PERFORMER/ CREATOR

Ron Gallipoli is a songwriter, producer and singer known for his dramatic, arresting live performances (watch him perform Lorde’s ‘Greenlight’ at 2017 Silver Scrolls) and a string of innovative, experimental releases. For more than 10 years, Ron Gallipoli’s music has walked the delicate line between innovative musicality and sheer outrage.

His debut album as Ron Gallipoli; Ron Gallopoli Loves You All, was longlisted for the Taite Music Prize in 2015. 2023 sees the re-release of all three Ron Gallipoli albums combined in a limited edition triple-cassette package, the Tropical Industrial Trilogy with Freezing Works Music.

PERFORMER

Frances Duncan Libeau (they/them) is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. Their musical compositions, sound designs, & writing feature across platforms of contemporary music, fine art (film, sculpture & performance), film (feature & short), theatre & dance. Libeau’s work often explores the textural & semantic possibilities of storytelling through sonic collage of found materials & possibilities for queering mainstream sonic & compositional practices. Below are examples of recent work – more can be viewed at their website: iecrazy.com

PERFORMER

Hillary “Billie” Fee is a singer, graphic designer and book publisher based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has been singing all her life, and started her classical training in 2011. Billie has also been involved in choirs from a young age, including Auckland Youth Choir for four years. She is a member of sewer pop techno freak three piece Grecco Romank in which she provides vocals and plays the Soma Pipe.

PIANIST

Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is best known as an improviser, and with this she has been a signifcant force in the New Zealand experimental music scene. Her playing centres largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on the timbral qualities of the instrument, and drawing out a range of voices with contrasting patterns and phrases in different registers.

Her solo album 'Tremble' was released in 2020 under the New York imprint Relative Pitch Records and was named one of the year's 'best solo recordings' by New York City Jazz Record.

DRUMMER

Chris was born in 1973. Since finishing his formal studies at VUW in 2001 Chris has maintained a consistently high profile within the New Zealand music industry. His musicality exhibits a vitality stemming from an improvisational ingenuity that he brings to all his collaborations.

Chris regularly performs in Auckland’s improvisation/sound-art music scene, collaborates with established Kiwi music pop icons and teaches music at both UNITEC and Auckland University. Chris is a member of The Phoenix Foundation. He has performed in theatrical productions for the Auckland Theatre Company, Silo, and Jessie Peach Productions.

A composer of music for theatre and dance, Chris received the Outstanding Composer of Original Music Award at the 2001 Chappman Tripp Theatre Awards, for his work on The Irish Annals of Aotearoa. In the dance world, Chris has collaborated with Sean Curram, Lyn Pringle, Julia Milsom, Touch Compass and the New Zealand Dance Company.

Chris is currently studying towards a Masters in Music Therapy at Victoria University.

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