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About Me

Stanier Black-Five is an ex-UK and now New Zealand-based sound artist, writer and DJ, who in her audio work regularly fuses electronics with environmental recordings: from mesmerising aircraft drones to the pounding rhythms of trains. Her innovative DJ sets often involve multi-turntable mayhem, using lock-grooves and customised records to carve slabs of sound. In her eclectic mixes extreme electronics meet the avant-garde, broken beats go head on with environmental recordings and psycho pop duets with op shop. She is an editor of the New Zealand online sound art magazine, Sustain and also writes about music under different monikers for magazines such as the UK’s Noisegate (www.noisegate.org.uk) and Germany’s Datacide (datacide.c8.com), as well as on wine for publications around the globe. Stanier Black-Five also makes sporadic releases on the Argot Records label which she runs, and is part of the Borderline Ballroom collective that hosts regular experimental nights in Christchurch, NZ."A defect of the understanding perhaps, which only began to vibrate on repeated solicitations, or which did vibrate, but at a lower frequency, or a higher, than that of ratiocination... pure sounds, free of all meaning."

My Blog

Live in London & online

Stanier Black-Five is back in London in September and doing a live performance on the 3rd at the Others Gallery (Top Floor, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington) as part of an Ill FM night along with Gadar...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:37:00 GMT

Dirt Beneath the Daydream CD

A slightly belated mention that I had a track featured on the recent Dirt Beneath the Daydream CD compilation, given away with copies of Wire magazine to its subcribers. It's also free with the curren...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 18:08:00 GMT

Two Trains of Thought tour

Me and Mela are leaving the shivering South Island for warmer climes and make our first ever perfomances as Stanier Black-Five & Mela in the North Island.  This is where we'll be: WELLINGTON: 28th May...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:00 GMT

Live at Lines of Flight festival

I'll be playing at the Lines of Flight Festival this Saturday in Dunedin:Lines of Flight is a festival of experimental music and film happening this 26th-28th March 2009 in Dunedin, Aotearoa.More spec...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:47:00 GMT

Stanier Black-Five & Daniel Menche Live in Chch

Stanier Black-Five will be supporting Daniel Menche on his first ever date in New Zealand, along with local act Coal.The Media Club  Wednesday 9th April  7.30-11pm - $10 (door sales only)
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:28:00 GMT

Ill FM set

On my recent travels in the UK I dropped into Ill FM and the resulting set can be heard on their website: www.illfm.net. The first half hour is my own work - old and new - and the second a DJ set of e...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:39:00 GMT

The Borderline Ballroom

The Borderline Ballroom - a new night of the experimental and the eclectic, that takes in the stray music previously roaming homeless on the on the streets of Christchurch and beyond. Expect the unexp...
Posted by on Sat, 19 May 2007 22:36:00 GMT

Silence from The Sound Mine

The Sound Mine radio show on RDU FM is temporarily silent. Following the recent purchase of the station and its consequent transformation into a commercial enterprise with a different set of values, I...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:16:00 GMT

The Sound Mine playlist 27/12/2006

Knife hand Chop  Dancemix 1992 Halim el-dabh - Wire Recorder Piece The Loop Orchestra - Circa 1901   The sounds of Dada: Marcel Duchamp - La Mariee Mise a Nu par ses Celibataires, M...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:48:00 GMT

The Sound Mine playlist 13/12/2006

Chaos intro: James Whitehead  Air Attack over Kabul Airfield Seht  Cydonia Nurse with Wound  Homotopy for Marie   Main set: The Mover  Changing Platforms Freez-E-Style  Slo Mot...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:41:00 GMT