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vegetable.machine.animal, w/Kina:suttsu(Japan), Gem.FM
vegetable.machine.animal (vma) will tour Aotearoa New Zealand from 27 September to 28 November 2026 in support of TRIO, the project’s new album, co-released by Audio Foundation Records and skirted Records. The 20-event tour runs from Whanganui to Invercargill, taking in main centres and out-of-the-way venues alike. This show also features the wonderful guests - Kina:suttsu(Japan), and local act GemFM TRIO is billed as the “interspecies trio” — a collection of music grown from the interaction of drums, modular synthesis, and…
vegetable.machine.animal, w/ DSLB – Talk (5pm) & Performance (7.30pm)
vegetable.machine.animal (vma) will tour Aotearoa New Zealand from 27 September to 28 November 2026 in support of TRIO, the project’s new album, co-released by Audio Foundation Records and skirted Records. The 20-event tour runs from Whanganui to Invercargill, taking in main centres and out-of-the-way venues alike. This show also features the wonderful DSLB. There are two events - Talk at 5pm, performance at 7.30. The talk is koha entry, and is a presentation & discussion on vma's approach to more-than-human…
More-than-Human Music: An Introduction to the Interspecies Trio vegetable.machine.animal
Join visiting Pōneke percussionist Kieran Monaghan in conversation with multimedia artist-researcher Dr Jo Burzynska This talk introduces vegetable.machine.animal (VMA), an innovative biosignal-informed project exploring interspecies music-making. Visiting artist Kieran Monaghan will share the ideas, processes, and sound-thinking behind VMA, while discussion with multimedia artist-researcher Dr Jo Burzynska will draw connections with broader artistic approaches to collaboration across species and ecological systems. VMA is a project facilitated by Kieran Monaghan: kit drummer, percussionist of found sounds, and sonic explorer. Monaghan was…
(03) Sessions – Vegetable.machine.animal And DSLB
Double header: vegetable.machine.animal’s living plant-driven improv meets DSLB’s experimental sounds from Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. vegetable.machine.animal (vma) is an interspecies improvisational trio from Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Led by drummer Kieran Monaghan (ex-mr sterile Assembly), vma transforms the electrical signals of living plants and fungi into sound, fusing modular synths and live percussion in performances that are spontaneous, rhythmic, and unpredictable. This is music as a living system — a real-time collaboration where non-human organisms shape the sonic outcome alongside human…
vegetable.machine.animal, w/ DSLB, & scrapegrace
vegetable.machine.animal (vma) will tour Aotearoa New Zealand from 27 September to 28 November 2026 in support of TRIO, the project’s new album, co-released by Audio Foundation Records and skirted Records. The 20-event tour runs from Whanganui to Invercargill, taking in main centres and out-of-the-way venues alike. This show also features the wonderful DSLB, and local act scrapegrace TRIO is billed as the “interspecies trio” — a collection of music grown from the interaction of drums, modular synthesis, and plant/fungi-triggered biosignals.…