Eamon Sprod is a Naarm (Melbourne) based sound artist who works with highly fragmented sounds collected from mundane or neglected urban spaces, pursuing an anti-naturalist field recording practice to draw oblique narratives and listening spaces from the threshold between the everyday and its periphery. Through spatialised performance and installation, new speculative audio spaces are shaped within pre-existing physical space - the venue becomes an active participant in the aural experience rather than simply acting as their container.
Sprod has presented performance and installation works throughout Australia, Japan, South Korea, North & South America, and Europe. Since 2018 he has run a small self-publishing micro-label Sonic Rubbish, and a recently founded series of digital audio releases accompanied by a physical newspaper called KINDLING.
www.sonicrubbish.com
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'The Garrulous Sax' album release sees Tāmaki Makaurau based Jeff Henderson perform on a selection of vintage saxophones in the unique acoustic setting of Pōneke’s Pyramid Club.
The album release is accompanied by a vividly inventive video created by Nestor Aprile Muresan – an 11 year old animation genius living in Brussels.
Check out the video to ‘The Garrulous Sax’ here: https://youtu.be/A0P09OThSbE
And the full album here: https://iiiirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-garrulous-sax
"an exploration of possibilities and a surprisingly engaging collection of abstract music and sounds"
Graham Reid - elsewhere.co.nz
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Simon O'Rorke (Haken Continuum) & Pedro Dali (viola) - A duo of Pōneke improvisation stalwarts.
Simon O'Rorke has been part of the improv scene since the 1990s and has collaborated with many of New Zealand’s leading improvisors. For the last 9 months he has been honing his craft on an instrument called the Haken Continuum - instead of a keyboard it has a continuous flat fingerboard that allows subtle movements in all directions to sensitively control continuous microtonal transitions, timbre and volume using the Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) protocol to control any synthesiser or virtual instrument.
Viola player Pedro Dali (aka Peter Daly) has been one of the most consistent improvisers in Wellington since the late 1970s. Drawing on his background in classical and folk music, Pedro maintains meticulous and subtle control over the viola. Active in free improvisation for more than four decades, he is a versatile musician and collaborates with many performers including Bernard Wells, Phoenix Foundation and Orchestra of Spheres.
$20 presales available via UTR
Special thank you to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
