On Friday last week, myself (Frances), Joe and Liam jumped in the car and drove down the West Coast to WOMAD.
WOMAD is an international arts festival. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and dance. This year saw a line up with the likes of Youssu N’Dor, Avantdale Bowling Club, Sampa the Great and a whole bunch more.
There was also a range of food, market stalls, and workshops. Interviews were taking place with writers, vendors were selling salt grinders, and local chefs came together to sell food from Venezuelan Arepas to Hungarian Langos.
After pitching some tents in the mud, we grabbed our mics and headed out to enjoy the festival and talk to the people of WOMAD.
Another group present at WOMAD this year was the team behind 4Phase games, who were speaking as a part of the OMV Steam Lab.
4Phase games are a new Ngāmotu/New Plymouth based game development team working on their very first title; a Maori futurist action adventure RPG to be released on consoles.
The mahi 4Phase games are doing is so awesome and fresh in the Aotearoa gaming sphere, so Liam had a chat with them over the weekend to learn more about their team and the game they’re developing.
Future Sound Of London - We Have Explosives
Killing Joke - Tension
Guided By Voices - Surgical Focus
Amyl & The Sniffers - Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)
Dub Syndicate - Ravi Shankar (live)
The Managers (NZ) - Who Am I Kidding
Dreadzone - Zion Youth
Tall Dwarfs (NZ) - The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded
The Cramps - People Ain’t No Good
Prodigy - Breathe
Method Man - Release Yo’Delf (Prodigy mix)
Shy FX - Original Nuttah
Helmet - In The Meantime
Bad Brains - Right Brigade
Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys
The Cure - Play For Today
Devo - Secret Agent Man
Guardian Singles (NZ) - Chad & Stacey
Tippa Irie - Complain Neighbour
The Ethiopians - Train To Skaville
Bad Company - Planet Dust (DJ Hype mix)
Gary Numan - Cars
The Hives - Two-Timing Touch & Broken Bones
Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker
Jello Biafra & The Melvins - The Lighter Side Of Global Terrorism
Hinke Osinga is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Auckland. She is an international expert in dynamical systems theory, the mathematical analysis of behaviour that changes with time. Hinke's research unexpectedly led her into craft and art when she turned her computer-generated images of chaotic behaviour into an intriguing crocheted object that embodies unpredictability in a hands-on way.
At WOMAD, Frances caught up with Professor Osinga to talk about her work.
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