GIG: Undrawing At The Wine Cellar, Auckland

Let me tell you about Undrawing, the Auckland-based audiovisual improvisation group.

Undrawing will be performing at the Wine Cellar Friday 24th September. They combine elements of free-jazz, glitch, electronica, and rock to soundtrack live-coded abstract visuals.

The personell features Alex Freer (Artisan Guns, Lisa Crawley) who plays live drums, drum machine, sampler, and distorted vocals. Abe Kunin (Coach, House Of Broken Strings) plays guitar, loop pedal, and wah pedal. Nicholas Rogan plays a convoluted mix of Fender rhodes, drum machine, subtractive synth, and live-captured samples. Chris Targett codes in a program called Fluxus which generates audio-reactive geometry-based visuals.

This is what the band have to say about it.

"The concept is that we have the skills and instrumentation to cover the widest possible scope of sound and atmosphere while remaining changable and dexterous with our musicality. We are each jazz-trained multi-instrumentalists and the range of dynamics we explore goes from almost silent textural effects to full scale electro-acoustic glitch. It is as much about sound design as it is about composing a melody or a pulse in the moment."

So why not check them out at Wine Cellar on Friday 24th September.

Useful Links

• The Undrawing website.
• An audio recording from Undrawing 10th July show.
• Photos from our 10th July show.

Phone cam video from Undrawing Titirangi Music Festival 2010 show, 25th March