James Gardner

Performed by Mark Menzies at the ISCM World New Music Days concert 'Kēkēao', University of Auckland Music Theatre, 26 August 2022. Audio

Performed by Mark Menzies at the ISCM World New Music Days concert 'Kēkēao', University of Auckland Music Theatre, 26 August 2022. Audio

Mark Menzies (violin). Recorded by RNZ Concert, 3 February 2013. Audio

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra made a  racket with a diverse programme of Zappa, Holst and the world premiere of concerto for the LA Percussion Quartet. Tony Ryan was there. Video

Percussion quartets are rare, and their list of instruments number in the hundreds, from marimbas to found scraps of metal and plastic. The Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet is heading… Audio

In August 1956, a beautiful new harpsichord arrived in Wellington aboard the RMS Rangitoto. It had been purchased from its maker, Thomas Goff of London, by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service for use… Audio, Gallery

Past and present music directors of the Auckland contemporary music ensemble 175 East, James Gardner and Samuel Holloway talk to Tim Dodd about the group's recently released recordings of works by… Audio

Past and present music directors of the Auckland contemporary music ensemble 175 East, James Gardner and Samuel Holloway talk to Tim Dodd about the group's recently released recordings of works by… Audio

Donald Nicolson demonstrates the various 'bells and whistles' of his Thomas Goff harpsichord. Audio

The current owner of Thomas Goff's Harpsichord #6, aka "The Beast", tells James Gardner how he came into possession, the process of restoring it and the glories that it now provides.

Peter Averi tells James Gardner about his experience of the new Thomas Goff harpsichord, purchased by the NZBS in 1956.

Harpsichord maker John Rawson tells James Gardner about working with Thomas Goff.

Harpsichord maker Peter Owen tells James Gardner about working with Thomas Goff.

Instrument maker Paul Downie tells James Gardner about the process of 'restoring' the Goff harpsichord now owned by Donald Nicolson.

Ashley Brown (cello), recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert. Audio

175 East; in a Radio New Zealand Concert recording from 15 August 2009. Audio

Introduced by Kenneth Young. Audio

Recording and electricity crack open the world of sound.

We start at the Brussels World’s Fair, Expo ’58 where a number of threads in the story were to converge and thence to radiate.

Then we go… Audio

New musics rise from the secret projects and surplus junk of World War II.

Pierre Schaeffer and musique concrète – early tape recording: the life-threatening steel wire tapes at the BBC, the German… Audio

We continue to plunder the junk of World War II: Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna and the new studio at Italian Radio – Tristram Cary, Peter Zinovieff and Robert Moog talk about finding cheap… Audio