Yearly Archives: 2014

Horacio Pollard

Events

Horacio Pollard NZ Tour 2014The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Tuesday 15th April, from 8pm
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Join half English, half Argentine, Ibiza-born ‘noise-eccentric’ HORACIO POLLARD on the Ōtautahi leg of his Aotearoa NZ tour. Armed with a plethora of (mal)functioning and obsolete electronics, he’s threatening to deliver a “nauseating yet ecstatic avalanche of disemboweling disco-hits filled with foul slap bass, vaginal harmonicas and soporifically iconoclastic grooves. HOLGER HILLER meets BRAINBOMBS meets MOHA! – like the caustic fury of a cosmic flatulence suspended in the dead space of an erotic, Kubrickian sci-fi nightmare”.

HP will be supported on the night by local noise artist Regressor.

Rob Thorne’s Whāia te Māramatanga

Events

Album cover artThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 12th April
Taonga Pūoro workshop at 3pm (entry by kohl, email bookings advised)
Performance from 8pm with Stanier Black-Five & Zeug Gezeugt
$10 at the door (all proceeds to the artists)
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Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) is stopping by the Auricle this coming Saturday on his Aotearoa New Zealand tour to perform music from his Rattle debut album, Whāia te Māramatanga and hold an afternoon workshop on taonga pūoro, the traditional Māori instruments that he uses in his music practice.!

“Whāia Te Māramatanga is a musical passage of identity and connection. It is a journey of knowledge through action and practice, reclaiming the past for a stronger future. It is a work in which ancestor and descendant are reacquainted, where ancient practices and their sounds are not just revisited, but actively reborn and reworked. As past and future become one in the present, time dissolves in a transcendental celebration of unity”.

In his afternoon workshop, Rob will be demonstrating the traditional Māori musical instruments he uses in his sonic arts practice and teaching participants to play found instruments that they can take home with them at the end of the session!
Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) has been composing and performing music for over 20 years as a solo guitarist, singer-songwriter, in bands, and as a freenoise sound artist. His 13 years of work with taonga puoro (traditional Maori musical intruments) has been multi faceted, as a musician, a maker of the instruments, and as an academic, recently completing a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology on traditonal aspects of the koauau, a traditonal Maori flute.

Using loop technology, Rob intelligently blends the modern with the ancient, seeking to move toward the future while honouring the past. The sounds and musical structures give a glimpse of how the instruments may have been used compositionally while magically transporting us across dimensions of space and time. The long-length ambient compositions build slowly yet powerfully, relaxing the body while energising the mind and effecting a trancendental experience of spiritual proportions. The beauty of his work has only just begun to be recognised, recently receiving Creative New Zealand funding to record and album, and then having that picked up and released by the highly regarded Rattle Records!

http://www.robthorne.co.nz

Cloud by Luke Munn

Exhibits

Cloud postcardThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3 – 26 April
8 channel sound, looping (20:00)

Cloud is a sonic tapestry composed of alerts, UI sounds and ringtones drawn from our contemporary messaging software: iOS, Android and Blackberry, Windows Phone and Outlook. Cascading over each other, these chimes and crystalline tones play a key role in supporting the notion of a fluid, modern communication experience that is both immaterial and effortless.

Luke Munn is a conceptual artist using the body and code, objects and performances to activate relationships and responses. His projects have featured in the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fold Gallery London, Causey Contemporary Brooklyn and the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, with commissions from Aotearoa Digital Arts, Creative New Zealand and TERMINAL and performances in Paris, Dublin, Chicago, Berlin, Auckland, and New York.

http://www.lukemunn.com
CC-licensed image by Kamil Porembiński

Cloud Opening Night!

Events
Luke Munn's Cloud
CC-licensed image by Kamil Porembiński’

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 3rd April, 6-8pm
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Join the artist Luke Munn for the opening of his Auricle exhibition Cloud, “a sonic tapestry composed of alerts, UI sounds and ringtones drawn from our contemporary messaging software: iOS, Android and Blackberry, Windows Phone and Outlook. Cascading over each other, these chimes and crystalline tones play a key role in supporting the notion of a fluid, modern communication experience that is both immaterial and effortless”.

Acoustic Illuminations

Events

Acoustic IlluminationsThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, March 21, 2014
From 8pm
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Join us for an acoustic concert of soundscape works by Reuben Derrick sourced from field recordings from his travels in New Zealand, Australia and Sri Lanka. Reuben uses experimental microphone techniques, sound walks and improvised performance to explore the visceral properties of sounds while at the same time sustaining their environmental context.

Hi Asobi & Memory Burn

Events

Hi-AsobiThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, March 15, 2014
From 8pm
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After a break of nearly 2 years, Hi Asobi (Peter Wright, David Khan, Antony Milton) are looking forward to presenting an electro-acoustic improvisation at the Auricle, this Saturday.

Hi Asobi emerged from the ruins of Chch in latter 2010, after evolving through the mnemonic surrogates Oshibori (the ear-splitting debut at Porto el Santo, Lyttelton) and the rather less-likely to induce crippling threshold-shift Kannazuki. Subsequently Hi-Asobi performed at Lines of Flight in 2011 – accompanied by Milton’s first fascinating excursions into video work. Releases are available on Bandcamp via Distant Bombs and Pseudoarcana. Look here:

Oshibori, Mono-Wah
Kannazuki, Asleep in the Shadow of the Mountain
Hi-Asobi, 3 Films

Also featuring on the night are Memory Burn (Rory Dalley and Michael Minchington) who have been threatening to ‘do something’ with turntables!

Signals from Unknown Sources by Rachel Shearer

Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Opening performance event: Friday 28th February 6:30-11pm
Showing: 28 February – 29 March, 2014

Performed installation
8 speaker digital sound

This experimental work explores spatial sound composition through using the idea of the phantasm – both in the sense of an apparition, a shadowy, incorporeal image – but also in relation to Klossowski’s ‘phantasm’ which refers to an obsessional image produced instinctively from the constantly fluctuating intensive states of the soul.
(Pierre Klossowski. French writer, translator and artist. 1905 – 2001)

Rachel Shearer has a long history of working with a range of sound practices, dating back to releases on the South Island based Xpressway label in the late 1980’s. She has actively participated in a culture of composing and performing experimental music. Since then she has investigated sound as a medium through the recording and live performance of original compositions, sound design for moving image, sound installation and practise-led academic study. Recent works include a permanent 9 channel public sound installation on Auckland’s waterfront, The Wynyard Quarter. Rachel lectures part-time at Elam School of Fine Arts and in Creative Technologies at AUT, while researching Sound Installation Practice for her PhD.

Audacious opening performance night

Events

Audacious Festival of Sonic ArtsThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, February 28, 2014
Doors open from 6:30pm
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Join us at The Auricle to celebrate the opening of the Audacious – Festival of Sonic Arts and exhibition, Signals From Unknown Sources by artist Rachel Shearer. Rachel will be performing her eight channel work live followed by more live action from local artist David Khan, and improvised electroacoustic taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments) with Tony Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu – Kāti Irakehu) and collaborators.

7pm – Welcoming ceremony and opening speeches with drinks provided by The Auricle’s winery partner, Pegasus Bay

8pm – Rachel Shearer’s Signals From Unknown Sources – exploring spatial sound composition through the idea of the phantasm, both in the sense of an apparition – a shadowy, incorporeal image -and also in relation to Klossowski’s ‘phantasm’ which refers to an obsessional image produced instinctively from the constantly fluctuating intensive states of the soul. http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/interview/648/Rachel-Shearer.utr

9-11pm – More live performance!