Sonic Hapori is a collective of artists based in Tāmaki Makaurau, working within the intersection of art and sound.
As the purakau goes, Rona was a wahine of mana. One night when the moon was full, she went to fill her tahā of water. On her way down the path a cloud passed over Rakaunui casting a shadow over her path. Rona fell and cursed at te Marama. Filled with rage te Marama, snatched her from Papatūānuku. With her tahā in one hand she reached out for a ngaio tree nearby. When the moon is full you can see Rona holding her tahā and clinging to the ngaio tree, listening to fat dubs!
“Kia mahara ki te hē o Rona”
Here we celebrate Rona and her fortitude to break rules and remember her hē as a tohu for radical imaginings. Over the time of Matariki evolves from a tahā suspended from te orokohanga with an umbilical cord of raupo connecting her to a pito of sound seen as a speaker, into a staunch soundsystem that will be listening to you until she’s ready to sing.