The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, October 10, 2014
From 7pm
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Join us for Record Club at The Auricle held every second Thursday Friday of the month (of October). BYO vinyl only!

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening Thursday 9 October, 6pm
Free entry and wines from Pegasus Bay
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Join us at the Auricle for the exhibition opening of For Posterity by Graham Dunning (UK).

On the tape, a family’s audio diary from 1958 to 1967. In the last entry, the parents of the family explain to the youngest son the reason for making the recordings. “It’s for posterity,” the father explains. The mother adds, “for your children, and your chi…” She is interrupted and soon the tape ends. This installation is a document of the artist’s attempt to reunite the tape with its makers. The uncanny experience of a disembodied voice playing through a piece of obsolete technology, a ghost in the machine. In the age of digital media, where memories as photographs, videos and audio recordings exist only as numbers on hard-drives and CDs, or online on a distant server, the work calls into question the apparent advantages of digital over analogue technologies; the role of physical artefacts in preserving our own histories; and the function of archiving itself. Recent debates about online privacy focus on the traces of ourselves we leave behind, the ‘right to be forgotten,’ and the implications of policing this on freedom of speech and censorship. These themes are also explored in the installation through the choices of presentation of personal and sensitive material.

Graham Dunning is a London based sonic artist whose practice deals with temporality, memory and narrative through sound, performance and installation, utilizing people’s discarded memories and the function of archiving via found objects, photographs and recordings. Experimentation is fundamental and his practice is often informed by scientific or archaeological protocols.
www.grahamdunning.com

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday October 3, 2014
Doors open 7:30pm
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Join us for an evening of exploratory music. Enjoy a selection of lovely wines and several short sets of sonic excitement!

Mike Rophone
Michael James Kime
Adam Willetts
Greg Malcolm
Zeug Gezeugt
Jenny Ward
Joseph McCallum
Jonty OC
Reuben Derrick

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday October 17, 2014
6:30pm
$30 bookings essential
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Join Pegasus Bay and wine writer, Jo Burzynska at The Auricle for an intriguing multi sensory soiree spanning the past to the present. The winery will be presenting a series of older library wines with their counterparts from the current vintage, which Jo will match with music selected to enhance their enjoyment.

Pegasus Bay’s Ed Donaldson will be introducing the wines served in pairs for comparison, while Jo will be talking about the art of combining wine and music and providing suitable sonic accompaniments from multiple genres and eras to emphasise the wines’ mature and youthful characters.

Pegasus Bay is the winery partner of The Auricle, an innovative new bar in Christchurch’s CBD whose wine list is curated every month to suit the sounds being played in the space. This is the first official collaborative event between Pegasus Bay and The Auricle and forms part of the venue’s Heritage Week celebrations.

Participants are welcome to stay on at The Auricle bar afterwards, where they can enjoy more Pegasus Bay wines and a selection of platters.

Places are limited and cost $30. Booking is essential so please contact us to secure a seat.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday September 24, 2014
Doors open 7:30pm
$10 koha to the artists
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Pat Kraus’ Interior Castle Tour Christchurch show
Fuzz guitars, homemade synths, monolithic drums and bamboo flutes beam in from a parallel universe where the ancient past collides with the far-out future. Touring New Zealand for the first time, Auckland solo instrumentalist Kraus collapses space and time with a combination of psychedelic noise rock, freakish analogue electronics, and a wide range of exotic weirdness from Renaissance lute ballads to wiry Far-Eastern strings. The new Kraus album “Interior Castle” will be released on 12 September by Moniker Records (Chicago, USA).

Interior Castle releases 12 September 2014:
Eat, It Is Good video directed by Ducklingmonster

Supported by: Reuben Derrick and the Les Baxters

Tour details as follows:
12 September – Kraus w/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Hermione Johnson, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, 7pm start, $5 entry
13 September – Kraus w/ Ducklingmonster and Hermione Johnson, Audio Foundation, Auckland, 8pm start, $10 entry
19 September – Kraus w/ Power Nap and Sheville, Space Monster, Whanganui, 8pm start, $10 entry
20 September – Kraus w/ Power Nap and Tristan Carter, Pyramid Club, Wellington, 8pm start, $10 entry
24 September – Kraus w/ Reuben Derrick and Les Baxters, The Auricle, Christchurch, 8pm start, $10 entry
25 September – Kraus w/ Murderbike and The Moonrakers, Oamaru Opera House, 8pm start, $10 entry
26 September – Kraus w/ Murderbike and Mandroid, Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers, 8pm start, $10 entry

Thanks to CNZ for their support.

http://kraus.co.nz/

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Performance, Friday September 19, 2014
Doors open 7:30pm
$5 to the artists
Workshop, Saturday Sep 20 from 2pm
Exhibition Sat-Sun Sep 20-21
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On the evening of the 19th of september and through the following days of the week-end The ladder is part of the pit will inhabit and activate the Auricle Gallery space with a curated multi-media show performing their glaciated collective sonic ritual prayer.

Friday evening:
Ōwheo cycle – film by kerian varaine
followed by live performances from:
Memory Burn (chch) & The Ladder is Part of the Pit

Saturday Workshop session:
Electronics & hacking – the basics of circuit bending with William Henry Mong
The inaudible soundscapes of electromagnetic radiation – Kerian Varaine
+ open invitation show and tell geek out around DIY electronics

Additionally, over the Sat-Sun weekend the individual members will be exhibiting their own creative pursuits incorporating sound art, composition/improvisation, sculpture/installation, film, photography, with sporadic performances occurring throughout the period.

Joanna Osbourne
Joanna Osborne’s photographic practice has its focus on the search for coherence, through the lens of a 35mm SLR camera, upon constructed environments that explore the connectedness of matter and metaphors of light. She is a current PhD candidate at University of Otago, investigating potential interdisciplinary conversations between theology and art history. She began playing improvised cello with The Ladder is Part of the Pit at the 2013 Fringe Festival, Lines of Flight, and has recently picked up the tenor viol.

Motoko Kikkawa
As a violinist Motoko Kikkawa has been involved in many collaborative projects with musicians and performance artists from New Zealand and Tokyo and as a visual artist she has worked in various media over the years. Her current work explores the extension, into sculptural 3D spaces, of her intricately patterned paper cut-out works.

William Henry Mong
Coaxes solo soundscapes from various repurposed and expanded electronic and acoustic objects, feedback loops and drones.

Kerian Varaine
Composer and sound artist who is also involved with the visual arts through writing scores and creating sculptural and electronic instruments. As a performer, Kerian is involved in many ensembles including playing banjo in Anarcho-folk band Whiskey and the Wench, and providing sound for the expanded cinema project Rubbish Film Unit.

Photography by Marine Aubert

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sat Sep 13, 2014
Doors open 7pm
$5 koha to the artists
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Paul Timings’ The Precessions of a Crowd is comprised of three segments from a field recording of the asset sales protest on 4 May 2012. Each segment is followed by a re-edit of the recording, which accentuates accidental and incidental sounds via repitition and time/pitch modification of common protest motifs. The composition seeks to blur the conceptual lines between protest and performance; crowd and individual; and political and personal. The aim of this is to comment on the role of protest and referenda as non-binding expressions of the people in a representative democracy.

Precessions recording project followed by solo performances by Paul Timings & Regressor!

In 2011 the New Zealand government proposed selling a proportion of its shares in five state-owned companies. In 2012 a coalition of groups, including opposition parties and non-government organisations, organised a series of protests and petitions against the policy, which ultimately resulted in a citizen-initiated referendum. While a 67.2 per cent margin expressed that they were not in favour of asset sales, the result was not binding on the government, and the asset sales went ahead.

Photograph ‘Depression protest‘ courtesy of Ministry for Culture and Heritage, updated 15-Jul-2013. Licensed by Manatū Taonga for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence.

Photography by Marine Aubert

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
From 7:30pm
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Join us for Improv Club at the Auricle every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

Open to all comers; from musical neophytes to experienced improvising musicians and experimental noise makers; from graphic scores to game play and an-archy; from free Jazz to electronically structured and open improv; from Occidental tempered scale to full bandwidth white noise; from Braxton to Cardew to Bailey and beyond.

All are welcome!

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, September 12, 2014
From 7pm
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Join us for Record Club at The Auricle held every second Thursday Friday of the month (of September). BYO vinyl only!