Yearly Archives: 2015

The Australian Mega Fauna Project

Events

BRIDGE_OF_REMEMBERANCEThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday June 25th, 2015
From 8:45pm
Facebook event

-film screening and performance-

The Australian Mega Fauna project is a new breed of Documentary film project that combines art and science through public arts projects and prehistoric interventions. Utilizing giant puppets and the medium of stop motion animation to tell the stories of Australasia through the ice age. In summer 2014 The Australian Mega Fauna Project focused on the extinct giant eagle of the South Island of New Zealand in a public arts project with Christchurch City Council called “Haast Eagle Sightings in Christchurch” premiering this week.

Film screening starts at 9pm sharp.

Saturation Archive #2

Events

posterThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday June 26th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

The Auricle & Saturation Archive present a night of electronic music, and record trading.

LIVE set from Josh Greene and George Aitken

DJ sets downstairs from:

Bruja
Chris Ellis
Cam Malcolm
Sheldon Willaims

Saturation Archive distro will be open on the night; for trade or sale!

Teen Haters vs The Escalation

Events

teenhatersThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday July 4th, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

The Auricle extends an invite to the brave and foolhardy to venture forth on the evening of July 4 and witness a mid-winter sonic stouch between Teen Haters [Miss Mercury & Mr Repetition] and The Escalation [Mr Noisy & Mr Strangely Familiar]*.

Gape in awe at the flexing of taut strings; flinch at the squeals of misbehaving electronics; wonder at the perplexing tangle of cables and wrangling of mysterious knobs; gasp in horror at the flagrant and joyous disregard for professional musicianship in a public space.

Recover afterwards in the Auricle Wine Bar with some fine beverages, accompanied by lite entertainment courtesy of DJ Interior Design. Entry is free. Space is strictly limited. BYO wet wipes and hand towels.

* The names of the performing artists have been altered to protect the ignorant

Photography © Marine Aubert

So Sine

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday June 18th, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event

An eclectic evening of synthpop, improvisation and static instantiation replete with designated wine breaks.

With sounds provided by:
French Concession
Paul Timings (last NZ performance for a few months) playing guitar and sine wave pattern generator
Nicolas Woollaston, Mike Minchington and Paul Timings

Reading Around Sound #3

Events

6a00d83452a98069e200e54f3ea2918834-640wiThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

Join us at The Auricle for Reading Around Sound – a monthly reading group meeting. Each month we’ll meet up and discuss specific texts that present ideas, thoughts, and theories relating to sound activity. All are welcome to attend!

June’s reading is part II of Eyes of The Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa. Whilst strictly speaking an architectural text, it will serve to offer a point of entry to engage with questions of multi-sensorial perception and spatiality. Link to PDF: https://auricle.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/juhani-pallasmaa-the-eyes-of-the-skin.pdf

For online discussion around these texts, and if you’d like to suggest a text for upcoming consideration please join the Reading Around Sound Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1803541419871262/

Reading Around Sound is a monthly reading group that endeavours to facilitate theoretical and critical engagement with contemporary sonic practices and related issues through close reading, and ongoing discussion and debate. It is a shared initiative between the Auricle and the Audio Foundation with monthly events in both Auckland and Christchurch.

Signal-to-Noise #4

Events

overpass_A_06-2The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday June 12th, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event

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

Jonty O’Connor – better known as a drummer about town, Jonty is also a avid knob-fiddler… Watch him merge with his machine drum in eight dimensional surround sound rhythmic chaos.

k..k. – Noise, drone, and experimental electronics from Argentina.

Voronoi & Toshi Endo – Granular synthesis, and iPod mini’s on needless repeat…

… and more to be announced!

Photography © Marine Aubert

Little Timothoy

Events

unnamedFantastic Princess & Friends presents The Shit or LITTLE TIMOTHOY
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 20th June, 2015
From 5:30pm
Facebook event

Little Timothoy is perhaps the greatest work by the eponymous Fantastic Princess. Spanning a grotesque 40 minutes of diverse elements such as noise, avant-garde music, a children’s storybook and a myriad of lo-fi recording techniques, it remains a masterpiece 5 years after its creation. It has however gone unreleased for this entire time though, and it is now time for an official release.
Listen to Little Timothoy in it’s entirety, superbly reproduced on the silky speakers within the warm walls of The Auricle, drink a beverage, chat to the creators and pick up your own copy of the CD ($10.00). Each copy is handmade and unique (this is a very limited edition of 50).
The piece will be played in it’s entirety starting 6:30pm. It will not be looped, but can be replayed later in the night on request.

Radiophonic Night

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday June 6, 2015
7pm: Radiophonic documentary
From 8pm – Music and live acts
Facebook event

Journey back in time with the futuristic sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in a night of vintage music made and inspired by the legendary department. The evening blasts off with a film about the pioneering electronic studio, followed by radiophonic music playing all night in the bar and live performances upstairs from Nicolas Woollaston, Adam Willetts, Richard B. Keys, David Khan and the specially formed Auricle Radiophonic Orchestra.

Established in 1958 to produce new music and sound effects for radio and then television, it was responsible for classic tunes such as the original Dr Who theme to sound effects for the Goon Show. While much of its output still sounds amazingly modern, the sounds of its classic era were created using very basic equipment, such as old test equipment and tape recorders. Employing the techniques of musique concrète, natural sounds – often of everyday objects – were recorded, manipulated and transformed into the often highly atmospheric soundtracks for which the workshop became known.