Radio Cegeste at Lines of Flight festival, 2015

On the 19th of March, 2015 at 8pm radio cegeste was first up on the bill on the first night of the 2015 Lines of Flight festival.

This is how I wrote about it: 

"this set like other recent and forthcoming work is based on the sonic archival traces within Pakeha natural history literature of two New Zealand birds which went extinct in colonial Aotearoa before available recording technologies could capture their songs. mini FM transmissions of notations of Huia songs transcribed into a range of media (morse code, music box, wax cylinder and piano) will be supplemented by EVP recordings of mounted specimens of both bird species collected in museums in New Zealand and Europe, plus some live and re-transmitted 'empty' accordion improvisations by myself on a broken colonial-era squeezebox and some more musical accordion drones contributed by Eddie Eves, both in reference to the letter Sir Walter Buller published in 1905 from an anonymous bushman describing a Laughing Owl's silent appearance whenever he played this instrument in the forest.

Campbell Walker will be providing some appropriate live-cinematic accompaniment to the 20 radios and other bits & pieces through which I channeling the ghosts of these birds through on the night. After which, fortunately, I get to relax and enjoy the whole rest of the festival. See you there."