AAF Waves & Lines: CANCELLED

AAF regrets to announce that due to New Zealand moving to RED under the COVID-19 Protection Framework, Waves & Lines has been cancelled. Ticketholders who purchased using a credit card will be refunded automatically. Please check your email for information on receiving a refund if cash or EFTPOS was used. The current list of show updates can be found here: https://www.aaf.co.nz/covid-19-response and AAF’s COVID-19 Ticketing Terms & Conditions here: https://www.aaf.co.nz/your-visit/your-tickets#covid-19-ticketing-terms-conditions.

An evening of powerful, deeply-felt music inspired by Afghan poetry and evocations of love, grief, home, and war.

From Hamilton-born, New York-based composer Gemma Peacocke, Waves & Lines is a multimedia song cycle for soprano, electronics, and chamber ensemble based on a tradition of Afghan women’s folk poetry. Collected in the book I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays From Contemporary Afghanistan, these poems offer a surprising and vivid – and often humorous – glimpse into the lives of women existing under the watch of an ultraconservative regime.

Exploring the distance, anonymity, and strange intimacy of phone calls, text messages, and radio broadcasts in which the poems are shared, the song cycle features the use of fixed electronics and projections, and showcases the musical prowess of vocalist Natasha Te Rupe Wilson (Te Arawa, Ngā Puhi) and a stellar ensemble of New Zealand’s finest musicians.