After their hugely successful worldwide concert tours, Electro pioneers Kraftwerk announce seven new tour dates this November/December 2023 for Australia and New Zealand. Bringing together electronic music computer animations and performance art, Kraftwerk concerts are a true “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.”
Wednesday 29 November | TSB Arena | Wellington, NZ
Friday 1 December | Spark Arena | Auckland, NZ
Monday 4 December | Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre | Brisbane, QLD
Wednesday 6 December | Aware Super Theatre | Sydney, NSW
Friday 8 December | Margaret Court Arena | Melbourne, VIC
Tuesday 12 December | Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre | Adelaide, SA
Friday 15 December | Riverside Theatre, PCEC | Perth, WA
The multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in 1970 by Ralf Huetter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio in Duesseldorf, Germany, where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums. By the mid 1970’s Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic‚ soundscapes’ and their musical experimentation with robotics and other technical innovations. With their visions of the future, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. Their compositions, using innovative techniques, synthetic voices and computerised rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres: from electro to hip hop, from techno to synth pop.
In their live performances, Kraftwerk founder Ralf Huetter and his team illustrate the belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine.
Starting with the retrospective of their catalogue at the Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] in New York in 2012, in recent years Kraftwerk have returned full circle back to their origins within the Düsseldorf art scene of the late Sixties. The 3-D concert series at MoMA was followed by further presentations at Tate Modern Turbine Hall (London), Akasaka Blitz (Tokyo) Opera House (Sydney), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Neue National Galerie (Berlin) and Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao).
In 2014 Ralf Huetter and his former partner were honoured with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. And in October 2021 Kraftwerk were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.