Yearly Archives: 2014

Misfit Mod’s Electronic Music Practice for Women

Events

Misfit Mod WorkshopThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Workshop 1: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 19th June
Workshop 2: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 26th June
Cost: $10 (per class)
Bookings: {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
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RadioNZ Music 101 Interview

From inspiration to execution, this workshop is designed to help women discover their own sound, guiding them through the technological process to develop their ideas into a unique body of work. This workshop is designed for those interested in learning:

Basic Recording Techniques
Equipment / Software
Writing / Ideas
Effects / Mixing

This workshop will cultivate a supportive, fun, accessible environment for women in which to start writing and recording their own electronic music. No prior experience is necessary.

Sarah Kelleher aka Misfit Mod, released her debut album Islands + Islands in 2013. Her work has been featured by Interview Magazine, Clash, Under the Radar, the BBC and MTV’s Iggy voted her as one of the ‘7 New Zealand Bands that Deserve a Big Breakthrough’. Also an audio engineer and lecturer, Sarah has worked as a Lecturer at the School of Audio Engineering in London and Oxford, U.K.

Course Info:
The workshops will take place over two evenings. You are welcome to take take both or just one.

Workshop 1: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 19th June
Workshop 2: 7 – 9pm, Thursday 26th June

Cost: $10 (per class)
Includes a complimentary glass of wine
Classes are limited.

To book email: {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
Call: +64 3 260 0501 or +64 225 946 512

This project embraces one of The Auricle’s core objectives to encourage more women to actively participate in sound/music. Please pass these details on to any women you know who might be interested.

Run with funding from Christchurch Community Arts Council Trust.
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Months – IRD – No No No

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Doors open from 8pm
$5 entry to the artists
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Join the sonic artists Months, IRD and No No No in this CSSA launch event for the new Ben Spiers/Months Split tape and Auricle Recordings’ new CD release, Illuminate featuring Memory Burn, Teen Haters and Zeug Gezeugt. Tapes and CD’s available at the gig and online.

Photography © 2014 Marine Aubert

Captured Space by Eric La Casa & Philip Samartzis

Exhibits

Captured Space Postcard 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.

Captured Space exhibition opening

Events

Captured SpaceThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening 5 June, 6-8pm
Free entry
Facebook event

Join us for the opening of the Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis sound art work Captured Space, 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.

Community by Rotor Plus

Exhibits

Community by Rotor PlusThe 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.

Noel Meek (Wgtn), Olivia Webb (Wgtn), Kelsely Abaza (Chch)

Events

Meeks and Webb

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, May 16, 2014
Doors open from 7:30pm


Noel Meek is a Wellington-based sound artist, who will be presenting a new drone project that recently debuted at Puppies in Wellington. Meek builds drones on samplers using live recorded samples of acoustic and electric instruments with minimal digital manipulation or effects, but using non-traditional tunings and notes pitch shifted by microtonal intervals to build layers of overtones: https://soundcloud.com/noelmeek/the-working-man-is-king-in-his-own-home

Video and performance artist Olivia Webb will be presenting video works to accompany Meek’s live music. Webb is currently in Christchurch from Wellington to work with The Physics Room on a series of outdoor sound installations.

Kelsely Abaza is a composer and producer of electronic music born in Cairo, Egypt and based in Christchurch, New Zealand. His influences include Autechre, Boards of Canada, Philip Glass, Aphex Twin, Jean Michel Jarre, Laurie Anderson and others. He has performed in New Zealand including an audio-visual performance at the Auckland Museum on the theme of the Arab Spring uprisings: https://www.facebook.com/kelselyabaza

This is an early evening gig, with the first artist on at 8pm sharp and the second act finished by 10pm.

Community exhibition opening

Events

Community by Rotor PlusThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening May 1
Multi-speaker installation


Join us on May Day for the exhibition opening for Community (the hidden hand) by Dunedin artist Rotor Plus.

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?

Pagan Fest 3

Events

Pagan Fest 3The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 18th April, from 8pm
Doors open from 8pm
Free entry, donations are welcome!
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A pagan festival for this Good Friday! Join our pagan artists playing pagan noise in a celebration of life, death and the universe. The event also marks the first release from the Auricle Recordings label, Pagan Fest 2, a live recording of our pagan artists from July 12 2013 in Richmond, Christchurch New Zealand.