AUDIO FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN ALTMUSIC EVENT
ALASTAIR GALBRAITH
WITH PETER WRIGHT
Friday Oct 10th, 9 pm
The Whammy Bar, St Kevins Arcade, K Rd
$20.00
Free Wire Workshop with Alastair Galbraith
6pm @ Gus Fisher Lobby.
The Kenneth Myers Centre
74 Shortland St
Alastair Galbraith
Alastair Galbraith is an experimental musician based in Dunedin and
is one of the most admired musicians in the 'underground' music scene
worldwide.
Recipient of the 2006 Arts Foundation Laureate, he employs amongst
his instruments, violin, bagpipes, softly spoken lyrics, organ, and
backwards-guitar to create what has been described as "otherworldly"
and an "unerringly emotional" sound. Noted American critic Byron
Coley has said "his work is filled with beautiful darkness, worthy of
classic designation".
His long, consistent career began in the early 1980s, as leader of
The Rip, who recorded two EPs for Flying Nun. He later joined other
prominent South Island musicians Peter Jefferies, David Mitchell and
Robbie Muir to form Plagal Grind, whose self-titled EP is regarded as
a masterpiece of extra-academic experimental music.
Alastair’s solo work has gained a growing international reputation
and is known as a benchmark of excellence for the independent,
idiosyncratic mode it operates in. His works have been heralded in
critical journals and documented by recordings on prestigious
American labels. In his recent work, alongside solo recordings,
Alastair collaborates with Bruce Russell in the improvisational
group, A Handful of Dust, and with Matt De Gennaro, with whom he
creates distinctive 'wire music', using piano wires in a site-
specific installation. This will be demonstrated in a workshop before
the event.
In 2006 the prestigious North American label, Table of the
Elements, archivers of such twentieth century musical geniuses as
Charlie Patton and Tony Conrad, gave Alastair's solo work the status
of contemporary classics by reissuing his albums Morse/Gaudylight and
Talisman. Alastair’s album of song-based material, the 20-track Orb,
was released on his own label Nextbestway, via Global Routes, early
in 2008 and received a glowing full-page review in the February
edition of icon UK magazine The Wire.
Later in 2008 the New York Label Azul Discographica will release his
latest collaboration with Bruce Russell – (under the moniker Handful
of Dust) – the album Panegyrics.
Alastair is presently constructing a glass ’armonica’, an instrument
invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin. He is sourcing his materials
locally and has already given several performances on the not quite
complete instrument. He is also designing his second “glass tube
fire organ”. The first is in the collection of the Sarjeant Gallery,
Wanganui.
http://www.myspace.com/alastairgalbraithplagalgrindtherip
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Peter Wright
Over the course of a decade, Wright has etched his name in glass in
the annals of drone-world superstardom. Alongside Phil Nilblock,
Robert Horton, and Tom Carter, Peter Wright is on top of the drone
music world, both in the sheer amount of astounding music he creates,
but also the effortlessly way he makes sounds that are completely
indecipherable but strangely familiar.
Words like 'atonal' and 'avant-garde' come to mind when contemplating
Wright's sound but such terms are misleading when his music remains
so accessible despite its experimental character.
Wright first started playing music semi-seriously in Christchurch
during 1990, recording un-tutored noise-pop on a four track.
Following several song-based solo projects Wright's music started to
take a more abstract hue around 1996, finally culminating in a more
refined guitar-based drone sound that he has worked with almost
continuously since the late 90s.
After several self released CDrs on his Apoplexy label, Wright moved
to the UK and had his first 'proper' CD release in 2003 on US label
Last Visible Dog, followed by a string of CDs issued on various US
and European imprints.
http://www.distantbombs.com
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Organised by the Audio Foundation, Altmusic is an ongoing series of
audio events, regularly bringing a vital injection of contemporary
and avant-garde sound art from around the world to New Zealand.
Previous Altmusic artists include The Necks, Daniel Menche, Keith
Fullerton Whitman, Pauline Oliveros, Voice Crack, Francisco Lopez,
Philip Jeck, Oren Ambarchi, Metamkine and the Dead C.
The Audio Foundation and Altmusic is supported by Creative New
Zealand, National Institute of Creative Industries, Gus Fisher
Gallery and ASB Trust
http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz
http://www.myspace.com/altmusicfestival
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