The Subconscious Restaurant #4 — Taipei (2015)

Greg Malcolm is one of New Zealand’s leading sound practitioners. Currently focusing on his solo simultaneously-played multiple-guitar performances (SSPMGPs), Malcolm has collaborated with musicians including Tetuzi Akiyama, Bruce Russell, Jon Rose, Jenny Ward, Campbell Kneale, Alan Licht and Eugene Chadbourne. He has released albums on labels including Kraak, Corpus Hermeticum and Braille Records and performed at festivals including Safe is Milk (Norway), What is Music? (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane), and Lines of Flight (Dunedin). Edwin Pouncey wrote in The Wire, “By chance, exploration and invention, Malcolm has introduced a poetic new vocabulary into the lexicon of acoustic guitar playing.”

Campbell Kneale unleashes a transformative cacophony, finding and pushing the edges of where aural transitions into the physical and in so doing creates spaces both annihilating and meditative. Kneale developed his project Birchville Cat Motel in hermetic solitude in a shed in Lower Hutt. His sound art has traveled internationally like sonar, finding points of resonance the world over and creating a feedback loop leading to collaborations under various monikers with Lee Ranaldo, Phill Niblock, Nadja, Tetuzi Akiyama and countless others. Kneale has been performing as Our Love Will Destroy The World since 2008.

Jeff Henderson is a true mutant of New Zealand new musics, performing incendiary free jazz, improvised incarnations of weird rock and roll, and classically refined compositions all with equal abandon. Henderson is infamous for his signature far out sax. But his polyphonic palette is neither limited by genre nor instrument- a reedsman fluent in clarinet and saxophone, he also plays guitars and banjos (in various states of modification), drums and assorted percussion, howls yelps and growls. Something wild gets brought on numerous recordings throughout his musical career, both in groups like Syzygy (his first band) and The Bad Statistics (taking on the persona of "Thebis Mutante") and on his solo recordings. Henderson is the new director of Audio Foundation, a vital cog in the New Zealand experimental music scene.