Experimental Music Festival // destruction & reconstruction of music and noise '

The New Zealand Improvised Music Charitable Trust is proud to present the fourth Bomb the Space Festival, New Zealand's only major annual experimental music festival.

Bomb the Space 4 will bring together some of the most adventurous musicians from across New Zealand and the world for five nights of destruction and reconstruction of music and noise. The festival features practitioners of innovative music in all kinds of genres: electronic, turntablism, free jazz, contemporary classical, improvised music, laptop sounds, noise, rock, and amalgams of the above.

"We have programmed a festival that celebrates the unique, the extremists, those who are pushing music forward," says Festival Director, Jeff Henderson. "Every night is a new take on music, a fresh perspective."

The typically unique line-up of Bomb the Space 4 features:

• Kris Wanders (Holland) - Free jazz saxophonist and one of the original members of the seminal Globe Unity Orchestra.
• Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) - A guitar, viola and electronics improvisor with Butoh consciousness. One of Japan's great experimental musicians and a highlight of the 2002 Bomb the Space Festival.
• Alan Licht (USA) - Improvising guitarist and contributor to Wire, the world's leading avant-garde music magazine.
• Anthony Pateras (Australia) , Composer and pianist working at the nexus of notated composition, improvisation and electronics. His works have been performed throughout Europe, Russia, the USA and Australia.
• Natasha Anderson (Australia) , Leading Australian practitioner of improvisation, electro-acoustic composition and performance/installation art.
• Oren Ambarchi (Australia) , An explorer of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction . . . a laboratory for extended sonic investigation" (The Wire, UK). He has performed with the likes of John Zorn, Keith Rowe and Evan Parker.
• Plus an array of NZ artists including drummer Anthony Donaldson, turntablist Alphabethead, saxophonist Jeff Henderson, vibraphonist John Bell, the Elephant Men, Delete!, and more.

The focus of the festival is on collaboration and invention. Musicians are encouraged to share ideas both musical and cultural and are invited to participate in public seminars and workshops during the day, as nightly performances.

For further information, photos and music samples, please contact:

Noel Meek
Publicist
Bomb the Space 4
Tel. +64 21 156 3759
Email. noel.m@win.co.nz