A Low Hum is the ongoing project founded by photographer and music impresario Blink (born Ian Jorgensen), and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.
In conjunction with each tour, A Low Hum published an A5 magazine, usually including a feature album or EP (often unreleased material by bands) and a music compilation CD with songs by local and international acts.
In 2006, A Low Hum also began publishing "Local Knowledge", a comprehensive guide for bands wanting to tour New Zealand and engage with the music industry.
The 2010 event has been renamed Campus A Low Hum and has relocated to an unused agricultural college outside the town of Bulls in the North Island.
[5] In 2013, A Low Hum ran "Square Wave Festival", an electronic music festival[6] featuring 70 artists[7] playing 30 shows throughout New Zealand in 6 venues throughout November[8] In 2014 after closing Puppies, Blink, now returning to using his birth name released another book titled "The Problem with Music in New Zealand and How To Fix It and Why I started and ran Puppies",[9][10] the book received widespread[11] press in NZ and one of the essays bought about a response from APRA/AMCOS NZ who published their response on their website.
[18] In 2015, A Low Hum began working with Wellington inventor and engineer Rohan Hill[19] and helped take his invention, The Deluge, successfully[20] to an international audience.
[22] In 2015, Calling on his experience, Ian began teaching events, touring and media at Massey University in Wellington as part of the Bachelor of Commercial Music program.