The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, February 28, 2014
Doors open from 6:30pm
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Join us at The Auricle to celebrate the opening of the Audacious – Festival of Sonic Arts and exhibition, Signals From Unknown Sources by artist Rachel Shearer. Rachel will be performing her eight channel work live followed by more live action from local artist David Khan, and improvised electroacoustic taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments) with Tony Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu – Kāti Irakehu) and collaborators.

7pm – Welcoming ceremony and opening speeches with drinks provided by The Auricle’s winery partner, Pegasus Bay

8pm – Rachel Shearer’s Signals From Unknown Sources – exploring spatial sound composition through the idea of the phantasm, both in the sense of an apparition – a shadowy, incorporeal image -and also in relation to Klossowski’s ‘phantasm’ which refers to an obsessional image produced instinctively from the constantly fluctuating intensive states of the soul. http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/interview/648/Rachel-Shearer.utr

9-11pm – More live performance!

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Doors open from 8pm
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A celebration of live sound at The Auricle as part of The Audacious – Festival of Sonic Arts, featuring performances by:

Alastair Galbraith & Bruce Russell
Greg Malcolm & Jenny Ward
Furchick & Richard Benjamin Soloman Keys

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, February 21, 2014
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Celebrate the final day of John Chrisstoffels’ The International Step exhibition with the artist and friends performing in the Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery. 

Performances by:
Adam Willetts
The Les Baxters
Misfit Mod

$5 entry from 8pm til late

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Abstract Mutation
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Regressor

New Zealand (now Melbourne-based) producer James Grant aka Spelunks/@soakingwet combines acid, bass and techno on his debut Abstract Mutation outing on 1080p. It’s here on pro-dubbed Chrome Cassette Tape, direct from the Vinyl Only Tapes head honcho’s private Kazaa network; the perfect medium for the scuffed kineticity and Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café-worship of this bouncy, hybridized release to really jump out.

Blurring an incessantly groovy sense of looseness alongside taut, metronomic hi-hats and bass plods, Fake Keygen becomes an amorphous zone of hypnotic mundanity. Themes of surveillance, technology and human interfacing creep out of these ad hoc loop pedal/digital synth creations and cheekily reappropriated dance modes.

Tracks like “Oops Magazine” are built partly out of goofball dance signifiers (feigned hi-NRG keyboard stabs in this case) and partly with dark, gaseous spaces. Elsewhere, opener “Expert Loner” even layers faked steel drum wobbles over a steady 100bpm take on a classic house beat.

There’s low-key acid thrown all over reprocessings of mid-90s bass music and techno with vibes of restlessness and at times a tinge of hypnogogia to a definitely late night realm of .nfos and PC gamer patches. File under the Utilities section alongside ancient Soulseeked Rephlex 128kpbs MP3 .zips or maybe even Transllusion’s Cerebral Gate LP.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, February 13, 2014
From 7pm
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The Auricle presents its inaugural Record Club night.

We would like to offer you the opportunity to share a recording of particular sonic interest with fellow listeners in our intimate gallery setting. You are welcome to discuss or comment on content/ context of your selection, or simply “play it straight”.

We look forward to hearing a variety of 22nd century classic hall music, junk sounds, left of field recordings and more or less musics of (un)convention.

There will be a vinyl only set up for this particular evening.

It was a wonderful first night with a diverse selection of vinyl on the turntable, some of which is pictured here.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 8th February 5-6pm
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Join us the afternoon of Saturday 8th February for the The International Step artist’s talk, panel discussion and Q &A with John Chrisstoffels’, Dr Barbara Garrie and David Khan.