The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening: Friday 24 October, 6pm-late
Exhibition: Saturday 25 October & Sunday 26 October, 12-5pm
Workshop: Sunday 26 October, 2-3pm
Guided tour: Monday 27 October, 2-3pm
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Come time travel via this emerging invisible layer of stories, sounds and speculative futures for Christchurch. Sound Sky is a geo-located audioscape that is discoverable via mobile phone. Leave a message from your future self via the app (only on iOS from App Store), exhibition or workshops.

In collaboration with A Brave New City, the workshops will imagine multiple possible futures for Christchurch, of which you are a part. What is this city going to be like in the future? What does your future self think of it? Come find out!

Sound Sky is brought to you by Trudy Lane & Halsey Burgun in collaboration with A Brave New City & Dr Malcolm Riddoch from the Cantabrian Society of Sonic Artists (CSSA).

http://soundsky.org

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday October 25, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
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The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 16 October, 7:30pm
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Come time travel within this invisible layer of memories, stories, secrets and dreams inhabiting the city. Sound Sky is a geo-located audioscape that is discoverable via mobile phone and invites you to join and add to this other realm via your phones, an exhibition and workshops.

In collaboration with A Brave New City, the workshops will imagine multiple possible futures for Christchurch, and how they affect us individually. What is this city going to be like in the future? What does your future self think of it? Join us for a collective exploration.

http://soundsky.org

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
From 7:30pm
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Join us for Improv Club at the Auricle every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

Open to all comers; from musical neophytes to experienced improvising musicians and experimental noise makers; from graphic scores to game play and an-archy; from free Jazz to electronically structured and open improv; from Occidental tempered scale to full bandwidth white noise; from Braxton to Cardew to Bailey and beyond.

All are welcome!

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday October 18, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
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Join us for a night of continuous drone music as our drone artists celebrate the completion of the Auricle’s new ambisonic surround sound auditorium. Eight or more drone artists playing in a series of interleaved performances, where each successive performance begins five minutes before the previous performance ends. The drones will be presented on a diverse collection of sound-generating equipment that will serve to fully interrogate the intriguing concept of aesthetic time – the lived time of the experience.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
From 7:30pm
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Join us for Improv Club at the Auricle every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

Open to all comers; from musical neophytes to experienced improvising musicians and experimental noise makers; from graphic scores to game play and an-archy; from free Jazz to electronically structured and open improv; from Occidental tempered scale to full bandwidth white noise; from Braxton to Cardew to Bailey and beyond.

All are welcome!

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 10, 2014
From 7pm
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Join us for Record Club at The Auricle held every second Thursday Friday of the month (of October). BYO vinyl only!

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening Thursday 9 October, 6pm
Free entry and wines from Pegasus Bay
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Join us at the Auricle for the exhibition opening of For Posterity by Graham Dunning (UK).

On the tape, a family’s audio diary from 1958 to 1967. In the last entry, the parents of the family explain to the youngest son the reason for making the recordings. “It’s for posterity,” the father explains. The mother adds, “for your children, and your chi…” She is interrupted and soon the tape ends. This installation is a document of the artist’s attempt to reunite the tape with its makers. The uncanny experience of a disembodied voice playing through a piece of obsolete technology, a ghost in the machine. In the age of digital media, where memories as photographs, videos and audio recordings exist only as numbers on hard-drives and CDs, or online on a distant server, the work calls into question the apparent advantages of digital over analogue technologies; the role of physical artefacts in preserving our own histories; and the function of archiving itself. Recent debates about online privacy focus on the traces of ourselves we leave behind, the ‘right to be forgotten,’ and the implications of policing this on freedom of speech and censorship. These themes are also explored in the installation through the choices of presentation of personal and sensitive material.

Graham Dunning is a London based sonic artist whose practice deals with temporality, memory and narrative through sound, performance and installation, utilizing people’s discarded memories and the function of archiving via found objects, photographs and recordings. Experimentation is fundamental and his practice is often informed by scientific or archaeological protocols.
www.grahamdunning.com

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday October 3, 2014
Doors open 7:30pm
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Join us for an evening of exploratory music. Enjoy a selection of lovely wines and several short sets of sonic excitement!

Mike Rophone
Michael James Kime
Adam Willetts
Greg Malcolm
Zeug Gezeugt
Jenny Ward
Joseph McCallum
Jonty OC
Reuben Derrick