Monthly Archives: November 2014

Momentum by Nat Grant

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 12-5pm, 4-28 December, 2014
Opening: 4 December, 6-8pm
12 channel recording
Facebook event

Momentum is a collaborative composition in 12 movements, one for each month of 2012. The work was created over the course of the year with over 60 people from around the world contributing sounds to be included. All 12 compositions are arranged in 12 individual ambisonic channels allowing the listener to move around the gallery space and thus the 12 months of the year.

Nat Grant is a Melbourne Australia based sonic artist whose work explores the intersections between improvisation, chance, and intention in the development of sound as a sculptural medium. Through the integration of electronic processing and sampling with acoustic sound recordings, she creates cumulative sound works that link consciousness and memory, allowing interaction between human and natural environments.

http://momentumproject.blogspot.com

Sounds of prehistoric images

Events

10626428_579880812158324_2913620918413919076_oThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday November 21, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
Facebook event

A night of reactionary music and video projections of animals in motion, the sonic artists will be playing along to Camels, Elephants, Cheetahs, and Komodo dragons. Featuring Mario Villarroel, Nicolas Woollaston , Michael Minchington, Julian , and Joseph Burgess on violin.

Adam Willetts, Asteroid Anxiety and Nicolas Woollaston

Events

anxietyThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday November 22, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
$5 on the door to the artists
Facebook event

Three sets of electronica utilizing DIY & modular synths, exploring textures & rhythmic noise in multichannel surround sound.

Adam Willetts is a local Christchurch artist, who works in both the visual and sonic arts. Using a modular synthesizer he composes and performs live electronic music crafting percussive and textural pieces that are raw and minimal yet ceaselessly shifting, fracturing, collapsing, transforming and evolving.

Born in the UK, Asteroid Anxiety was trapped in Russia for many years before escaping to New Zealand in 2013. He fled over the ice with rudimentary instruments cobbled together from Soviet space program castaways and nuclear industry detritus, saving them from destruction at the hands of Orthodox vigilantes. Early murmurings about debilitating bucolic influences proved deceptive. Asteroid Anxiety’s music has been described as “darkly melancholy”, “mordantly soothing”, and “making you feel like you’re on a spaceship that has just crashed”.

Nicolas Woollaston, creative technologist, delights in designing and playing with electronic gadgetry, making wonderful and strange noises. He combines human and electronic vocalisations to present a seething and soothing soundscape of drones and wails.

Our Love will Destroy the World

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday November 29, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
$5 on the door to the artists
Facebook event

Join us and Featherstone’s one and only Campbell Kneale for an experience of maximal microtonal violence, extreme body gnosis, and broken-guitar mumbo-jumbo. Arising from the ashes of Birchville Cat Motel his current project Our Love will Destroy the World involves excoriating blood-drones and blitzkrieg ragas from Nowhere, New Zealand, in search of fleeting moments of infinite density; where everything is louder than everything else, time slows to a crawl, and brains under stress slip into warm, prickly comas.

Accompanied by Peter Wright bowing a dying communications satellite through the decaying orbits of twelve chiming strings and a multi-layered haze of failing electronics. Nice.

The DontFuckWithMagic mobile shop will also be on hand dispensing hard to find, not available, CDRs and LPs.

Paper Nights

Events

IMG00122-20141022-1433The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday November 14, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
Free entry
Facebook event

An evening of learning, failing, succeeding and forgetting noise. Sounded out in the Auricle Sound Gallery ambisonics with performances from Mike Michington and Paul Timings and supported by the CSSA Improv Club’s first open mic night (BYO electro or acoustic instrumentation)

NoNoNoNoshow

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday November 15, 2014
Doors open 7:00pm
Free entry
Facebook event

A low frequency improvised exploration of the sonic properties of the Auricle Gallery and its ambisonic surround sound system by way of David Khan’s massed Monotrons and the various electroacoustic interventions of:

Malcolm Riddoch
Mike Minchington
Paul Timings

Improv Club #6

Events

Auricle Improv ClubThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

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!

Sound Sky

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 12-5pm, 6-29 November, 2014
Opening: 6 November, 6-8pm
Ambisonic soundscape with live iOS recordings
Facebook event

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. Upload a message via the iOS app or the installed exhibition iPad and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Christchurch Sound Sky.

Sound Sky at the Auricle is brought to you by Trudy Lane (Auck) & Halsey Burgund (US) in collaboration with Dr Malcolm Riddoch from the Cantabrian Society of Sonic Artists (CSSA).

http://soundsky.org
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/sound-sky/id791263368?mt=8