Monthly Archives: March 2015

Sculptures: 5

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 2nd April – 5th May, 2015
Opening: 2nd April, 6-8pm
Kinetic Sound Installation
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sculptures: 5 is a kinetic sound installation that binds together multiple senses through audio signal. This continues an engagement with the translation of sonic materials by cross-modally working between sound, movement and light. This work articulates the complex relations of sound waves by creating a visual, audible and physical representation of phase space that realises the sensory affect of the spatial arrangement of waves.

Kynan Tan is an artist working with digital processes to investigate networks, data transference and relational structures between multiple senses. These works take the form of multi-screen audio-visual performances, installations, 3D-printed sculptures, improvised sound, and kinetic artworks involving electronic circuits, speakers and lights.

Andrew Brooks is a Sydney ­based artist, writer, curator and organiser whose work takes the form of installations, performances, text works and sound recordings.

http://negativespaces.net

Photography by Marine Aubert

Peter Kolovos and Bruce Russell

Events

bea24c910a26c20bbe0b3f8815a83e7fThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, March 26, 2015
7:30pm
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Hot of the back of his scorching performance at the Lines of Flight festival in Dunedin, LA based Peter Kolovos will be performing at the Auricle, with Christchurch’s own infamous guitar noise maestro Bruce Russell.

Solo performances from each artist will be concluded with a duet!

LAFIDKI at the Auricle

Events

avatar_15d00fd2b6fd_512The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
From 7pm
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In the latest manifestation of his whirlwind tour of New Zealand. The sonic-sorcerer and electro-alchemist, LAFIDKI will play a impromptu show at The Auricle this Tuesday! … with support IRD and from DJ Toshi Endo who will play both before and after downstairs in the bar!

DJ from 730 – acts from 8PM sharp!

Viv Corringham

Events

iphonenov 001The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
8:00pm
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“Ethno-cyberpunk diva. (Her) voice is a thing of wonder, ranging from lilting folkiness to speaking-in-tongues wildness.” -Richard Sanderson

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist based in New York. Since the 1980s she has been singing a wide range of music that includes free improvisation, Greek Rembetika and spontaneously created songs. She has also been recording soundscapes in the many countries her sound and installation work has taken her. These various elements find their way into her live performances.

She works in several established groups, in ad-hoc groupings and also as a soloist.
She has performed with Pauline Oliveros, Monique Buzzarte, Gino Robair, Elliott Sharp, Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Al Margolis, Maggie Nicols, Andrea Parkins, Eddie Prevost and Didier Petit among many others.

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Viv will be taking a free Deep Listening workshop from 6pm-7pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/851303678269219/

Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature – exclusive and inclusive — of listening.

http://deeplistening.org/site/content/about

Followed by a performance at 8pm

Photography by Lingering Sound

Lines of Flight

Events

lofBruce Russell, Teen Haters, Aletheia Ensemble & Stanier Black 5
Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 March, 2015
Lines of Flight Festival, Dunedin
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The legendary Lines of Flight experimental music festival returns to Dunedin in March as part of the 2015 Dunedin Fringe Festival. It features sixteen hours of performances, showcasing experimentation across a wide range of musical genres: from trancelike drones to fiery free jazz, from delicate electro-acoustics to roaring walls of noise, from cutting edge digital technology to ingenious homemade instruments.

The opening night at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery will include Christchurch electroacoustic group the Aletheia Ensemble and also Stanier Black Five. Her piece ‘Oenosthesia’ is a multi-sensory performance exploring the synergies between sound and taste, and was originally created during an artist’s residency in Southern Italy.

Plus the highlights from the first announcement: Our Love Will Destroy the World’s ecstatic noise, Jeff Henderson and Hermione Johnson’s superb saxophone and prepared piano duo, the hypnotic analogue synth beats of the mysterious Omit, improvised psych/rock from Dunedin’s Eye, turntable cut-up mastery from Wellington’s Alphabethead, a rare performance by the godfathers of free noise A Handful of Dust, featuring Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith, and a very rare live outing by the Sandoz Lab Technicians.

Tickets are available via the Dunedin Fringe Festival website, www.dunedinfringe.org.nz

The lineups for each show (in playing order) are as follows:

Thursday 19 March – Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon, 7.30pm
– Radio Cegeste
– Stanier Black-Five
– Aletheia Ensemble
– Jeff Henderson and Hermione Johnson

Friday 20 March – Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers, 8pm
– Noel Meek
– The Ladder is Part of the Pit
– Sonny Carver
– Eye
– Peter Kolovos
– Omit

Saturday 21 March – The Anteroom, Masonic Lodge, Port Chalmers, 1pm
– Birdation
– Teen Haters
– Sandoz Lab Technicians
– A Handful of Dust

Saturday 21 March – Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers, 8pm
– Nick Graham
– Rubbish Film Unit
– Two To Tutu Too
– Alphabethead
– Olympus
– Our Love Will Destroy the World

Teen Haters Sunday Matinee

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sunday March 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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Fresh off the boat and still breathing, Teen Haters invade the Auricle with a bunch of cables and some half-tuned instruments in a last ditch attempt to record an album before the format becomes extinct. Audience members are encouraged to bring their portable recording devices to bootleg the proceedings for possible inclusion in the final album mix.

Improv Club #7

Events

Auricle Improv ClubThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, March 11th, 2014
From 7:00pm
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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!

Riesling and music tasting & Riesling lounge

Events

10995343_605456226252954_701028238017521380_nThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 5-29 March, 2015
Opening: 5 March, 6-8pm
Interactive Sound and Video Work
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Explore the diversity of this most expressive of grapes in a tutored tasting hosted by leading NZ wine writer and Riesling-lover, Jo Burzynska. In this multi-sensory celebration of the grape, you’ll not only get to try fine examples from around the globe, but have their differences brought out and character enhanced by some well chosen music.

This draws on Jo’s knowledge and current scientific research into the fascinating synergies between taste and sound.

Following the tasting, The Auricle will be offering an expanded range of Rieslings to enjoy that evening and over the whole weekend, accompanied by Riesling-friendly music (and platters). More information about the weekend’s activities posted here soon.

The cost of the tasting is $35. Booking essential through Jo at jo@joburzynska.com

To find out more about Jo’s work in sound and wine, have a look here: http://joburzynska.com/wine-and-music/

Party Of Special Things To Do

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday March 14th, 2015
From 8:00pm
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Party of Special Things to Do is back, and will feature on the second Saturday of each month for 2015!

An assortment of sound-makers offer an eclectic multitude of improvised delights. Performances are between 10 and 30 minutes each.

Performance starts at 7:40 sharp!

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Featuring:

Symon palmer (7:40pm sharp)
Stanier Black Five
Richard Keys with Mike Rophone
Paul Timings, Reuben Derrick, Michael Kime
Toshi Endo
Nicholas Woollaston, IRD, Tom Phillpotts

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https://auricle.nz/party-of-special-things-to-do-2/