David Long is a legend in the New Zealand music scene. He started his musical career performing in the Braille Collective, in bands such as Six Volts and Jungle, and was a founding member of The Mutton Birds with Don McGlashan. These days, Long can be found working in a very wide spectrum of musical activities. One of our Library Staff recently had the pleasure of interviewing David, in conjunction with 'Caffeine and Aspirin' on Radioactive FM, about his new album, Ash and Bone, and various other aspects of his career.

RadioActive.FM - Caffeine & Aspirin: A conversation with David Long

Our colleague Neil recently interviewed Erika Grant in conjunction with Caffeine and Aspirin, the arts and entertainment review show on Radioactive FM. Erika Grant is many things: a multi-talented musician, a music teacher, an astrologer, a float facilitator and has just added to her quiver of sonic talents a purveyor and creator of gong baths. She is interested in, amongst many things, how deep relaxation, rest, spirituality and music intersect.
She has played with a myriad of bands in all sorts of guises, to name just two Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs and the marvellous Orchestra of spheres. She has also performed in many festivals both here and abroad. She graduated from the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand and was awarded the 2009 Chapman Tripp award for outstanding music composers. 
Erika talked to us primarily about her new gong baths experience, but we did squeeze in a few questions about some of her many other musical adventures and beyond.
[Photo courtesy of Holly Fenwick and used with kind permission]

RadioActive.FM - Caffeine & Aspirin: Gong bathing with Erika Grant

Changes Coming

Fault Line

From the new Charlotte Yates album 'Then the Stars Start Singing'.
Check it out here: 
https://charlotteyates.bandcamp.com/album/then-the-stars-start-singing

Hung The Moon

Steph Casey -  Old Love

Free Radicals is one of four inaugural releases to mark the launch of a new Rattle Records imprint, Rattle Echo.
"The music of Free Radicals still, years later, sounds like no other, two experimental classical composers using technology developed primarily for pop music."
Elizabeth Kerr
Described as “Eno meets industrial punk meets Stockhausen”, Free Radicals were a Wellington-based art music ensemble that offered an outlet for the creative musical sensibilities of Ross Harris and Jonathan Besser in the early 80s. Ross and Jonathan recorded their music together in the electronic music studio at Victoria University of Wellington, which was established and run by Douglas Lilburn. 
Their initial recordings involved basic sound transforming techniques, such as speed changes, pitch shifts, cutting and splicing tape, and feeding sounds through various effects. They sought to create sounds that were of New Zealand by incorporating and manipulating environmental sounds into their recordings, but they also worked with voltage-controlled synthesizers such as the Putney VCS3 and 2 Synthi A. In previous years, such machines were clock-synced, but in 1983 a new industry standard called MIDI appeared on the scene.
https://rattle.co.nz/catalogue/releases/free-radicals

RadioActive.FM - Zero Hour 6/20: An interview with Ross Harris on the reissue of 'Free Radicals'

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