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Rāhoroi (Sat) 22nd March, 2PM

[OFFSITE] Michael Morley (The Never Quartet) / Sonya Waters / Oghum at Futuna Chapel

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$30 Presales
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MICHAEL MORLEY (The Never Quartet)

The Never Quartet is the four-guitar project of noise-rock pioneer and visual artist, Michael Morley (The Dead C / Gate). 

Steel-string acoustic guitars are set to resonate on wooden furniture with electronic bows, modified with blocks and objects to create evolving, all-enveloping drones - an exploration of the resonant properties of matter in architectural space. 

“Slow, measured, and contemplative, Morley’s motions seem more like building a model than playing an instrument.” - Branden W Joseph.

Michael Morley is an internationally renowned maverick of primitive electric guitar, electronics and vocals. Active for more than 35 years in influential underground NZ noise group The Dead C, he has released dozens of solo albums as Gate and has collaborated with luminaries including Keiji Haino, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Bill Orcutt and Thurston Moore among others. Earlier in the 80s on Morley was a member of Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, and currently performs as Fuck Chairs with Morgan Oliver. Morley is a recognised visual artist, lecturing in painting and drawing at the Dunedin School of Art. He lives and works in Kōpūtai Port Chalmers.

theneverquartet.bandcamp.com

gatemm.bandcamp.com

 

SONYA WATERS

Sonya Waters is a composer and solo synth artist playing meditative soundtracks for imaginary films. Her music is underpinned by lush layers of synth orchestration crisscrossed with tessellations of West Coast Moog and vocoder vocals. Semi-modular cutups build into rich textural soundscapes reminiscent of 1960 70s British TV themes, old library music, and the mysterious drones of Folk Horror.

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OGHUM

Oghum is the insterstellar duo of Nell Thomas (Orchestra of Spheres, Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs) and Jonny Marks (All Seeing Hand, Mean Bones), performing on Synthi AKS, theremin and other assorted items.


Address:

67 Futuna Close, Karori

 

$30 presale tickets available via UTR

Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club

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