The 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://
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, November 20th, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event
Misfit Mod & Instant Fantasy bring you good vibes to get on the sips.
The 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.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, 12th November, 2015
From 7pm
Facebook event
Join us for our monthly Record Club at The Auricle. The second Thursday of every month! BYO vinyl only!
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 13th November, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event
U M U : bullclips, contact mics, 4-track cassette, analogue synth, turntable, found objects.
U M U is the ultra minimal mechanical electronics project of Daniel Beban. It’s based around simple spinning movements and crude analogue sound manipulation. Daniel Beban is a musician and sound artist from Wellington. He plays in Orchestra of Spheres, Sign of the Hag, Imbogodom, Slakes, Mantarays and other groups. He plays guitar and assorted objects, and makes instruments.
IRD is Christchurch’s Rory Dalley. His performances utilise junk noise and found sounds, music made with broken cassette recorders, unplugged mixers and collapsed drum kits, using few effects and abandoning many well-trodden psychedelic paths.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 14th November, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event
Space F!ght is an audio and visual live experience that explores the interaction between visualisations and improvised music. Drawing upon influences from a wide range of music styles, the international collective link dub, techno and jazz. Founder of the band and meister of electronics is Dr Radek Rudnicki, currently over from the UK, is joined by vocalist Anna Edgington (aka EDIE) & composer, sound designer, multi-instrumentalist Tane Upjohn-Beatson.
Support from Asteroid Anxiety
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 6th November, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event
The Auricles monthly night showcasing LIVE experimental electronic music…
Toshi Endo, David Khan, Malcolm Riddoch – Synth electro-noise excursions.
Voronoi – Deep space exploration, and DIY nuclear fission experiments.
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
From 6:00pm
Facebook event
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
Facebook event
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.