All posts by Richard Keys

The Last Angel of History

Events

11224221_10153372420483418_8575821765248483905_nThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday July 11th, 2015
From 7:45pm
Facebook event

“Isn’t it strange that in the second world war, computer technology was used to aid and abet the military-industrial complex, but by the end of our century, that technology has mutated, devolved and diversified to such a degree that Afro-American musicians, young Black British musicians can use computer technology to construct a soundtrack to the end of the industrial epoch.”

—Black Audio Film Collective, The Last Angel of History

FILM SCREENING 8PM/DJ SET from I RORY 9PM till close…

The Last Angel of History is a free-form film-essay that weave’s an intricate web of African mythology, science fiction, technology and sound culture, into a compelling work of cinematic theory-fiction.

Made in the 1996 by Jon Akomfrah, and the Black Audio Film Collective, the highly acclaimed short film has been described as “a truly masterful film essay about Black aesthetics that traces the deployments of science fiction within pan-African culture” by the Harvard Film Archive.

We will be screening the film at 8 PM followed by a DJ SET from the CSSA’s own I Rory inspired by the sonic lines-of-flight explored in the film!

The Australian Mega Fauna Project

Events

BRIDGE_OF_REMEMBERANCEThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday June 25th, 2015
From 8:45pm
Facebook event

-film screening and performance-

The Australian Mega Fauna project is a new breed of Documentary film project that combines art and science through public arts projects and prehistoric interventions. Utilizing giant puppets and the medium of stop motion animation to tell the stories of Australasia through the ice age. In summer 2014 The Australian Mega Fauna Project focused on the extinct giant eagle of the South Island of New Zealand in a public arts project with Christchurch City Council called “Haast Eagle Sightings in Christchurch” premiering this week.

Film screening starts at 9pm sharp.

Saturation Archive #2

Events

posterThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday June 26th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

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

LIVE set from Josh Greene and George Aitken

DJ sets downstairs from:

Bruja
Chris Ellis
Cam Malcolm
Sheldon Willaims

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

Teen Haters vs The Escalation

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teenhatersThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday July 4th, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

The Auricle extends an invite to the brave and foolhardy to venture forth on the evening of July 4 and witness a mid-winter sonic stouch between Teen Haters [Miss Mercury & Mr Repetition] and The Escalation [Mr Noisy & Mr Strangely Familiar]*.

Gape in awe at the flexing of taut strings; flinch at the squeals of misbehaving electronics; wonder at the perplexing tangle of cables and wrangling of mysterious knobs; gasp in horror at the flagrant and joyous disregard for professional musicianship in a public space.

Recover afterwards in the Auricle Wine Bar with some fine beverages, accompanied by lite entertainment courtesy of DJ Interior Design. Entry is free. Space is strictly limited. BYO wet wipes and hand towels.

* The names of the performing artists have been altered to protect the ignorant

Photography © Marine Aubert

Reading Around Sound #3

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6a00d83452a98069e200e54f3ea2918834-640wiThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, June 25th, 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!

June’s reading is part II of Eyes of The Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa. Whilst strictly speaking an architectural text, it will serve to offer a point of entry to engage with questions of multi-sensorial perception and spatiality. Link to PDF: https://auricle.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/juhani-pallasmaa-the-eyes-of-the-skin.pdf

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 #4

Events

overpass_A_06-2The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday June 12th, 2015
From 8:30pm
Facebook event

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

Jonty O’Connor – better known as a drummer about town, Jonty is also a avid knob-fiddler… Watch him merge with his machine drum in eight dimensional surround sound rhythmic chaos.

k..k. – Noise, drone, and experimental electronics from Argentina.

Voronoi & Toshi Endo – Granular synthesis, and iPod mini’s on needless repeat…

… and more to be announced!

Photography © Marine Aubert

Little Timothoy

Events

unnamedFantastic Princess & Friends presents The Shit or LITTLE TIMOTHOY
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 20th June, 2015
From 5:30pm
Facebook event

Little Timothoy is perhaps the greatest work by the eponymous Fantastic Princess. Spanning a grotesque 40 minutes of diverse elements such as noise, avant-garde music, a children’s storybook and a myriad of lo-fi recording techniques, it remains a masterpiece 5 years after its creation. It has however gone unreleased for this entire time though, and it is now time for an official release.
Listen to Little Timothoy in it’s entirety, superbly reproduced on the silky speakers within the warm walls of The Auricle, drink a beverage, chat to the creators and pick up your own copy of the CD ($10.00). Each copy is handmade and unique (this is a very limited edition of 50).
The piece will be played in it’s entirety starting 6:30pm. It will not be looped, but can be replayed later in the night on request.