Selected Writing
    Archive Fever:  New Zealand Underground Sound in Fanzine Interviews 1991­­–1999

  • with Lasse Marhaug

  • Book length publication
    Marhaug Forlag
    Oslo
2023

  • Photos: Soundohm

A book collecting interviews, artwork, and texts of New Zealand underground sound artists from fanzines in the years 1991-1999.
Collected and edited by Noel Meek. Texts by Noel Meek, Bruce Russell, Seymour Glass (Bananafish) and Nick Cain (Opprobrium). Cover illustration by Stefan Neville (Pumice).
308 pages, format: 18 x 24 cm
    Homage to Annea Lockwood

  • with Mattin

Book and CD publication
  • Recital 
  • Los Angeles
  • 2023

  • Photos: Soundohm

Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (Aotearoa) and Mattin (Basque Country), who each share a deep admiration for Lockwood. A longform Skype conversation between the three artists was arranged at the end of 2020. They discussed politics, aesthetics, and Annea’s compositional practice, among other things. Noel Meek & Mattin had from the beginning decided that the conversation itself would be used as a score for this album, Homage to Annea Lockwood.

“My work is my way of exploring the world,” says Lockwood. Each piece on the album reflects her prismatic compositional practice: sound maps, scores that unfold temporally or environmentally, synchronous with nature, and pianos transplanted to exotic locations (often engulfed in flames). Meek & Mattin maintain a playfulness and curiosity of Annea’s sound world; from electronic verbal fizz, a recording of lighting a laptop on fire, hydrophonic diaries from underneath an old willow tree in New Zealand, to a polyphonic choral piece which concludes the album.

Homage to Annea Lockwood is housed in a hand-numbered paperback book, which carries a full transcription of the conversation, in this case… the score, along with lush photographic documentation, and ending with a lovely afterword written by Annea Lockwood. 


    The Wire Magazine

Various articles
  • London
  • 2015-2022

Writing on experimental music, sound art, and contemporary performance, with a focus on Aotearoa and Indigenous practices.




    Personal Best Magazine

Various interviews
  • Marhaug Forlag, Oslo
  • 2017-2020

Interviews with artists practising experimental music, sound art, and contemporary performance, with a focus on Aotearoa and Indigenous practices.




    Witcyst: Real Folk - Lathe Cut Singles 1993-1997

with Lasse Marhaug

Liner notes
End of the Alphabet Records and Pica Disk
    Oslo, Norway
  • 2017

Research, interviewing, curation, writing and publishing.

Photos: Olivia Webb

Design: Lasse Marhaug

https://picadisk.bandcamp.com/album/real-folk-lathe-cut-singles-1993-1997