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2024 NZ Composer Sessions

Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitoko o Aotearoa

2024 NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitoko o Aotearoain association with the NZSO, RNZ Concert and SOUNZSOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music...

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Solo Piano Works by NZ Women Composers

A selection of works for solo piano by women composers from Aotearoa New Zealand

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2024 AWE Emerging Composer announced

Ahead of the 1 June ticket release for At the World’s Edge Festival 2024 (AWE), SOUNZ is thrilled to announce that Estella Wallace has been selected as the 2...

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On Music, Relationships, and Making Music Spaces Safer for Everyone

Part I: The musicality of relationships and the relationality of music

All musical activity is relational. Whether we’re listening, singing, playing an instrument, organising a concert, engineering a recording, or composing a pi...

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On Music, Relationships, and Making Music Spaces Safer for Everyone

Part II: Being together musically for good

Take a moment and think back on the lifetime of musical experiences you’ve had, in any role of listening, perceiving, or producing sound. As your thoughts fl...

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On Music, Relationships, and Making Music Spaces Safer for Everyone

Part III: Restorative approaches to musical-relational conflict

In Part I and Part II of this series, I discussed how musical activities and relationships are inseparable, and how being together musically in a collective ...

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2024 SOUNZ Community Commission

how libraries think

Noel Meek's 2024 SOUNZ Community Commission how libraries think premieres this week at Ōtautahi's Tūranga Library at 7pm, Saturday 25 May as part of Tiny Fes...

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On Music, Relationships, and Making Music Spaces Safer for Everyone

Part IV: Restorative approaches to musical-relational conflict (continued)

For the final part of this series, I wanted to provide a personal example of working through the three steps of restorative response to conflict:What happene...

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