Monthly Archives: November 2015

Kenneth Mitchell’s Crystal ResoSynth

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
Seminar at 6pm with performance from 7:00pm
Facebook event

Join us this fine mid week for an experimental performance exploring subtle FM synthesis tones mediated through the transductive powers of crystals. Ken Mitchell is a Sydney, Australia based sound artist using a Crystal ResoSynth via Max/MSP and crystal transducers. The artist will also give a short seminar from 6pm for all those interested in creative coding using a crystal radio interface!


Crystal ResoSynth Performance, Auricle Gallery, Christchurch from kenneth mitchell

Fate of Things to Come by Phil Dadson

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd – 31st December, 2015
Opening: Thursday 3rd December, 6-8pm
Facebook event

Fate Of Things To Come (a conference of stones) 2013
Three channel synchronised video and sound installation. Duration 9’48”

No ordinary stones these, and what better community to discuss the fate of things to come – a collection of song/stone voices from diverse geophysical sources.

A stand-alone work symbolizing harmony and solidarity, Fate of Things to Come was originally devised as a contribution to Lines in the Ocean, an exhibition in support of the establishment of a fully protected ocean sanctuary around the Kermadecs, a unique region of mostly underwater volcanoes located north of Aotearoa/New Zealand between White Island and Tonga. Five years of negotiation have finally succeeded with NZ Government announcing approval this year of the Kermadec Sanctuary proposal.
Full ratification will occur in April 2016)

Credits:
Camera by Bruce Foster
Sound recorded by John Kim
Devised, performed, edited by Phil Dadson 2013/14
Produced with the support of:
Pew Charitable Trust
CNZ Arts Council of New Zealand
Colab Creative Technologies/AUT University Auckland.

Exhibited: Silo Summer of Sculpture, Auckland. 2013. ‘Lines in the Ocean’ exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, 2013 & Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia 2015.

Phil Dadson’s transdisciplinary practice includes digital video/audio and installation, performances and exhibitions, building experimental sonic objects, graphic scores, drawing, music composition and improvisations on invented instruments. Following membership of the foundation group for Scratch Orchestra (London, 1969, with Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and others), Dadson returned to New Zealand to establish Scratch Orchestra (NZ), and later From Scratch (1974 – 2004), remembered as New Zealand’s most original rhythm/performance group, known internationally for its funky rhythms and compelling performances on original instruments. Appointed to the Elam School of Fine Arts Sculpture department in 1977, Dadson was made Head of Intermedia/Time-based arts in 1986; a position he held and was influential in until 2001 when he left to focus on his personal practice. He has been the recipient of many key awards and commissions including a Fulbright Cultural Travel Award to the USA, an Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2001, Antarctica Artist Fellowship in 2003, ONZM in 2005 and various International research residencies including a Wallace/Fulbright Headlands residency award for 2016. He lives in Auckland with his wife Camilla and loves nothing more than drifting off shore in a kayak. He is represented by Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland.

Songs for George

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 28th November, 2015
From 6:00pm
Facebook event

This memorial event celebrating the life of our friend George Gosset is happening on the evening of 28th November. All friends and family of George are invited to come along to share stories and pictures, shed tears, play records, perform, or just simply be there amongst those who valued him.

While there will be plenty of room for spontaneous contributions on the night, if you’d like to perform or contribute anything specific, please drop Ros or Jo a message as they’re putting together a rough programme for the evening.

Pikelet

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, November 27th, 2015
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

Evelyn Morris has been playing music under the Pikelet name for around ten years, and has taken the act through many different musical territories throughout the 3 albums and various EPs. Her most recent approach is a throwback to how the act first started; as an improvised exploration into pop music and emotional expression. Mesmerising soundscapes and textures that embrace moments of perceived imperfection to be reshaped into intentional pop-bending experimentation. She’ll be selling a limited edition New Zealand tour EP, recorded specifically for this trip.

yek koo + Toshi Endo + Adam Willetts + DJ Cartography

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sunday, November 29th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

NY based artist and musician Helga Fassonaki has been in New Zealand for the last couple of months, exhibiting her work Khal at galleries around New Zealand. She will perform a final show in Christchurch in her solo cloak of pocket trumpet and spacial disorientation as yek koo.
http://helgafassonaki.net/yek_koo/
https://soundcloud.com/yek-koo

Sunday night will be her last in the Antipodes, and Helga will be going off in style…

yek koo – Pocket trumpet and vocalisations
Toshi Endo – Synth-drone excursions
DJ Cartography – Chilean electronics at home & abroad

Seth Frightening ~ Vinyl Release

Events

12194701_1656970567913124_6925943681365250091_oThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

Join Sonorous Circle and Seth Frightening for the limited edition release of his album ‘But We Love Our Brothers and Sisters’ on 12” bone-coloured vinyl. In his own words, “…it is a deathly ode to the failings of love, the reality of being nothing and alone, forever dead in space.”

$10 / $5 unwaged
with I.E. CRAZY

For vinyl pre-orders (to collect at the show) head to: https://sethfrightening.bandcamp.com/

Reading Around Sound #7

Events

WASThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

This month we will be discussing the inaugural Writing Around Sound publication, with specific emphasis paid to the Foreword and Introduction as a way to open up conversation about the journal initiative at large. The pdf is available here for those without a physical copy.