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Captured Space by Eric La Casa & Philip Samartzis

Exhibits

Captured Space Postcard The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 5-28 June, 2014
Opening: 5 June, 6-8pm

Captured Space is an 8 channel soundscape recording and collaborative artistic project that occupies two parallel environments – the natural and the constructed. Whilst the natural world of South Africa’s Kruger National Park is wild and occasionally ferocious, the constructed world of roads and settlements is pedestrian, designed to keep visitors comfortable and safe from the daily struggle of life and death. From the vantage point of the car one can witness an extraordinary habitat comprising a familiar cast of characters. Yet no matter how far or wide one travels one cannot easily escape the confined space of the car or the high voltage electric fence encircling the tourist resort. Whilst African animals are the mainstay of zoos around the world, at Kruger the animals are the vigilant keepers of an exotic mix of people confined to the smallest of spaces for their own self preservation.

Eric La Casa is a Paris based sound artist whose sonic arts practice since the mid 90s has focussed on the listening environment, creating sonic forms and ways of listening in sound installations and musical works composed entirely from his field recordings.

Dr Philip Samartzis is Associate Professor in Sculpture, Sound and Spatial Practice at the School of Art, RMIT University in Melbourne and one of Australia’s best known and most accomplished sound artists having performed and exhibited internationally over the last two decades. His current practice involves the exploration of sound art, acoustic ecology and spatial sound.

Captured Space exhibition opening

Events

Captured SpaceThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening 5 June, 6-8pm
Free entry
Facebook event

Join us for the opening of the Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis sound art work Captured Space, an 8 channel soundscape recording and collaborative artistic project that occupies two parallel environments – the natural and the constructed. Whilst the natural world of South Africa’s Kruger National Park is wild and occasionally ferocious, the constructed world of roads and settlements is pedestrian, designed to keep visitors comfortable and safe from the daily struggle of life and death. From the vantage point of the car one can witness an extraordinary habitat comprising a familiar cast of characters. Yet no matter how far or wide one travels one cannot easily escape the confined space of the car or the high voltage electric fence encircling the tourist resort. Whilst African animals are the mainstay of zoos around the world, at Kruger the animals are the vigilant keepers of an exotic mix of people confined to the smallest of spaces for their own self preservation.

Community by Rotor Plus

Exhibits

Community by Rotor PlusThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 1-31 May
Multi-speaker installation


In Community (the hidden hand) Dunedin artist, Rotor Plus uses a multi speaker installation to explore notions of covert power and the community.

Like those that come before and those that will come after, community struggles to be untethered from power and prestige phenomena (and the politics of) whilst often un-noticing (sic) the hidden hand. Who put these people in charge?

Rotor Plus is a Dunedin-based composer, producer, and sound artist who has created works for dance, theatre and multi-media exhibits and events. In New Zealand his work has been exhibited at the High Street Project, the Blue Oyster Gallery, the Splore Festival arts trail and internationally at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, the German Transmediale media festival and the UK’s Big Chill music festival. He has performed at the Lines of Flight Festival in Dunedin and was a founding member of the Relay sound arts collective in Auckland. Rotor Plus has released three albums, the most recent in 2013, of minimal electronic and electro-acoustic experiments and is currently pursuing interests in multi-speaker presentation and A.R sound pieces.

Noel Meek (Wgtn), Olivia Webb (Wgtn), Kelsely Abaza (Chch)

Events

Meeks and Webb

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, May 16, 2014
Doors open from 7:30pm


Noel Meek is a Wellington-based sound artist, who will be presenting a new drone project that recently debuted at Puppies in Wellington. Meek builds drones on samplers using live recorded samples of acoustic and electric instruments with minimal digital manipulation or effects, but using non-traditional tunings and notes pitch shifted by microtonal intervals to build layers of overtones: https://soundcloud.com/noelmeek/the-working-man-is-king-in-his-own-home

Video and performance artist Olivia Webb will be presenting video works to accompany Meek’s live music. Webb is currently in Christchurch from Wellington to work with The Physics Room on a series of outdoor sound installations.

Kelsely Abaza is a composer and producer of electronic music born in Cairo, Egypt and based in Christchurch, New Zealand. His influences include Autechre, Boards of Canada, Philip Glass, Aphex Twin, Jean Michel Jarre, Laurie Anderson and others. He has performed in New Zealand including an audio-visual performance at the Auckland Museum on the theme of the Arab Spring uprisings: https://www.facebook.com/kelselyabaza

This is an early evening gig, with the first artist on at 8pm sharp and the second act finished by 10pm.

Community exhibition opening

Events

Community by Rotor PlusThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Exhibition opening May 1
Multi-speaker installation


Join us on May Day for the exhibition opening for Community (the hidden hand) by Dunedin artist Rotor Plus.

Like those that come before and those that will come after, community struggles to be untethered from power and prestige phenomena (and the politics of) whilst often un-noticing (sic) the hidden hand. Who put these people in charge?

Pagan Fest 3

Events

Pagan Fest 3The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 18th April, from 8pm
Doors open from 8pm
Free entry, donations are welcome!
Facebook event

A pagan festival for this Good Friday! Join our pagan artists playing pagan noise in a celebration of life, death and the universe. The event also marks the first release from the Auricle Recordings label, Pagan Fest 2, a live recording of our pagan artists from July 12 2013 in Richmond, Christchurch New Zealand.

Horacio Pollard

Events

Horacio Pollard NZ Tour 2014The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Tuesday 15th April, from 8pm
Facebook event

Join half English, half Argentine, Ibiza-born ‘noise-eccentric’ HORACIO POLLARD on the Ōtautahi leg of his Aotearoa NZ tour. Armed with a plethora of (mal)functioning and obsolete electronics, he’s threatening to deliver a “nauseating yet ecstatic avalanche of disemboweling disco-hits filled with foul slap bass, vaginal harmonicas and soporifically iconoclastic grooves. HOLGER HILLER meets BRAINBOMBS meets MOHA! – like the caustic fury of a cosmic flatulence suspended in the dead space of an erotic, Kubrickian sci-fi nightmare”.

HP will be supported on the night by local noise artist Regressor.

Rob Thorne’s Whāia te Māramatanga

Events

Album cover artThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 12th April
Taonga Pūoro workshop at 3pm (entry by kohl, email bookings advised)
Performance from 8pm with Stanier Black-Five & Zeug Gezeugt
$10 at the door (all proceeds to the artists)
Facebook event

Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) is stopping by the Auricle this coming Saturday on his Aotearoa New Zealand tour to perform music from his Rattle debut album, Whāia te Māramatanga and hold an afternoon workshop on taonga pūoro, the traditional Māori instruments that he uses in his music practice.!

“Whāia Te Māramatanga is a musical passage of identity and connection. It is a journey of knowledge through action and practice, reclaiming the past for a stronger future. It is a work in which ancestor and descendant are reacquainted, where ancient practices and their sounds are not just revisited, but actively reborn and reworked. As past and future become one in the present, time dissolves in a transcendental celebration of unity”.

In his afternoon workshop, Rob will be demonstrating the traditional Māori musical instruments he uses in his sonic arts practice and teaching participants to play found instruments that they can take home with them at the end of the session!
Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu) has been composing and performing music for over 20 years as a solo guitarist, singer-songwriter, in bands, and as a freenoise sound artist. His 13 years of work with taonga puoro (traditional Maori musical intruments) has been multi faceted, as a musician, a maker of the instruments, and as an academic, recently completing a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology on traditonal aspects of the koauau, a traditonal Maori flute.

Using loop technology, Rob intelligently blends the modern with the ancient, seeking to move toward the future while honouring the past. The sounds and musical structures give a glimpse of how the instruments may have been used compositionally while magically transporting us across dimensions of space and time. The long-length ambient compositions build slowly yet powerfully, relaxing the body while energising the mind and effecting a trancendental experience of spiritual proportions. The beauty of his work has only just begun to be recognised, recently receiving Creative New Zealand funding to record and album, and then having that picked up and released by the highly regarded Rattle Records!

http://www.robthorne.co.nz