Monthly Archives: April 2015

Alive to the Timbre of your Touch by Nicolas Woolaston

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 7-31 May, 2015
Opening: 7th May, 6-8pm
Facebook event


A collection of improvised electronic instruments by Nicolas Woollaston

These works present an organic electronic palate for the senses, a synergy between person and electricity, manifested as sound created through personal electronics and their “direct carving” circuits completed by human touch, fingers and hands. Gallery participants are invited to freely explore the touch sensitive timbral possibilities of each machine.

Nicolas Woollaston is a creative technologist who has a passion for closing the gap between production and consumption, for electronic gadgetry, for wonderful and strange noises, for making it all personal.

Photography by Marine Aubert

Max MSP 101 Bootcamp Workshop

Events

Screen-Shot-2013-04-14-at-10.17.48-AMThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday the 29th of April, 6th, and 13th of May, 2015
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

The Auricle is running a series of workshops over the next few months, the first of which is an introductory course to Max MSP.

Max is a visual programming language designed for use with sound and multimedia. It is used by composers, electronic musicians, sound and media artists worldwide. The Auricle ambisonic surround sound system in the gallery is itself run on Max. Max is a highly versatile application for processing sonic and visual data that employs an accessible visual programming language that does not require to prior programming experience.

The Auricle will be hosting three MaxMSP 101 workshops, at 7-pm on Wednesday the 29th of April, the 6th of May, and the 13th of May.

The workshops will be free of charge.

In order to participate you just need to install a (month long) trial copy of Max (we will be using Max version 6) on your laptop from the link provided and come along to the workshops.

Please book in advance so we can gauge seating.

Bookings and info: info@auricle.nz
Download link: https://cycling74.com/downloads/older/  (we will be using Max version 6)

Signal-to-Noise #2

Events

overpass_A_06-2The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday April 18th, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

The Auricle’s monthly electronic evening -Signal to Noise- in its second iteration brings you…

Toshi Endo – beats, bass and drones….
Resurrection – experimental technoid excursions.
Asteroid Anxiety – modular dronescapes, and deep space exploration…

Photography © Marine Aubert

The Softsynth Siren Tour

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday April 24th, 2015
From 8:00pm
$10 on the door to the artists
Facebook event

Misfit Mod​
｡◕Icy electronic beats, wet synths, and a hypnotic vocals◕｡
http://starsandletters.bandcamp.com/album/islands-islandsLttle phnx​
✿ ♥Let LTTLE PHNX lead you through reverb-wet crystal-encrusted caves of longing, as funky-alien arpeggios illuminate a space the size of a human-heart -̮̮̃ •̃
http://crystalmagic.org/album/pyrexia

Instant Fantasy​
･+☆Synth-drone ego-miner*･ﾟ
https://soundcloud.com/instantfantasy/i-dont-see-an-honest-man

Photography © Marine Aubert

Improv Club #8

Events

Auricle Improv ClubThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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!

Reading Around Sound #1

Events

Book image_bannerThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, April 16th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

The first edition of the Auricle’s Reading Around Sound reading group is this Thursday at 7:30pm.

Where we will be discussing this essay: Musicophobia, or Sound Art and the Demands of Art Theory by Brian Kane

featured here: https://readingaroundsound.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/reading-1-musicophobia-by-brian-kane/

summary/excerpts:
https://readingaroundsound.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/summaryexcerpts-from-reading-1/

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If your interested please come along and join our Facebook group.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1803541419871262/

IRD & Toshi Endo

Events

8133615The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, April 11, 2015
8:00pm
Facebook event

CSSA stalwarts IRD & Toshi Endo will headline the night with their first collaborative performance. Toshi’s dance culture détournement colliding with Rory’s free-form, noise exploration!

Support from Wellington based (ex-Christchurch) noise assault squad The Plow That Broke the Plains!

Photography © Marine Aubert