Pyramid Club Broadcasting: Recent Episodes
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In this episode Dan is joined by drummer and sound maker Kieran Monaghan of vegetable.machine.animal and Mr Sterile Assembly. They talk about Kieran's formative years of music making, and listen to a selection of his recordings, including tracks from the newly released v.m.a album, Trio. Tracklist- Up for Grabs - Loosehead - Released 1995 or earlier- Agents of the Sun - mr sterile, from Pregnant Boy, 1st release 2001, https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/track/agents-of-the-sun-3- Mercator's Map - Kieran Monaghan, 1st released Psudoarcana 2002, https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/album/history-wringing- The Fate of Mr P - mr sterile Assembly, released on CDr 15 Minute Crib, 2006, for 1st tour of Java, https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/track/the-fate-of-mr-p- 7/11 Mushroom - vegetable.machine.animal, released 2026 on CD Electrical Minzu 35, https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/track/7-11-mushroom- Precision and Exageration - vegetable.machine.animal, released 2026 on CD TRIO, https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/track/precision-and-exaggeration--Originally recorded live in August 2026 for Paekakariki 88.2 FM , https://paekakariki.fm.For more articles like this go to https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/
Emma Bernard caught up with Riki Pirihi to chat about his creative practice, his life of drumming and the various projects he has been involved with.
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. Our guest this month is Chrissie Butler, a musician and sonic artist, part of Skirted Records, DSLB and many other creative projects.This episode was first broadcast in June 2026For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with composer Penny Axtens. They talk about her composition process, inspirations, and the classical music industry.NB dates are mentioned for an event that has already taken placeThis episode was first broadcast in October 2025For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with multidisciplinary artist Gemma Thompson. They Talk noise, graphic scores and interpretation; playing collaborative and solo projects from Gemma.This episode was first broadcast in Sepetmber 2025For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with Singaporean group SAtheCollective. They play music from their back catalogue, giving an overview of their history, and approach to music makingThis episode was first broadcast in May 2025For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with local composer and musician Sonya Waters about her collaborations and solo work.This episode was first broadcast in April 2025For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan plays tracks off a new album of old recordings to accompany the release of his book about The Braille Collective. https://thebraillecollective.bandcamp.com/album/future-jaw-clap-book-soundtrackThis episode was first broadcast in October 2024For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Tāwhirimātea started life as an improv live performance recorded at the opening of “Tāwhirimātea’s Battle” A group exhibition of Tairāwhiti artists to commemorate “one year on from Cyclone Gabriel”In this piece Carrier explores the impact of Human interaction with the environment and the catastrophic consequences that this can cause as realised in the Tairāwhiti region.The piece is made up of several elements. The wonky almost tortured oscillating synth drones represents the grief and anger of Tāwhirimātea as Rangi and Papa are separated by his sibling’s. The randomly generated bass tones represent the indiscriminate nature of a severe weather events or natural disasters. The monotonous repetition of the rimshot pays homage to the relentless nature of profit driven commercial enterprise at all costs and its influence on regulatory body control. The drum patterns portray the ongoing struggle between Tūmatauenga (God of war and people) and Tāwhirimātea over the separation of Rangi and Papa, and the hue represents the sense of community, hope and quiet determination to overcome.---Steven King (he/him) aka Carrier has been a long-time electronic music explorer of many genres. More recently utilising minimal sound palettes to explore ideas of isolationism and deep contemplation through repetitive rhythm and patterns.---For more go to www.pyramidclub.org.nzMade with support of Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by Swiss band Hyperculte who had just finished their tour of AotearoaThis episode was first broadcast in April 2024For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Pass-on-ings is a 4-part composition by DSLB, Chrissie Butler’s solo project. “Between the commissioning of this work in early 2023 and its creation, my mum passed away. Pass-on-ings is an echo of the last weeks, days, and hours shared with mum. It is a track and trace of time and space, of light and shadows, of moments etched in memory and now in sound. It is a last post, the last lullaby.”----DSLB is the solo project of Chrissie Butler. An offshoot from Chrissie’s band Ditzy Squall, DSLB (Ditzy Squall’s Lunch Box) is a showcase for a love of long endings and the hum things make when you hold them close to your ear. Performed live, DSLB is an improvised mash-up of ancient record players, purring keyboards, kitchen utensils and found objects. Soundtracks for short films and hand drawn comics are also residents in the lunch box. Recordings are released by skirted Records.---Visit www.pyramidclub.org.nz/pass-ings-dslb for links--With thanks to Creative New Zealand
Swampsoul is a loosely defined linked umbrella of musicians and artists based in Wellington, primarily Newtown. A mixed up soup of harsh noise and sparkly shiny-pop melody. The music is largely collected and curated by Baxter Gray.00:00 Martha in the cell - wintermute02:28 bed time story- wintermute and o time thy pyramids https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/bed-time-story07:23 wintermute and mudgoose https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/track/wintermute-and-mudgoose17:19 meandral https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/lake-frog-in-the-winter19.02 hello19:29 angel - wntre cutt er22:55 distilled silence - HULLhttps://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-soul-one-227:59 Sophia Fruddhttps://indigoguebrowne.bandcamp.com31:21 Coffee In Yeebic, Ponderings in Mayhem, When Will I see You Again_ - Cook ie Cutt er (Indigogue Browne)https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-soul-one-233:33 spring break forever - lorazepamhttps://ilovelorazepam.bandcamp.com36:34 lamp - mudgoosehttps://mudgoose.bandcamp.com/album/songs-with-words38:40 Roman Polaczukhttps://otimethypyramids.bandcamp.com41:52 how to kill a wizard - wintermutehttps://www.instagram.com/wzrd_mschf/43:13 Loving you amongst the trees, Rowing towards me,,,, my lil' frog,,, - Cook ie Cutt er (Ft. Friends Wintermute & Mallory Elmo) 47:06 Mallory Elmohttps://soundcloud.com/malloryelmo56:30 salvation https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/lake-frog-in-the-winter59:30 Fletcher Nghttps://mudgoose.bandcamp.com1:00:00 Where? - mudgoose live at fleshfest1:04:09 ice! - Bloodfucker live at pyramid club https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/elmo-tapes11:11:00 blight scrolls -wintermutehttps://wintermute1.bandcamp.com/album/wizard-tower-mischief1:12:52 glass daughter Compiled by Baxter GrayCover Art by Holly Berghan -----For more visit www.pyramidclub.org.nzWith thanks to Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by circuit bending, reed playing musician, and one of the key people working at Pyramid Club, Zak Argarbrite (ᏣᎳᎩ / Tsalagi / Cherokee)This episode was first broadcast in August 2023For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
A work documenting some group improvisation activities in Korea. Please visit www.pyramidclub.org.nz/ for photos and links. Thanks to Creative New Zealand
Introduction 0 ~ 0.48’ Part One:: 0.49’ ~ 12.35’ Dotolim Improvisation meeting 닻올림 즉흥 모임 (featured sounds March ~ April 2023, ongoing workshop series) 닻올림 모임 4월12일 Dotolim Improvisation Meeting April 12th
Part Two:: 12.26’ ~ 22.39’ Rudeca series 루대카 시리즈 (November 2021 ~ March 2022) fourth meeting at Rudeca
Part Three:: 22.40’ ~ 31.38’ Ddakji Nolli at Jineri 429-1 지내리429-1 딱지놀이 (No.7 in the ongoing Jineri Ddakji Nolli Series) Ddakji Session_딱지놀이_22년9월17일_셋2번
Part Four:: 31.39’ ~ 40.18’ Ddakji#17 (Ddakji#1 April 2015 ~ Ddakji#17 May 2023, ongoing series) Ddakji#17_딱지#17
Part Five:: 40.19’ ~ 51.35’ ‘hing series ‘힝 시리즈 (‘hing01 October 2022 and ‘hing02 February 2023, ongoing series) https://youtu.be/3C4YkMEv2T0 ____________________________________________________ Artists List (Almost in order of appearance) Sangtae Jin 진상태 Soonbo Yang 양순보 Yubeom Jeon 전유범 Mingyu Jang 장민규 Dongmin Kim 김동민 Minju Lee 이민주 Gyungho Lee 이경호 Han Jaeseok 한재석 Rui Inaba Taekyung Seo 서태켱 Ian-John Eunjoo Cho 조은주 Hyosook Kim 김효숙 Wonjung Shin 신원정 Dooho Yi 이두호 Youngran Jin 진영란 Jinmook Kim 김진묵 Leighton Arnold Gingyu Yuu’s grandson Eunsil Noh 노은실 Hanjoo Lee 이한주 Russell Moore Passing Josh 지나가던 조씨 Mingyung ‘Oro’ 오로민경
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by local anarchist, fireworks enthusiast, and keen dancer Sam Buchanan
This episode was first broadcast in May 2023
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan and Nell are joined by Gong Bather Erika Grant - and Nell and Erika perform a gong bathing session liveThis episode was first broadcast in April 2023For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
CUD refers to the chewing-over-again of partly digested food eaten by ruminants (animals like cattle, sheep & goats). To ruminate is to think, or dwell on a thought repeatedly – as a creature throws up its meal only to chew it over again. CUD is a sonic collage intent on reanimating (& ruminating on) a range of ferally scavenged archival media: advertisements for Aotearoa’s meat, milk & farming products; radio cooking shows; queer local cinema; the violent semantics of authoring sound effects; & the hauntological grief of a dance only heard, not seen. The work seeks to explore relations between reproductive/nonreproductive & human/animal bodies, their associated technologies & byproducts through repurposing archival media. CUD seizes on what Mel Y. Chen refers to as ‘leakages’ between classifications of what is human & what is not, with an emphasis on the idea of “naturalness” & its other, the “unnatural” – a term frequently deployed in reference to queer sex & reproduction. CUD asks you to lean into the leakages, to reiterate & invert them – irrupting the smooth semiotic surface of naturalness’ normative containers.The word ruminant is derived from the Latin rumen, meaning ‘throat’ – the site of both the voice, & the breath. The recorded singing voice featured at the end of CUD is that of the only Castrato singer ever recorded, Alessandro Moreschi, singing Tosti’s Ideale in 1902. The dancer you can hear panting & stomping is Douglas Wright, dancing Elegy, a piece made in 1993 for his friends who died of AIDS. Spliced together – with reverence – across almost a century, they offer a surrogate lament regurgitated from a gender-bent throat.CUD opens with an invitation to see, perhaps in line with Barthes’ dictum that to see well, you must close your eyes. I wonder then, if to hear well, one must close one’s ears, or perhaps lean into sounds of the errant, the monstrous, the distorted: the unideal. Ideale (Tosti, 1882; translated from the Italian) I followed you like a rainbow of peace along the paths of heaven; I followed you like a friendly torch in the veil of darkness, and I sensed you in the light, in the air, in the perfume of flowers, and the solitary room was full of you and of your radiance. Absorbed by you, I dreamed a long time of the sound of your voice, and earth's every anxiety, every torment I forgot in that dream. Come back, dear ideal, for an instant to smile at me again, and in your face will shine for me a new dawn.---------Frances Libeau (they/them) is a queer Pākeha interdisciplinary artist. Their sonic compositions, sound designs, & writing feature across live, screen & digital platforms of contemporary music, fine art (film, sculpture & performance), film (feature & short), theatre & dance. Libeau’s work often explores the textural & semantic possibilities of storytelling through sonic collage of found materials & possibilities for queering sonic & compositional & archival practices.https://iecrazy.com-------For more like this go to www.pyramidclub.org.nzWith thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting this work
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by film maker and musician Baxter GrayThis episode was first broadcast in December 2022For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by saxophonist and composer Jasmine Lovell-Smith.NB This episode was first broadcast in November 2022 -gigs mentioned have already happenedFor more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcastsAll episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
A head-phone listening experience focussed around an aeolian harp located on Rangitoto Island in the Hauraki Gulf (Tamaki Makaurau-Auckland), installed and recorded during a week of different winds and weathers through mid November 2022. The aeolian harp instrument is an ancient one, traced historically to early Greek accounts of gut strands drying in the wind, picking up harmonic vibrations amplified by the membrane of the skin the strands were attached to.This sound work is an offshoot of a more expansive climate monitoring project titled Kõea o Tāwhirimātea / Weather Choir, devised in response to an Aotearoa invitation earlier this year to participate in World Weather Network, a worldwide regional climate response project initiated by Art-Angel in the UK. Kõea o Tāwhirimātea and other Aotearoa projects have an online presentation hosted by TeTuhi Contemporary Gallery in East Auckland …..For more info visit: https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/Weather Choir : https://tetuhi.art/world-weather-network/koea-o-tawhirimatea-weather-choir-artwork/World Weather Network : https://tetuhi.art/world-weather-network.....Vibration is a Universal. Everything we perceive in the macro/micro worlds, visibly and invisibly vibrates in proportions of harmony and dissonance. If, for example, we think of climate as the big picture and the effects of climate as small scale impact, all is harmonious when weather patterns are calm and predictable, and dissonant when storms, rising tides, coastal erosion, melting glaciers etc are experienced. A string is much like a person responding and vibrating to the vagaries of weather – harmonious when calm, not-so when wild......Phil Dadson is an Aotearoa/NZ visual artist & musician with a transdisciplinary practice including moving image, building and performing with experimental musical instruments, music compositions, graphic scores and drawings. Foregrounding sound has been a feature since the early 70s, referencing body, land, nature, triadics and the human condition. Founder also of the legendary music/performance group, From Scratch (1974-ongoing). Various awards include Arts Foundation Laureate, Fulbright USA, NZOM, Antarctica Fellowship, Sanskriti, India Residency, Headlands USA Residency......With thanks to Creative New Zealand
A work, by Kraus, in nine movements; initially created as a soundtrack for a float tank experience. You can listen in a dark room in a bath that is heavily dosed with epsom salts*, or alternatively use a dry listening environment, eg lying down on a yoga mat or mattress, with dim lighting eg. candles, and incense.
SEAHORSE WEDDING 0'00" – Prelude 6'17" – Sandcastle Abbey 16'51" – Celebrant Crustacean 23'16" – The Exchange of Vows 33'27" – Rings 36'36" – Lifting the Veil 46'25" – Just Married 54'43" – Reception (Band of Dolphins)
*Commercial float tanks have about 500kg of epsom salts in them, a domestic float tank can have about 250kg of epsom salts. Most people recommend 2 cups for a bath (perhaps you can experiment with more!) -----––––– Visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/seahorse-wedding-kraus for info on discounted float tank bookings at Float Well
With thanks to Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by the monster behind the mysterious Stink Magnetic tape label, Dylan 'Phats' Herkes.
This episode was first broadcast in October 2022
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
This piece by Rory Dalley was initially based on a work titled 202021: Seagulls and Walking Frames. It involved phone memo recordings captured walking through town out of lockdown levels, and folding in musical interpretations with the chaos of fuzzy dream character replacement.
Movement: Currency Exchange Networks Towards Regenerative Energies /27:50 Movement: inside outsiders (go step by step) /45:00 Movement: working over the workplace /54:25 Movement: walker, autumn ranger /1:04:45 Movement: autumn leaves you alone End 1:25:12
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Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan and Rita are joined by drummer, keys player, and artist, Andy Wright
This episode was first broadcast in September 2022
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
'Inside Voice' is grounded in the place where I live. The work is framed by recordings of environmental sound from around Te Awakairangi – my garden, the hills nearby, a busy urban street. Inside and behind, edited piano improvisations creep into view, shaded by a layer of live electronic alteration. The process of layering affects our reception of the materials – taking an aesthetic stance towards environmental sound, but also placing musical performance at a distance, so that the roles of foreground and background interchange, and are made ambiguous.
Phil Brownlee is a composer and audio practitioner, based in Wellington, New Zealand. His work spans notated composition, free improvisation, and electroacoustic media. He has an ongoing interest in the interface between the traditions of taonga puoro, and contemporary creative practices. This has led to a number of collaborative works, and a deeper interest in shared creative processes. He also works as a sound engineer, sound designer, and recording engineer. http://philbrownlee.co.nz
Visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts for more sound works produced for Pyramid Club Broadcasting
With thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support of Pyramid Club's programme.
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by the exceptional and tireless multi-intrumentalist Jeff Henderson.
This episode was first broadcast in July 2022
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
'Noise Drone Repeat' is Te Whanganui-A-Tara's premier regular night for all the things it says. A community building event that has nurtured and nourished musicians out of isolation and into conversation; a celebration of the power of the PA and the amplification of curious minds.
In December 2021 the 50th event took place and it turned into a two night celebration, NDR 50.01 and NDR 50.02. This document is NDR 50.03
Bryan Tabuteau (the driving force, instigator, and heart of NDR) has put together recordings from the regular performers at these events; and gives us an insight into the motivations, desires, and enthusiasm of Noise Drone Repeat.
For the full tracklist and links please visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/noise-drone-repeat-5003
With thanks to Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Nell is joined by one of Wellington's great indie band leaders, wordsmith, and angled jangle master, Mark Williams (Marineville, Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs, Bad Statistics...)
This episode was first broadcast in October 2018
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All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
[0’00’’] French Ouverture (Jude) [3’35’’] Allemande: Books as Time Capsules [9’06’’] Courante: Listen to the Water [11’04’’] Pavane: Dead Alien Baby (Thomas) [17’41’’] Bourrée: in transit [28’24’’] Air: The Breath of Birds [33’21’’] Passepied: Walking Up the Mountain (Vanessa) [34’44’’] Tombeau [39’35’’] Fantasia Contrappuntistica
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I trawl through disordered voice memo archives and set sticky traps through time and space with the help of a few friends. I catch an Easter choir in Athens, chickens in rural upstate New York, sad birds in New Zealand, touches of Ravel and Debussy, a friend’s child, an urban owl in Wales, some cats, one howling midnight dog, several underground trains... Underneath it all, I smear a thick, odorous layer of the hum of pissy Paris streets, recorded in horrible phone audio. I put the sounds into a jar and close the lid tightly so that they don’t escape. They are tangled up all over each other and inside of me. My own voice also sits in there, trapped in amber sap. Now I can drag them around with me forever, or for as long as I last.
For a full essay that completes the work, and for credits and links, please visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/french-suite-theatre-ear-nine-audio-snapshots-xenia-pestova-bennet
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by one of Wellington's significant drummers and band leader Anthony Donaldson.
This episode was first broadcast in June 2022
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
bits and pieces, things I’ve made, anecdotes. folded sheets of paper, rather. so much longer than i thought it would, committed to the process, to see it through. this time, i’m talking to you through the process. what should be laid bare in performance, and what should be left to the imagination of the audience. GET POLITICAL. routine. money jobs. for this kind of thing, like that, for later one, full sentence. tension levels are high/see what happens. BE PRACTICAL. supershuttle 7962486. dusk, disc, dahsk, doosk, heard you. oh you counting now. yeah for sure, it’s a different thing. plant-leek-beaker. piece that i was wondering, technique. border-boxcutter-balcony. i talk to myself all the time. further.
incl. excerpts from: ‘performance of an artist talk’ Accent by Emma Bennett and me
Text Pieces No.1 and No.2 by Joe Houston and me
Made for Pyramid Club www.pyramidclub.org.nz with thanks to Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. This episode features ground breaking music from the 1970 box set "Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa"
This episode was first broadcast in February 2022
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
The second of two episodes featuring live recordings and interviews from Pyramid Club's Taonga Pūoro Festival held in November 2021.
Pyramid Club along with Ruby Solly and Al Fraser hosted Pūoro Tū, a festival of “adventures in Māori instruments and sounds” in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. With a simple welcome to taonga pūoro players throughout the Aotearoa a significant event took place, the worlds first six day celebration of the oro of taonga pūoro.
Thomas Lambert collected the recordings made during the festival, and conducted interviews. Live recording by Thomas Lambert, Warwick Donald, and Jonny Marks.
Visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/ for much more information about the festival and the performers involved.
Also read this article by Ruby Solly about what took place https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/02/18/moving-from-revival-to-renaissance-the-first-taonga-puoro-festival/
With thanks to Creative New Zealand.
The first of two episodes featuring live recordings and interviews from Pyramid Club's Taonga Pūoro Festival held in November 2021.
Pyramid Club along with Ruby Solly and Al Fraser hosted Pūoro Tū, a festival of “adventures in Māori instruments and sounds” in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. With a simple welcome to taonga pūoro players throughout the Aotearoa a significant event took place, the worlds first six day celebration of the oro of taonga pūoro.
Thomas Lambert collected the recordings made during the festival, and conducted interviews. Live recording by Thomas Lambert, Warwick Donald, and Jonny Marks.
Visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/ for much more information about the festival and the performers involved.
Also read this article by Ruby Solly about what took place https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/02/18/moving-from-revival-to-renaissance-the-first-taonga-puoro-festival/
With thanks to Creative New Zealand.
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is Vladyslav (aka African) Nikulenko, live from his kitchen at home in Dnipro.
Nikulenko runs the We Have No Zen label from Dnipro in central Ukraine. During the current conflict the label is channelling any donations made through their Bandcamp page to help pay for essential supplies to civilians in Ukraine, and to purchase bullet proof vests for the Territorial Defence. To explore more of the label’s releases and to make a donation please visit https://wehavenozen.bandcamp.com/
This episode was first broadcast in March 2022
For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts
All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
A new work form Mo H. Zahreei.
"More than a decade ago, I made a piece of beat-based electronic music and titled it "Middle Eastern IDM" for a course assignment. After listening to it in class, my professor asked what was Middle Eastern about it. It was only a year after I had left Iran to study in the US, and I didn't know that I could say "I am. I made the piece". So I went back and superimposed a sample of Egyptian protest chants on top of the piece, to make it "sufficiently Middle Eastern".
What prejudiced conservatism and performative liberalism share are gatekeeping practices that box one in a preconceived state of otherness. While the former overtly regards that otherness as inferior, the latter exoticises it through patronising paternalism. To me, it is especially troubling when exclusionary practices are driven by some form of overzealous "diversity and inclusion" agenda. If you don't fit the diversity box they've made for you, too bad. It's your fault for being "insufficiently diverse". "Poor thing, you've been colonised!", they tell you, as they claim ownership over a collection of frequencies and rhythms. When you look at who gets to decide if something's indigenous enough, you see how decolonisation itself has been colonised.
When you listen to this piece, I'm very happy for you to keep in mind that it was made by someone from Iran. But I might need to clarify that this piece has nothing to do with sufism and the whirling dervishes, the interweaving patterns of the Persian carpet, the poetry of Rumi, or Islamic architecture. And if you hear those moments of "non-western" sonorities, that is because I have constructed this piece from samples of a piece of Iranian traditional music – an overplayed piece that was all over TV and radio while I was growing up Iran, one that I never found particularly inspiring or interesting. Here, I have tried to make it more interesting by completely taking it apart and reconstructing it through my personal compositional techniques, aesthetic preferences, and a wide range of musical influences. So in short, while this piece might not sound like your archetypical Iranian music, I assure you that it is Iranian enough."
Mo H. Zareei aka mHz is an Iranian sound artist and electronic musician based in Wellington, New Zealand. Using custom-built hardware and software, his artistic practice aims to highlight the beauty in the basics of sound and light production and reductionist audiovisual elements that draw inspiration from physical and architectural principles. He has exhibited his work at international venues such as ISEA (Montreal/Vancouver/Dubai), SETxCTM festival (Tehran), NIME (London), Modern Body Festival (The Hague), ICAD (New York), and NZ Festival (Wellington), to name a few. His installation “Rasping Music" was the recipient of the 1st prize for Sound Art at the last iteration of the international Sonic Arts Award in 2015 (Italy).
Under the moniker mHz, Zareei’s electronic music projects have been published via LINE (US), Important Records (US), leerraum (CH), and Kasuga Records (DE).
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Made with the support of Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is the hugely prolific and deeply musical Riki Gooch.
This episode was first broadcast in October 2021
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Twin signals at Silver Stream (fragments of a landscape for specimens #50766 & #50767) is a radiophonic artwork that stages a site-specific memorial for two extinct owls, a male and female pair of the species Sceloglaux albifaces, a bird known to Māori by many names including whēkau, ruru whenua and hakoke, and which the settler-colonials, who knew it for a far shorter time, called the laughing owl, white faced owl, or laughing jackass. Declared extinct in 1914, S. albifaces was known for its haunting and unnerving call, although its vocalisations were never directly recorded.
Now catalogued as items #50766 & #50767 in the ornithological collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Natural History Museum, Vienna), the two owls are approached as historical “recordings,” within the museum collections. They are then returned, as two seperate radio frequencies, to Silver Stream, near the city of Otepoti/Dunedin, the place where they were collected by Austrian-born taxidermist, collector and bio-prospector Andreas Reischek, in 1884. In Twin signals at Silver Stream (fragments of a landscape for specimens #50766 & #50767), these owl-frequencies intermingle with the sounds of the site, with live and transmitted accordion, in reference to a late nineteenth century report of owl-human listening and interspecies communication through music, and with the vocalisations of living endemic birds whose own long memories might hold some knowledge of the owl’s lost voice, a listening that also becomes an inaudible part of the work’s radio ecologies.
Credits: Sally Ann McIntyre – extinct bird museum recordings, on-site micro-radio transmissions, colonial squeezebox accordion. Edie Stevens – accordion (whekau mourning song).
As well as the audio component, this work is complimented and completed with the text to be found at our website; a more in depth discussion of the piece and the process. Please visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/twin-signals-silver-stream-fragments-landscape-specimens-50766-50767-sally-ann-mcintyre
Bio: Sally Ann Mcintyre (1974, NZ/AU) is a Melbourne/Naarm based radio and sound artist, researcher and writer, who has been working artistically with small-scale radio transmission since 2006. Twin signals at Silver Stream (fragments of a landscape for specimens #50766 & #50767) extends a series of sound and radio art works she has been performing and exhibiting since 2012, which strategically utilise early recording and transmitting media such as wax cylinders, music boxes, and small-radius radio, to reveal the relationship of historical sound archives to cultural extinction narratives, and to consider extinction as a form of non-representational trauma, erasure, silence and silencing within the settler-colonial landscape.
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is the guitarist behind Little Bushman, The Woods, and Swagman, Joe Callwood
NB This was first broadcast in December 2020 - All of the gigs mentioned have already happened.
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Edge Of Infinity | White Horse | Diamond Time
| at zero minutes || at nine minutes ||| at twenty three minutes
Sonic textures|| percussion samples | manipulated sound bites | live and field recordings from Hampi IN | Colombo SL | Paphos CY | Singapore SG 2019/2020. ||| keys recorded Alfred House Gardens, SL.
Recorded & Produced by EJS
Works are in stereo and best experienced with headphones. As a whole or in parts.
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Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is the extraordinary and vital keyboard musician Hermione Johnson.
NB This was first broadcast in August 2019 - All of the gigs mentioned have already happened.
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This is an immersive radiophonic work featuring some of Reuben’s field recordings from Aotearoa and Sri Lanka. From tiny environmental and instrumental sounds, to multiple acoustic events occurring over expansive temporal/spatial soundscapes, these Hi-Fi sounds are for personal listening, so please increase the volume. All sounds and performances are recorded on location.
The journey begins with thunder, frogs,crickets and birds during a sweaty, late afternoon soundwalk into Sinharaja forest park. The sudden onset of rain provokes a hasty retreat. Near a village in the Knuckles Mountain range, a rice farmer leads his water buffalo in a spiral ‘dance’ around a paddy field under the morning sunshine. Isaac Smith speaks to our friend and guide Sid Elikewela about this traditional harrowing method.
A cicada recording from near Akaroa, Aotearoa, is slowed down to quarter speed, thereby transposing the pitch and rhythm into a different space for human perception, and folded into the un-altered soundscape in which the creature lives. A nearby hive of wild bees in a dead beech tree is encountered from within by using tiny microphones, while a saxophone rotates outside. Hydrophone recordings from multiple locations in the pond are combined into a wide angle texture, and combined with the changing ambience above water.
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Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is artist, sculptor, and community thinker Tim Barlow (it was first broadcast in August 2021)
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This Track is composed with the intention of exploring the sense of our forest being shared by other worldly entities. Inspired by Māori folklore, specifically maeroero and patupairahe, we used a mixture of taonga pūoro and modular synthesis to try and express the thin veil between forest life and give a sense of paranormal energies/ entities that may, or may not, have existed in the past or even still today.
Urn is Thomas Carroll (taonga pūoro) and Rob Awa (modular synthesis) urn is a merging of our common sonic approaches to music to try and encapsulate a unique blend of traditional maori music / with otherworldly synthesis drones/ ambient / textures and samples.
With thanks to Creative New Zealand.
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is musician. artist, and force of nature, Bek Coogan. (it was first broadcast in July 2021)
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In ‘Epicenter to Outsiders’ Tash van Schaardenburg reflects on two contrasting experiences on both sides of the pandemic, one through excerpts from a performance created using field recordings made on a journey through Europe at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and the other plays with recent field recordings that explores lockdown sonics.
Tash van Schaardenburg is a multidisciplinary artist, musician (Citacsy/Unisex Fuck Club) and promoter from Tāmaki Makaurau. Their art practice explores the acoustic anthologies and social negotiations of sound in the cityscape. Their experimental music project Citacsy-D extends this practice in live performances which create ambient biographical journeys through live sound-sculpting of field recordings. Tash is also a regular contributor to the There not Here field recording broadcast on AFM, a host of Sound Bleed on BFM, and Sound Dose - a monthly AFM broadcast for recent releases by experimental musicians and sonic art practitioners in Aotearoa. Tash completed a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2018, and works for The Audio Foundation.
Links: https://www.facebook.com/citacsy
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Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guests are musicians Rosie Langabeer and Neil Feather. (it was first broadcast in March 2021)
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Lie down, feel your back against the ground. Feel how it holds you. Let go into it, heavy, sinking deeply.
Body is space, wide open space. Clear, empty, radiant, infinite.
Self is sound.
Performed and Recorded on country of the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk nations; towards whom I extend my deepest respect.
Performed and Mixed by Erin K Taylor. Engineered and Mastered by Matt Faisandier.
for more info visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/ Erin's website https://erinktaylor.com/ Thanks to Creative New Zealand
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is film maker Dave Harrison.
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The first in a series of radiophonic works commissioned by Pyramid Club with the support of Creative New Zealand. This episode is from foreign correspondent Misha Marks.
Misha writes "The recordings in this podcast were made in 2015 and 2016 during several visits to the mountainous region of the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, in southwest Mexico, in the towns of San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Santa María Tavehua and Villa Hidalgo Yalálag. Roughly structured in the order of the time of day in which each recording was made, they offer an idea of the extraordinary sound-world and music of these villages throughout the course of a day during the fiestas patronales (festivities in honour of the patron saint). Plus a few recordings from non-fiesta times, and ending with funeral music recorded during a wake in Villa Hidalgo Yalálag."
For more information about the music in this episode please visit: https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/sierra-juarez-misha-marks
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is Anita Clark.
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Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is Gerard Crewdson.
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0ur monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode explores music selected for their baby Rita.
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0ur monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode is a live recording from Daniel Beban's Arthur Street Loft performance.
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0ur monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is the extraordinary musician Isaac Smith.
For more episode info visit: https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: https://paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/
Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests; this episode’s guest is Taranaki born musician Chris Palmer and was first broadcast during August 2018. (Please note this is a monthly series, not weekly as stated in the introduction)
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