fiffdimension1 is music & multimedia by Dave Edwards and collaborators, from 1850s2 to 2020s. Made in Aotearoa / New Zealand and beyond. Spans acoustic, electric and ethnomusicology themes.
Featured albums / playlists / videos
2026
The Troubled Times: Twig Bed Balance
Featherston Free Sound Ensemble: Mixtape X
fiffdimension + Oscar: Spastic Rhythms the 3rd
Past projects
Start with the
compilations
such as
Electric (yang) / Acoustic (yin)3 2CD compilation 1998-2023 :
“Double disc collection of more than two decades’ worth of live and studio-recorded tunes by Dave Edwards, who you may have heard recently as part of The Troubled Times with Antony Milton. It’s quite a diverse listen!
“You get some concise and catchy pop songs, some full-on rockers, banjo excursions, improv freak-out, poetry, acoustic blues, folk songs, scrambled noise… A good intro to Dave’s dauntingly deep discography.”
– Howard Stelzer, Noisy Bandcamp.
“Dave Edwards is a thoughtful and talented writer, composer, and performer. This double album ably demonstrates that. He doesn’t seem to so much want to push boundaries, as to act like he’s never heard of boundaries in the first place.
“At times soft and beautiful, at others dark and jarring, it makes for fascinating listening.”
…or go back to before the beginning, with my ancestor’s
Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856)
…or dive into the
full catalogue –
which spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, electronica, Asia–Pacific ethnomusicology, and 19th century genres – with over 50 albums of original music to date….
- “fiff” is a deliberate misspelling of “fifth”, in a lazy Taranaki NZ accent
↩︎ - For 19th century antecedents, see Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856); for the early modern fiffdimension era, see Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005
↩︎ - The compilation title “Acoustic Yin, Electric Yang 1998-2023” reflects the duality and balance inherent in this musical journey. In Asian philosophy, Yin and Yang represent complementary forces that interact to form a dynamic system:
Acoustic (Yin): Symbolizes the folk-influenced sides of the music, highlighting the organic and natural elements.
Electric (Yang): Represents the dynamic, energetic, and expressionistic aspects, emphasizing the electrified noise and rock components ↩︎
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