Inaugural solo live-stream. A small test-run where I decided to casually pull out all the stops and try some things I haven't done in years, like looping a r...
Rob Thorne plays putorino in the Durie Hill Tunnel, Whanganui, NZ. This clip is just inside the 205m long concrete tunnel and has the longest echo time of all 3 clips. The putorino is a traditional NZ Maori (harmonic) bugle flute made from one piece of wood that is split and carved and then bound back together.
Piano, Puoro & Percussion. The ancient cultures of Greece and Aotearoa inform the sonic textural tapestries of Athenian pianist Tania Giannouli, and one of the leading taonga pūoro exponents, Rob Thorne, captured together here at 2019 Enjoy Festival in their world debut performance with very special guest Michele Rabbia featuring on percussion.
Pukaea call to Mt Ruapehu, Central Plateau, Aotearoa New Zealand, 7th March 2014
In January of 2016, I was privileged to travel to Berlin as a guest of CTM Festival to compose and perform with electronica artist and friend Oliver Peryman (Fis). While there, I had the great honour of meeting renowned singer Jocelyn B. Smith who invited me to join her for a performance in one of her fantastic 'Everybody Can Sing' evenings at Gedächtniskirsche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church).
Rob Thorne playing Putorino on Tiritiri Matangi Island at the "Sounding Tiritirimatangi" Musical Tracks event curated by Phil Dadson, 8 March 2014. On the birdbath you will see tieke, hihi and tui, all threatened native birds of New Zealand.
Rob Thorne (Ngāti Tumutumu) performs at WOMEX 2018, the premiere international world music showcase expo and trade fair. Taonga Puoro is the revived instrumental music of the Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. Instruments are hand crafted from wood, stone, bone and shell.
Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) plays pūtōrino on the banks of the beautiful Kauaeranga River, near Thames, in the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand. The pūtōrino is an ancient traditional musical instrument (nga taonga puoro) of the Māori and is played as both a flute and a horn.
Whäia Te Märamatanga is a musical passage of identity and connection. A journey of knowledge through action and practice, reclaiming the past for a stronger future, while joining the two in a place that is here, and a time that is now. A re-acquaintance of ancestor with descendant.
A song from the sky for the sea, played on a traditional Māori flute made from the wing bone of a gannet. Filmed on Tiritiri Matangi, Hauraki Gulf, 8 March 2014.