X-Current
Phil Dadson, Enrique Siques, and Rob Thorne
- 7:30pm Wed 26 Mar, 2014
- An evening of sonic experimentation
- RAMP
RAMP Gallery is excited to host Phil Dadson (NZ), Enrique Siques (Chile), and Rob Thorne (NZ), for one night of sonic experimentation, as part of their tour X-Current on Wednesday 26 March at 7:30pm.
In March, Siques and Dadson, joined by Taongo Puoro player Rob Thorne, will tour within New Zealand, offering local audiences a chance to experience their ongoing trans-Pacific musical conversation. Using invented as well as orthodox instruments, the resulting music is exhilarating, visceral, challenging and poetic.
X-Current reflects and invokes the energies, influences and cadences of the Pacific. This performance at RAMP will be the fourth stop on their five show tour.
About the artists:
Based in Santiago de Chile, Enrique Siques is a celebrated photo-artist as well as a percussionist, composer, improviser and inventor of instruments and sound environments. For some years he was a member of percussion duo CODE.
Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) is a new and original voice in taonga puoro. His debut album Whaia te Maramatanga (Rattle Records) is a deeply felt and highly concentrated conversation between the past and the present. He uses modern loop technology alongside traditional Maori flutes and horns made from stone, bone, shell and wood.
A doyen of experimental music in Aotearoa, Phil Dadson founded the percussion ensemble From Scratch. Since the 1970s he has produced a vast and varied range of sound, video and multi-media work. As an inventor and constructor of original musical instruments, he has an international reputation.
In March, Siques and Dadson, joined by Taongo Puoro player Rob Thorne, will tour within New Zealand, offering local audiences a chance to experience their ongoing trans-Pacific musical conversation. Using invented as well as orthodox instruments, the resulting music is exhilarating, visceral, challenging and poetic.
X-Current reflects and invokes the energies, influences and cadences of the Pacific. This performance at RAMP will be the fourth stop on their five show tour.
About the artists:
Based in Santiago de Chile, Enrique Siques is a celebrated photo-artist as well as a percussionist, composer, improviser and inventor of instruments and sound environments. For some years he was a member of percussion duo CODE.
Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) is a new and original voice in taonga puoro. His debut album Whaia te Maramatanga (Rattle Records) is a deeply felt and highly concentrated conversation between the past and the present. He uses modern loop technology alongside traditional Maori flutes and horns made from stone, bone, shell and wood.
A doyen of experimental music in Aotearoa, Phil Dadson founded the percussion ensemble From Scratch. Since the 1970s he has produced a vast and varied range of sound, video and multi-media work. As an inventor and constructor of original musical instruments, he has an international reputation.