Inheritance brings together visionary talents in a groundbreaking sonic exploration — Arts Laureate Horomona Horo, renowned Māori visual artist, Regan Blazer, Singapore’s leading multidisciplinary arts group SAtheCollective (Andy Chia and Natalie Tse), Wellington experimental music icon Jonny Marks, and boundary-pushing sound artist, Jon He, whose work combines ancient Chinese sound practice and creative technology.
Rooted in the deep inheritance of traditional Māori and Asian musical/ creative practices, this multidisciplinary performance will fuse ancient musical instruments with cutting-edge technology and visual performance.
As soundscapes evolve through live improvisation and electronic manipulation, the visual element of live painting captures this transformation in real time, creating a synesthetic experience where sound and image coalesce.
The performance engages in a cross-cultural, cross-media dialogue that transcends time, weaving ancestral echoes with contemporary resonance. This multidisciplinary performance is a celebration of cultural lineage, reimagined through contemporary expression.
Performer Biographies
SAtheCollective (SA) Ltd is an innovative arts company based in Singapore, dedicated to celebrating and showcasing the richness of Chinese and Southeast Asian cultural heritage. As an interdisciplinary, intercultural, and intergenerational organization, they create dynamic and relevant experiences that inspire and connect people, making heritage relevant to the times.
Andy Chia
Andy Chia is a renowned flutist/wind player/vocalist, artist, producer, director, and artistic director. His career is marked by a dedication to harmonizing the relationships among humans, nature, and technology. He has deep roots in traditional Chinese music and was also involved with Tan Dun as an understudy, further shaping his artistic journey.
Natalie Tse
Dr. Natalie Alexandra Tse is a performer, educator, researcher whose practice as an experimental improviser has led her towards researching into babies’ sonic play through her doctoral studies and motherhood. As a guzheng (Chinese zither) performer, she has been experimenting with sonic experiences through extended techniques, creating different textures, ambience and emotions evoked through her instrument.
Horomona Horo
Horomona Horo is a composer, musician, traditional practitioner, cross genre and arts collaborator, who has fused the traditional instruments of the Māori, taonga pūoro, with a range of cultural, musical, traditional, contemporary and educational forms. His extensive history in performance and collaborative work spans over 25 years, during which he has worked with a vast array of creative disciplines and genre. A recent recipient of the Pūmanawa APRA Silver Scroll Award, his work has featured alongside NZ & international artists such as Maisey Rika, Dame Gillian Whitehead, Laurie Anderson and the NZSO.
“Ko te ohonga ake o aku moemoea, Ko tera te puawaitanga o te whakaaro”
“The awakening of my dreams, is the fruition of my aspirations”
Regan Balzer
Regan Balzer (Ngāti Ranginui, Te Arawa, Raukawa, Apakura) is an artist whose works are motivated by narratives of the land, people and culture. With a dedicated commitment to her art practice, she has developed a colourfully expressive style of painting and has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand as well as internationally. Her recent works continue to explore and push the parameters of paint in different mediums, including commissions, collaborations, digital work, large scale works and live performance painting.
Jonny Marks
Vocalist and electronic musician Jonny Marks has been a key figure in the creative music scene in Wellington since the early 2000s. Modulating his vocal chords like a synthesizer, Jonny moves between sub-bass drones to ring modulated whistle tones with his voice alone - and now in a spellbinding combination with a beloved Synthi AKS.
Jingyin (Jon) He
Jingyin (Jon) He is an experimental sound and integrated media artist. He works within a hybridized culture of art and technology, exploring the frontiers of expression and experience in time-based art forms. Jon’s works draw upon ancient sensorial knowledge and re-vision them as interactive multimedia systems and mechatronic audio-visual objects for installations and live performances. His work has been shown at leading international events and venues, including International Computer Music Conference, SIGGRAPH, xCoAx, Australasia Computer Music Conference, Ars Electronica, and Marina One in Singapore.