Auckland: 8pm Friday 17 September - w/ Sunken (Antony Milton and Stefan Neville) @ Sky Bears Cuddle Den, 21 Mercury Lane (Next to Mercury Plaza).

Wellington: 8pm Saturday 18 September - w/ Seht & Full Fucking Moon @ Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society, 46 Frederick Street.

Dunedin: 9pm Friday 24 September - w/ Rotor Plus & Tillakaratne @ None Gallery, 24 Stafford Street.

Christchurch: 8pm Saturday 25 September - w/ IRD & Adam Willetts @ SOFA Basement, Arts Centre.

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Liz Harris’ return to Christchurch precedes the release of the ‘Hold/Sick’ 7” on Brisbane Label, Room40 and her tours of Australia, Japan and South Korea.

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Kikiilimikilii is the solo project of the founder of the Parisian art group, Collectif Tralala, and band, Feu Machin. He has performed in France, Spain, Estonia and the United States, but keeps a cryptic, abiographical résumé, citing ‘dgdghnfhnfnhf’ as a pretty big influence. He has played alongside Blues Control, Charlemagne Palestine, ‘pyramidal meditationist’ and Not Not Fun compatriot, High Wolf, and Animal Collective’s Deacon. He also has a pending, physical debut on Mexican micro-label, Ruido Horrible (Ryan Jewell, Slow listener, Wasteland Jazz Unit).

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Noisescape soloist from the band Feu Machin from the collective TraLaLa, Paris. With local support from Rotor+ & Eves.

http://www.myspace.com/kikiilimikilii
http://soundcloud.com/kikiilimikilii

http://collectif-tralala.com/blog/?page_id=206

http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/451/rotor-plus.html

Door $5, 9pm start

@ none
24 Stafford Street
Dunedin

Revisiting childhood experiences of fictionalised warfare, The Fuck Chairs' installation is a military fortress fabricated from recycled domestic artifacts and handmade weapons - its violence and play synthesized and portrayed as the primitive renderings of a generation of unconscientious objectors.

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El Santo Porteno, Lyttelton
Thursday 29 July, 8pm, entry by gold coin donation

THRILL to etheric irruptions mangled through a bewildering array of electrophonic devices. GASP as aural fragments are passed to and fro with death-defying dexterity. SWOON beneath a crest of sound that builds and builds to the stratosphere. Get DOWN to El Santo Porteno, Thursday 29 July, for an evening of electronic improvisation featuring David Khan, Antony Milton and Peter Wright.

undrawing is 3 musicians and 1 visual-artist. An electronic, freeform audiovisual experience where imagery and sound are improvized live in a synchronistic way.

8pm

Master guitarist and bastion of the radical Japanese underground, Tetuzi Akiyama has recorded and performed with an extensive legion of composers and artists both in Japan and abroad. He is the founder – alongside no-input mixer virtuoso, Toshimaru Nakamura – of the infamous Meeting at Offsite performance series in Tokyo, which has played host to some of experimental music’s most recognized icons.

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Nominally inspired by a side-scrolling hack and slash arcade game, Golden Axe’s cult pop and hyper-transgressive Pump and Circumstance rematerializes in Christchurch for the first time since 2007. Loaded with beguiling pop gems and un-guiding, upbeat cosmic adventures, the duo have recently emancipated a glut of irreverent cover versions, including Katy Perry’s ‘Hot and Cold’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. This is the album release show for their third album, ‘Fantasy Footwork’.

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Tetuzi Akiyama (acoustic guitar set)
with John Bell (mallet percussion/whistles, etc.) &
Nigel Wright (electronics)

Master guitarist and bastion of the radical Japanese underground Tetuzi Akiyama will tour New Zealand in July (2nd-13th) performing solo and collaborating with New Zealand's finest improvising musicians and sonic artists.

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Tetuzi Akiyama - Boogie Woogie Set
with Dean Roberts & Chris O'Connor (guitar & percussion improv)
Clinton Watkins & Richard Francis ("motion-oriented, feedback-laden power drone ; epic" Mimaroglu Music Sales)

Master guitarist and bastion of the radical Japanese underground Tetuzi Akiyama will tour New Zealand in July (2nd-13th) performing solo and collaborating with New Zealand's finest improvising musicians and sonic artists.

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An ongoing paean to exhalation, warmth and sustain, IDM is a duo from Dunedin, comprising Oliver of the Sky and The Aesthetics’ and Rory Storm’s Edie Eves. Oliver spreads a subtle array of frequencies, textures and vocal chords, opening out the palette with amorphous, nonplace field recordings, while Eves layers, strains, heats, gently cools and remixes solutions of pure oscillations, synth tones and decanted vocals.

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ALWAYS (AUS) & LA Lakers (Chc)
9pm Saturday 12 June
HSP 84 Lichfield Street Christchurch
Donation Entry

The glossolalia funk, a capella techno, heterodyning rap and Upper Paleolithic shamanism of Melbourne artist, Alex Vivian’s ALWAYS has been described by Mess + Noise as a ‘linguistic circus, a vowel vandal and a syntax destroyer all in one…looping vocal tones into a continuous elastic rhythm and sewing them together in a cosmic playground’.

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Variously described as the undisputed master drummer of the Japanese Underground, a rhythm section gone ballistic and trekker of the outer limits of weirdness, Yoshida Tatsuya is the protagonist of the erstwhile, hyperactive, prog-punk, hardcore, art rock, heavy metal, disco, psych and funk, drums and bass duo, RUINS.

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Variously described as the undisputed master drummer of the Japanese Underground, a rhythm section gone ballistic, trekker of the outer limits of weirdness and doctor of psychic polyrhythms, YOSHIDA TATSUYA is the protagonist of the erstwhile, hyperactive, prog-punk, hardcore, art rock, heavy metal, disco, psych and funk, drums and bass duo, RUINS.

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SF’s Sean O’Reilly is the black eminence behind the erstwhile escape punk and Kraut grot of Flying Nun’s most insolent skronk pack, King Loser – their Ritalin Morricone and stray Gainsbourg caterwaul permeated with his agitated tremolo, strung-out stabs and general, curled and blippy menace. SF’s 1996 Flying Nun EP, ‘Supra’ is a dark, minimalist blaze, adorned by the strange ingénue and weirdo, feline giggle of artist, Saskia Leek.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gv9usGhOK4&feature=player_embedded

Bill Orcutt emerged as one of the most influential guitar players of the 1990s, alongside drummer Adris Hoyos in the seminal Miami-based free rock band, Harry Pussy, their half-decade existence throwing up a boutique of caustic masterpieces alongside equally luminary cohorts on labels including Chocolate Monk (Richard Youngs, Incapacitants, Bruce Russell) and Siltbreeze (Charalambides, Guided By Voices, The Shadow Ring), but their volatile, calamitous sound has remained their matchless own.

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