The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 5-28 June, 2014
Opening: 5 June, 6-8pm

Captured Space is an 8 channel soundscape recording and collaborative artistic project that occupies two parallel environments – the natural and the constructed. Whilst the natural world of South Africa’s Kruger National Park is wild and occasionally ferocious, the constructed world of roads and settlements is pedestrian, designed to keep visitors comfortable and safe from the daily struggle of life and death. From the vantage point of the car one can witness an extraordinary habitat comprising a familiar cast of characters. Yet no matter how far or wide one travels one cannot easily escape the confined space of the car or the high voltage electric fence encircling the tourist resort. Whilst African animals are the mainstay of zoos around the world, at Kruger the animals are the vigilant keepers of an exotic mix of people confined to the smallest of spaces for their own self preservation.

Eric La Casa is a Paris based sound artist whose sonic arts practice since the mid 90s has focussed on the listening environment, creating sonic forms and ways of listening in sound installations and musical works composed entirely from his field recordings.

Dr Philip Samartzis is Associate Professor in Sculpture, Sound and Spatial Practice at the School of Art, RMIT University in Melbourne and one of Australia’s best known and most accomplished sound artists having performed and exhibited internationally over the last two decades. His current practice involves the exploration of sound art, acoustic ecology and spatial sound.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 1-31 May
Multi-speaker installation


In Community (the hidden hand) Dunedin artist, Rotor Plus uses a multi speaker installation to explore notions of covert power and the community.

Like those that come before and those that will come after, community struggles to be untethered from power and prestige phenomena (and the politics of) whilst often un-noticing (sic) the hidden hand. Who put these people in charge?

Rotor Plus is a Dunedin-based composer, producer, and sound artist who has created works for dance, theatre and multi-media exhibits and events. In New Zealand his work has been exhibited at the High Street Project, the Blue Oyster Gallery, the Splore Festival arts trail and internationally at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, the German Transmediale media festival and the UK’s Big Chill music festival. He has performed at the Lines of Flight Festival in Dunedin and was a founding member of the Relay sound arts collective in Auckland. Rotor Plus has released three albums, the most recent in 2013, of minimal electronic and electro-acoustic experiments and is currently pursuing interests in multi-speaker presentation and A.R sound pieces.