The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
From 6:00pm
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Works For Loudspeakers is a quarterly event showcasing new and local sound-based composition. A selection from the first year is transplanted from an intimate close-listening environment in Wellington to the outdoor Alhambra Sound Garden in Christchurch. Shifts in listening perspectives may be observed.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 30th, 2015
From 7:30pm
$35/seat – bookings essential
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A multisensory tasting of craft beers paired with music performances by the brewers themselves! Ticket includes seven different beers, each paired with a matching live music performance. Food platters to share will be provided.
Explore the stirring synergies between craft beer and experimental music at The Auricle! Just as drinks are complemented by food that enhances their flavours and aromas, sound waves have a profound effect on the perception of taste. Craft beer enthusiasts and music lovers are invited to join us in a unique multisensory tasting of fine craft beers and specially composed music.
Wine critic and sound artist Jo Burzynska will introduce you to the concept of taste and music matching, then will lead you through the tasting of 7 special brews paired with complementary tunes performed live by the brewers and collaborators.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 5th – 29th November, 2015
Opening: Thursday 5th November, 6-8pm
Seminar: Saturday 7th November, 3pm
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KL Soundscapes is an interactive algorithmic composition playing sounds in rhythmic patterns, at volumes and speeds determined by you the gallery participant. The rhythmic patterns are integer-based transcriptions of modern musical notations of the folk idiom – in this instance the notation of a traditional Malaysian percussion ensemble. The sounds are composed from selected field recordings gathered during Timings’ artist residency in Malaysia during July – September 2015, along with mathematically produced generative synthesis. The combined effect of the synthesis produces a harmonic structure of detuned whole tone scales.
The artist would like to invite you to take the time to explore the rhythmic patterns, field recordings and synthesis firstly as an artist’s descriptive experience; and secondly as several signs comprising a system, and their relative meanings in the context of a temporal framework where modality focuses on the digital vernacular.
Paul Timings is a sound artist who performs experimental music; composes field recordings and electroacoustic recordings; and organises sound. KL Soundscapes is a result of an international artist residency awarded by the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and was primarily organised when Timings was located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a three month period. Paul will give a Saturday Matinee artist seminar on the 7th Nov from 3pm, speaking of his experiences and arts practice in Malaysia.
The composition’s interface was designed by sound artist Nicolas Woollaston.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday October 24th, 2015
8:00pm
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IRD, Mike Minchington, Nicolas Woollaston – The CSSA’s favourite sons combine for a scorching improvised perfroamcne of noise, home-baked electronics, and pure virtuosity.
Teen Haters – Lytteltons drone luminaries conjure up soundscapes comprised of equal parts guitar feedback, cello and teen angst.
i .Ryoko – Neo-psychedelic mantras, electro-experimentation, and blazing walls of bright white noise from Wellington’s Thomas Lambert.
Flo Wilson – Electronic textures, beats and manipulated vocals.
Noel Meek – Fresh off the back of his tour of Japan and Indonesia.
DJ Comb Over – Auricle’s favourite in house DJ; a second hand electronics shop, meets a bad hair day.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday October 24th, 2015
Doors open from 2:30pm
Richard B. Keys & Julia Harvie – High Frequency Trading – A performance piece for electronic sound and dance, that explores the relationship between freedom and improvisation and the technological and economic forces that influence (and seek to define) the contemporary subject. The piece employs data-sonification of the stock market in real time to produce generative sound which the dancer interprets.
Stanier Black-Five – Oenosthesia III – A further development of the Oenosthesia project that began on a artist residency in Irpinia, Italy. Stanier Black-Five will create a wine soundscape live, the works to extend and augment the texture and flavours of a number of different wines.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
From 7:00pm
Koha to the artists
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Ariana Tikao & Mahina-Ina Kaui – A Karakia and Karanga by Ariana Tikao and Mahina-Ina Kaui will open the Audacious Festival of Sonic Arts 2015 followed by a range of performances of taonga pūoro, electro-acoustic improvisation and noise.
Kathleen Kim – is an experimental composer and musician whose current and past projects include LA Fog, SheKhan and Lady Noise. She has a background in classical, jazz and improvisational.
Richard Francis employs musique concrete techniques, and modular synthesis to conjure nuance worlds of sound.
Ladder is Part of the Pit – Dunedin’s finest exponents of electro-acoustic experimentation. The Ladder is Part of the Pit will close the evening with their own exquisite of “glaciated collective sonic ritual prayer“.
Sonic Portrait Workshop Part 1
Scape Art Central, Corner of Gloucester & Colombo St, Christchurch City
Saturday 17 October 2015 11:00am – 12:30pm
Sonic Portrait Workshop Part 2
CPIT, Madras St, Christchurch City
Saturday 31 October 2015 11:00am – 1:00pm
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Bookings essential via SCAPE or email {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
The Cantabrian Society of Sonic Artists (CSSA) in partnership with SCAPE Public Art present Sonic Portraits, a unique exploration of self and world through sound via two workshops in the art of audio field recording and composition. The Auricle’s Sonic Portraits workshops offer a unique opportunity to compose a self-portrait through sound. Drawing on the practices of active listening, sound walking and field recording followed by multichannel audio mixing, participants will be guided through the composition of a sonic portrait of their lived, day-to-day experience of the sound environment they inhabit.
Part 1 is an introductory session explaining the basic concepts concerning active listening, and practical recording techniques. Between the introductory and editing sessions, participants will have two weeks to make recordings of their own, unique sound-environment at their discretion. No prior experience with recording, audio editing, or sound practices are required. All you need are open ears and a simple recording device, which could range from a smart phone to a stand-alone portable audio recorder.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 10th, October 2015
From 8:00pm
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An assortment of sound-makers offer an eclectic multitude of improvised delights. Performances are between 10 and 30 minutes each.
Photography courtesy of Marine Aubert
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, October 17th, 2015
From 8:00pm
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An evening of soundings, direct from the Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery, featuring:
IRD, Mike Minchington, Nicolas Woolaston and Paul Timings.
///NOISE/// to be played in as yet to be determined conditions of complete nullified darkness or absolute piercing light, at various levels of amplification, for various durations.