**Missed out? Hobbs, Keay and Cunliffe will be reciting the performance once more during the exhibition at Silo 6, on Saturday the 15th of September. Follow this link for further details**

Deep in the lava caves beneath the dormant volcano Te Tātua-a-Riukiuta (Three Kings), composer Peter Hobbs will perform and record a new ambient score for Into the Underworld, an upcoming immersive exhibition of 3D scans and moving images that reveal one of the city's most neglected landscapes - the lava caves of Auckland.

Within the 28,000 year-old fossilised walls of Stewart's Lava Cave, 50 guests will witness a 45-minute sublime sonic voyage into ambient minimalism with Peter performing on modular synthesisers and electro-acoustic instruments, accompanied by Charmian Keay on violin and Maxine Cunliffe on cello.

Peter Hobbs is a composer and sound artist based in The Waitakere Ranges, Auckland. His films scores and sound design have won awards in America, Europe and New Zealand and he has recorded and toured with the bands Lost Demos and Kitset. He is interested in how music interacts with the symbiotic relationship of people and place.

Please note that Stewart's Cave is a tapu site, with a history of use dating back over 200 hundred years. The following conditions apply:





No food or drink will be allowed onto the site.

The integrity and intrinsic value of the cave and property be respected at all times.

Do not take or remove anything from within the cave (including rocks).

Toilet facilities are not provided.

No open-toe footwear is allowed.

Entry to the performance chamber will involve navigating down a steep rockslide. Adequate levels of fitness and mobility are required to attend the event.





There will only be 3 sessions for the performance:

Saturday 25th August 2.00pm **sold out**

Saturday 25th August 4.00pm **sold out**

Saturday 25th August 12.00pm **sold out**





'Into the Underworld' will open at Silo 6, Wynyard Quarter on Sunday September 9th until Monday October 1st.

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Into the Underworld is an art-science collaboration between digital artist Chirag Jindal and speleologist Peter Crossley. It's the culmination of two years of 3D LiDAR mapping of lava caves under the volcanoes in Owairaka (Mount Albert), Te Tātua-a-Riukiuta (Three Kings), Maungawhau (Mount Eden), Māngere and Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill). The title of the work refers to the stigma surrounding the neglected landscape, which has become degraded into trash heaps and wastewater dumps by the overwhelming need for housing and infrastructure over the last two centuries. Their entrances - now hidden behind street-front garages, backyard grottos and roadside manholes - have become material for legends, myths and rumours, and the sites are no longer common knowledge to the wider public.

The work is an attempt to open dialogue on the caves’ rich cultural history and significance in the city’s rapidly changing landscape, as well as an attempt to bridge the gap between the theory (the myths) and the actual experience of the caves. Through large-scale panoramic prints and moving images, viewers are not only invited to project themselves into the space, but are also prompted to consider how an aversion to the unknown can result in missing the beautiful aspects of our reality.

For any questions, email info@intotheunderworld.nz