vegetable.machine.animal
Ashburton Art GalleryAshburton, Canterbury
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About this show
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.There are two events at Rokowhiria Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum - Talk at pm, performance at 7.30. This is a presentation & discussion on vma's approach to more-than-human music, followed by a concert.TRIO is billed as the “interspecies trio” — a collection of music grown from the interaction of drums, modular synthesis, and plant/fungi-triggered biosignals. It stands as a companion to vma’s 2025 release, GUEST, which invited a rotating cast of collaborators — including Ruby Solly, David Long, and Mo H. Zareei — to add their voices to the project’s living sonic ecology. Where GUEST opened the circle outward, TRIO pulls the focus back to the project’s original three-way interaction between human, machine, and organism, completing the pair of bookends vma first envisioned for its 2024 Sonic Artist Residency. A cherry log, gifted to the project during its 2025 Aotearoa tour and now fruiting with mushrooms, generates the voltage that drives the synthesiser, translating fungal and plant activity directly into sound alongside live drumming and electronics.…
Description from the Under the Radar listing.