All posts by Richard Keys

Saturation Archive – Record Trading Evening

Events

10501786_1435553080080313_6214590262530214585_nThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday May 23rd, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

The Auricle & Saturation Archive present an evening of record swapping and deejaying. Saturation along with friends will supply records to purchase with music ranging across the electronic realm.

If you wish to trade your personal vinyl feel free to bring your modest stash down. Purchases from the Saturation archive will need to be made with cash only, as no eftpos is available.

Strictly vinyl record sets be featured on the night including… Reach, Toshi, Arko, and  Unspecified.

Further information will be updated throughout the week to outline the particulars.

Signal to Noise #3

Events

overpass_A_06-2The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday May 22nd, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

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

Adam Willetts – Modular madness.
Voronoi – Abstract synth drone excursions.
Box Banter – Multichannel ambience and deconstructed beats.

Analogue Electronics Workshop Series

Events

unnamedThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday the 27th of May, the 3rd of June, and the 10th of June
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

Analogue electronics workshop – Introduction to making music with a soldering iron.

The Auricle will be hosting a hands-on introduction to analogue electronics over three evenings, at 7pm on Wednesday the 27th of May, the 3rd of June, and the 10th of June.

Learn the basic principles of analogue electronics, learn how to solder and build a unique little touch sensitive mini-synth for making wonderful and weird electronic sounds. Nicolas Woollaston is currently exhibiting his noise-making creations at the Auricle. Join him for three fun evenings of learning, making, doing and playing – and come away with your very own noise-making circuit.

Booking in advance is essential and numbers are strictly limited. The cost of materials will be $35.

Please book via: rbkeys@auricle.co.nz

Those that have soldering irons of their own, please notify us when you book so we can gauge the numbers of soldering irons we have relative to participants.

Alive to the Timbre of your Touch by Nicolas Woolaston

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 7-31 May, 2015
Opening: 7th May, 6-8pm
Facebook event


A collection of improvised electronic instruments by Nicolas Woollaston

These works present an organic electronic palate for the senses, a synergy between person and electricity, manifested as sound created through personal electronics and their “direct carving” circuits completed by human touch, fingers and hands. Gallery participants are invited to freely explore the touch sensitive timbral possibilities of each machine.

Nicolas Woollaston is a creative technologist who has a passion for closing the gap between production and consumption, for electronic gadgetry, for wonderful and strange noises, for making it all personal.

Photography by Marine Aubert

Max MSP 101 Bootcamp Workshop

Events

Screen-Shot-2013-04-14-at-10.17.48-AMThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday the 29th of April, 6th, and 13th of May, 2015
From 7:00pm
Facebook event

The Auricle is running a series of workshops over the next few months, the first of which is an introductory course to Max MSP.

Max is a visual programming language designed for use with sound and multimedia. It is used by composers, electronic musicians, sound and media artists worldwide. The Auricle ambisonic surround sound system in the gallery is itself run on Max. Max is a highly versatile application for processing sonic and visual data that employs an accessible visual programming language that does not require to prior programming experience.

The Auricle will be hosting three MaxMSP 101 workshops, at 7-pm on Wednesday the 29th of April, the 6th of May, and the 13th of May.

The workshops will be free of charge.

In order to participate you just need to install a (month long) trial copy of Max (we will be using Max version 6) on your laptop from the link provided and come along to the workshops.

Please book in advance so we can gauge seating.

Bookings and info: info@auricle.nz
Download link: https://cycling74.com/downloads/older/  (we will be using Max version 6)

Signal-to-Noise #2

Events

overpass_A_06-2The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday April 18th, 2015
From 8:00pm
Facebook event

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

Toshi Endo – beats, bass and drones….
Resurrection – experimental technoid excursions.
Asteroid Anxiety – modular dronescapes, and deep space exploration…

Photography © Marine Aubert

Reading Around Sound #1

Events

Book image_bannerThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday, April 16th, 2015
From 7:30pm
Facebook event

The first edition of the Auricle’s Reading Around Sound reading group is this Thursday at 7:30pm.

Where we will be discussing this essay: Musicophobia, or Sound Art and the Demands of Art Theory by Brian Kane

featured here: https://readingaroundsound.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/reading-1-musicophobia-by-brian-kane/

summary/excerpts:
https://readingaroundsound.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/summaryexcerpts-from-reading-1/

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If your interested please come along and join our Facebook group.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1803541419871262/

IRD & Toshi Endo

Events

8133615The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, April 11, 2015
8:00pm
Facebook event

CSSA stalwarts IRD & Toshi Endo will headline the night with their first collaborative performance. Toshi’s dance culture détournement colliding with Rory’s free-form, noise exploration!

Support from Wellington based (ex-Christchurch) noise assault squad The Plow That Broke the Plains!

Photography © Marine Aubert