Sound Lounge

Listen to musical snapshots by three well-travelled New Zealand composers - Gareth Farr, Natalie Hunt and Douglas Lilburn. Read more Video

Jeremy Mayall's multi-sensory project, Flutter, took place in a tropical forest populated by thousands of butterflies all contained in Dunedin's CBD. Listen and watch here! Read more Video

Pianist Benyamin Nuss and violinist Shauno Isomura are on a mission to bridge the gap between classical music and video game music. Read more Video, Audio

Michael Norris talks about how and why his new NZSO commission Mātauranga (Rerenga) for taonga pūoro, live electronics and orchestra, evokes James Cook's first encounters with Māori. Read more Audio

The new album Atomic Legacies by Ireland-based, New Zealand pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett is all about radioactive elements and is performed on the recently developed otherworldly-sounding Magnetic… Read more Video

Brad Wells, artistic director of Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth talks about the visionary, otherworldly production Kopernikus playing at the 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts. Read more Audio

Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Triple Clarinet Concerto. Ellen Deverall, Richard Haynes, Andrew Uren (clarinets), Christchurch Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey. Read more Video, Audio

John Psathas talks to Lynn Freeman about his upcoming CubaDupa Festival project featuring 500 musicians, a sound system that spans multiple blocks, and a Tesla coil keyboard that shoots lightning. Read more

Peter Scholes and Eve de Castro-Robinson speak at the beginning of Auckland Chamber Orchestra's Composer Portrait concert dedicated to the music of Annea Lockwood in Raye Freedman Arts Centre, 11… Read more Audio

Someone very young colouring over the lines in a colouring-in book was the inspiration for Tabea Squire's orchestral work Colour Lines. Read more

Wellington composer, Salina Fisher's Coastlines reflects on her re-acquaintance with the expansive Kāpiti Coast, following months of constant stimulation in New York City. Read more

New Zealand composer Dorothy Quita Buchanan pioneered the Composers-in-Schools scheme in the 1970s, and has been an active violinist, pianist, teacher and publisher throughout her career. Read more Video, Audio