About

BLOT is an open access online journal encompassing a variety of music, sound-based, and performance practices.

BLOT is here to create space for critical discourse and documentation, and to foster community for art practices that deal in music, sound, and performance in Aotearoa. BLOT embraces perspectives across geography, ethnicity, and gender, and is inclusive, intersectional and intergenerational. BLOT is a platform for constructive conversations about sonic art and culture, alongside issues facing our community.

BLOT is co-edited by Antonia Barnett McIntosh and Samuel Holloway.

Antonia! is a composer, performer, and sound artist. She collaborates in cross arts spaces, gently tapping on the borders between speech/music, performance/rehearsal, composition/writing, and juxtaposing the formalities of presentation with the aesthetics of failure.

Samuel: is a composer, performer, and educator. His creative work and research is variously concerned with: music’s paratextual language; ambiguous affective states, such as boredom; and the continuing potential of musical notation as a site for exploration.

We are very grateful to the following for their generous support:

Creative New Zealand

Chartwell Trust

John & Jo Gow

Auckland Council

Michael Lett & Andrew Thomas

David Currie

Marcus Jackson