AUDIO
Interview with Stuart Porter
- Date
- 13 August 2014-14 August 2014
- By
- Porter, Stuart, 1955-
- Reference
- OHInt-1239-03
- Description
Interview with Stuart Porter conducted by Daniel Beban. Topics include: Family background and upbringing; education; moving to Bangkok; visual arts; early attempts at playing music and playing the saxophone; influence of Peter Baker; meeting Anthony Donaldson and Gerard Crewdson; Wellington Artists’ Cooperative; forming, rehearsing, recording, performing, and touring with Primitive Art Group; crossover between the punk scene and improvised music; formation of Braille Collective; bands related to the collective including Black Sheep and Six Volts; appearance on ‘Nock on Jazz’ television programme; workshop at Wellington Polytechnic music school; tension between members of the collective; break up of Primitive Art Group; drug use; painting; ensembles formed following end of Primitive Art Group - God, and Tongue; move to Dunedin; changes in attitude to making music; comparisons between the current music scene (circa 2014) and the 1980s, and scenes in large cities versus smaller cities.
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Quantity: 2 digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s).
Search dates: 13/08/2014 - 14/08/2014
- Additional description
Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room.
- Use/Reproduction
- Use requires permission of the interviewee. Copyright: Copyright held by Stuart Porter.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room - Access to the abstract is unrestricted.
- Part of
- Braille Collective Oral History Project
- Format
- 2 digital sound recording(s), 3 Electronic document(s), Abstracts, Digital audio formats, Files (Digital files)
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Interview with Stuart Porter, printed abstract
Date: 13 August 2014-14 August 2014
From: Braille Collective Oral History Project
By: Porter, Stuart, 1955-
Reference: OHA-8680
Description: Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Search dates: 13/08/2014 - 14/08/2014