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Kete Aronui - Richard Nunns
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2007
The first thing that people say is where do these sounds come from, where would they think of these sounds? Well of course the teacher [says], it's 'te reo o te whenua', it's the voice of the land. We've always said that it's the voice of Tangaroa, it's the voice of Tāne, it's the voice of Hine-nui-te-pō. It's a multitude of voices that are there. They're the carriers of those voices. The manu, the insects ... Tāne and so on. Your ears are attuned ... they replicate those sounds.– Richard Nunns
“If I put my lips to your lips what will the sound be?”– Nunns describes Hirini Melbourne being inspired by taonga pūoro in Auckland Museum
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