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Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with multidisciplinary artist Gemma Thompson. They Talk noise, graphic scores and interpretation; playing collaborative and solo projects from Gemma. This episode was first broadcast in Sepetmber 2025 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with Singaporean group SAtheCollective. They play music from their back catalogue, giving an overview of their history, and approach to music making This episode was first broadcast in May 2025 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan talks with local composer and musician Sonya Waters about her collaborations and solo work. This episode was first broadcast in April 2025 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan plays tracks off a new album of old recordings to accompany the release of his book about The Braille Collective. https://thebraillecollective.bandcamp.com/album/future-jaw-clap-book-soundtrack This episode was first broadcast in October 2024 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Tāwhirimātea started life as an improv live performance recorded at the opening of “Tāwhirimātea’s Battle” A group exhibition of Tairāwhiti artists to commemorate “one year on from Cyclone Gabriel” In this piece Carrier explores the impact of Human interaction with the environment and the catastrophic consequences that this can cause as realised in the Tairāwhiti region. The piece is made up of several elements. The wonky almost tortured oscillating synth drones represents the grief and anger of Tāwhirimātea as Rangi and Papa are separated by his sibling’s. The randomly generated bass tones represent the indiscriminate nature of a severe weather events or natural disasters. The monotonous repetition of the rimshot pays homage to the relentless nature of profit driven commercial enterprise at all costs and its influence on regulatory body control. The drum patterns portray the ongoing struggle between Tūmatauenga (God of war and people) and Tāwhirimātea over the separation of Rangi and Papa, and the hue represents the sense of community, hope and quiet determination to overcome. --- Steven King (he/him) aka Carrier has been a long-time electronic music explorer of many genres. More recently utilising minimal sound palettes to explore ideas of isolationism and deep contemplation through repetitive rhythm and patterns. --- For more go to www.pyramidclub.org.nz Made with support of Creative New Zealand

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by Swiss band Hyperculte who had just finished their tour of Aotearoa This episode was first broadcast in April 2024 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Pass-on-ings is a 4-part composition by DSLB, Chrissie Butler’s solo project. “Between the commissioning of this work in early 2023 and its creation, my mum passed away. Pass-on-ings is an echo of the last weeks, days, and hours shared with mum. It is a track and trace of time and space, of light and shadows, of moments etched in memory and now in sound. It is a last post, the last lullaby.” ---- DSLB is the solo project of Chrissie Butler. An offshoot from Chrissie’s band Ditzy Squall, DSLB (Ditzy Squall’s Lunch Box) is a showcase for a love of long endings and the hum things make when you hold them close to your ear. Performed live, DSLB is an improvised mash-up of ancient record players, purring keyboards, kitchen utensils and found objects. Soundtracks for short films and hand drawn comics are also residents in the lunch box. Recordings are released by skirted Records. --- Visit www.pyramidclub.org.nz/pass-ings-dslb for links -- With thanks to Creative New Zealand

Swampsoul is a loosely defined linked umbrella of musicians and artists based in Wellington, primarily Newtown. A mixed up soup of harsh noise and sparkly shiny-pop melody. The music is largely collected and curated by Baxter Gray. 00:00 Martha in the cell - wintermute 02:28 bed time story- wintermute and o time thy pyramids https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/bed-time-story 07:23 wintermute and mudgoose https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/track/wintermute-and-mudgoose 17:19 meandral https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/lake-frog-in-the-winter 19.02 hello 19:29 angel - wntre cutt er 22:55 distilled silence - HULL https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-soul-one-2 27:59 Sophia Frudd https://indigoguebrowne.bandcamp.com 31:21 Coffee In Yeebic, Ponderings in Mayhem, When Will I see You Again_ - Cook ie Cutt er (Indigogue Browne) https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-soul-one-2 33:33 spring break forever - lorazepam https://ilovelorazepam.bandcamp.com 36:34 lamp - mudgoose https://mudgoose.bandcamp.com/album/songs-with-words 38:40 Roman Polaczuk https://otimethypyramids.bandcamp.com 41:52 how to kill a wizard - wintermute https://www.instagram.com/wzrd_mschf/ 43:13 Loving you amongst the trees, Rowing towards me,,,, my lil' frog,,, - Cook ie Cutt er (Ft. Friends Wintermute & Mallory Elmo) 47:06 Mallory Elmo https://soundcloud.com/malloryelmo 56:30 salvation https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/lake-frog-in-the-winter 59:30 Fletcher Ng https://mudgoose.bandcamp.com 1:00:00 Where? - mudgoose live at fleshfest 1:04:09 ice! - Bloodfucker live at pyramid club https://swampsoul.bandcamp.com/album/elmo-tapes 11:11:00 blight scrolls -wintermute https://wintermute1.bandcamp.com/album/wizard-tower-mischief 1:12:52 glass daughter Compiled by Baxter Gray Cover Art by Holly Berghan ----- For more visit www.pyramidclub.org.nz With thanks to Creative New Zealand

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by circuit bending, reed playing musician, and one of the key people working at Pyramid Club, Zak Argarbrite (ᏣᎳᎩ / Tsalagi / Cherokee) This episode was first broadcast in August 2023 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

A work documenting some group improvisation activities in Korea. Please visit www.pyramidclub.org.nz/series-intersections-some-group-improvisation-activities-korea-ian-john-hutchison for photos and links. Thanks to Creative New Zealand ------ Introduction 0 ~ 0.48’ Part One:: 0.49’ ~ 12.35’ Dotolim Improvisation meeting 닻올림 즉흥 모임 (featured sounds March ~ April 2023, ongoing workshop series) 닻올림 모임 4월12일 Dotolim Improvisation Meeting April 12th Part Two:: 12.26’ ~ 22.39’ Rudeca series 루대카 시리즈 (November 2021 ~ March 2022) fourth meeting at Rudeca Part Three:: 22.40’ ~ 31.38’ Ddakji Nolli at Jineri 429-1 지내리429-1 딱지놀이 (No.7 in the ongoing Jineri Ddakji Nolli Series) Ddakji Session_딱지놀이_22년9월17일_셋2번 Part Four:: 31.39’ ~ 40.18’ Ddakji#17 (Ddakji#1 April 2015 ~ Ddakji#17 May 2023, ongoing series) Ddakji#17_딱지#17 Part Five:: 40.19’ ~ 51.35’ ‘hing series ‘힝 시리즈 (‘hing01 October 2022 and ‘hing02 February 2023, ongoing series) https://youtu.be/3C4YkMEv2T0 ____________________________________________________ Artists List (Almost in order of appearance) Sangtae Jin 진상태 Soonbo Yang 양순보 Yubeom Jeon 전유범 Mingyu Jang 장민규 Dongmin Kim 김동민 Minju Lee 이민주 Gyungho Lee 이경호 Han Jaeseok 한재석 Rui Inaba Taekyung Seo 서태켱 Ian-John Eunjoo Cho 조은주 Hyosook Kim 김효숙 Wonjung Shin 신원정 Dooho Yi 이두호 Youngran Jin 진영란 Jinmook Kim 김진묵 Leighton Arnold Gingyu Yuu’s grandson Eunsil Noh 노은실 Hanjoo Lee 이한주 Russell Moore Passing Josh 지나가던 조씨 Mingyung ‘Oro’ 오로민경

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by local anarchist, fireworks enthusiast, and keen dancer Sam Buchanan This episode was first broadcast in May 2023 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan and Nell are joined by Gong Bather Erika Grant - and Nell and Erika perform a gong bathing session live Cover photo by Holly Fenwick This episode was first broadcast in April 2023 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

CUD refers to the chewing-over-again of partly digested food eaten by ruminants (animals like cattle, sheep & goats). To ruminate is to think, or dwell on a thought repeatedly – as a creature throws up its meal only to chew it over again. CUD is a sonic collage intent on reanimating (& ruminating on) a range of ferally scavenged archival media: advertisements for Aotearoa’s meat, milk & farming products; radio cooking shows; queer local cinema; the violent semantics of authoring sound effects; & the hauntological grief of a dance only heard, not seen. The work seeks to explore relations between reproductive/nonreproductive & human/animal bodies, their associated technologies & byproducts through repurposing archival media. CUD seizes on what Mel Y. Chen refers to as ‘leakages’ between classifications of what is human & what is not, with an emphasis on the idea of “naturalness” & its other, the “unnatural” – a term frequently deployed in reference to queer sex & reproduction. CUD asks you to lean into the leakages, to reiterate & invert them – irrupting the smooth semiotic surface of naturalness’ normative containers. The word ruminant is derived from the Latin rumen, meaning ‘throat’ – the site of both the voice, & the breath. The recorded singing voice featured at the end of CUD is that of the only Castrato singer ever recorded, Alessandro Moreschi, singing Tosti’s Ideale in 1902. The dancer you can hear panting & stomping is Douglas Wright, dancing Elegy, a piece made in 1993 for his friends who died of AIDS. Spliced together – with reverence – across almost a century, they offer a surrogate lament regurgitated from a gender-bent throat. CUD opens with an invitation to see, perhaps in line with Barthes’ dictum that to see well, you must close your eyes. I wonder then, if to hear well, one must close one’s ears, or perhaps lean into sounds of the errant, the monstrous, the distorted: the unideal. Ideale (Tosti, 1882; translated from the Italian) I followed you like a rainbow of peace along the paths of heaven; I followed you like a friendly torch in the veil of darkness, and I sensed you in the light, in the air, in the perfume of flowers, and the solitary room was full of you and of your radiance. Absorbed by you, I dreamed a long time of the sound of your voice, and earth's every anxiety, every torment I forgot in that dream. Come back, dear ideal, for an instant to smile at me again, and in your face will shine for me a new dawn. --------- Frances Libeau (they/them) is a queer Pākeha interdisciplinary artist. Their sonic compositions, sound designs, & writing feature across live, screen & digital platforms of contemporary music, fine art (film, sculpture & performance), film (feature & short), theatre & dance. Libeau’s work often explores the textural & semantic possibilities of storytelling through sonic collage of found materials & possibilities for queering sonic & compositional & archival practices. https://iecrazy.com ------- For more like this go to www.pyramidclub.org.nz With thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting this work

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by film maker and musician Baxter Gray This episode was first broadcast in December 2022 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by saxophonist and composer Jasmine Lovell-Smith. NB This episode was first broadcast in November 2022 -gigs mentioned have already happened For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

A head-phone listening experience focussed around an aeolian harp located on Rangitoto Island in the Hauraki Gulf (Tamaki Makaurau-Auckland), installed and recorded during a week of different winds and weathers through mid November 2022. The aeolian harp instrument is an ancient one, traced historically to early Greek accounts of gut strands drying in the wind, picking up harmonic vibrations amplified by the membrane of the skin the strands were attached to. This sound work is an offshoot of a more expansive climate monitoring project titled Kõea o Tāwhirimātea / Weather Choir, devised in response to an Aotearoa invitation earlier this year to participate in World Weather Network, a worldwide regional climate response project initiated by Art-Angel in the UK. Kõea o Tāwhirimātea and other Aotearoa projects have an online presentation hosted by TeTuhi Contemporary Gallery in East Auckland ….. For more info visit: https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/ Weather Choir : https://tetuhi.art/world-weather-network/koea-o-tawhirimatea-weather-choir-artwork/ World Weather Network : https://tetuhi.art/world-weather-network ..... Vibration is a Universal. Everything we perceive in the macro/micro worlds, visibly and invisibly vibrates in proportions of harmony and dissonance. If, for example, we think of climate as the big picture and the effects of climate as small scale impact, all is harmonious when weather patterns are calm and predictable, and dissonant when storms, rising tides, coastal erosion, melting glaciers etc are experienced. A string is much like a person responding and vibrating to the vagaries of weather – harmonious when calm, not-so when wild. ..... Phil Dadson is an Aotearoa/NZ visual artist & musician with a transdisciplinary practice including moving image, building and performing with experimental musical instruments, music compositions, graphic scores and drawings. Foregrounding sound has been a feature since the early 70s, referencing body, land, nature, triadics and the human condition. Founder also of the legendary music/performance group, From Scratch (1974-ongoing). Various awards include Arts Foundation Laureate, Fulbright USA, NZOM, Antarctica Fellowship, Sanskriti, India Residency, Headlands USA Residency. ..... With thanks to Creative New Zealand

A work, by Kraus, in nine movements; initially created as a soundtrack for a float tank experience. You can listen in a dark room in a bath that is heavily dosed with epsom salts*, or alternatively use a dry listening environment, eg lying down on a yoga mat or mattress, with dim lighting eg. candles, and incense. SEAHORSE WEDDING 0'00" – Prelude 6'17" – Sandcastle Abbey 16'51" – Celebrant Crustacean 23'16" – The Exchange of Vows 33'27" – Rings 36'36" – Lifting the Veil 46'25" – Just Married 54'43" – Reception (Band of Dolphins) *Commercial float tanks have about 500kg of epsom salts in them, a domestic float tank can have about 250kg of epsom salts. Most people recommend 2 cups for a bath (perhaps you can experiment with more!) -----––––– Visit https://www.pyramidclub.org.nz/seahorse-wedding-kraus for info on discounted float tank bookings at Float Well ---- With thanks to Creative New Zealand

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan is joined by the monster behind the mysterious Stink Magnetic tape label, Dylan 'Phats' Herkes. This episode was first broadcast in October 2022 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/

This piece by Rory Dalley was initially based on a work titled 202021: Seagulls and Walking Frames. It involved phone memo recordings captured walking through town out of lockdown levels, and folding in musical interpretations with the chaos of fuzzy dream character replacement. Movement: Currency Exchange Networks Towards Regenerative Energies /27:50 Movement: inside outsiders (go step by step) /45:00 Movement: working over the workplace /54:25 Movement: walker, autumn ranger /1:04:45 Movement: autumn leaves you alone End 1:25:12 -------- For more info visit www.pyramidclub.org.nz ------- With thanks to Creative New Zealand

Our monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music with our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell. In this episode Dan and Rita are joined by drummer, keys player, and artist, Andy Wright This episode was first broadcast in September 2022 For more episode info visit: www.pyramidclub.org.nz/podcasts All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM: paekakariki.fm/dancing-in-your-head/