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Penny Black - Basement Cinema
No full textSelf-centered twenty-something Penny Black (Astra McLaren) travels down the North Island of New Zealand in an attempt to save her job and opulent lifestyle. Along the way she meets a guy name Guy (Anton Tennet); who makes her slow her down and question how the world works
Stick To Your Gun - Aussie a Kiwi Film Fest 2016
No full textA seriously twisted variation on a Tom and Jerry cartoon, with a side of bondage. A wild blend of live action and animation.
A gun-loving woman aspires to cook breakfast for the man handcuffed to her bed, but first she has to stop a wild chicken from destroying everything.
Written and Directed by Joe Hitchcock
Produced by Morgan Leigh Stewar
Native Affairs Television interview- Breaking the Cycle
No full textThis interview addressed the impact of child abuse, and the statistical deaths of Maori children by their care giver
"She Said She Said" - The Influence of "Feminine Voices" on John Lennon's Music
Get PDF'Contemporary and Future Paths in Music Performance, Composition and Analysis'
Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Musicological Society
Hosted by The University of Waikato Conservatorium of Music:
“She Said She Said” – The Influence of Feminine Voices on John Lennon’s Songwriting
Megan Berry and Matthew Bannister
This presentation argues that John Lennon’s songs show a strong and recurrent influence – that of songs sung by women, and that it is possible to show this influence by (among other means) musicological comparisons of Lennon compositions with earlier songs sung by women, which Lennon could conceivably have been influenced by. In some cases, the resemblances and the possibility of influence have already been pointed out, by Lennon himself or other commentators. Other examples are being discussed here for the first time.
A number of factors make this a plausible line of argument: discourses about Lennon and feminine influence, whether from the artist himself, discussions about the artist, or psychoanalytic perspectives; discourses of feminine influence on The Beatles in general and Lennon in particular; and finally how The Beatles are implicated in discussions about gender and popular culture in the 1960s and subsequently (Bradby 2005; Mäkelä 2004; Middleton 2007; Sheff and Golson 1982). Most of the works featuring woman’s voices identified in Lennon’s work come from the same period – the early 1960s, before the Beatles became famous and a time when they were peculiarly open to influence – young, on the lookout for new material (they had a huge repertoire of covers), and absorbing and experimenting with different musical styles in response to audiences in which feminine voices were prominent (Lewisohn 2013)
To Sleep - World Premiere
No full textWORLD PREMIERE
TO SLEEP is going to be the second longest continuous piece of music to ever be performed anywhere (after Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible by John Cage which is scheduled to last 639 years!). Also, this live performance will be the first “sleep concert” to take place in New Zealand. While this concert format has been explored in the US, as well as through the touring work of Max Richter with his “SLEEP” project, this local interpretation presents an entirely new sonic and visual experience for sleeping.
Hamilton-based contemporary composer/performers Jeremy Mayall and Kent Macpherson have been building a strong collaborative process since Mayall’s return to Hamilton in 2016. Their recent musical collaborations have moved through uptempo popular music, experimental dub and electronica, cinematic soundscapes, and the minimalist ambient long form electronica of ‘DR. MESMER’S PRIVATE ARMY’. Their collective approach to music making really exists in the colour of sound, the magic of the moment where, inspired by space and time, fleeting ideas can create new compositions based around musical fragments and field recordings.
TO SLEEP is an experiment. It is an exploration of music’s capacity to induce meditative, otherworldly and perhaps even psychedelic states, through the process of a communal nights sleep. Drawing primary inspiration from reading about the ambient ‘happenings’ of Robert Rich in California in the 1980s - these were immersive all-night shows, performed to sleeping audiences, that stretched the definition of a ‘concert’ beyond all familiar limits. These much-mythologised happenings are part physical experience, part community intervention, part scientific experiment, part mystic ritual.
Macpherson and Mayall, along with cellist Yotam Levy will perform a synthesis of found sound, prepared drones, and live instrumental playing. The focus of the event is around everything being very slow. Anything resembling a melody might unfold over a half an hour or so. The concentration is really one of subtlety, slowness, extremely drawn out transitions, and exploring an unfolding sense of continuity. The intention with TO SLEEP is to explore the liminal zone between sleep and wakefulness. When the music is paired with live visual art by Paul Bradley and lighting by Aaron Chesham, the entire experience aims to become linked with our own sense of consciousness. Creating a space where the audience can guide themselves into a state of half-sleep and notice the way that their brains shift perceptions into an internal world.
Through deconstructing the conventions of traditional compositional and performative approaches, TO SLEEP will explore the potential for dreamlike experiences between the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states - the technical words for when you’re going into sleep and out of sleep. This is a 9 hour long form musical composition within which different ideas, textures, fragments, themes and variations will be woven in what essentially becomes an endurance performance event! The performers work hard to make the audience feel relaxed, and allow themselves to become part of the immersive multimedia journey.
Mayall has composed a structural guide to shape the 9hour composition as built and developed by the performers
A nauseous lament
Get PDFA short piece of conceptual performance art. The score is self explanatory.
CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND FOR THE WORK:
Performance art has a long and established tradition - drawing back to artists like Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and even some of the work of John Cage. It may be either scored or improvised; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned; and both the performer and audience can be present or absent - it sets up a conceptual framework that allows it to exist without being specifically realised.
It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience.
"Indeed, at its worst, performance art can seem gratuitous, boring or just plain weird. But, at its best, it taps into our most basic shared instincts: our physical and psychological needs for food, shelter, sex, and human interaction; our individual fears and self-consciousness; our concerns about life, the future, and the world we live in. It often forces us to think about issues in a way that can be disturbing and uncomfortable, but it can also make us laugh by calling attention to the absurdities in life and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior." - The Khan Academy
PUBLISHED ONLINE.
SHARED MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGH DIFFERENT OUTLETS
For the stars from the undergrowth - Conversations Short Film Evening 2016
No full text"For the stars from the undergrowth"
Composed by Dr. Jeremy Mayall
Featuring Adam Page on flute and Horomona Horo on taonga puoro
Filmed and edited by Ben Woollen 201
Piano and Eggs (breakfast concert series)
No full textBreakfast Concert Series.
The School of Media Arts, Wintec is proud to present “PIANO & EGGS” - a new series of breakfast concerts to be held every Monday in August. The concerts will happen from 7-8am starting from the 1st of August in the Creative Waikato space on Alexandra Street in Hamilton.
Concerts are typically reserved for evenings towards the end of the week, providing a closing reward to the pressures of working life. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to kick off your week with an early reward and enjoy your morning coffee and breakfast accompanied by some live music? Now that is available for you to enjoy.
CONCERT DETAILS
Monday 1st August: 7-8am - Jeremy Mayall and Kent Macpherson present a unique blend of minimal piano and electronic sounds, to create some textured, sonic explorations of early morning sounds. This combinations makes it a perfect calm listen to relax into your day, whilst at the same time creating something with a danceable quality that can energise you.
Monday 8th August: 7-8am - A multi-media event. Kick off this week as a part of the annual SPARK International Festival of Music, Media, Arts and Design. This concert combines the work of musicians Jeremy Mayall, Kent Macpherson, and Yotam Levy, with the live visual art projection work of Paul Bradley. These performers will work together to create a truly otherworldly early morning experience.
Monday 15th August: 7-8am - The half-way point in the Piano and Eggs journey showcases pianist Liam Wooding, who will be performing an eclectic selection of contemporary classical works from a range of composers.
Monday 22nd August: 7-8am - David Sidwell, pianist and Emma Carpenter, vocalist will present a selection of musical theatre classics, original material and light opera.
Monday 29th August: 7-8am - For the final in this series, David Sidwell is joined by soprano Julia Booth, with a collection of tunes drawing from light opera and musical theatre, along with a few original musical treats.
Artwork by Xavier Meade
Presented with the support of Creative Waikato and Miltons Canteen
Into The Woods
Get PDFDirection of a regional musical theatre production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. St Peters School, Cambridg
Social Media and Digital Marketing: Identifying and bridging the gap
Get PDFPreviously, the level 6 (second year) module for Marketing in the Bachelor of Applied Management degree contained only a brief overview of social media and digital marketing.
The course content and assessments were revised in late 2015, with the expectation that students would already have the knowledge and experience of using a variety of social media platforms. However, when the marketing plan assignments were submitted, there was a heavy reliance on Facebook for marketing strategies, tactics and activities. The focus was on ‘social’ rather than business uses, with little consideration of digital marketing.
Research was undertaken to ascertain the actual depth and breadth of student knowledge and understanding of social media and digital marketing. The poster analyses this research and outlines the strategies subsequently used, including the use of information hubs, to expose students to a variety of social media platforms and the use of digital marketing