The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening 7 August, 6-8pm
Free entry and wines from Pegasus Bay
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The Auricle is proud to present No Mean City by Bruce Russell, an exhibition that sounds short excerpts from texts on urbanism, and literary reflections on the phenomenon of cities in culture, along with recorded instrumental interludes resembling repeated and meaningless fanfares. The texts and other sounds overlap randomly in a jumble of signification, resembling voices in a crowd. The artist invites you to take a moment to reflect on what it means to be part of a city and to ponder on one’s own place in our urban culture.

From 8pm we invite you to stay on and celebrate the official opening of the Auricle’s “oenosthetic” Bar,  a dedicated Wine and Sound Bar that we believe to be the first of its kind in the world. Every month its wine list is curated to complement the current exhibition with wines matched to the sonic works playing in the space, starting with Bruce Russell’s  No Mean City.

Photography by Marine Aubert

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sat July 26, 2014
Doors open 7pm
$5 door to the artists
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The Auricle proudly presents the release party for Toshi Endo’s pop-ambient debut album: Conduit. Join us for an eclectic mix of experimental music from the South. Stunning, hand made copies of the Conduit Album available for the special release party price of: $15

Supported by:
Roads to Roads (Reuben Derrick + Rory Dalley)
Les Baxters
Adam Willetts
Regressor

Photography by Marine Aubert

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

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening 3 July, 6-8pm
Free entry and wines from Pegasus Bay
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Our globally networked communities comprise a world of constant change and a multiplicity of voices brought together by a planetary technological ordering that transgresses national borders, ethnicities, language and cultural difference. In the first of the Auricle Listening Lounge series we bring you an aural showcase of sonic artists from around this networked world.

Featured Artists:
Peter Barnard (London, UK) – Transnational Rhythms
Jeremy Blank (Perth, Aus) – Message to the Oracle
Gust Burns (Seattle, US) – Review Studies (II)
Alan Dunn (Leeds, UK) – Artists’ uses of the word revolution
Blair Parkes (Christchurch, NZ) – Condensations
Nichola Scrutton (Glasgow, Scotland) – HearAfter

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Fri June 27, 2014
Doors open 8pm
Koha to the artists
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Join us for a night of Coal. Cantabrian remnants of pre-lap top. Coal. Seldom scene. Irregular live only band. Rhythm. Feedback. Noise. Electronic trickery. No profile.

Supported by the Son of No No No. Plays with multiple monotrons and effects.

Photography © 2014 Marine Aubert

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sat June 21, 2014
3 – 4:30pm
Free entry (any and all koha to the artists)
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Pat Kraus is down from Auckland this weekend and would like to share his sonic arts experiences in using DIY synthesisers in experimental music. All are welcome!

A former member of The Futurians and The Aesthetics, Kraus has been described as “a national treasure” and “one of the most quietly important and interesting people making music in New Zealand” (New Zealand Listener). Over 10 years and more than a dozen releases his work has encompassed pounding Neanderthal rock, exotic modal guitar ballads, and laser-beam-in-the-face electronics. In this workshop he will demonstrate the use of his handmade synths, fuzz guitar, tape-loops and bamboo flute.

“Corrosive and masterful” – The Wire
“Fantastically demented” – Aquarius Records

http://kraus.co.nz
http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/kraus-supreme-commander

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sat June 21, 2014
Doors open 8pm
$5 entry (to the artists)
Facebook event

A former member of The Futurians and The Aesthetics, Kraus has been described as “a national treasure” and “one of the most quietly important and interesting people making music in New Zealand” (New Zealand Listener). Over 10 years and more than a dozen releases his work has encompassed pounding Neanderthal rock, exotic modal guitar ballads, and laser-beam-in-the-face electronics. In this, his first Christchurch performance, he presents a rich soup of handmade synths, fuzz guitar, tape-loops and bamboo flute, in collaboration with local saxophonist Reuben Derrick.

“Corrosive and masterful” – The Wire
“Fantastically demented” – Aquarius Records

http://kraus.co.nz
http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/kraus-supreme-commander

Photography © 2014 Marine Aubert

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sat June 14, 2014
Doors open 8pm
$5 entry (to the artists)
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Join Dunedin noisists Nick Graham and Birdation for a winters night of sonic texturing, supported by local experimental guitarist Paul Timings.

Nick Graham manipulates the electrical starvation of a dying mixing console, deploying multiple strands of processed feedback to create dense rhythmic drones punctuated by abrasive digital percussion. Currently based in Port Chalmers, Nick has collaborated extensively with performance artists Samin Son and Hana Aoake, as well as forming one half of long standing Dunedin noise-rock outfit Old Psychiatrists Club.

Birdation began a bedroom recording project while her bandmates from Bad Sav were overseas in 2011. Currently it serves as a vehicle for repetitive tropicana with heavy bass and layered vocals. Influenced by soundtracks from video games such as Mass Effect and theme tunes to tv shows like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Paul Timings uses experimental electronic guitar techniques to generate minimalist soundscapes in invoking a sense of recollection and dream.

Photography © 2014 Martine Aubert