SIMON FLOWER
KENTARO YAMADA
Flower's Version performance gives him a chance to explore his deeper dub and click techniques. His manual approach to making music will be showcased in this live performance.
Founder of Nurture, a UK based record label created to release original NZ deep techno, Simon Flower is also instrumental in the techno scene in Auckland City.
He will be accompanied by Kentaro Yamada mixing visuals using DVD turntables and his sound triggered visual software, which was the winner of 2004 TUANZ interactive awards.

kentaroyamada.org

A COLD MINORITY + TRIST
A cold minority (7, 6) a.k.a. Dominic Taylor. Music reworked, an AM, FM and SW beat driven bricollage. Live remixing of previously unreleased tracks.
Featuring Trist on A/V turntables.

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Never constrained to current styles, these selectors merge irregular sound patterns into rolex riddims. Shake yo cortex dowg!
UNM are the resident free-form DJ Team @ Base FM Saturday graveyard.

basefm.co.nz

DJ MK.1
MK.1 meshes percussive melody with spatial sensibilities for dance floor heads. Film Noir with a reliable inner groove.”

Venue:Kenneth Myers Centre 6pm $8

TIM PREBBLE
R&D - Sonic Film
As a sound designer for film Prebble, who has worked with the likes of Peter Jackson, designs sound and effects for other people’s visions and narratives. With R&D he aims to apply his existing working methods and new experimental approaches, reversing the traditional hierarchy of sound and vision in film. Technically astute, Prebble’s primary aim is to provoke an emotional response in the viewer/listener.

CHRIS COTTRELL
10ⁿ
Having just completed a degree in architecture, Cottrell’s work deals with the implications of sound on space. At Version Cottrell will perform using a modified computer gaming engine to create a cinematic experience – sound and image is created from the manipulation of architectural data. He is especially interested in how a gradually iterative shift in form can create new experiences.

NORM SKIPP
BEYOND SKIN
Norm Skipp is an Auckland based composer and video artist. The body of his work to date has been collaborative, with an increased interest in video art. At Version, Skipp will be performing a reinterpretation of the video collaboration, Beyond Skin, he and his sister, choreographer Kathleen Skipp produced for Nextwave 2004 in Melbourne (earlier this year). Prerecorded sound textures will be manipulated and reprocessed in a live setting allowing for spontaneous interaction with dancers and imagery.

ADAM HYDE
The scope for distributing audio content has changed dramatically in the last few years, largely due to technical innovations, raising the Internet from its position as a mechanism for communication to a sophisticated content sharing network. r a d i o q u a l i a, of which Hyde is one half, have developed their own software and hardware tools to facilitate streaming media projects.

MARK SADGROVE
Auckland-based physicist Sadgrove is currently working on a doctorate in experimental quantum dynamics. In his spare time he makes sound with open source software tools,releasing his work as m.h.f.s. His presentation will cover installing Linux for audio applications, open content licensing ethics,and speculation on open content communities of the future.
http://atom2.phy.auckland.ac.nz/ binarydatum

ELECTRO VITAMIN S

Venue: Odeon Lounge (3 Mt Eden Rd)
8pm - free
A weekly evening of improvisation, featuring free jazz and experimental sound, Vitamin S has been become an Auckland auditory institution. Version presents an electrified edition.

TE APITI ENSEMBLE
Phil Dadson /Andrew MacMillan/ Richard Nunns /Sean Kerr
A music performance inspired by the Te Apiti Wind Farm.
A highly engaging and dramatic piece, with a strong connection to the environment. Combining forces to produce an airy,vibrant and multi layered piece of music specially commissioned for the Te Apiti wind farm fire works display in the Manawatu will be world renowned Maori instrumentalist Richard Nunns, intermedia artist and sonic manipulator Sean Kerr, our very own icon of instrument making and sonic improvisation Phil ÒDadsonic Ó Dadson and saxophonist,sound artist and composer Bonehead.
Kerr will provide a soundscape made up of the instruments of the performers, along with samples collected from the site at Te Apiti. Bonehead will perform on saxophones, Nunns will work with the evocative sounds of traditional Maori instruments and Dadson will bring all manner of percussive qualities to the piece.

ANDREW CLIFFORD
Andrew Clifford is an Auckland- based journalist, curator and artist.
His installations and performances often hinge around everyday domestic objects, including radios, toasters, typewriters and electronic alarm clocks.
His current project focuses on soundscapes originating from a 1960s Royal Express Typewriter.During performance the typewriter's parts are tapped, turned,switched and stroked to create sounds which are then modified by effects pedals.

DANIEL JACKOBSON
From playing live at techno clubs in Glasgow and Dublin, Irishman Daniel Jacobson has gone on to work with some of the most innovative new bands in the Irish jazz scene.
A recent Masters degree in Music and Media Technologies has given him the chance to return to electronic music.
The principles behind his piece 'Obelisk' comes very much from contemporary jazz: interlocking polyrhythms, rich harmonies and strong melodies.
However instead of traditional accompaniment, almost infinite possibilities are generated,mashed up and digitally combined into the stream of music.

REMOTE LOUNGE
ODEON LOUNGE (3 Mt Eden Rd)
Tues 7th - 8pm

R A D I O Q U A L I A
.net.radio.astronomy
A live sound performance by r a d i o q u a l i a - Adam Hyde, onsite at Version, and Honor Harger, streamed live from London.
The work will feature sounds of the solar system arriving via radio telescopes located around the world and delivered by Internet,which the pair will then "play".
R a d i o q u a l i a have worked on similar material previously with on their "Radio Astronomy" project.
radio-astronomy.net

ADAM WILLETS
Adam Willetts is an Auckland- based artist whose practice involves both improvised music and installation.He investigates relationships between humans, technology and the environment. Willetts uses game pads as controllers for live sampling, his sound sources include guitar, homemade acoustic and electronic devices, contact microphones and feedback.
Willets performances are always improvised and use no pre-recorded elements.
ethermap.org

MRS P.WESTBOURNE
Local intermedia artist P.Westbourne (aka Margot Didsbury)has just returned from a three-month residency at the United Sardine Factory Verftet in Bergen,Norway.
There she spent the long, long,rainy days creating a fresh crop of work.
As an audio tourist, equipped with microphone and minidisc she explores her destinations, from the markets of Marrakech to the moist fjords of Scandanavia.
Didsbury is interested in the acoustic and abstract musical qualities of the sounds she gathers.

TIM COSTER AND MARK SADGROVE
After appearing separately at Version 2003, Coster and Sadgrove take a break from their solo routines.
This will be a live improvised piece with carefully selected equipment.
Sadgrove will be using a prepared acoustic guitar,with the sound computer - processed through a number of audio patches and Coster will be playing feedback and sine waves created from a no-input DJ-mixer, filltered through EQ'xs and then sampled in real-time onto laptop, re-pitched and layered.

REACTIVE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS
Tue 7th -Thu 9th 10am-6pm
Venue: Artspace Pop in Room

NAO TOKUI - SONASPHERE
A kinetically driven interactive music environment.
Sonasphere uses sounds as objects in a 3D space to allow users to maniplulate these in a similar way to a game.
Users may specify the results from actions such as collisions to build a complex sound reactive environment for the creation of music
.An installation version of Sonasphere was exhibited this year at ICC in Tokyo as part of N_ext:New Generation of Media Artists .
sonasphere.com
Also see: Club Digital Sat 4th Light Space Thu 9th

JULIAN OLIVER - FIJUU
Ex-pat Julian Oliver now based in Spain is a leader in the field of Game engine modification using Open-source software.
Fijuu is a 3D,audio/visual performance environment.
Using a game engine, the player(s)of fijuu dynamically manipulate 3D instruments.
Julian's selectparks project was funded by the Australian government to develop two Art Games.
fijuu.com |selectparks.net

ENSEMBLE ELECTRONIQUE
Venue: KENNETH MYERS CENTRE (74 Shortland St)
Wed 8th 7pm

WARWICK BLAIR ENSEMBLE
Auckland-based composer Warwick Blair, also a lecturer at the University of Auckland's Music School, has been described as "one of New Zealand Õs most original musical thinkers".
Blair has composed soundtracks to accompany everything from film to advertising to fashion shows.
For Version he and his ensemble will be playing two out of a five movement work called Accordion, the structure of which reflects the shape of an accordion.
'Accordion' features performers: John Elmsly (conductor)
Rae de Lisle (piano)
Melody Lin (harp)
Te Oti Rakena (voice)
Stephen Small (keyboards)
Ron Samson (percussion)
Frank Gibson (percussion)
Warwick Blair (tape)

PLAINS
An electronic ensemble featuring six of Auckland Õs most prolific experimental sound artists together for the first time.
Their improvisation will be informed by collective ideas of timbre, volume and structure.
Tim Coster:field recordings
Richard Francis:computer objects
Rosy Parlane:prepared guitar
Mark Sadgrove:electronics, Linux-based audio software
Clinton Watkins:computer
Paul Winstanley:electronics

THE SCI HI ARKESTRA
The Sci Hi Terran Arkestra is a group of musicans using electronic and acoustic sound generation and electronic filtering.
The Arkestra combines improvisation and pre- determined sound, collaborating with video artists to produce a hypothetical environment, shifting through gradual cycles.
Sci Hi has been performing and recording the results of his electronic feedback experiments for the last 4 years.
The Sci Hi Terran Arkestra involves other performers in collaborative audio explorations that focus on the unique glissando and pulse based sounds integral to the Sci Hi ouvre.
Daniel Tafferty and Mark Sadgrove: computer treatments
Sci Hi:electronic feedback
Steve Morton-Jones and Drew McMillan:saxes and fife
Erica Lindsay:voice
John Bell and Paul Taylor: percussion
Campbell Farquhar:video

SONASPHERE SEMINAR
Venue: Auckland Art gallery Auditiorium as part of the Easy Listening Series
Wed 8th - 5pm

NAO TOKUI AND KARL WILLIS
During this seminar both the developer Nao Tokui and interface designer Karl Willis discuss the Sonasphere project.
Sonasphere is a kinetically driven interactive music environment.
The software uses sounds as objects in a 3D space to allow users to interact in a game-like environment.
Users may specify the results from events such as collisions to build complex reactive environments for the creation of music.

sonasphere.com

Venue:420 6pm/8pm $8

SEAM
Georgina Hart is an artrist who combines video, performance, sculpture and audio. Her installations explore human perceptions of light, motion and time. "We're used to seeing video imagery mixed live in places like concerts, on MTV and at corporate events and dance parties"; says Hart, whose recent work recontextualises such live video manipulation as performance and interactive art form.
For Seam, Hart brings together nine of Auckland's video artists and three audio producers in an experimental setting.
Seam will explore the relationships between the contributors diverse styles and interests, exposing the shifting seams where their digital images intersect. This event will make visible the process of video mixing and manipulation. An interactive computer station will allow audience members to manipulate images themselves, creating new work within the work, using data to build new spaces.

The artists: Lotech.media, Axis of Weevil, Praxis Pictures, Helix, Rachael Patching, Quarkestra, Mic Watts and Bodhi.

SONASPHERE
Nao Tokui will perform using his own ground breaking sound SONASPHERE is a sample-based live sound performance system with a generative 3D interface.
In SONASPHERE,functional units, such as sound samples, effects and mixers, are represented as objects floating within 3D Space.
Users can easily make connections between these objects via simple mouse establish signal stream networks.
Users may specify the results from actions such as collisions to build a complex sound reactive environment for the creation of music.
The software was installed at "Next" Exhibition ICC Centre in Tokyo.

JAMES DUNCAN + LEON WOODS
Leon Woods and James Duncan will perform visuals and music especially composed for Version.
From playing guitar in various bands, Duncan went on to create demented soundscapes and wild plasti-pop crossover tunes with a simple home PC and an electric guitar.
Nowadays when he is not playing effected guitar for SJD, he can generally be found hiding out in his home studio, where he is currently producing his first album, a strangely cohesive collection ranging from the melancholic to the triumphant.
"As the song shudders towards a close, SJD Õs guitarist, James Duncan, crouches over a row of effects pedals, batting them with his hand, twisting knobs that give his chords a glossy sheen and make them stretch out like well-chewed toffee.
Audience incomprehension is now total."
stuff.co.nz

COCO SOLID + ERIK ULTIMATE
AK Electrorappers Coco and Erik.
Specialising in rap 'n' roll, these two porno-rhyme about everything from sex and science to the daily grind.
Lo fi and hi-class and hott times guaranteed

KNDNSR + REDUX
A digital design project where rhythm and tonality create visual structures, synaesthetic diagrams and sonic pixels.
Part of an ongoing series, onomatopoeic environments, where calligraphic movements build forms and particles dance.
Real-time manipulation or "scrubbing " is achieved by locking visual data to audio samples.

DJ CULPRIT
Guilty of pushing lethal doses of sonic synchromesh onto unsuspecting minors.
Menacingly toying with time (signatures)for his own depraved ends.
DJ Culprit, the future-bass connoisseur .
Corrupting grooves and vanquishing the predictability of lock-step drum and bass, where ever it lurks...