10 acre blok
Odeon Lounge Sun 23rd Nov
10 Acre Blok is a large improvising ensemble. For the festival a small number of the group will produce a full sonic ass-ult using and experimenting with the betty anne power of the fragile and volatile state of high gain and feedback in the environment.

Adzuki vs _sum
Odeon Lounge Thu 20th Nov

“Stripped back drum tracks gelled together with mist and vapour” Hip Hop / Dance hall / Drum and Bass. Playing with digital sound for 4 years, currently working on a debut album and collaborating with _sum (who releases as Dark Prod) on an abstact hip hop project.

Audiophyla
Odeon Lounge Thu 20th Nov
Having produced a series of 4-track recordings for a number of local (Auckland) bands in the late '80s, Audiophyla then relocated to Moscow in 1992. It was there that he began to work with Aleksei Borisov and Nochnoi Prospekt, a group of Moscow conceptualists working in various media, but primarily sound. Recorded an LP ("Yellow Tables" - Exotica, 1994). Curated several shows on SNC Radio (Moscow) dedicated to New Zealand music (Skeptics, From Scratch etc.). Live appearances at festivals in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Izhevsk, Smolensk and Sochi. Since returning to Auckland in '95, Audiophyla has contributed ambient dissonance to gallery shows, short films and dance, curated specialist radio programmes showcasing new electronica from Russia and Finland and performed with sound artist Tim Coster. Earlier this year Audiophyla self released an album which displays a diverse range of ryhthmic structures and atmospheres.
listeninglounge.net/releases.html

Culm
ODEON Wed 26th Nov

Culm aka David Fleming has been creating and experimenting with music and sound on a computer for some years now. this includes collaborating with friends and doing solo work. His pieces are mostly focused on the textures that emerge from the source material. Culm’s performance will be an entirely improvised or mostly improvised set using a pc and various effects/audio buffers, non-sequenced improvised pieces using a mic to record & buffer sounds from various items & then processing the sound through effects such as granulation/distortion/delay etc.

Dadsonic
Eso Steel vs Dadsonics
SCAPA Mon 24th Nov

Phil Dadson, intermedia artist, whose essentially soundbased artworks take many forms; performances - solo and with his group From Scratch; videos, installations that crunch underfoot or surprise you with singing skulls and talking drums; radiophonic works, sound sculptures & experimental musical instruments such as SpidaNebula, Zitherum, Nundrum, song-stones; plus compositions, graphic scores and sound stories.

2003; travelled to Antarctica / currently processing Polar Quintet of
video/sound, toured solo to Europe/Japan, performed with Mau, Carl Stone,
Keiji Haino. AK03 Vocal Acrobats, with Makigami & van Tongeren. . . .
new solo CD in the pipeline.
http://www.fromscratch.auckland.ac.nz

Data:Bass
see mental Illness

Empirical
SCAPA Mon 24th Nov

Empirical is a slowly changing collection of sound makers and instruments circled around the shimsaw - a stretched amplified steel band. It has been happening for longer than founder Marcel Bear's engineering career, which may explain why he now works in a glue factory. Not just a factory, but the factory, deep in the spiritually rich suburb of Mt Roskill - where shimsaws and now a tape loop machine were born.
The performance will consist of Marcel and fellow noise heads giving the shimmies a work out, with the help of some sound multiplication via the tape loop machine. This latest monster-in-a-box is a repackaged Tascam 4 track, giving four loops for the price of one. With two channels in and 12 out, this beast can take control. Collect your free set of steak knives at the door and join the feast of mt roskill banana sand shake rattle and twang.

Eu Jean Monomer
MOTH Sat 22nd
A truly innovative and talented artist working in extremely diverse areas of media, sculpture and performance. At the point where he was sick of using other peoples music (copyright issues) in his videos, he decided to start making his own stuff electronically. “I found that making music electronically was in fact very much like improv. You make a whole lotta crazy sounds and then put them together!”. Yet his work sounds incredibly refined regardless of this playful approach.
Currently performing improv at Vitamin S (Odeon), and also part of the 10 Acre Bloc Orchestra, a selector on fleet FM. Recent shows include the Wonderland show at Artspace, and also VJ set for experimental techno performer Sutekh(USA).

Force Field Research
Odeon Lounge Thurs 20th Nov
Force Field Research (formerly known as Field Audio) operates night and day at the Field Laboratory to continue bringing what has been described as "sonic architecture of spiked rhythms and insistent, skewed, scything beats and textures".
With four releases (ds_jngkshn, con_cat_e_nate, coda and suite_f_a) and live PA's at venues such as Luminaire and the Auckland Art Gallery under the Field Audio guise. Force Field Research takes the project a step further by opening new avenues of exploration.
The philosophy behind this new direction is to investigate electromagnetic oscillations and the forces exerted by them, looking particularly at the effect they have on the human nervous system.
The live PA for the Version Festival will be the first in a series of field testing experiments to be conducted by Force Field Research.
http://fieldaudio.net

Golden Axe
Odeon LoungeTue 25th Nov

Golden Axe are Chris Cudby and Dave King, both intermedia artists and performers who never fail to engage the audience with their colourful costumed performances of lo-fi grinding electro-noise and dinky melodic sensibilities.
Their sound is produced by customising classic eighties toy keyboards and home made oscilators. These infectious tunes will have everybodys heads nodding in no time. So don’t miss out on seeing these unique characters in action, 100% live ivory tinkling, knob twiddling brilliance.

“The shows are nothing short of amazing – both aurally and visually”  
The Chaff – Massey University Press

Jordan Reyne aka Dr Kevorkian & the Suicide Machine’s music draws on atmospheric industrial sounds – used as sonic backdrops for dark, celtic-influenced melodies. 

Themes in their live performance centre around the mechanisation of the human form, and the reduction of nature to numbers. 
http://ddv.co.nz

Marzuk.improv.nz
Odeon Lounge Wed 26th Nov

A game piece which uses a computer interface to direct changes in the music. Volunteers can alter the sound, speed, rhythm and genre of the band. Styles like drum n bass and rock can be transformed into chaotic noise and any mutations discovered in between. A virtual exploration of the sonic possibilities of the modern band.
Matt Brennan has recently organised performances of John Zorn's Cobra, as well as performed electronicaly processed vocal music on a machine made of cardboard. Brennan has also busked on Queen St, playing frenetic guitar and vocal percussion, and performed with Auckland improv orchestra 10 Acre Block at the St James during AK03. Brennan graduated from Elam in 2001 majoring in Intermedia, also the year Marzuk.improv.nz was created.

Matt B vs k5k
Odeon Lounge Wed 26th Nov

Antimatter - vox vs tha machinz.
In their first collaboration in eight years these volatile sonic perverts will duel live for your adulation. These once close-friends-turned- adversaries aim to destroy each others equipment for long forgotten wrong-doings. Music may occur.

Mental Illness
Odeon Lounge Wed 26th Nov
Data:Base
MOTH Sat 22nd Nov

MENTAL ILLNESS SHOWCASE
Producers Tumor and Shunryu will perform sets of their own material as well as showcasing some of the Data:bass Network producers most original tracks including: Dr_Lovelazy, Soundlaydee, Jamie Newman, Oosterdaddy, Romantech and Catguts & The Big Bang Theory. Mental Illness is a subsidiary project of Auckland’s Data:bass Network, dedicated to electronic music outside of Drum n Bass and format Dance music. Mental Illness provides the opportunity for producers affiliated with Data:bass to explore, innovate and experiment with other genres. Mental Illness is about putting the music out there. With Drum'nBass, the technical demands and generic restrictions placed on producers and performers can be stifling creatively, while Mental Illness puts out unique music that celebrates a whole different set of musical values. The first Mental Illness compilation featuring 21 tracks from 15 local acts was released last month.
DATA:BASE SHOWCASE
Tumor aka Culprit will showcase the more beat driven, dance focused Data:base tracks at Moth.

http://www.databass.tk

r a d i o q u a l i a
ODEON Fri 21st Nov

TITLE: listening_stations v0.3: langmuir waves

'listening_stations v0.3: langmuir waves' is part of an ongoing work entitled 'radio astronomy', which will broadcast sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves. The performance is created using sounds captured from the Sun, Jupiter's moons, Io, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa, and field recordings made at a radio telescope in Latvia.
The amount of imagery associated with space is overwhelming. We can all look at space, in pictures on television and in books, but in popular culture, we have no sense of what space sounds like. Space is usually depicted as an aural void and thus most people associate space with silence. This is in fact a misnomer. Much of our scientific understanding of space is derived by listening to space through radio telescopes. Many objects emit radiation in the audible band, making it possible to hear the Universe. Space, as it turns out, is a very noisy place. And yet, very few people have ever heard space. Hardly any of us could describe the sound of a single planet or star.

'listening_stations v0.3: langmuir waves' will make audible the electron plasma oscillations, solar bursts, electrostatic emissions and radio storms of space.

r a d i o q u a l i a is an art collaboration from New Zealand which is now based in Europe.
r a d i o q u a l i a experiments with the concept of artistic broadcasting, using the internet and traditional media forms, such as radio and television, as primary tools. We are also interested in ways that audio can be used to illuminate abstract ideas and processes We work in gallery, performance, broadcast and publishing contexts.
r a d i o q u a l i a's work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Gallery 9, Walker Art Center, USA; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK; Sonar 2001 in Barcelona, Spain; VideoPositive2000 in Liverpool, UK; the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Infowar - Ars Electronica 98 and LifeScience - Ars Electronica 99 in Linz, Austria; the Bregenz Festival 98 in Austria; Iona Gallery, Scotland; the Lux Centre in London, UK; the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia; CACSA in Adelaide, Australia; The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the HDLU in Zagreb, Croatia, among other places.
r a d i o q u a l i a have lectured and taught internationally at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles; the University of Amsterdam, the Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada; the Museum of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria and many other contexts.

The participants of r a d i o q u a l i a are Honor Harger and Adam Hyde.
radioqualia.net

Richard Francis
Eso Steel vs Dadsonics
SCAPA Mon 24th Nov

Sound artist Richard Francis (aka Eso Steel) has been involved with experimental music since 1996 when he began his first solo excursions (combining tape looped instrumentation and field recordings) and played in a guitar improvisation group with Birchville Cat Motel’s Campbell Kneale, called Small Blue Torch. His sound making for the last 4 years has explored different manipulation techniques of CD sampling and abstraction, electroacoustic and music concrete and manipulation of field audio material.
He has had numerous releases on his self-run labels 20city and CMR, and releases on other labels including Last Visible Dog, USA; Drone Records, Germany; Stateart, Germany; Absurd, Greece. Richard has toured extensively in Japan, New Zealand, and most recently in December 2002 the West Coast of the US.
cmr.co.nz

Waikato University Honours student Richard Robertson was inspired by the surreal soundscape and landscape experienced when cycling home down Ruakura Road in Hamilton. “The spaces around the road are contrasting, yet somehow linked - through the process of change on the urban/rural boundary” Richard says The spaces include a new retirement village, a self storage centre, a substation, a new suburb, paddocks and a railway.
The composition was constructed with bicycle sounds recorded by the composer. “ In the work my bicycle is used as the instrument; the vehicle that carries me through the landscape becomes the idiom that evokes the experience of the ride.” Having composed Late Night Cycle, Richard decided to add a visual element, “I have attempted to create a video that reflects the inspiration, by capturing the places that surround Ruakura Road and hopefully completing a creative cycle to make a cohesive audio visual composition.”
Richard has majored in Screen and Media, while also studying electro acoustic music. Late night cycle was recently performed at the University of Waikato Music Department Douglas Lilburn Trust Student Composition Awards, where it was achieved a merit award.

Rosy Parlane
SCAPA Mon 24th Nov

Rosy Parlane first started playing music in Auckland, NZ, in 1993, as drummer and pianist for the improvised rock trio Thela alongside Dion Workman and Dean Roberts. After releasing two CDs on Thurston Moore’s (Sonic Youth) Ecstatic Peace label and touring the USA and Australia, Thela disbanded in 1997.

Presently based in New Zealand, where he runs Sigma Editions concurrently with New York based Workman, Parlane has returned to solo compositions and released his second full CD release Getxo in 2002.

Over the last few years he has also collaborated on releases with Austrian musicians Christian Fennesz (Live in Melbourne CD) and Peter Rehberg (as Rosenberg) as well as with Mattin and Eddie Prevost (AMM) on the Sakada, Undistilled, Mendietan and Agur CDs. He has also been involved in gallery installations and experimental film soundtracks, both alone, and with other artists of various nationalities. Other projects include Pit Viper, Empirical and Parmentier.
sigmaeditions.com

Signer
MOTH SAT 22nd Nov (Rhythm)
SCAPA Mon 24th Nov (Texture)

The music is deep; bass heavy inputs fed through shifting textures. Smith describes the sound as 'experiments in the movement of ambient music'. Perhaps this is the sound that movement makes in dreams. Effortless, static free flights through physical locations and emotive scapes.
Mysterious mutant offspring of Aspen, Signer crafts dub-replicant grooves. Signer grafts Aspen's distinctive spatial possibilities and organic textures onto the DNA blueprint of the Basic Channel Berlin techno-dub sound. Smith's alter ego allows him to add more cogent rhythm patterns to the Aspen sound.
“at once understated and stunning….Smith blurs the lines between German electronic minimalism and Chicago avant-garde rock”
Montreal Mirror
" off to buy a quiet album a la Boards of Canada/To Roccocco Rot/SND ? Save your money....this is the one you want: the exact amount of noise needed to send you off into sweet dreams land. Trust us, this is as good as it gets" Sleaze Nation
involve.co.nz

Tom Ludvigson & Nigel Gavin
Odeon Lounge Tue 25th Nov

Nigel Gavin and Tom Ludvigson will perform a premiere of two new original Gavin-Ludvigson
co-compositions. Both works combine improvised electronic soundscapes and rhythm elements
Tom - Synthesizer + iBook + Ozone interface
Nigel - Guitar + science projects
Combining experimental jazz and electronica in Auckland for the last ten years
- 'Nexus' electronic space-jazz quartet in the 1990s
- 'Alloy', 'Trip to the Moon' since 2000
- 2003 album releases: 'Pretty Cool' (Trip) and 'Thrum' (Nigel Gavin solo)
- Past connections: Gitbox Rebellion, League of Crafty Guitarists, Inner City Jazz Workshop