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Cloud by Luke Munn

Exhibits

Cloud postcardThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3 – 26 April
8 channel sound, looping (20:00)

Cloud is a sonic tapestry composed of alerts, UI sounds and ringtones drawn from our contemporary messaging software: iOS, Android and Blackberry, Windows Phone and Outlook. Cascading over each other, these chimes and crystalline tones play a key role in supporting the notion of a fluid, modern communication experience that is both immaterial and effortless.

Luke Munn is a conceptual artist using the body and code, objects and performances to activate relationships and responses. His projects have featured in the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fold Gallery London, Causey Contemporary Brooklyn and the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, with commissions from Aotearoa Digital Arts, Creative New Zealand and TERMINAL and performances in Paris, Dublin, Chicago, Berlin, Auckland, and New York.

http://www.lukemunn.com
CC-licensed image by Kamil Porembiński

Cloud Opening Night!

Events
Luke Munn's Cloud
CC-licensed image by Kamil Porembiński’

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 3rd April, 6-8pm
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Join the artist Luke Munn for the opening of his Auricle exhibition Cloud, “a sonic tapestry composed of alerts, UI sounds and ringtones drawn from our contemporary messaging software: iOS, Android and Blackberry, Windows Phone and Outlook. Cascading over each other, these chimes and crystalline tones play a key role in supporting the notion of a fluid, modern communication experience that is both immaterial and effortless”.

Acoustic Illuminations

Events

Acoustic IlluminationsThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, March 21, 2014
From 8pm
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Join us for an acoustic concert of soundscape works by Reuben Derrick sourced from field recordings from his travels in New Zealand, Australia and Sri Lanka. Reuben uses experimental microphone techniques, sound walks and improvised performance to explore the visceral properties of sounds while at the same time sustaining their environmental context.

Hi Asobi & Memory Burn

Events

Hi-AsobiThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, March 15, 2014
From 8pm
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After a break of nearly 2 years, Hi Asobi (Peter Wright, David Khan, Antony Milton) are looking forward to presenting an electro-acoustic improvisation at the Auricle, this Saturday.

Hi Asobi emerged from the ruins of Chch in latter 2010, after evolving through the mnemonic surrogates Oshibori (the ear-splitting debut at Porto el Santo, Lyttelton) and the rather less-likely to induce crippling threshold-shift Kannazuki. Subsequently Hi-Asobi performed at Lines of Flight in 2011 – accompanied by Milton’s first fascinating excursions into video work. Releases are available on Bandcamp via Distant Bombs and Pseudoarcana. Look here:

Oshibori, Mono-Wah
Kannazuki, Asleep in the Shadow of the Mountain
Hi-Asobi, 3 Films

Also featuring on the night are Memory Burn (Rory Dalley and Michael Minchington) who have been threatening to ‘do something’ with turntables!

Signals from Unknown Sources by Rachel Shearer

Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Opening performance event: Friday 28th February 6:30-11pm
Showing: 28 February – 29 March, 2014

Performed installation
8 speaker digital sound

This experimental work explores spatial sound composition through using the idea of the phantasm – both in the sense of an apparition, a shadowy, incorporeal image – but also in relation to Klossowski’s ‘phantasm’ which refers to an obsessional image produced instinctively from the constantly fluctuating intensive states of the soul.
(Pierre Klossowski. French writer, translator and artist. 1905 – 2001)

Rachel Shearer has a long history of working with a range of sound practices, dating back to releases on the South Island based Xpressway label in the late 1980’s. She has actively participated in a culture of composing and performing experimental music. Since then she has investigated sound as a medium through the recording and live performance of original compositions, sound design for moving image, sound installation and practise-led academic study. Recent works include a permanent 9 channel public sound installation on Auckland’s waterfront, The Wynyard Quarter. Rachel lectures part-time at Elam School of Fine Arts and in Creative Technologies at AUT, while researching Sound Installation Practice for her PhD.

Audacious opening performance night

Events

Audacious Festival of Sonic ArtsThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, February 28, 2014
Doors open from 6:30pm
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Join us at The Auricle to celebrate the opening of the Audacious – Festival of Sonic Arts and exhibition, Signals From Unknown Sources by artist Rachel Shearer. Rachel will be performing her eight channel work live followed by more live action from local artist David Khan, and improvised electroacoustic taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments) with Tony Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu – Kāti Irakehu) and collaborators.

7pm – Welcoming ceremony and opening speeches with drinks provided by The Auricle’s winery partner, Pegasus Bay

8pm – Rachel Shearer’s Signals From Unknown Sources – exploring spatial sound composition through the idea of the phantasm, both in the sense of an apparition – a shadowy, incorporeal image -and also in relation to Klossowski’s ‘phantasm’ which refers to an obsessional image produced instinctively from the constantly fluctuating intensive states of the soul. http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/interview/648/Rachel-Shearer.utr

9-11pm – More live performance!

Live and Audacious!

Events


AppIcon76x76@2xThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Doors open from 8pm
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A celebration of live sound at The Auricle as part of The Audacious – Festival of Sonic Arts, featuring performances by:

Alastair Galbraith & Bruce Russell
Greg Malcolm & Jenny Ward
Furchick & Richard Benjamin Soloman Keys

Les Baxters at the International Step

Events

The Les BaxtersThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday, February 21, 2014
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Celebrate the final day of John Chrisstoffels’ The International Step exhibition with the artist and friends performing in the Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery. 

Performances by:
Adam Willetts
The Les Baxters
Misfit Mod

$5 entry from 8pm til late

Abstract Mutation

Events

Abstract MutationThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Abstract Mutation
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Regressor

New Zealand (now Melbourne-based) producer James Grant aka Spelunks/@soakingwet combines acid, bass and techno on his debut Abstract Mutation outing on 1080p. It’s here on pro-dubbed Chrome Cassette Tape, direct from the Vinyl Only Tapes head honcho’s private Kazaa network; the perfect medium for the scuffed kineticity and Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café-worship of this bouncy, hybridized release to really jump out.

Blurring an incessantly groovy sense of looseness alongside taut, metronomic hi-hats and bass plods, Fake Keygen becomes an amorphous zone of hypnotic mundanity. Themes of surveillance, technology and human interfacing creep out of these ad hoc loop pedal/digital synth creations and cheekily reappropriated dance modes.

Tracks like “Oops Magazine” are built partly out of goofball dance signifiers (feigned hi-NRG keyboard stabs in this case) and partly with dark, gaseous spaces. Elsewhere, opener “Expert Loner” even layers faked steel drum wobbles over a steady 100bpm take on a classic house beat.

There’s low-key acid thrown all over reprocessings of mid-90s bass music and techno with vibes of restlessness and at times a tinge of hypnogogia to a definitely late night realm of .nfos and PC gamer patches. File under the Utilities section alongside ancient Soulseeked Rephlex 128kpbs MP3 .zips or maybe even Transllusion’s Cerebral Gate LP.