TECHNO ECHO
Rāhoroi (Wed) May 6, 7pm. Koha entry
We are very excited to welcome back Techno Echo to Pyramid Club’s programme! Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women & gender minorities to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection.
Our first session for this year is a music gear show & tell: a relaxed hangout for femmes and non-binary musicians curious about electronic music.
In this session, Jess (@dreamchambers ), Lora (@junipermay_ ), Celina (@synthethicchildren ), and Rara (@musikhara ) will each share a favourite piece of gear and how they use it in their practice. You’re also warmly invited to bring along your own favourite gear to share with the group!
For more info, email [email protected] or follow us at @_technoecho
Hosted by Jess, Lora, Rara, and Celina as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
Rāmere (Fri) 21st Feb, 7-9PM, Koha | Techno Echo: Flo Wilson
Techno Echo is an event for women, non-binary and trans creators to share knowledge around sound & light technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. This months special guest is Flo Wilson (they/ she) - a composer, performer and artist from Tāmaki Makaurau / Aotearoa based in Berlin, Germany.
Their diverse practice spans choral-based performance, immersive spatial sound and video installations, contemporary dance scoring, and collaborations with songwriters including Tāmaki rapper, Jess B.
Flo’s compositions often blur the boundaries between organic and synthetic elements, weaving together intricate layers of sound to create lush sonic tapestries.
Their latest work is a very special multi-sensory work for six silos, six loudspeakers, and six singers taking place in Tāmaki Makaurau’s Silo Park. ‘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.
They have also worked as a professional audio engineer for RNZ and holds a first-class honours degree in Composition - Sonic Arts from Te Kōkī – New Zealand School of Music.
Flo will be playing at Futuna Chapel the following day (Rāhoroi, 22nd Feb, 2PM), with Dream Chambers and Tondo. More info at pyramidclub.org.nz
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Techno Echo is facilitated by Jess Chambers and Lora May
Koha is encouraged to support future events
For more information or any queries email the Techno Echo team @ [email protected]
Our final workshop of 2024 featuring Dream Chambers is this Rahina (Mon) 4th
November 7-9PM
Jess Chambers is a multifaceted musician working under the moniker Dream Chambers where she uses modular synthesizers and voice to create a sound recently described by The Nashville Scene as...” full of warm, organic emotion, alternating between tuneful musicality and raw, spiritual fervor”. Initially known in Aotearoa as singer-songwriter Jess relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2012 where she encountered a vibrant underground electronic music scene and began a transformative journey into the world of synthesizers.
A seasoned performer, recent highlights include a tour of the US performing a live score of the 1920s classic vampire film ‘Nosferatu’ and a commission by Nashville-based classical ensemble Chatterbird to perform The Blossoming, a concert featuring six of her works expanded for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and harp, arranged by Pōneke-based composer Sonya Waters.
Currently based back in Aotearoa Jess teaches music production, composition, and performance at the Massey University College of Creative Arts and co-facilitates Techno Echo at Pyramid Club
Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women and gender diverse people to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for korero and connection.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha is encouraged to support future events
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support
For more information or any queries email the Techno Echo team @ [email protected]
Rāhina (Mon) 7th October, 7-9PM | Techno Echo: beet-wix
Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women, non-binary and trans people to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. Joining us as our guest artist for October is beet-wix.
beet-wix is the moniker of multi-faceted musician Lucy Pollock (RIOT GULL). they craft noisy-pop ballads on a Nintendo DS originally borrowed from the Ōtepoti art school, and are ready to cause some charming chiptune chaos 👾👾👾. outside of beet-wix Lucy composes contemporary classical music and has recently started an electronic label called scrap metal cereal.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha is encouraged to support future events
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
For more information or any queries email the Techno Echo team @ [email protected]
Rāhina (Mon) 2nd September, 7-9PM | Techno Echo: Motte
Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women, non-binary and trans people to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. Joining us as our guest artist for September is Motte.
Anita Clark is a violinist, composer and producer, based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, NZ. Performing under the moniker MOTTE as her solo persona, she primarily uses violin, sampled sound/field recordings, synthesizer and voice to create richly textured sound beds to convey otherworldly landscapes and preternatural impressions.
Anita composes music for film, theatre, movement and dance, notably producing work for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the NZ Dance Company, Movement of the Human (MOTH), Movement Art Practice (MAP) and COLOSSAL. Anita’s first short film soundtrack for ‘Shadows’ (AUS/SUI) was premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2019, and her feature length score for NZ documentary ‘Building Bridges - Bill Youren’s Vision Of Peace’ was awarded ‘Outstanding Excellence for Original Score’ from Docs Without Borders Film Festival and was featured in the NZ Film Festival 2023.
Techno Echo is hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha is encouraged to support future events
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
For more information or any queries email the Techno Echo team @ [email protected]
Monday 7pm at @pyramid_club_aotearoa Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women & gender minorities to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. Our special guest artist for August is Ducklingmonster
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting. 📸tash
Rāhina (Mon) 5th August 7-9PM
Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women & gender minorities to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. Our special guest artist for August is Ducklingmonster.
Beth Dawson aka Ducklingmonster is an audio-visual artist from Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. She investigates out of bounds areas through a range of practices focusing on community empowerment. Publicly her work has predominantly been in experimental sound performance, most notably in the group The Futurians, and solo as Ducklingmonster. Blatantly and happily ignoring the restrictions of media, she works in sound, ink, video, broken electronics, and whatever else takes her fancy. She is currently a PhD candidate at AUT with her practice-based research into a queer feminist elevating and valuing that which is temporary, collective, amateur, and improvised.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha is encouraged to support future events
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
Rāhina (Mon) 8th July 7-9pm | Techno Echo: Synthetic Children
Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women & gender minorities to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. Our special guest artist for July is @syntheticchildren
Synthetic Children is the hardware electronic and poetry project of Ce (she/they), from Te Papaioea. Branching out from earlier ambient techno and harsh synth explorations, Synthetic Children is 2 stepping into brooding mangled creations of dubstep, post-jungle, and footwork. Unsettling soundscapes unfurl beneath rumbling bass as disparate vocal samples and occasional spoken word passages bring a dysphoric consciousness to the project. This is a sound heavily inspired by many rungle nights in Taonui Tinyclub, the hottest rave den in the Manawatū. Always keeping it dark, DIY, and vaguely danceable.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha Entry
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
Rāhina (Mon) 17th June, 7PM | Techno Echo: Miss Leading
Techno Echo is a monthly meet-up for women & gender minorities to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection. Our special guest this June is Miss Leading.
Miss Leading makes electronic art pop and dance music using hardware. Her live performances combine singing, synthesisers and live sampling often blending happy beats with a juxtaposition of heavily conscious lyrics. In 2023 she won the APRA AMCOS art music grant to develop a theatre piece that used electronic music to tell the story of indentured labour in Fiji. This show has been presented across NZ and won the Technical Achievement Award at the Dunedin Fringe Festival. She is the chair of Wellington’s Asian musician network Eastern Sound Collective, and Executive Producer for the podcast Eastern Sound Stories which won the 2023 Taite Independent Music Award for Outstanding Music Journalism.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha Entry
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
Our very special guest for May is hara 🪷
~Monday 6th May~
hara is Indonesian singer-songwriter Rara Sekar's solo project. Her music blends inspiration from folk with Indonesian traditional music, cinematic pop, ambient and field recording with a focus on exploring themes of ecology, vulnerability and politics. Her work is an interdisciplinary practice that is informed by Indonesian traditions and rituals, weaving music, social and cultural research and critical pedagogy in her recordings, writings and performances. She prefers to perform in quiet or outdoor/natural spaces but has performed at selected music and literary festivals such as Joyland Festival in Jakarta, Ubud Readers and Writers Festival in Bali, Makassar International Writers Festival, opening act for Japanese singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba's Saison de Fleur's tour in Jakarta, Camp A Low Hum and Newtown Festival in Wellington, New Zealand.
At the end of her Techno Echo session, she will hold the space for a 20-minute deep listening-open improvisation session. This session is an open invitation to anyone who wishes to participate in any way, and those who wish to join may also bring their own acoustic instruments along.
Techno Echo is a meet-up on the first monday of every month, for women & gender minorities to learn and share about audio + visual practices and technology. Featuring special micro performances and demonstrations by local artists/musicians followed by time for kōrero and connection.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha Entry
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
Our special guest at our next meet up will be @japes.sss ✨💜✨
Râhina (Mon) 1st April 2024
7-9pm @pyramid_club_aotearoa
Japes is the project of Mia Kelly (she/they), a musician, producer, DJ and broadcaster based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). They showcase a piece-meal approach to genre, juxtaposing treated guitars, sonic art and deep bass to concoct a thoughtful heady blend. Since releasing their debut EP Junk, Japes has made sparse appearances on local compilations (Strange Behaviour, Works for Loudspeakers) while developing into a live favourite in the capital, supporting Nabihah Iqbal (Ninja Tune) as well as performing at Cuba Dupa and Newtown Festival.
Hosted by Jess, Amber and Lora as part of Pyramid Club’s programme.
Koha Entry
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
