Yearly Archives: 2016

Wet Nurses of Sodom, Leather Image & DJ I Rory

Events

WetNurses_Auricle_printThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 24th March, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

Auckland based industrial dirge-folk esoterrorists Wet Nurses of Sodom will be playing a one off show in Christchurch this coming Thursday before this Easter Weekends Punkfest.

Local support from the mysterious Leather Image, and the infamous DJ I Rory.

 

Signal – Noise: Voronoi & Asteroid Anxiety… with DJ King Swing

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 19th March, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

This months Signal-Noise features:

Voronoi: Microsound, ambience, and walls of distortion.

Asteroid Anxiety: Fierce spacefaring drones, interstellar ambience composed on idisosyncratic technology.

Dowstairs DJ King Swing: Will keep you entertained between sets with some of his lasting digital crate digging finds.

Passage to the City by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd-31st March, 2016
Opening: Thursday 3rd March, 6-8pm

Passage to the City explores the imperceptible sound-field existing between the itinerant city-dweller and the inhabited urban space of everyday. The project uses the method of sensitizing resonant frequency of the inaudible space by performative intervention of the city-dweller to develop a contingent composition. The resultant work redefines the ecologies of everyday listening by making hidden sound elements audible to the ear, in the process triggering the city-dweller’s imagination and awareness of an innate and pervasive sound-field present even in a presumably silent empty-space within the tangible environment of the city. Sounds generated by city-dweller’s interaction with the city are digitally mapped and mediated as primary materials of the work.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an Indian artist and researcher working with sound and new media. Chattopadhyay’s work questions the materiality, site-specificity and object-hood of sound, and addresses the aspects of contingency, contemplation and mindfulness inherent in listening. His works have been published by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay has received several residencies and international awards, notably an Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Linz, and First Prize in Computer and Electronic Music category of Computer Space festival 2014, Sofia. Appearing in numerous exhibitions, concerts, conferences and festivals, Chattopadhyay’s sound-works have been exhibited, performed or presented among others in Transmediale, Berlin; TodaysArt Festival, The Hague; Donau Festival, Krems; IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Akusmata, Helsinki; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; CTM, Berlin; Errant Bodies, Berlin; CPH PIX, Copenhagen; Hochschule Darmstadt, Dieburg; SoundFjord, London; Deutschlandradio, Berlin; Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt; and Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.

Website: http://budhaditya.org

Forest Fire by M.E.Grimm

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd-31st March, 2016
Opening: Thursday 3rd March, 6-8pm
Facebook event

FOREST FIRE simulates “the accident” by pulling real-time online weather data from ecologically volatile regions in California, US. High temperatures in conjunction with wind speed, coupled with low humidity, create conditions optimal for combustion. This work utilizes these parameters to synthesize the sound of a forest fire engulfing the listener in the situational dynamics of disaster when environmental conditions are ripe for nature to exploit. Sound is fully synthesized with computer software and fire predictions are heard in the form of hissing, crackling, creaking, flames and wind. Sound synthesis and visuals are realized using the visual programming language Pd (Puredata) and draw inspiration from the sound design work of Andy Farnell.

m.e.grimm has been experimenting with digital and analog sound, in various forms, since the mid 1990’s. An artist based in Ithaca, NY, Grimm teaches media arts and technology theory. More of his work can be found at megrimm.net

Kerian Varaine… support from William Henry Meung & Motte

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 4th March, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

Avant-garde composer, folk-punk, experimental instrument and member of the Dunedin based electro-acoustic ensemble The Ladder is Part of the Pit, Kerian Varaine is playing this Friday @ The Auricle.

Alongside fellow Ladder is Part of the Pit member William Henry Meung, with local support from Motte!

Russian Tsarlag @ The Auricle

Events

russian_tsarlagThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 26th February, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

As part of his NZ tour Russian Tsarlag (of Providence Rhode Island) will be appearing @ The Auricle this coming Friday, alongside Les Baxters & File Folder!

“A lot of bands are from Providence, Rhode Island but few as much as Russian Tsarlag, the monolithic musical project of filmmaker and comics artist Carlos G. I am fortunate enough to have seen Tsarlag evolve over the last decade++ and I still hesitate to describe what one might be getting into: A showman first and foremost with a crooner’s brood, a voice front and centre behind a cluster of derelict instruments, tape loops, and liquids. Memorable, charming, unusual, and quiet–because it can be, because every time I have seen him the audience is spellbound or cautiously curious. Countless cassette and vinyl releases across Not Not fun, Night People, Hot Releases, Unskilled Labour, ad nausea. His first visit to the southern hemisphere.”

 

Signal – Noise: Toshi Endo, Adam Willetts and Graunlator

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 19th February, 2016
From 8pm
Facebook event

The Auricles monthly Electronic Music ‘Signal – Noise’ is back for 2016. This months lineup includes… regulars Toshi Endo and Adam Willetts. And the debut performance of local up and coming artist Granulator.

DJ Delanauy will keep things rolling be on virtual decks downstairs… with a set of ambient, techno & abstract electronics.