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Reading Around Sound

Events

paul virilio art and fearThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, August 20th, 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!

August’s reading is Silence on Trial by Paul Virilio from Virlio’s text Art & Fear.

Pdf available here: https://auricle.nz/reading-group/

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.

Scale by Olivia Webb

Events, Exhibits

olivia-scaleThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 6th – 30th August, 2015
Opening: Thursday 6th August, 6-8pm
Facebook event

Scale is part of a series of observations of music traditions within the New Zealand Catholic Church. Discords and harmonies inherent in the multiple cultures present in this single Church are explored through Webb’s a capella voice-works.

Olivia Webb’s sound based art practice centres on the human voice as a way of exploring the histories of sites and spaces. Olivia draws on her experience as a classical singer, using a capella song as a way of revealing and ushering forth silent traditions and experiences embodied in space and place.

Saturation Archive #3

Events

SATPOSTER31JULYThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, July the 31st, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

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

DJ sets from:

Mookin’ Fiends
Unspecified

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

William Henry Meung & Smith

Events

IMG_0328The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, August the 1st, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

The Auricle is proud to present two of Dunedin’s finest experimental acts:

William Henry Meung – Loops and drones minimalism / maximalisim. Mediative improvisation and attempts to compose ecstatic machine hymns.

Smith – ‘An exercise in being’. – An experiment in honest frequencies through electro acoustic drone and vocal tone.

DJ I Rory will be DJ’ing downstairs before, between, and after the acts…

Photography courtesy Marine Aubert

Utopia Burning

Events

Screen-Shot-2013-09-10-at-1.14.55-PMThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, July 25th, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event

The Auricle presents a night of noise and acid drenched electronics with:

Utopian Protocols – Distroid acid abominations…

Memory Burn – Wanton destruction of japanese cuisine, with xxxtra spatial guest Nic Wollaston

Acts start 8:30 Sharp!

Siren Soundsystem and Saturations

Events

unnamedThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, July 24th, 2015
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

 Siren Soundsystem and Saturations in a ‘friendly’ dance off and music exchange at the Auricle on Friday 24th

DJ Kiran Dass: Confusing F’ng Nun wrong speed wonders, glossy sleety synth pop, postpunk and lots of it, 60s psych to defrost to, cocaine hangover bloat pop, THE FALL & oddities.

Saturations: fresh from the studio with an ep on high rotate, an exclusive seven inch single set,  spanning the sublime limits of scratchy pop.
Miss Mercury: freeze/thaw cycle of icy darkwave and sweet electro, plus some trashy pop to boot.

Reading Around Sound #4

Events

9780262517959The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, July 16th, 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!

July’s reading is a selection of excerpts from Steve Goodman’s (who produces music under the name Kode9, and run’s the UK based electronic music label Hyperdub) Sonic Warfare.

“Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, Goodman maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture.” – MITpress

PDF available here. 

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: #5

Events

overpass_A_06-2The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday July 10th, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event

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

Nathan Gray – The Physics Room’s current resident artist, and member of snawklor, will take you on a electronic excursion into the great blue yonder…

IRD – Christchurch experimental music legend IRD, armed with a malfunctioning mixer, and assorted detritus.

Voronoi – Pesueo-science experiments using wavetable and granular synthesis techniques.

Photography courtesy Marine Aubert