NinthWavesound

09/04/2024

My kind of performance art: making feminist points through true feelings felt and them entering the public art/litigation sphere (the part when they include a robert palmer track is an extra bonus 😄)

NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’

21/07/2023

Feeling like a dance?! We’re raving again! Gisborne!! Saturday the 29th of July
Get your spandex-like gears on my friends.. it’s going to get a bit grindy!! Wellies/Gizzy sister tagteam PashJams meets Gizzy Local mElt, Bumpy Tech meets Bump’n’Grind. RnB, House, Clean Club. Featuring Special Guest DJ Magnette!! Known for her RnB prowess from slow whine through to club bingy bangers.. both hands in the ayyahhhhh!! See you theyyyyahhhh!!
Venue
Tickets

https://www.gizzylocal.com/event-details/rave-number-3

23/01/2023

23/01/2023

ninthWavesound is proudly your sound system at Brazen 2023!!

First weekend of April 👏🏽

Tickets on sale now!

https://www.ticketfairy.com/event/brazen-1apr2023

05/11/2022

Four part series about the Women of British Reggae, really good feminist feels!
NTS Radio

_"No Rasta me a individualist"_ In the final episode of Women of British Reggae, we talk to Ann Swinton, a.k.a. Ranking Ann. She shares her story: from youthful revolutionary songs, the excitement an

05/11/2022

Gisborne City!!
That’d be a R A V E
What ninthWave ws born to do!!!
This coming Friday 18th November
Beats & Breaks from local and newly imported DJs.
Raving will take place at Gizzy Local, 64 Lowe St.
Tickets $20 from Gizzy Local
Email [email protected] to secure yours!

11/07/2022

The pleasure of building and then owning and running your own sound is worth the hard work and occasional minor workshop injury.

"The DIY setup allows you to turn it into a level of artistry."—Contemporary crews describe how they put their legendary sound systems together.

01/06/2022

ninthWave has moved to Gisborne to be with her immediate family.. she is excited to be part of a rad community in Tairāwhiti! She will be travelling during the summer to be where she loves to be.. at festivals!

Laura Marsh is a feminist sound system builder, conceptual object maker, and sound and installation artist. Very recently she also became a mum.

Growing up in Dunedin and Wanaka, Laura could often be found dancing around the lounge with her walkman in hand. 1989 was a formative year with Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation and Redhead Kingpin hitting the charts - Laura Marsh had found American hip hop.

Laura studied film at Ilam in Christchurch whilst also putting in a healthy effort maintaining her status as a snowboarding and surf bum. It was then that she got her first taste of DJing, with hours upon hours of hangs n’ jams at a friend’s flat with a resident set of turntables and yet another friend’s collection of 90’s hip hop records.

Upon graduating from Ilam she moved to the North Island, to join the ‘film industry circus’ in Auckland, finding herself working on American turn around TV.

Living with DJs it was only a matter of time before Laura learnt that one could get paid 80 bucks an hour to play records for other people. With that valuable piece of information in hand she hit the secondhand shops to expand her fledgling 80’s vinyl collection, found herself a couple of party slots and excitingly, a way to fund a transition from working in film to ‘being an artist’.

In 2009 Laura enrolled to do her Masters in Art and Design at AUT. Her Masters Project ‘The Trouble With Being A Proud Pākehā’ spoke to the culture shock she had experienced moving from the South Island to Auckland, and the troubles inherent in claiming one’s white ethnicity.

While Laura had spent her life ‘making’, she was ready to ‘make’ with deeper ideas to inform and shape her practices, which were many and varied. She has a lot of good things to say about the AUT Art and Design School, with its amazing facilities, contemporary approach and openness and support for its students.

While in Auckland Laura started the radio show ‘The Lushelection’ on Base Fm, which kept going for ten years and became somewhat of a breeding ground and point of connection for female DJs, who Laura had come to realise were few and far between.

A three-month art residency in an ‘arts town of 3 million’ in Java, Indonesia supplied Laura with another culture shock to fuel her creative direction. Some of the projects she initiated there would feed into the PHD proposal that she submitted upon her return to Auckland. One of these projects was a women’s only dance club, for which she hired a big sound system for one night in order that local women could freely enjoy low frequency music in a safe environment.

Laura’s PHD thesis focused on the creation of women prominent spaces, to support greater gender diversity in what have traditionally been strongly male dominated and masculine environments; the DJ and bass-music scenes.

The benefits associated with growing up in a family of engineers became evident once it became clear that she was going to build a feminist sound system by hand for her PhD. The result is ninthWavesound - a sound system which ultimately is about enabling everyone the pleasure and the benefits of experiencing low frequency music, in a free space that everyone can feel comfortable in.

NinthWave has been the soundsystem in Wendy’s Wellness tent for the last two Splore festivals and was the system for the electronic stage at the Earthbeat Festival last year, with Laura curating the stage’s lineup, getting a few more female DJs behind the decks.

Laura Marsh is pretty stoked to have landed in the Tairāwhiti at this point in her life and is excited to get amongst some community projects, to collaborate and see what happens when women move into a space of ownership around sound making. Laura’s aspiration for ninthWavesound is as a safe space for people to find their way into sound, and to feel it.

While she is currently navigating the early days of parenthood Laura looks forward to hearing from people interested in collaborating with workshops, listening, dancing and sound healing events, and rangatahi-based events…anything involving sound, inclusivity and requiring a kick-ass sound system!

You can listen your way through Laura’s old radio shows and mixes on mixcloud.com/djlauralush, connect on instagram and check out her art or connect with a sound collaboration idea at lauramarshartist.nz

Image credit: Brett Crockett

05/11/2021

Another proudly feminist sound system.. in Sydney!
Welcome to the fold Honey Trap Sound System xx

December 2019 Maya Gold and Alchemist present a six episode podcast series combining Feminism and Bass music. Episode 5 the women discuss Maya Gold's New project - four mini tapped horns. This was to

29/06/2021

To all deep thinkers about what sound system culture means, the academic conference hosted by Goldsmiths University, UK happens week after next. I was honoured to speak at it last year. Very excited about tuning in to hear some very smart people talk about soundings of great importance (even if the papers are being presented at 3am NZ time!). There are films that can be accessed whenever if you register for free tickets.
I love that ninthWavesound and I are part of bringing sound system knowledge into the world of stuffy academia
Register now.. it's all free! Amazing.