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You might come out of the water every time singing – by Kaffe Matthews

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 7-30 April, 2016
Opening: Thursday 7th April, 6-8pm
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‘Sharks are older than dinosaurs. They’ve evolved with the planet developing extraordinary perceptive mechanisms learning to navigate in straight lines at depths as great as 400m by tracing the shifts in the earth’s magnetic crust. They are still considered just to be extremely aggressive and are slaughtered in vast numbers for their fins to make soup. A shark in fact has to be one of the most sophisticated of earth’s animals.’ KM 2009

Developed after Matthews month’s residency on the Galapagos Islands (2009) in which she dived with, recorded underwater and filmed hammerheads, the piece uses the traces of six sharks to play six digital oscillators live, variably mixed with processings and underwater recordings making a music that thrills and relaxes as it spins audience through new architectures.

Sonic artist Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England and lives and works in London. Since 1990 she has made and performed new electro-acoustic music worldwide with a variety of things and places such as violin, theremin, wild salmon, Scottish weather, NASA scientists, bicycles, hammerhead sharks, school children, desert stretched wires and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Made by Kaffe Matthews in  collaboration with the shark (Sphryna Lewini) trackers Cesar Peñaherrera, Dr Alex Hearn, James Ketchum, Dr Peter Klimley,(UC Davis) and MigraMar,   and with Dr Adam Parkinson on software instrument coding. Matthews Galapagos residency was supported by the Charles Darwin Foundation, the Galapagos Conservation Trust , the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Platform build courtesy Chris Reddington.

www.kaffematthews.net

Orange wines and golden tunes

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Thursday 31st March, 2016
7pm start
$40 Bookings via {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}
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Orange wines are an ancient but increasingly fashionable style of wine that’s being embraced by winemakers and drinkers around the world. Made from white grapes that have been left in contact with their skins, this results in intriguing wines with an amber hue, often intense aromatics and a structure that straddles that of red and white wines.

New Zealand Herald wine columnist and orange wine enthusiast, Jo Burzynska will be leading a tasting thorugh some of the most exciting local examples and a classic or two from the Old World, matched to some appropriately eclectic music.

The cost of the tasting is $40, with booking is essential through {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it}

Read Jo’s feature on Orange Wines here: http://winenzmagazine.co.nz/v02/2015/03/orange-appeal/

Fluxfest

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 2nd April from 8pm
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An indeterminate evening celebrating the anti-art of the Fluxus movement and the birthday of Stanier Black-Five. Featuring film, sound, play, performance, The Auricle FluxOrchestra with Live actions from Insoluable Rubber Deposits, Months & La Khan. Flux films. Moustaches. Small items of plastic food. Indeterminate DJing.

Forest Fire by M.E.Grimm

Events, Exhibits

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Showing: 3rd-31st March, 2016
Opening: Thursday 3rd March, 6-8pm
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FOREST FIRE simulates “the accident” by pulling real-time online weather data from ecologically volatile regions in California, US. High temperatures in conjunction with wind speed, coupled with low humidity, create conditions optimal for combustion. This work utilizes these parameters to synthesize the sound of a forest fire engulfing the listener in the situational dynamics of disaster when environmental conditions are ripe for nature to exploit. Sound is fully synthesized with computer software and fire predictions are heard in the form of hissing, crackling, creaking, flames and wind. Sound synthesis and visuals are realized using the visual programming language Pd (Puredata) and draw inspiration from the sound design work of Andy Farnell.

m.e.grimm has been experimenting with digital and analog sound, in various forms, since the mid 1990’s. An artist based in Ithaca, NY, Grimm teaches media arts and technology theory. More of his work can be found at megrimm.net

Signal – Noise: Toshi Endo, Adam Willetts and Graunlator

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Friday 19th February, 2016
From 8pm
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The Auricles monthly Electronic Music ‘Signal – Noise’ is back for 2016. This months lineup includes… regulars Toshi Endo and Adam Willetts. And the debut performance of local up and coming artist Granulator.

DJ Delanauy will keep things rolling be on virtual decks downstairs… with a set of ambient, techno & abstract electronics.

Franziska Baumann – Artist Workshop

Events

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sunday 7th February, 2016
3pm
Free event
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Franziska Baumann is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer and sound artist experienced in a diversity of improvised and composed music. She will be giving an artist talk on her practice upstairs in the Auricle Gallery. This event is free and open to all interested parties so come on down and ask her a question!
http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/en/biography/

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Party Of Special Things To Do with Franziska Baumann (Switzerland)

Events

Franziska BaumannThe Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Saturday 6th February, 2016
From 8pm
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The Auricles monthly improv night is back!

Special guest Franziska Baumann is a pioneer in extended vocal technique and interdisciplinary performance whose work discloses the intersection of voice and gesture, space and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception, vocal creation and its theatricality.

As a vocalist she explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries. She has developed an extensive vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques such as multiphonics and glottal clicks and a variety of unique microtonal, timbre-modifying and percussive vocal techniques that have become her “signature sounds”. Exploring new sounds, new vocal techniques and new forms of articulation, whereby great emphasis is placed on establishing improvisation. Central to her vocal concepts are also the areas of music scenery and the interdisciplinary work with electronics, video, visual arts and literature, as well as the juxtaposition of contrasting elements found in contemporary music, jazz and ethno.

http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/en/biography/

Franziska Baumann is supported by:

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