Auckland can expect unprecedented levels of diverse sound art and outsider music activity this July with visits from internationally renowned sound artists for this year's Alt.music Festival.

Performers include Pauline Oliveros (USA), Ione (USA) and Metamkine (France), as well as NZ musicians Phil Dadson, Plains with Michael Morley, and Crude.Auckland can expect unprecedented levels of diverse sound art and outsider music activity this July with visits from internationally renowned sound artists for this year's Alt.music Festival.

Performers include Pauline Oliveros (USA), Ione (USA) and Metamkine (France), as well as NZ musicians Phil Dadson, Plains with Michael Morley, and Crude.Other international artists in the line-up are Runzelstirn and Gurglestock (Switzerland/Japan), Dave Phillips (Switzerland) Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device (Australia).

"Living legend" Pauline Oliveros to perform with Ione and Phil Dadson

Born in 1932, US composer Pauline Oliveros is a living legend having pioneered new ways of thinking about sound. In the late 1950s she was amongst the first US composers to work with electronic music alongside the likes of Steve Reich and Terry Riley. For this visit she will be reworking her seminal 1966 composition A Little Noise in the Sytem. She will also perform two recent pieces with regular collaborator, vocal artist Ione. Also playing is one of New Zealand's most respected senior sound artists, Phil Dadson.

Opened ended group La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine

Collaborating with the Telecom 39th Auckland International Film Festival, Alt.Music presents La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine.

This is an open-ended group including musicians and filmmakers. Researching relationships between image and sound through the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and ingenious live-on-stage editing, Metamkine produces and directs a new film with each performance.

The three collaborators, who have worked together for ten years, have succeeded in pushing the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live performance. In the same spirit, Auckland electronic supergroup Plains will be performing in collaboration with a moving image work by Michael Morley (Dead C/Gate).

Schimpfluch "challenge their audience's responses"

Influenced by martial arts attack patterns and the notorious actions of the Viennese performance artists of the 1960s and 70s, Schimpfluch is a loose collective of bruitists and performers dealing with "psycho-physical tests and trainings". At the core of the group are Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips and Joke Lanz (absent).

Using sound, their often brutal performances challenge their audience's responses using anything from voice and handguns to a theremin and dead fish.

Sharing the Shchimpfluch sensibility and joining them for their NZ tour is Australian glass performer Lucas Abela aka Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device. Also joining them in Auckland is one of NZ's most prolific recording artists, Matt Middleton aka one-man-band Crude.

26/6/07