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Emi Pogoni


About
Projects
Curation
Talks & Lectures
Awards

2023
Premonition
Advance To Go
 O Le Pepelo, Le Gaoi Ma Le Pala'ai
Conversations With My Immigrant Parents
The Sun Sets Beneath The Ocean
Waterfront Monophony

2022
The Wasp
Night Time Jury development
Aliens & Anorexia postponed

2021
Nichework remount
Crocodile Fever postponed
Speargrass Skies Run Run By postponed
Standing In The Threshold
Artifact
The Single Object
A Figure Exhales remount
Conversations With My Immigrant Parents S02

2020
Strata
Nest 38
Speargrass Skies Run Run By development
A Message From 2040
Get Out Of My Letterbox

2019
Life Is Easy
Friendly Potential Mix
Kissing The Doubt
A Fragrant Tone Of Light
Nichework
May Mesh Mix
Once There Was A Woman
Angular Momentum

2018
Shadow Of Ease
Jacinda
Orientation
A snail watches dust particles in sunlight
Elliptical Fictions
Burn Her
Beachgirl goes to disneyland
Pool (no water)
projectMUSE development

2017
2am Phone Call
Out Of Tune
I, Will Jones
CHAOS/カオス
A Figure Exhales

2016
LUNGS
La Casa Azul
Pales: Don’t Be So Nice

2014
Chair
The Way We Fall
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2013
How To Make Friends And Still Appear Normal
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Conversations With My Immigrant Parents

Podcast

Sound Post Production

Season 3

Creators, Producers, Narrators: Julie Zhu & Saraid De Silva
Location Recording: Joey Siasoco

For RNZ
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The Sun Sets Beneath The Ocean

Contemporary Dance

Composer


Choreographer: Zahra Killeen-Chance

Photo credit: Petra Mingneau

March 2023: Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui
February 2023: Tiny Fest, Christchurch

“Featuring an enthralling and deeply resonant original score by Emi Pogoni.”
-- Catherine Anderson Rhodes, Art New Zealand (Winter 2023)
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Waterfront Monophony

Sound Art

Composer


Curator: Jesse Austin-Stewart

February 2023: The Performance Arcade, Wellington
January 2023: Wellington
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The Wasp

Theatre

Composer, Sound Designer


Writer: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Director: Sam Snedden
Producer: Alice Kirker
Cast: Bree Peters, Miriama McDowell
Performance Designer: Meg Rollandi
Production Design Assistants: Kate Carrington & Sophie Forsyth
Light Designer: Jane Hakaraia
Stage Manager: Sofia Miernik
Technical Operators: Tim Janson, Izzy Lao, Deb McGuire
Photographer: Andi Crown

Violin: Anita Clark
Double bass: Scott Maynard

September 2022; Matchbox; Q Theatre, Auckland
 October 2022: Circa Theatre, Wellington

“The technical element that is truly outstanding is the music, composed by Emi Pogoni. As the lights dim to start the play, so too does the house music slow down and distort into something unsettling and almost demonic. This occurs again after the intermission – this use brings us effectively into (and back into) this disquieting show. The sounds of wasps buzzing which is scattered around the theatre are also used at pivotal points, as well as violin (Anita Clark) and double bass (Scott Maynard) at the perfect moments to build the tension within the scene, in a way that makes your hair stand on end.”
-- Emilie Hope, Stuff

“superb sound”
-- Glenda Pearce, Broadway World

“At one point a buzzing sound brushed past my ear and I froze, shoulders tensed, before realising there wasn’t a wasp taunting the audience – only a cleverly placed sound effect, humming just below the conversation on stage. I fought the urge to reach out and swat the imaginary insect for the entirety of the opening scene. This transformed the performance into a visceral experience, digging deep beneath the skin to envelop the viewers into this strange and treacherous plan... the sound still served as a character of its own, translating the strained on-stage atmosphere into another gripping sensory component.”
-- Olivia Wright, Rat World
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Standing In The Threshold

Contemporary Dance

Composer


Choreographer: Amber Liberte
Dancer: Nadiyah Akbar

For the Footnote Dance NZ show The Movement.

May-June 2021; New Zealand tour

“Emi Pogoni’s complex music, by turn an electronic drone, sometimes a rich, many layered vibrato, at the end a shrill electronic effect.”
-- Mona Williams, DANZ
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