Electronic Music
Introducing Civilian Sol
Wanaka based producer Civilian Sol, with his song Blinded These Days, featuring Fiona McMartin. Audio
Yumi Zouma
With members spread across three continents, Yumi Zouma have to try harder than most to find time to rehearse. We check in with Yumi Zouma, at home for rare New Zealand shows. Audio
Broods - NZ Live
New Zealand's Georgia and Caleb Nott have positioned themselves as one of the fastest rising new acts to emerge during the second half of 2013. Audio
CEO - Wonderland
Plenty of musicians have run record labels but few have integrated that job into their music making persona as clearly as Eric Berglund. Eric spoke to Shaun D. Wilson about the label, covering Kanye… Audio
Borderline
Nelson based drum n bass producer Rich Gibbins tells how he's making the fairly strict rhythms and sound palettes of drum n bass his own on his debut album Flashes of the Future. Audio
Seth Africa
Joe Sampson is usually seen weilding a guitar in Christchurch bands T54, Salad Boys and The Dance Asthmatics. After accidentally finding a way to turn an 80s 4-track recorder into a makeshift synth… Audio
Dudley Benson and Johnson Witehira in conversation
To celebrate Matariki we asked Otautahi-born composer and performer Dudley Benson and Taumarunui-born artist and designer Johnson Witehira., both of whom feature in City Gallery's festival calendar… Audio
Introducing - Tawahinga
Tawahinga, with the song Loosely from his EP Bedcat. http://tawahinga.bandcamp.com/album/bedcat-ep Audio
Misfit Mod's Electronic Music Workshop For Women
Christchurch musician Misfit Mod has been running a series of workshops designed to promote a supportive, fun and accessible environment for women wanting to learn more about starting their own… Audio
The Sampler: Renee-Louise Carafice
NZ singer-songwriter Renee-Louise Carafice chronicles another turbulent period in her life on Power Animals. Nick Bollinger takes a listen, and speaks to her about miniature bicycles, living in… Audio
Kraus Synth Workshop
Melody Thomas heads along to a synthesiser-building workshop with Auckland-based musician and electronic music device-maker Pat Kraus (aka Kraus). As well as learning fantastic new terms like… Audio
Suren Unka
22 Year old Suren Unka is an Auckland based electronic producer who became infatuated with the drums at his church when he was a young'un, eventually joining his big brother's metalcore band. Aged… Audio
Shocking Pinks
Nick Harte, the man behind Shocking Pinks is another artists compelled to create following the Christchurch earthquakes. He's just released his first material in six years Guilt Mirrors, an album… Audio
Broods
Nelson duo Broods have recently signed a worldwide deal with Capitol Records in Los Angeles. It's a big jump from winning the Rock Quest in Hamilton as The Peasants two and half years ago. Nick… Audio
Episode 1 - Everything Audible in the World Becomes Material
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
Episode 2 - Raindrops In The Sun
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
Episode 3 - Fag Ends And Lollipops
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
Episode 4 - I Was Born To Synthesize
The early development of analogue synthesizers: the Moog, the Buchla and others – Raymond Scott – Eric Siday – the San Francisco Tape Music Center – Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause, the go-to guys for… Audio