Multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, academic, and sound artist, Riki Gooch (Ngāti Wai, Patuharakeke, Ngaati Maahanga) and award-winning author Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā) weave their talents together to create a new work, commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand, that seamlessly integrates kupu, taonga puoro, and orchestral string instruments.

Taking Māori futurism, whakapapa and taiao as its starting points, Ā mua spirals and forms connections across time. The tone shifts from the elemental and universal to the contemporary and gritty, but is always intimate.

"Ki te Whai Ao, ki Te Ao Marama. Light comes into the world. Matter spirals into being. The history of humanity rolls out—longer and more fascinating and complicated than we can imagine, and you have lived many lives through it, coming into and out of being."

Artists

- Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā), Author / Narrator

- Riki Gooch (Ngāti Wai, Patuharakeke, Ngaati Maahanga), Conductor-Composer / Taonga Puoro

- Serenity Thurlow (Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui), Viola

- Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe), Cello / Taonga PuoroAl Fraser, Taonga PuoroKiva Parsons-Pirihi (Ngāti Wai, Patuharakeke, Ngaati Maahanga), Taonga Puoro