Interviews and live sets from the New Zealand music underground. This week we catch Auckland free noise outfit Saturnian Noise Collective.
Auckland’s Saturnian Noise Collective aims to take its audience on an interplanetary trip through improvised free noise. Formed in 2014, the group’s core members, (Aaron, Liam, Chelsea, Kenji, Joshua, and JY Lee) collaborate with a larger celestial body of musicians orbiting around New Zealand’s underground music scene.
With all members playing in a diverse range of other bands, Saturnian’s live sound is a collective vibe that differs with every performance and context.
“Free noise is potentially a genre but it kind of enables us to make whatever kind of music we want. So we can do any sonic texture within our capacity and its part of our sound and it can be different show to show,” explains Aaron Longmore, whose performance alternates between saxophone and rhythmically hitting effects pedals.
Coming out of the vibrant Wine Cellar/Whammy Bar scene on Auckland’s K’ Road, Saturnian’s free noise/improv/jazz sound has shared the stage with experimental, hardcore, industrial and punk bands. Their debut EP release, Birth of Mimas, recorded by Rohan Evans, captures the energy of the group's often sprawling live sets with six easily digestible tracks.
Video shot by John Lake and Joel Cosgrove.
Edited by John Lake.
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