The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 10th December
Artists from 8pm
Facebook event
Months
IRD
Reuben Derrick
Nicolas Woollaston
Paul Timings
An evening of drone, brass, synthesis and noise from local experimental musicians.
Yearly Archives: 2016
Writing Around Sound #3 Christchurch Release
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday 7th December
6pm / Free entry
Facebook event
We are proud to announce the Christchurch release of Writing Around Sound #3 – The Contemporary Sound Object.
— featuring Bruce Russell, IRD & DJ Cement —
Our third issue explores contemporary interpretations of Pierre Schaeffer’s notion of the sonorous object (sound object) and includes the work of Christchurch based writer and sonic artist Bruce Russell alongside the work of others from around the country and abroad.
Entry is free & journals cost $10 (cash only).
Complimentary wine from Pegasus Bay!
Banner image by Awe IX.
Hotel Despair / People Walking in Circles
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 2nd December
Artists from 7pm / Koha entry
Facebook event
Hotel Despair
People Walking in Circles
New foes, glazed over temples, frustrated with life, anxious, formidable and deafened, glorious triumph, a new banner, a new kingdom, a blue linguist on a rampage.
Koha entry. 7:00pm start.
Tasting Notes
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 19th November
18:30 – 20:30
Facebook event
Explore the stirring synergies between craft beer and music at The Auricle!
Six NZ craft breweries. Six renowned sonic artists.
A unique multisensory tasting, where the aromas and textures of fine craft beers will be intensified by high quality musical performances.
Just as drinks are complemented by foods that enhance their flavours, sound waves have a profound effect on the perception of taste.
Craft beer enthusiasts and music lovers are invited to join us in an exceptional experience, where the tasting notes of six special brews will be interpreted in complementary tunes performed live in Christchurch’s sonic art gallery.
Final line-up of breweries and musicians revealed soon!
Reservation essential via eventbrite (R18)
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Food platters to share will be provided.
Displacement by Exile
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd-24th November, 2016
Opening: 3rd November, 6pm
Facebook event
Sound installation
Displacement
When do we become conscious / aware of our displacement in this world? Is it a startling realization, or rather a deeply engrained knowledge within us us all?
Exile is an avant-garde collective based in Banks Peninsula.
Memory Burn / Regressor / Reuben Derrick
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 14th October
Artists from 8pm / Koha entry
Facebook event
Memory Burn
Regressor
Reuben Derrick
Sonic explorations through unseen realms of chaos and beauty. An eclectic tornado of abstract terror, hurlting towards land in search of nirvanic release.
Give meaning to the pointlessness and desperation of our existence. What are you doing?
Koha entry. Prompt 8:00pm start.
Erasers (Aus)
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday 12th October
Doors open 7pm
Facebook event
Come down this fine Spring evening and check out the Erasers and their electronic noise fresh from Perth, Western Australia. They’re on their way through fair Ōtautahi as part of a tour of Aotearoa.
Supported by the CSSA No Ensemble.
Instant Fantasy x French_concession x Othersun
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 7th October
$10 entry from 8pm
Facebook event
Instant Fantasy x French_concession x Othersun – Live
Artist Toshi Endo will be doing live visuals!
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Instant Fantasy
https://soundcloud.com/instantfantasy
Instant Fantasy plays sexual hypno-drone; songs about tears, getting moist and that sweat you forgot about that happens when you sleep next to another person. Though the songs are sad they give a sense of freedom; post-orgasm after breaking up with someone. It’s all gold for this synth drone ego-miner.
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French_concession 法國租界
https://soundcloud.com/french_concession
Started in Shanghai 2009, French_concession sound has been described by music journalist Martyn Pepperell as “ethereal dream pop vocals, glossy synthesiser arrange-ments and vivid syncopated beatscapes. Aesthetically recalling Darkbloom era Grimes and D’Eon, or even Miharu Koshi’s early Haruomi Hosono produced J-tech-nopop sound, it’s compelling work.”
This time French_concession will be show casing her 4th EP release – ‘At Knifepoint’ – coming out on the 1 Oct, 2016 on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
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Othersun
https://facebook.com/othersunmusic
Originally from London, Othersun is an electronic musician and producer currently based in Christchurch. Taking inspiration from a wide range of influences, he forms his own blend of melodic and ambient electronica.
Late last year Othersun released the debut music video for the track Fox. This culminated in a strong online following, setting him up for the release of his debut Away – EP on 31/07/2016, accompanied by the DIY music video for the track Never Alone.
Away – EP is FREE and OUT NOW: http://othersun.bandcamp.com/
Ecologies of Transduction by Charlotte Parallel
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 6th-27th October, 2016
Opening: 6th October, 6-8pm
Facebook event
Interactive sound installation
On ecologies of transduction
Looking back, you could say it all started from growing up in the middle of nowhere listening to power poles. Putting my ear up to the wooden pole I was compelled by its voices and the accompanying hum. Thirty years later I am still engaged in the practice of listening as a form of attunement to any given place.
The process of mapping, sensing, detection and transformation are a kind of aural forensics. My ongoing interest in participatory sound works is a means of directing attention to the active forces of a place; in particular, the ways in which we exist in a continuum of and specific concentration within the electromagnetic field through our capacity as a transducer.
Transduction is defined as the transformation of one energy state to another. As a process transduction occurs in everything from our human ear to plants to viruses to our cellphone, articulating a field of relations between one thing and another. Adrian Mackenzie describes this field of relations as a “knotting together of commodities, signs, diagrams, stories, practices, concepts, human and non-human bodies, images and places.”[1]
The activation of sound, linked to a cartographic object has the potential to relay the intersecting and often unseen operations of geo-political, economic, ecological and social infrastructures. The corresponding implications are considered ecologies of transduction.
[1] Adrian Mackenzie, “Theory, Event, Transduction,” 2015. www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/mackenza/papers/transduction.pdf
Charlotte Parallel is a recent MFA graduate at Otago School of Art and a practicing artist in the fields of sculpture, sound installation, collaboration and performance. Often choosing to respond to site in a temporal way. She has been exhibiting within New Zealand consistently over the last 13 years and internationally since 2010.
Since 2003 Dunedin has been the home base for Charlotte Parallel’s artistic activity which includes a range of curatorial and community initiated collaborative art projects. From 2010 specifically with The Anteroom, a project art space based in Port Chalmers. The Anteroom is an artist run space committed to representing experimental projects with a national and international network of exhibiting artists.
Image courtesy Gilbert May
IRD – Occasionals – Regressor w/ guests R. Derrick + P. Buckton
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 23rd September
Performances from 8pm
Facebook event
IRD – Occasionals – Regressor w/ guests R. Derrick + P. Buckton
A freak genius, declassified.
A legend of Christchurch’s rave scene, deconstructed.
A local pest, deceased.
A duo of saints, decensored.
Prompt start @ 20:00, more artists TBC.