Secret Sounds presents Flo Wilson, Alan D. Jones, Gyorgy Ligeti

Name: Secret Sounds presents Flo Wilson, Alan D. Jones, Gyorgy Ligeti
Start: 2025-02-16T19:30:00+13:00
Location: Silo 6

Schedule

Sun, 16 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+13:00

Location

Silo 6 | Auckland, AU

The Second Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds presents a concert featuring specially commissioned new works by Flo Wilson & Alan D. Jones to activate the remarkable acoustics of Auckland waterfronts Silo 6, and the first ever NZ performance of György Ligeti’s – Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes.
•György Ligeti – Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes
•Flo Wilson – In the Stars – music for 6 speakers, 6 singers
A very special new multi-sensory work for six silos, six loudspeakers, and six singers for The Second Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds in Tāmaki Makaurau!
‘In the Stars’ draws inspiration from the spectral and spatial possibilities of contemporary organ music, as well as the medieval choral traditions of Hildegard von Bingen, a renowned seer, herbalist and composer who lived nearly 1,000 years ago. Taking place in Tāmaki Makaurau’s Silo Park, each silo will be ‘activated’ by a speaker, turning the space into a kind of giant hybrid organ, which the audience can move through freely.
Utilising field recordings, interlocking melodies and chordal clouds that traverse the sonic spectrum, this piece reflects upon 1,000 years of human experience. Cascading voices reverberate around electric melodies, circling and fluttering around the silo complex, as earth-rumbling bass from the organ draws from the depths. The piece, straddling both minimalism and maximalism in equal measure, hearkens to the cosmos asking a fundamental question: how much have we really changed over the millennia?
‘In the stars’ reads both as a love letter to how far we have come as a people and as a lament to how humanity continues to enact regressive violent ideologies upon each other and all life on earth. It is a reminder for us to bear witness to ourselves and each other and recognise a fundamental truth – we are made up of the same stardust that links everyone and everything in the universe.
• Alan D. Jones – Mass Pointillistic Tryptych (various percussive resonances)
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Audio Foundation kick starts the new year with a stunning lineup of local and international sound, music and performance.
The Second Aotearoa International Festival of Secret Sounds sees visitors from France, Sweden, Australia and Germany create new works alongside and in collaboration with Aotearoa based artists in an array of venues and settings.
Highlights include Scandinavian avant-folk singer Anna Fält in collaboration with local heroes Karl Sölve Steven and The Palcontents, alternative singer-songwriter Simon Joyner from the USA, legendary collective HUBBUB which features some of the leading voices in French improvised and experimental music, prolific Australian visual, sound and performance artist Victor Meertens and his close collaborator Alexis Ensor of the Charles Ives Singers, a newly commissioned work by ex-pat composer Flo Wilson featuring six singers and six amplified speakers, Taonga Puoro specialist Rob Thorne and his new free jazz trio, and many more performers activating the acoustics of the Audio Foundation, Auckland Unitarian, Silo 6, Whammy Public Bar, Kim Meredith Gallery, Western Park and 1A Tuarangi Road, Grey Lynn.
Festival passes on sale now from https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/94350/The-Second-Aotearoa-International-Festival-Of-Secret-Sounds.utr
FESTIVAL PASSES $55 + BF, access all shows
Individual shows $30 per night
More information from www.audiofoundation.org.nz
SCHEDULE
WED 12 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION – OPENING NIGHT
5.30pm - VICTOR MEERTENS EXHIBITION OPENING
Renowned Australian visual artist, sculptor & sound artist presents a new exhibition to launch the festival and the Audio Foundation 2025 gallery programme. (Free)
8pm – Tickets from UTR
Victor Meertens & Alexis Ensor
Two thirds of legendary experimental group The Charles Ives Singers bring found objects, invented instruments and an abundance of joy.
HUBBUB
Since 1999, Hubbub works on the sound matter to open up a moving space, inhabited by layers, distensions, entanglements, imbrications, pulsations, dots and lines. Between acoustic and electric, at the crossroads of several worlds, the group consists of five musicians whose activities trace multiple ramifications. The quintet's longevity has allowed them to create a universe that is more than the sum of its parts.
«Imagine the opening fanfare of Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra slowed down so it takes a year to play.» Daniel Spicer, The Wire
• Frédéric Blondy - piano
• Bertrand Denzler - tenor saxophone
• Jean-Luc Guionnet – alto saxophone
• Jean-Sébastien Mariage - electric guitar
• Edward Perraud - percussion
THURS 13 FEB – AUDIO FOUNDATION - 8PM
HUBBUB with local guest improvisors

• Frédéric Blondy - piano
• Bertrand Denzler - tenor saxophone
• Jean-Luc Guionnet - alto saxophone
• Jean-Sébastien Mariage - electric guitar
• Edward Perraud - percussion

FRI 14 FEB - AK UNITARIAN CHURCH – 8pm
• Simon Joyner (USA)
Simon Joyner is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. He's been flying under the radar since 1991, releasing music on various independent labels including: Team Love, Jagjaguwar, Sing Eunuchs!, Catsup Plate, One-Hour, Shrimper, Brinkman, Secretly Canadian, and Unread. He is also the co-founder of Grapefruit Records (grapefruitrecordclub.com) and an occasional producer of other people's albums.
• Anna Fält (Sweden) & Karl Sölve Steven
Karl Sölve Steven is a composer and producer, currently based in Pārāwai (Thames) and Anna Fält is a voice artist & singing teacher originally from Finland, living in Sweden.
Anna Fält works widely within the culture branch, including theatre stages, art projects and various festivals and venues. Born & raised in Finland, living in Sweden, Anna combines the different voice traditions, languages and singing aesthetics to a unique combination of sounds.
• Rob Thorne – Taonga Puoro
New Zealand Māori composer, performer, improvisor, collaborator, anthropologist and specialist Rob Thorne M.A. (Ngāti Tumutumu) is a diverse and original explorer in the evolving journey of Taonga Puoro (traditional Māori instruments), fusing these ancient voices with modern sounds and technology.
SAT 15 FEB
2PM - 1A Tuarangi Road, Grey Lynn
A Place to Play Clarinet
The final chapter in a series of clarinet concerts initiated by contemporary artist J.A KENNEDY Performed by Callum Passells, Ben Sinclair , Lukas Fritsch, Sean Martin-Buss & Jeff Henderson
4pm - WESTERN PARK - Tip Sculptures, Ponsonby Road
Conduction by 10 Acre Bloc, an ensemble drawn from the rich pool of improvisers in the Vitamin S Collective.
” The TIP works refer to a loss of our past via the wholesale demolition of parts of Auckland City. Dumped in countless nameless landfills, maybe these multiple architectural dismemberments have undergone a subterranean reassembly and are about to lurch back up out of the ground ” – Artist John Radford
7.30PM - AUDIO FOUNDATION
• Takitoru - Rob Thorne / Larsen Taylor / Ryan Tomov
• Drew McMillan / Rui Inaba /Finn McNeil
• Victor Meertens / Hermione Johnson / Alexis Ensor
• Neil Feather Rotozither Trio
SUN 16 FEB - SILO 6 - 7.00pm
Beaumont Street & Jellicoe Street, Auckland
György Ligeti - Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes
Flo Wilson - In the Stars - music for 6 speakers, 6 singers
Alan D. Jones - Mass Pointillistic Tryptych (various percussive resonances)
MON 17 FEB - Whammy Public Bar – 8pm (free)
AIFSS @ VITAMIN S
A Vitamin S Special featuring festival performers and Vitamin S artists in collaboration
TUES 18 FEB - KIM MEREDITH GALLERY - 247 Symonds Street, Eden Terrace
• The Palcontents with Anna Fält
• Paul Buckton / Jess Quaid / Victor Meertens
• Kingsley Melhuish / Steve Cournane / Alexis Ensor
WED 19 FEB - AUDIO FOUNDATION - 8pm
CLOSING NIGHT VARIETY SHOW