Yearly Archives: 2016

Top Wines Tasting

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
7pm Thursday 28th April
Fully booked!
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We’re going out with a bang for the last tasting at The Auricle Wine & Sound Bar and celebrating with some of the best wines of the year. On the eve of her annual Viva Top 50 Wines in the New Zealand Herald, Viva wine editor, Jo Burzynska will be sharing some of the bottles she’s lost her head over in the past 12 months! These range from some rare top bottles to more everyday drops that have really impressed.

For those who would like to stay on, the tutored tasting will be followed by a short wine and music matching workshop in which Jo will share the principles of making perfect sonic pairings.

The cost of the tasting is just $40. Booking is essential via Jo at jo@joburzynska.com

Image – Hannah Moore – Wine Goddess

Drone Wars

Events

Drone-skyThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, 23rd April 2016
From 8pm
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Drone music/noise is constant imperceptible change, its intention is anti-nostalgic, rejecting the past and only ever looking forward but not to transport you somewhere other than where you already find yourself. Drone falls not towards a future but into the present moment of noise that constantly dissolves as it becomes a purely mundane antidote to the meaninglessness of everything!

Signal – Noise: Ebb, King Swing, Adam Willetts & DJ Delaunay

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 16th March, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

This months Signal-Noise features:

EBB: Darkside bassweight futurisms.

King Swing: Christchurch’s up and coming king of streetwise punky house & techno.

Adam Willetts: Melodic synth excursions deep into hyperspace!

Dowstairs DJ Delaunay:  Will keep you entertained with a warped mix of avant-garde electro-acoustic music, contemporary electronic abstractions, and squashed house.

Artist seminar with Kaffe Matthews

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 15th April, 2016
8pm start
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Kaffe Matthews will be Skyping in from the UK at 8pm our time to talk about her arts practice and her current Auricle exhibition, You might come out of the water every time singing. After the talk she will take questions from the Auricle audience followed by a viewing of her short video Hammers Gather, a documentation of her research trip to the Galapagos Islands that informs the exhibition work.

So do yourself a favour and come on down to say hello to our current Auricle exhibition artist!

A free event with Auricle stalwart DJ Interior Design seeing the night out.

You might come out of the water every time singing – by Kaffe Matthews

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 7-30 April, 2016
Opening: Thursday 7th April, 6-8pm
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‘Sharks are older than dinosaurs. They’ve evolved with the planet developing extraordinary perceptive mechanisms learning to navigate in straight lines at depths as great as 400m by tracing the shifts in the earth’s magnetic crust. They are still considered just to be extremely aggressive and are slaughtered in vast numbers for their fins to make soup. A shark in fact has to be one of the most sophisticated of earth’s animals.’ KM 2009

Developed after Matthews month’s residency on the Galapagos Islands (2009) in which she dived with, recorded underwater and filmed hammerheads, the piece uses the traces of six sharks to play six digital oscillators live, variably mixed with processings and underwater recordings making a music that thrills and relaxes as it spins audience through new architectures.

Sonic artist Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England and lives and works in London. Since 1990 she has made and performed new electro-acoustic music worldwide with a variety of things and places such as violin, theremin, wild salmon, Scottish weather, NASA scientists, bicycles, hammerhead sharks, school children, desert stretched wires and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Made by Kaffe Matthews in  collaboration with the shark (Sphryna Lewini) trackers Cesar Peñaherrera, Dr Alex Hearn, James Ketchum, Dr Peter Klimley,(UC Davis) and MigraMar,   and with Dr Adam Parkinson on software instrument coding. Matthews Galapagos residency was supported by the Charles Darwin Foundation, the Galapagos Conservation Trust , the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Platform build courtesy Chris Reddington.

www.kaffematthews.net

Orange wines and golden tunes

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 31st March, 2016
7pm start
$40 Bookings via {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
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Orange wines are an ancient but increasingly fashionable style of wine that’s being embraced by winemakers and drinkers around the world. Made from white grapes that have been left in contact with their skins, this results in intriguing wines with an amber hue, often intense aromatics and a structure that straddles that of red and white wines.

New Zealand Herald wine columnist and orange wine enthusiast, Jo Burzynska will be leading a tasting thorugh some of the most exciting local examples and a classic or two from the Old World, matched to some appropriately eclectic music.

The cost of the tasting is $40, with booking is essential through {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}

Read Jo’s feature on Orange Wines here: http://winenzmagazine.co.nz/v02/2015/03/orange-appeal/

Fluxfest

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 2nd April from 8pm
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An indeterminate evening celebrating the anti-art of the Fluxus movement and the birthday of Stanier Black-Five. Featuring film, sound, play, performance, The Auricle FluxOrchestra with Live actions from Insoluable Rubber Deposits, Months & La Khan. Flux films. Moustaches. Small items of plastic food. Indeterminate DJing.