The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday the 27th of May, the 3rd of June, and the 10th of June
From 7:00pm
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Analogue electronics workshop – Introduction to making music with a soldering iron.

The Auricle will be hosting a hands-on introduction to analogue electronics over three evenings, at 7pm on Wednesday the 27th of May, the 3rd of June, and the 10th of June.

Learn the basic principles of analogue electronics, learn how to solder and build a unique little touch sensitive mini-synth for making wonderful and weird electronic sounds. Nicolas Woollaston is currently exhibiting his noise-making creations at the Auricle. Join him for three fun evenings of learning, making, doing and playing – and come away with your very own noise-making circuit.

Booking in advance is essential and numbers are strictly limited. The cost of materials will be $35.

Please book via: rbkeys@auricle.co.nz

Those that have soldering irons of their own, please notify us when you book so we can gauge the numbers of soldering irons we have relative to participants.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, May 15th, 2015
From 8:30pm
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Melbourne based artists Dotabata & Llara Isabell Arena bring you a night of ecstatic noise assaults, tape manipulations, and modular madness as part of their New Zealand tour.

https://www.facebook.com/events/819957948098749/

Followed by a matinee collaborative open recording session/performance with local CSSA members the next day…

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday May 9th, 2015
Matinee show!! – 2pm
$5 on the door to the artists
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Emerging from a work/sleep cocoon, Nigel Wright is finally ready to play some new material and test PA’s.

With support from:
Totems
Nick Graham

Nigel Wright has been creating audio for over 10 years and is known for his spacious, expansive sound pieces. Dense layers of tonal drones underpin the field recordings, guitar, and tape loops that Wright uses as source material for his laptop-based live performances.
“Wright works with big, weighty chunks of sound… He uses laptop to weather and rust his guitars strings, ricocheting hefty down-strummed chords through cavernous banks of effects and then watching the overtones drift in the distance, like trailing headlights captured on polaroids.” (Jon Dale – The Wire)

Photography © Marine Aubert

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 2nd May
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

Refined Thunder – Mike Minchington and Paul Timings with their unique brand of improv anti-jazz.
OCD Soundsystem – Cutup tape noise
IRD – have you payed your taxes?

Photography © Marine Aubert

The 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 29^th of April, the 6^th of May, and the 13^th 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)

The 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 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

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday April 25th, 2015
From 8:00pm
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The 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!