recorded, the storyteller becomes the listener. Listeners are invited to encounter the radio not as a listening apparatus, but as a site where hauntings and huntings take shape.

🗓 Opening: Thursday 8 October, 5.30pm with refreshments from @libertybrewingnz
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 4pm
Closes: Saturday 21 November

Streaming online at afm.org.nz by @audio.foundation

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25 days ago

NEW INTREPID LIFE FORMS EMANCIPATE QUEER DESIRES

Come witness alien contusions and rogue life growths crafted from excursions into the inner wilderness.

Through sculpture, sewing and song, we heal our wounds through creative abstraction, happening upon hope among chaos. These beings and their songs animate our individual experiences of queer joy and resistance. It’s a messy but vibrant menagerie embodying conflicting feelings of hope and grief.

Enjoy bathing among the raucous joyous chorus of creatures who will not be silenced.

Please join us to mark the opening of The little guys that come out of me: sit and listen to them, a new exhibition by Natasha and Ezra Munro and Lucky Pollock.

Through a “tag team” collaborative process spanning 12months, siblings Natasha and Ezra Munro crafted a series of elaborate and sometimes explicit beings from donated and found objects, clay, fabric and printed materials. Lucky Pollock and Natasha Munro then sonically responded to the creatures, with Lucky’s sound works being crafted on a Nintendo DS.

With the exhibition, the artists consider whether “the playful yet confronting nature of these creatures and their songs enable a more realistic depiction of queer expression. The aim of these works was to spark joy (and possibly shock), to grieve but also to play. Some of these beings are almost toy-like, but perhaps too confronting to quite be so. The bitcrushed sound of the Nintendo combined with Lucky’s hyperactive and frenetic compositional style amplify this feeling.”

Queer joy means living freely, openly and honestly in alignment with one’s emotions and desires. Unfortunately in our current world this also means embodying that which some simply repress, refuse to understand, or outright scrutinise. The creature-like creations of Ezra and Natasha do not gloss over the pain that is caused by this oppression, nor are they completely overwhelmed by it, integrating these conflicting aspects to become a dynamic gathering of symbolically hopeful life forms.

🗓 Opening: Thursday 8 October, 5.30pm with refreshments from @libertybrewingnz
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 4pm
Closes: Saturday 21 November by @audio.foundation

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Over her winter residency at Audio Foundation, Sina Leo (@space.vox) has developed a new work exploring accumulation and the passage of creative time. The multidisciplinary artist presents in the back gallery an exhibition of painting and installation titled Threads.

Through August and September, Sina invited three musicians, Ryan Tomov, Francesca Parussini and Tashi Stewart, to visit her individually and improvise in sequential solo recording sessions. Musicians were tasked with adding to what their predecessor had made of their time in session. With each round, the layers of sound deepened in tandem with the painting.

Between sessions, Sina turned to installation to further consider ideas of retention, extending the work’s meditation on accumulation beyond the paint and into sculptural complexity. The finished exhibition brings the painting, the installation, and the complete layered recordings together, presenting the full arc of the collaboration as one work.

🗓 Opening: Thursday 8 October, 5.30pm with refreshments from @libertybrewingnz
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 4pm
Closes: Saturday 21 November by @audio.foundation

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vegetable.machine.animal (vma) / (@skirted_records) will tour Aotearoa New Zealand from 27 September to 28 November 2026 in support of TRIO, the project’s new album, co-released by Audio Foundation Records and skirted Records. The 15-date tour runs from Whanganui to Invercargill, taking in main centres and out-of-the-way venues alike.

TRIO is billed as the “interspecies trio” — a collection of music grown from the interaction of drums, modular synthesis, and plant-triggered biosignals. It stands as a companion to vma’s 2025 release, GUEST, which invited a rotating cast of collaborators — including Ruby Solly, David Long, and Mo H. Zareei — to add their voices to the project’s living sonic ecology. Where GUEST opened the circle outward, TRIO pulls the focus back to the project’s original three-way interaction between human, machine, and organism, completing the pair of bookends vma first envisioned for its 2024 Sonic Artist Residency. A cherry log, gifted to the project during its 2025 Aotearoa tour and now fruiting with mushrooms, generates the voltage that drives the synthesiser, translating fungal and plant activity directly into sound alongside live drumming and electronics. The result is a polyphonic, unpredictable soundworld exploring what a “more-than-human” music might sound like.

Live, vma continues to deliver dynamic and unpredictable performances, working in real time with the musical ecology of human and more-than-human interaction — drums, electronics, percussive clatter, and plant-triggered samples combining into a soundworld that is as perplexing as it is entertaining.

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DEO (AUS)
Originating from Meanjin, Queensland Australia, DEO is a improvised rotating roster of members fronted by Ekavir Deo.

Uniform (@uniformfanzine)
Uniform is a Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, New Zealand based collective. Established in 2014, collaborative methods are essential to their practice and extend into the projects they work on. They predominantly work in sound, performance, writing, print, spatial design, and film”

🗓 Saturday 3 October, 8PM @ Audio Foundation
Tickets from @undertheradarnz
Members Free by @audio.foundation

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AF is thrilled to present a night with Colleen Coco Collins (Canada)

Colleen Coco Collins (@colleencococollins) [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, Canada amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox.

Coco has been making things for many years. She has collaborated as a recording and performing artist with musician Will Kidman, and for bands including Status/Non-Status and Julie Doiron. She’s also played with Jon McKiel, Carson McHone, The Burning Hell, Penny and The Pits, Construction & Destruction, and others. Coco's diverse practise extends to libretti and conceptual visual art, and she has co-created with composer Katharine Petkovski, visual artists Sheilah and Dani ReStack, Claire Greenshaw, and Rita McKeogh; poet Luke Hathaway, musician Zoon, and others. Her work has been shown in galleries across Turtle Island (Can & US), the UK, Eire, and in Australia & NZ/Aotearoa. Her published books include the poetry collections Sorry About The Fire and Radicants (with visual artists Amanda Fauteux and Miranda Bellamy). Coco is currently finishing up her solo album, Vulpes, and recently worked as Writer-in-Residence at UNB Fredericton.

With support from Nranrā: Allana Goldsmith, Rosie Langabeer & Neil Feather

Exploring subtle and complex sounds, the disarming, charming, cardigan wearing westie trio improvises electro-biological music that feels both chaotic and inevitable. Goldsmith’s sounds move effortlessly between melodious phrasing and jagged rupture; Langabeer brings pan/non-tonal keyboard reckonings that flurry and hypnotise; Feather’s approach combines mechanical engineering and gelatinous soundscapes. Together, the capricious trio have an auahatanga entirely their own.

Thursday 24 September, 8PM @ Audio Foundation
Presales from @undertheradarnz
Members Free by @audio.foundation

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