Outlier Festival presents three days of dancefloors, dedicated listening, talks & experiments celebrating the diversity of antipodean electronic music; featuring 9 acts from Tāmaki Makaurau, 11 from around Aotearoa and two acts from across-the-ditch.

Previously produced in 2019 & 2022, organisers Grace Verweij and Tash van Schaardenburg have curated the festival to potentiate both deep listening experiences and unique dancefloors with a programme of live performances and workshops by adventurous and genre-spanning practitioners, including sound installations, new media artwork, glitch, deconstructed club, emo electronics, ambient, gorge, modular synths, hyperpop, maximalist breaks, broken cassettes, mutant classical, ambisonics, technonaturalism, taonga pūoro, drone, IDM, noise, + surprises unearthed from the outliers, explorers and counterforce artists of electronic music.

This new iteration of the acclaimed festival presented by musical non-profit The Audio Foundation will take place across 2-buildings at the historic Hollywood Avondale complex (featuring visual-work from Tāmaki-based artist East and live VJ’ing from Naarm-based cyberboy666 on the Hollywood’s cinema screen) followed by a sonic Sunday school at the Old Folks Association over the 22nd, 23rd & 24th of November featuring....

Performances by:
Jannah Quill (Naarm, Aus)
Vanessa Worm (Naarm, Aus)
Amy Jean Barnett (Te Whanganui a Tara)
Aroha Abigail Jensen & Riki Pirihi (KiriKiriroa/Te Whanganui a Tara)
Borrowed CS (Te Whanganui a Tara)
Current Bias (Te Whanganui a Tara)
Dream Chambers (Te Whanganui a Tara)
Jonny Marks (Te Whanganui a Tara)
L.$.D Fundraiser (Ōtepoti)
mHz (Te Whanganui a Tara)
Tocka (Te Whanganui a Tara)
Wear Pounamu (Te Whanganui a Tara)and Waiwhai
Wilieu (Ōtautahi)
Big Fat Raro
BJ Leo
Green Grove
Hasji
JHL
Kraus
Teddyyy

Art Installations by:
Ducklingmonster
Sarah Callensen
The Musical Electronics Library
Knees TV

Talks & Workshops by:
Dr Mo Zareei (mhZ)
Jess Chambers (Dream Chambers)
Tim Caldwell (Cyberboy666)

Projected visuals by:
East
Cyberboy666 (Naarm, Aus)

Outlier Festival 2024

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