All posts by Richard Keys

Daniel Lercher – Artist Seminar and Performance

Events

auricleThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday February 21, 2015
Seminar from 3pm
Performance from 8:00pm
Free event
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Born 1983 in the Austrian countryside, currently living and working in Vienna as a freelance composer/sound-artist/musician. Daniel works in the fields of electroacoustic composition/improvisation, sound art, phonography, live-electronics, installations. And composes music for dance & films.

ARTIST SEMINAR – 3PM:

Daniel will be hosting an artist seminar at 2PM at the Auricle where he will discuss the possibilities of electroacoustic music practice and will play some reference pieces.

PERFORMANCE EVENING – 8PM:

Daniel will be performing a multichannel performance using laptop and software he programmed with Max/Msp.

Support from Grvdggr from Dunedin…

Grvdggr aka Brendan Jon Philip explores a laptop based improvisation using virtual instruments and live effects processing. In contrast to the highly physical guitar performances he is noted for, this new suite of work moves from this predominantly immaterial point of origin and navigates a terrain of semblances and associations into an open ended structure of sonic and narrative space with looping drones and disciplined minimalism.

He was a founded member of experimental sound and arts venue None Gallery in Dunedin. He returned to None in 2012 and continues to assist in developing projects and events through the space.  Brendan additionally plays bass guitar with Dunedin psychedelic stalwarts, Wolfskull.

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Beer and Music Evening with Harrington’s

Events

beer-n-musicThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday February 20, 2015
7 to 9pm
Bookings
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Just as drinks are complemented by food that enhances their flavours and aromas, sound waves have a profound effect on the perception of taste. Craft beer enthusiasts and music lovers are invited to join us to experiment in a multi-sensory tasting of well-paired beer and music.

While enjoying your welcome glass of seasonal beer, wine critic and sound artist Jo Burzynska will introduce you to the concept of taste and music matching. Harrington’s brewer and experienced musician, Mike Cheer will then lead you through the tasting of three premium beers, paired with complementary tracks specially composed by eclectic DJ Jack Quas.

After a short culinary break, you will savour three more beers from Harrington’s Brewers Selection, to which local performers Reuben Derrick, Misha Marks, IRD, Malcolm Riddoch and Richard Keys will accompany with live improvisations inspired by each ale.

Places limited and cost $30 for the evening, including all beers.
Booking essential via Eventfinder

Romain de Ferron at the Auricle

Events

romaindeferron picture 3The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday January 22, 2014
From 7:00pm
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Romain de Ferron is an experimental French musician. Deeply influenced by his studies on the classical European harmony and on the early American’s minimalists, he play during his concerts a music based on continuous sounds, counterpoints and repetitions elaborated from synthetisers, effects pedals, and voices.

Support from Paul Timmings and IRD

 

 

E Waru Reo Ki Kawatea – The Voices of the Taoka Pūoro from Okain’s Bay Maori and Colonial Museum

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 12-5pm, 8-31 January, 2015
Opening: 8 January, 6-8pm
8 channel recording
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Many taoka pūoro (musical instruments of the NZ Māori) lie silent in museum collections throughout Aotearoa and the world and have not been played for the decades if not centuries since they were first collected. The voices of the taoka tāwhito (ancient treasures) in this composition are from taoka pūoro that reside in the collection of Okain’s Bay Māori and Colonial Museum, Banks Peninsula.

Alistair Fraser (B.Mus) is a taoka pūoro performer, researcher, maker, composer and music producer and in 2011 was awarded a Creative New Zealand Department of Conservation Wild Creations Artist Residency which resulted in a touring exhibit and an album of music titled ‘Rakiura’. In 2014 Alistair performed taoka pūoro with NZ String Quartet, in Anthony Richie’s opera ‘This Other Eden’, in Louise Potiki-Bryant’s dance piece ‘Whakaahua’ and with ‘Trinity Roots and their Irish Friends’.