Cave Circles at Outlier Festival Photo: Ngaru Garland
The sheer diversity and invention of electronic music today in Aotearoa is evident in a list of sounds at the upcoming electronic sonic arts festival Outlier in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Grace Verweij and Tash van Schaardenburg, 2022 Photo: Ava Blackwood'
Curated by Grace Verweij and Tash van Schaardenburg, some are subgenres, while others, they admit, are made up.
On the list: glitch, deconstructed club, emo electronics, ambient, gorge, modular + synthi, hyperpop, maximalist breaks, broken cassettes, mutant classical, ambisonics, techno-naturalism, taonga pūoro, drone, IDM, and noise.
All will be heard at Outlier from the 22nd to 24th of November at the grand Hollywood Cinema in Avondale. Performing are a whopping 21 artists from around the country and Australia, alongside talks, workshops, projections and art installations.
Seasoned musicians and multidisciplinary artists themselves, Verweij and van Schaardenburg have run Outlier Festival since 2019. They work for the Audio Foundation, who produce the event, and co-host a show dedicated to the sonic arts on 95bFM Sound Bleed.
Ex-partner at Outlier Festival Photo: Ngaru Garland
Grace Verweij and Tash van Schaardenburg joined Mark Amery on Culture 101 to introduce some of the scene's diverse sounds. Many of these you can hear in this specially curated Spotify playlist.
PHF at Outlier Festival Photo: Ngaru Garland
