Warren Maxwell

(Ngāti Whare, Ngāi Te Riu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka)

Warren Maxwell has been a professional working musician/composer for the better part of two decades (Southside of Bombay, Trinity Roots, Little Bushman & ex. Fat Freddys Drop). Maxwell has composed for film and television, performed at numerous International Music Festivals and is an Associate Professor at Massey University in Contemporary Music Performance. In 2016 he was invited to Antarctica as part of Antarctica N.Z.’s ‘Artist Community Outreach Programme’. In 2018 he was commissioned to compose the opening music of the NZ Art Festival ‘Kupe; A Wake Odyssey’, celebrating traditional navigation throughout Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. Maxwell completed his MFA in 2021 with First Class Honours, which embodied and encourages an ethos of re-connection to Te Taiao (the natural world) via music and multi-media story-telling. Maxwell continues to campaign fervently around Environmental issues focusing his composition and research on environmental connections (Tūhonotia ki te Taiao) and the impending Anthropocene.

Charlotte Parallel

Charlotte Parallel is an artist based in Koputai Port Chalmers. Working across sculpture, sound installation, collaboration and performance, Charlotte’s explorations of transduction, sonic materiality and interaction have been exhibited throughout Aotearoa New Zealand since 2003, and internationally since 2010. In 2016 she completed a Master of Fine Arts at Dunedin School of Art, and since this time has been exhibiting consistently to further her research into sound as a means of directing attention to the active forces of place.

Jessica Robinson

Jessica Robinson a composer and sound artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, currently studying undergraduate composition and mechatronics engineering at the University of Auckland. Her practice focuses on integrating these fields, through software-based sound design and composition and digital musical instrument design.