Wednesday 6 November
6 -7pm
Studio 14
Free
Kieran Monaghan - the 2024 Creative New Zealand/NZSM/Toi Pōneke Sonic Artist-in-Residence.
Come into Studio 14 and meet Kieran Monaghan who is currently the 2024 Creative New Zealand/NZSM/Toi Pōneke Sonic Artist-in-Residence.
Kieran will be talking about his residency project: vegetable.machine.animal (VMA) which explores the intersections between spontaneous playing, electronic music, and science-informed inter-species collaboration.
Artists Biography:
Kieran Monaghan
Kieran Monaghan (he/him) is predominantly, and persistently, a drummer and percussionist of found sounds. He calls Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington home. His first crude musical steps were in the late 1980s, playing drums in southern punk rock bands. Heading north in the 1990s opened new musical domains such as theatre with Red Mole, and its little sister Roadworks, and the diverse arrangements of free jazz that tumbled from venues such as The Space. While continuing to play assertive music, alongside developing confidence in improvisational arenas, necessity also dictated that income be made by playing multiple pub circuits in working bands.
He co-runs the Skirted Records label with domestic and performative partner Chrissie Butler. Together they were the core of the outsider punk group mr sterile Assembly, and Nick Bollinger named them as one of the ten great rhythm sections of New Zealand. Monaghan has toured internationally many times with the Assembly, and more recently with VMA. He has a long catalogue of solo, band, and collaborative recordings. He is a semi-regular DJ on RadioActive.FM. He remains happily hitched, and is a father to three daughters and one mokopuna.
