The New Zealand-born, Berlin-based producer Ollie Peryman a.k.a. FIS, who has recently garnered significant attention for his esoteric, rhythmically idiosyncratic bass-driven music, premiered a new collaboration at CTM 2016, together with Rob Thorne, a New Zealand-based musician and anthropologist whose compositions and performances fuse digital experimentation and traditional Maori instrumentation, or taonga pūoro, and are respected as 21st century naturalistic sound worlds.

The two artists share a broad theoretical and critical background and both teach or have taught about indigenous musical traditions. They apply their own practices to the reimagining of indigenous musical traditions and the bridging of a gap between long-established and experimental approaches. Together, FIS and Rob Thorne presented a new collaborative work merging acoustic and electronic sounds. Their CTM-commissioned residency, which took place at ZK/U space in Berlin before premiering at CTM 2016 festival, marked the first time the two artists worked together. They have continued collaborating since, producing mixes as well as their collaborative debut album, Clear Stones (Subtext, 2017).