[Af_List] Tim Hecker in Alt.Music Sep 2007

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Tim Hecker (Canada)
Antony Milton (Wellington)
Nigel Wright (AK)
Thursday September 20, 2007, doors 8pm starts 9pm
Whammy Bar, St Kevins Arcade, Auckland - $5.00
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After the sell-out success of July’s triple-whammy of concerts, The  
Audio Foundation’s Alt.music Festival concludes its 2007 series with  
a performance of experimental ambient compositions from Canadian  
artist Tim Hecker. Performing with him at K’ Rd venue Whammy Bar is  
Wellington sound artist Antony Milton and Aucklander Nigel Wright.

Since 1996, Tim Hecker has produced a range of audio works for such  
luminary labels as Mille Plateaux, Kranky, Alien8, Force Inc,  
Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as “structured  
ambient”, “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music”.  
More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of  
noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to song-craft  
which is both physical and emotive. He is also an acclaimed producer  
of techno, having toured and produced under the name Jetone.

Wellington-based sound artist Antony Milton has been making records,  
exhibiting sound installations and performing live locally and  
internationally under various nom de plumes (A.M, The Nether Dawn,  
Paintings of Windows, Mrtyu etc) since the early 1990s. Milton's work  
is situated at some weird junction between electroacoustic  
composition, folk music, and the more psychedelic end of the 'noise'  
spectrum. Using predominantly analogue sources (tape loops, field  
recordings, amplified resonant objects, voice and guitar) Milton's  
performances have a high degree of intimacy and commonly range from  
the gestural and nuanced through to the visceral and ecstatic. He is  
also the curator of the PseudoArcana record label.

Nigel Wright has been creating audio for over 5 years and is known  
for his spacious, expansive sound pieces. Dense layers of tonal  
drones underpin the field recordings, guitar, and tape loops that  
Wright uses as source material for his laptop-based live  
performances. Wright has recently started investigating audio/visual  
pieces with his first work premiering at the 2006 Auckland  
International Film Festival. “Wright works with big, weighty chunks  
of sound… He uses laptop to weather and rust his guitars strings,  
ricocheting hefty down-strummed chords through cavernous banks of  
effects and then watching the overtones drift in the distance, like  
trailing headlights captured on polaroids.” (Jon Dale – The Wire  
October 2006)

Tim Hecker: www.sunblind.com
Antony Milton: www.pseudoarcana.com
Nigel Wright: www.myspace.com/nigelwright

Alt.music is an ongoing series of events, regularly bringing a vital  
injection of contemporary sound art from around the world to New  
Zealand. Organised by the Audio Foundation, Alt.music began as an  
international festival of experimental music and sound art in 2001,  
followed by successive festivals in 2002 and 2004. Previous Alt.Music  
artists include Pauline Oliveros, Metamkine, Keith Fullerton Whitman,  
Peter Rehberg, David Toop, Pan Sonic, Tetuzi Akiyama, Jon Rose, Voice  
Crack, Sachiko M, Francisco Lopez, Pierre Bastien, Oren Ambarchi,  
Alan Licht, Richard Nunns and the Dead C.

Alt.music is supported by Creative New Zealand, Room40 and The Whammy  
Bar. Thanks to Richard Francis for design.