Sounds of the Moana SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music

Gold Award Winner in the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards.
The Pacific, which embodies more than 1,800 different peoples and cultures, is home to an astonishing variety of musical instruments.
Join Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava and guests as they explore the origin stories and traditional functions of three musical instruments commonly found across the Moana: the conch shell (pū/foafoa), the wooden slit drum (pātē), and the nose flute (fangufangu/vivo ko’e).
Host: Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava
Guests: Leuga Ape Taua’ana Ata Sofara, Ma’ara Maeva, John Kiria, Hūfanga-He-Ako-Moe-Lotu Dr ‘Ōkusitino Māhina
For the show website please follow this link.
This series is supported with funding from Creative New Zealand.
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Podcast Series: Sounds of the Moana
What is the indigenous sound of Moana-Nui-ā-Kiwa (Oceania)? What has been lost and gained over the course of history, and how can the musical identity of the great Moana be kept alive today? Explore these questions, and more, in this two-part series hosted by Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava.
This project was made in partnership with the Pacific Peoples music community, cultural advisors and knowledge holders.

© Centre for New Zealand Music Trust
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gold Award Winner in the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards.
What were the original sounds and music of the Pacific, and can they still be heard today?
Despite colonisation and migration, the indigenous sound of the great Moana is not lost.
Join host Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava as he holds talanoa (discussions) with the practitioners, knowledge-holders, and scholars who are keeping the ‘sounds of the navigators’ alive today.
Host: Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava
Guests: Hūfanga-He-Ako-Moe-Lotu Dr ‘Ōkusitino Māhina, Rita Seumanutafa, Leuga Ape Taua’ana Ata Sofara, Ma’ara Maeva, Anonymouz (aka Faiumu Matthew Salapu)
For the show website please follow this link.
This series is supported with funding from Creative New Zealand.
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Podcast Series: Sounds of the Moana
What is the indigenous sound of Moana-Nui-ā-Kiwa (Oceania)? What has been lost and gained over the course of history, and how can the musical identity of the great Moana be kept alive today? Explore these questions, and more, in this two-part series hosted by Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava.
This project was made in partnership with the Pacific Peoples music community, cultural advisors and knowledge holders.

© Centre for New Zealand Music Trust
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.