fiffdimension1 is music & multimedia by Dave Edwards and collaborators, from 1850s2 to 2020s.
Featured albums / playlists3 / videos
This website is a multi-genre archive of more than 25 years of recordings, made in in Aotearoa / New Zealand and overseas.
You can sort by year, by solo works or collaborations, or by acoustic, electric, free improvisation, and ethnomusicology genre themes.
- 2026 / current projects
- Past projects
- full catalogue
Current projects: 2026
| The Troubled Times: | Featherston Free Sound Ensemble: | fiffdimension + Oscar |
|---|---|---|
| w/ Antony Milton, David Heath | w/ Guy Walker, Alex V | w/ Oscar (the dog) |
| The Troubled Times tends towards psychedelic garage rock, noise and guitar-driven improvisation, | Whereas Featherston Free Sound Ensemble is less rock-oriented, even more electronic and abstract. | Dave solo recordings |
Past projects
Start with the
compilations
such as
Electric (yang) / Acoustic (yin)5 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.” – Peter Malthus, muzic.nz
For a biographical narrative and some of the stories behind the music, hear the
Radio Dolby 89.6FM interview (2024)
Although the first release of the modern era was in 1998, the story has a prequel. Go back to before the beginning, with this adaptation of my great-great-grandfather’s Scottish
Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856)
“Undeniably it’s a novel concept, a unique idea, and a wholesome project for a proud family. DIY isn’t just tradition; it’s resistance to forgetting, a way of leaving scratches in the dark even when no one’s listening. Like John Middleton Collie of Boyndie, Scotland before him, Edwards has made his smear in the footnotes of history, ripe for resurrection in 2194. ” – Peter-James Dries, muzic.nz
…or else just 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 – fiffdimension is a high school nickname, reappropriated as a music label.
↩︎ - For 19th century antecedents, see Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856); for the early modern fiffdimension era, see Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005
↩︎ - Here,
* tracks are individual pieces of music – sometimes ‘songs’;
* albums are tracks recorded in a particular time/place/theme, best listened to in order from start to finish, and usually 30-60mins (length of a tape or CD);
* compilations are a selection of tracks from multiple albums, giving an overview of a time period; and
* playlists are all the tracks from a category (so might be hours long, listen on shuffle).
↩︎ - The compilation title “Acoustic Yin, Electric Yang 1998-2023” reflects duality and balance 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
(ethnomusicology and free improvisation are third categories) ↩︎
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