Market Forces
“TENA KOE JACINDA, Please find enclosed a photo of the memorial plaque commemorating the opening of the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand. We are moving out of our premises, our programmes decimated, staff driven out, and it seems a shame to just let all of the history disappear.
The Southern Institute of Technology took over the running of MAINZ in 2018... They have dismissed the important service to the music and music technology industries we provide – educating and helping young people into roles in performance, radio, television, film, electronic production, studio recording production, and live sound industries.
At MAINZ we celebrated [alumni] Joel Little and the success of Lorde, Jordan Stone with Neil Finn, Lance Powell mixing the latest Nick Cave album in the US... and the everyday successes that don’t make headlines, like Jana Whitta and Alex Aylett working for RNZ, Adam Peri leaving his meatpacking job in Bulls to work for Sky TV in Europe, Marcus Powell forming a trust to help at-risk youth find
